Стэнли Чен — Книга 2: Красноречивые слова о сути океана высшего знания (Гьялцаб Чже о «Своде высшего знания» — Абхидхарма-самуччае), занятие 21

[Speaker 1]
Boy, it's almost that time. Stanley looks excited.

[Speaker 2]
Hi, everybody.

[Speaker 1]
Alice and Stanley is here to guide us on the journey through Abhidharma. Hi, guys. Never mind.

I'll see you, Taylor. Thanks. I'm just jealous.

Well, the waves are waiting for you. Yeah, yeah. Well, I hope everybody's doing well.

We've got class now with Stanley and then Master Sugeng after that. So we're looking at Abhidharma and Wheel of Life. Thank you, everyone, for joining us and looking forward to it.

Stanley, how's it going? It's going. That's about all we can say.

I'm ready. I'm ready to kick off. Do you have anything else, Nick?

No, no, no. I mean, you know, I could go on if you need me to, but I'm trying not to. You look like you're in contemplation.

I thought you were going to say something wise. Talking about me? Exactly.

Okay, let's start. Can you guys? Oh, wait, that's not it.

Can you see? No. Let me try it again.

Can you see homework? Yep, yep, yep. I'll be some.

Oh, should I do a different? Let me see. They can't get it.

They can't need to see. Yeah. If you go back to zoom it.

Oh, okay. Should be. Yeah.

Okay. Oh, okay. Okay.

Are you done with your? No, but it's okay. Sorry.

No, you're okay. You're okay. Okay.

Okay, let's start. Welcome to. I'll be down.

I'll be Sam. I mean, I'll be down. I'll be saying.

Yeah. I'll be saying. So let's go through the homework.

And again, this book is written by not the typical Abhidhamma. Abhidhamma kosher author. Master.

Master. But his older brother and also his teacher. Master Arya Asanga.

And so this is this is a different Abhidhamma that we are studying. And. The one reason we changed to this book is because we found a very good version of this book in the Dunhuang cave from 100 years ago.

That's why we switched to this book. And actually at the same time, Geshe-la is working on the translation of the first Abhidhamma book. But just for the first chapter of it.

And he reached a record today. 20 pages. So it's great.

It's going. It's over half. Yeah.

Thank you. Thank you, Geshe-la. So right now we are working on this Abhidhamma.

Question to you guys. Very good as a start. What are the five main samuchayas or you can say companions.

Of this book. Basically the main structure of this book. Anyone?

Anyone online?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Well, all of them are lists. Every chapter. A lot of this.

We are in the world of lists. Let me see. Anyway.

Let's start with the first chapter. First chapter. Oh, yeah.

Manipulating sets is beta basically. Yes. So it's the typical Abhidhamma.

And the content. What are the objects of the first chapter? I'll give you a hint.

It's 35. The pongpongs. The ketchup.

And the comms. The doors of the sense. The categories and the heaps.

Yeah. Yeah. Geshe-la said it's the data.

Yeah. Basically the data. And it's typical Abhidhamma.

Now the real Abhidhamma. The real question is, what are the latter four chapters? Anything to do it in order.

You don't have to. Two, three, four.

[Speaker 2]
About emptiness.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. It's finished. Yeah.

Well, yes. It's about emptiness. Yeah.

But four chapters has different flavors. But Geshe-la mentioned it's finished. It's four kind of ascertainment.

Yeah. You use two words, by the way. You use ascertainment and discernment.

Which one do you prefer? Oh, discernment sounds good. Better than ascertainment?

Probably. I don't know. OK.

Wait till we get there. OK. Anyone?

Anything? Remember? Ascertainment.

Gets so quiet.

[Speaker 2]
Hm.

[Speaker 1]
Nambanyewa. Divisions? Nambanyewa.

I'll say one of them. The second one is truth. Remember?

Truth. Yeah, truth. Hm.

Now, the how many and why that's part of the first Samuccaya. Now we are moving on to the second. It's truth.

And what's that? After truth is? Wow.

It's hopeless. Dharma, remember? And it is?

I don't remember. Wait. Word.

Do you remember? He doesn't remember unless he has money. Let's try.

OK.

[Speaker 2]
I remember it's five discussions.

[Speaker 1]
OK. Yeah. Well, let's review.

Truth. Remember this? Truth, Dharma, Amen, Discourse.

OK. Nope. Remember the last one?

Basically, this is the main structure of the book. It's five parts. The first one is all the data.

It's called Laksana characteristics of things. And then that's when we talk about the 35 Dharma. And all the later folk, some other friends mentioned it's emptiness.

It's kind of like our emptiness understanding of all the raw data. And that falls into the letter for companions. Clear, right?

Cool. OK. Game.

So this is not what we mentioned in the last class, but I did some self-study and it's very interesting to me. So from the book by Arya Sangha, the Mahayana Sutra, Alankara commentary, that commentary, it mentions four meanings of Abhidhamma. I don't know if that gets your cost.

I think he does cover it. I think he goes to the same place. Oh, OK.

Cool. So I'll play a game with all of you. Let's read through this for meaning of Abhidhamma first and then match this for to the five companions.

OK, because all of them, all of the five companions do one of the four Abhidhamma. Is it clear? Do you want to put them on the same screen so we can look at them all together?

Oh, yeah. OK, let me do this way. Yeah.

So the first Abhidhamma, it's the typical one. It means something, the Dharma that takes you higher to Nirvana, right? Number three?

No, A, that's A, here. Attainment? Match with number three, I think.

They were saying A with three. A with three. OK, cool.

I would say four, attainment. Four also, yeah. How about number two?

One.

[Speaker 2]
By the way, you're saying it's two.

[Speaker 1]
You're using up all the options pretty soon. But let's finish the B first. A second way of definition of Abhidhamma, it means explaining all the existence individually in details.

One. Yeah, that fits one. OK.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
And then the third meaning is, it's a cool one. It conquers the other ideas from other schools, which are usually wrong. Two?

Two or five? Five.

[Speaker 2]
Five, yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Five, it's five. Cool. The last one is, it means, the last meaning of Abhidhamma means explain and make sense of the meaning of the sutras.

So by studying Abhidhamma, you're understanding the sutras. All the topics of the sutras. Which one?

All of them?

[Speaker 2]
That's like everyone.

[Speaker 1]
Generally it's true, but specifically, according to the number one student of Xuanzang, which is Master Kuei-ji, it falls into number five.

[Speaker 2]
Master Kuei-ji.

[Speaker 1]
It's argument. It's argument, yeah. Explain things.

But let me show the answer so I don't get mistaken. So B is explain things individually. So that's the first companion.

Just listing all the things out. Yeah, all existence. And then A, which is take you to higher nirvana, take you higher to nirvana, falls into companion two, three, four.

Okay. You guys agree? I agree.

And then C and D, which is conquering different ideas or explaining the right ideas, I guess, falls into fifth companion. Okay. Because that's kind of like discussions.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And in the fifth companion, I jump ahead and see, it also talks about different ways of explaining sutras, different ways of writing commentaries. So anyway, that's something fun.

And the last question is, why does the letter for companions not follow the structure of the 35 dharmas, which is the structure of the first companion? Why does it not follow? And why is it a problem or not a problem?

It explains the 35, no? It does, but it doesn't follow. Like for example, the second companion used the four truths as a way to explain the 35.

It doesn't literally follow the 35. Anyone want to give it a shot? It's something a little different.

There are many, they cover it, all 35, but in a different manner. For that reason, it's not a problem. Okay, that's anyone, no?

Wait, even word? Word is not saying anything? He's supposed to be my only body.

I could make things up if you want. Let's hear what Gyaltsar Jay says. Yeah, let's hear.

It's not a problem, according to Gyaltsar Jay, because the first companion mainly explains the quantity of everything in the universe. And the last four companions focus on the way they are, meaning how you understand them. And Master Kui Ji, which is like the Gyaltsar Jay in Shenzang's tradition, has a cool explanation.

I'll just show you guys briefly to compare. Okay, so those who can read Chinese can read the Chinese, but the rough English translation is here. Based on this object of focus, which is the first companion, one begins examining their truth.

Thus, Arya Sangha starts with the companion of ascertainment of truth. Although one might grasp the overall explication of this, the full and subtle explication of this meaning and the methods of practice remains elusive. Therefore, Arya Sangha continues with the companion of ascertainment of Dharma.

And so that's the third companion. And then following the first two companions of the four, one relies on this subject focus in their practice, as we know, will gain the fruits. And that brings us to the companion of attainment, which is number four companion.

And then even if one has attained, they will need to illuminate the wisdom and explain that which descends to correct from the wrong benefits others fearlessly. So for this purpose, we arrive at the final companion, the discourse. It's awfully quiet here.

I don't know. I don't know what happened. So, Geshe-la, this is kind of my translation exercise because I use the ancient Chinese to compare.

Anyway, so in this part, Master Kuei-hsi explains the logic flow of five companions. The objects of focus is the first companion. And then one begins practicing by examining their truth is the second one.

And then goes to the Dharma companion. With this, you practice and you gain fruits, which is the companion of attainment, basically. And with your own attainment, you can start to help other people.

And then that goes to the discourse chapter where you can learn how to help other people with your own fruits. That's it. Okay.

Okay. Sorry. That's okay.

The last class is one. It's January. 12-9.

All right. You want somebody to read? Do you want to read?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, I'll start.

[Speaker 1]
Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah, and he's in a long complicated explanation, and part number three, which is supposed to be the summary, is the division where we ascertain those things.

Which is the 11th of the 11 topics of the summary. Yeah. Okay.

So let's go on. I think it'd be better. So, hang on just a second.

Yeah, what basis did the... So there's a summary at the opening of this book, and it has 11 points to it. And then it has more points to it, and it's very confusing.

So, anyway, here we go. Who's going to read this part? How are we going to do this?

Yeah. I don't think there's a way, right? We can, we can, I can move.

We start with online, and then we can, when we are ready, we can. Mr. Tian.

[Speaker 2]
Yes.

[Speaker 1]
Well, you were just taking a guess. No, you, it's you. ,GANG YANG RUNG BA'I SDOM PA YIN GYIS, ,'NGON PAR BSGON LAS SDOD PA'I, ,SDOM LUS RNAM PAR ZHAG PA YIN NO, Okay.

This part number three, which is ,DE GANG GI YIN LAS DBANG DU BYANG BA'I ZHI, is confusing. The wording is very confusing, but it means... So at the opening, you want to move this?

You're more handsome than me. Yeah. So you have a very beautiful summary of the whole book at the beginning.

And then they ask a funny question. The part three here is, what are they summarizing? What does the dome summarize?

Yeah, it's a weird question. Oh. Okay.

It's like, what is the... So there's a famous verse summary at the beginning of this book. And now he got to his third discussion, which is, what are they summarizing?

Okay. And the whole section is one sentence. All right.

,GNAR means before, right? ,GONG DU SHES PA means which I gave you above. This GONG means above.

,DOM DU DUG PA summarized in a summary. It's LUS NAM PAR BSHAGS PA Somebody is setting forth the body of a book. LUS NAM PAR BSHAGS PA LUS means body usually.

Body, right? ,DE DAG NI Those lines of the summary. ,'ANG YANG RUNG BA'I DOM MA YIN ,'ANG YANG RUNG BA'I DOM MA YIN What...

Whatever is suitable, whatever is appropriate. Yeah, what it means here is not just any old. Not just...

,'ANG YANG RUNG BA'I DOM MA YIN It's not a summary of just anything. Oh, I see. Okay.

GANG YANG RUNG BA means anything at all. It's not a summary of that. This key is disjuncted.

Usually it's 99% of the time it's apostrophe S, right? Here it means rather, rather. This is a Dhamma of Dhan Dha Dha, Nganpa Gönle Döpa.

Abhidharma Gönle Döpa. Someone said, duh, thanks a lot. He's been going through a summary of the book for months, and then he said, hey, you want to know what my summary is about?

And I said, what? He said, the book. And we're like, thanks.

No, I mean, this book starts with a summary, which is strange. It's a little strange. The whole book starts with a summary.

The book starts with a poetical summary of the whole book. And then he reaches this point and he says, I just want to make sure you understand that the summary that we just struggled through is a summary of this book. It's not just a general summary of Dharma or something.

That's all. That's all. It's kind of silly.

Domb Lu, Domb Lu, the body of the Nama Shabpa Yidam. It's a summary of the book that's about to come. I'm just reminding you that that's what the summary is about.

Thanks. Okay. All right.

And it's a weird, small point. Okay. Who's next?

Who's going to read next? Juan. You can have people sit here if you want.

I need a high chair. You're the only one. Hi, handsome.

Hi, Dan. Okay. Siva.

Okay. Siva ni dom la chi dom dang par dom sok du ma yu kyang di ni chi dom yi nom. Nice.

Stay because it's too short. Okay. All right.

Siva. The fourth part. Four.

Point number four. Generally speaking, there's different kinds of doms. Okay.

There's different kinds of summaries. Okay. There's chi dom.

Word? General.

[Speaker 2]
General.

[Speaker 1]
You summarize a whole topic or summarize a whole book. And there's ar dom. What's par dom?

[Speaker 2]
In between? In between states.

[Speaker 1]
Sometimes in ancient books, as a vacation, you get a little few lines that say, maybe you wonder what it's about. I just told you something. It's called par dom.

They're little poetry things that they put between. Only an idiot would continue this book. So he says, it's not a par dom.

That dom, which laid out 11 major topics of this book at the beginning of the book, it's not a par dom. It's not a parenthetical statement. It's not like some of the authors just trying to give you a break.

It's not transitional. Yeah, it's not transitional. It is...

sok du ma means, look, there's many different doms, like those transitional doms, but this is not. Rather, this is a chi dom. General.

Yeah, this summarizes the whole book. General means the whole book, not everything.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, meaning the whole book.

[Speaker 1]
Chi chedra. Yeah, it's the chi and chi chedra. General.

It's a general summary of the whole book. So that was category number four, was dom musungwa. Identifying what kind of summary.

Musungwa means identifying. That's shipa. That was point number four.

Musungwa. Yay, that's easy. Every time you hit something easy in these books, you don't trust the guy.

Okay. Juan wants to read some more. Yeah, he does.

We skip Juan, no? No, I don't think so.

[Speaker 2]
This is just a summary.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. Yeah, nice. So you can see from my notes what this is.

Yenlak gyepa shepa means, in a more general level of the outline, he says, let me explain all the parts of this book. Okay, branches. Gyepa shepa.

So now that we start the real commentary work, it's going to have two main parts. Number one, zenny kun ne dupa. Zenny kun ne dupa.

Yeah, basically I'm going to explain the first of the five huge chapters, which are each of them called samuchaya. This book is called Abhidharma Samuchaya. The collection of the Abhidharma.

As opposed to the... The torture. And what school is this one?

This is a little mind-only-ish. It's Abhidharma with a mind-only flavor. Who wrote Abhidharma without a mind-only flavor?

Vasubandhu. And then his half-brother wrote Abhidharma with a mind-only flavor. So a lot of the topics are the same, like the 35 categories or something like that.

But we have much, much different ideas here about mind-only school. Which one is correct?

[Speaker 2]
Both.

[Speaker 1]
If those two half-brothers had a discussion, what would they say? Mind-only is correct. But Vasubandhu is the grandpa of the lower school, Abhidharma school.

The one he joined. Remember the story? He joined his half-brother.

And this is kind of the book where he joins. I know where he joined. So we got five sections in this whole book.

First we're going to talk about the general definitions of stuff. Then we got four other chapters that we treat together. So it's two huge parts.

And then the last four chapters. And they are all ascertainments. They're all samuccayas, but only the last four.

The last four ascertainments.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Nambar ngepa, which means ascertainments. So the first of the five chapters is called a samuccaya. And from that, I'm sorry, all five chapters are called samuccayas.

Therefore, the whole book is called Abhidharma Samuccaya. Collections about higher knowledge. And then the structure of those five samuccayas is that the first one is separate, and the four are together.

The first one is called senyu kundalipa, which means I'm going to talk about the definition or description of things. And then the last four all hang together, and they're called ascertainments samuccaya.

[Speaker 2]
Okay?

[Speaker 1]
All right. So he wants you to understand his whole book is going to be split into two parts. I'm going to talk about chapter one, and that's the grandpa chapter.

And then I'm going to talk about the other four chapters. That's two sections, two huge sections. And this book is massive.

This book is 6,000 pages in English. Okay? All right.

It's enough to put him into the nursery home. Fine. You want to read one more?

Yeah, sure. Yeah. Now, I want these two S-H sounds to be different.

Yeah. Low tone. Say.

Low tone. So Z-H is not Z-H, it's S-H. It's also S-H, but it's low tone.

Z-H means low tone S-H. S-H means high tone S-H. ZHUNG ZHES.

Here's a good example. Yeah. And if you mispronounce it, if you say ZHUNG ZHES, then it changes the meaning completely.

It means I agree with the chapter. ZHUNG ZHES means I'll explain the chapter. If you switch it around and mispronounce the other way, ZHUNG ZHES, then I don't know, it doesn't mean anything.

Okay. ZHUNG ZHES. ZHUNG ZHES.

But first I'm going to explain the whole chapter, the body of the chapter, first chapter. And then I'm going to explain ZHEN. The definition?

Certain parts of ZHEN? In an ancient Asian book, the last sentence of every chapter is, this was the chapter called... The title of the chapter comes at the end.

And it's usually one line. It's kind of artificial division here. I'll explain you the whole chapter.

And then I'll explain the name. Which means I'll mention the name. By the way, we won't get to that mention of the name for years.

So enjoy it now. It'll take years before we get there. All right.

One more. It's so small. Thank you.

Next, you need to understand the foundation. You need to understand the foundation of a practice. Yeah, okay.

What does ZHEN mean? Foundation? Good.

Nice, yeah. So first I'm going to explain to you certain basic foundation, Then I want you to kepa. Master?

Yeah, I want you to master. I'm going to take certain topics and ask you to master them. I'm guessing the 35?

No, I numbered them for you here. It's nine different topics. The first chapter treats nine different...

they call them foundations. It's nine foundations of understanding. But kepa jawa means which will make your master.

If you understand them, you will become a Buddhist master. First we'll study that. Then we'll study dennyi ngepa jawa.

Ascertainment? How to ascertain dennyi. Suchness?

It's either suchness or those things. It's either suchness or the same thing. I'm guessing it's suchness.

Personally. If you go through the whole thing, viepa, the first part, in detail, I don't see why after that you would ascertain them, those nine. It just seems kind of redundant to me.

I'm guessing it means, I'll help you to see emptiness, but we don't know yet. Okay. What do you call that when you decide not to decide?

Quantum. Yeah. Temporarily you accept something too.

[Speaker 2]
Proficiently?

[Speaker 1]
Proficiently. We will say it means, I'll help you understand the emptiness, but we don't know for sure yet. We won't know for a long, long time.

Now, here's the nine topics which he expects you to master. If you want to be an Abhidharma master, I want you to master these nine topics. Who's going to read?

I'm going to push it down so we can get everyone. Bodhi? You want to be a master?

Thank you. We expect a good show about our show. Now, in the future you're going to have to bribe him to say something good about your project.

Okay? Remember what I'm telling you. He doesn't care about money.

He likes dessert. This is very long, okay? Let's do one by one, okay?

[Speaker 2]
Okay. DANG PA LA SDONG BU STE GONG PO LA SOGS PA'I PHAN ZHIG CHE BA DANG Okay, Stanley, stay here and we're going to do it.

[Speaker 1]
We're going to do nine. The first one, which is... These are nine topics I want you to master.

The first one is... PHUNG PO Yeah. ZHES ZHIG, which is the basis of the definitions.

They are the basis of the definition. They are definendums. Like the foundation.

They are what you define. So first I'm going to give you what we're defining, which is what? The divisions of all existence.

Okay. Meaning PHUNG PO KYE BYAS KHAM Oh, all three? Yeah, no doubt.

Okay. And they always say them out of order. Right.

PHUNG KHAM KYE BYAS Say, PHUNG KHAM KYE BYAS Those are the three great topics of all Abhidharma. The five parts to a person. The twelve parts to a person.

The eighteen parts to a person. That's Abhidharma in a nutshell. ZAN ZHIG DBYE BA That's it.

So they are what we're going to be defining, those thirty-five. Okay. Then we'll talk about those divisions.

Second, go, read!

[Speaker 2]
DANG PO DANG DBYE BA DER PHAIR CHANG MED PA'I RGYUD CAN THAMS Yeah, this is not so hard.

[Speaker 1]
CHANG MED PA CHANG CHEN PA means Sankhya, right? Number. CHANG means number.

MED means fixed. Not more, not less. Fixed number.

What's the RGYUD CAN? RGYUD CAN? Why?

The reason.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
The reason behind the... Yeah. Why is that number into which all the things in the universe are divided, that'd be a good name for an Abhidharma book, by the way.

Everything in the Universe. That's what he's calling his first book. Because it's a description of everything in the universe, which is a sexy name, I think.

DBYE BA DER CHANG MED PA'I RGYUD CAN What's the reason why... Why are those divisions exactly... how many?

Thirty-five. Thirty-five. Why is it not more and not less?

That means CHANG MED PA. That's the second of the great nine topics. If you master the nine topics, you're an Abhidharma Samuccaya master.

What's the third topic? Here's Chloe.

[Speaker 2]
ZAG CHE KYI THUNG MO MA YIN PAS CHO THANG What's that mean?

[Speaker 1]
Things go backwards. Things which are... THUNG MO MA YIN PA Uniquely...

Uniquely... Messed up. I'm sorry, you got competition there.

Cool. You had messed up in mind. But now Stanley's competing.

Uniquely. We got the unique messed up in our school.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Wow. Yeah. What things among the 35 parts of the universe are super messed up?

Uniquely messed up. Besides my bills. Okay.

Keep going.

[Speaker 2]
YEH WA SO SOI TEN NI THANG Okay, that's interesting.

[Speaker 1]
Individual definition? Yeah, divisions. I'll define each of the divisions.

Okay. Meaning the 5, 18, 12? I believe he's going to say Y5, Y12, Y18.

And then, next five.

[Speaker 2]
TEN, ZHI, YI, NANG, ZHAG, ZHIG, HA TANG Nice.

[Speaker 1]
Say those two together.

[Speaker 2]
ZHAG ZHIG ZHAG ZHIG.

[Speaker 1]
Say ZHAG ZHIG. Yeah, low tone ZHAG, high tone ZHAG. ZHAG ZHIG.

Much clearer if you can make the distinction. It's not a Z. They just use a Z because there's no two S's in English.

Okay. It's like an X in pinyin. Unbelievable.

All right. ZHEN ZHI, NANG ZHAG ZHIG PA Yeah, so he said he's going to give you the definition of each of the categories. And then he says, and I'll also explain what's being defined.

Okay. Okay. I'll tell you the definitions of the 35, but then we'll go a little bit into what's being defined.

Okay. We don't know yet. We don't know yet.

Okay. Number six, Chloe. Don't say an English G because it's not.

It's not a K. It's not a G. It doesn't exist in English.

KO KO If you say GO, it means door. If you say NGO, it means head. If you say NGO, it means beginning.

If you say KO, it means I understand. All right. There's no AH in English.

We use a G because there's no... That's the closest sound, but it's not close. Okay.

Say NGOR RIM. NGOR RIM. Yeah, like they have five parts to the first group.

They have 12 parts to the second group. They have 18 parts to the third group. But why that particular order inside of each group?

Why do you start with the physical body and end with the mind in the five here?

[Speaker 2]
Oh, the order.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. What's the logic behind the order? Okay.

That's all. What's the logic behind the order? And there is a logic.

Okay. All right. There are seven.

By the way, that's not an English D either. It's DA. DA.

Okay. There's no English letter like that. It's not a D.

Okay. Dön. Dön.

Okay. Dön means demon. Dön means topic or meaning.

Which one is it here? Okay. Yeah.

Yeah. I love Dön. I think that's my favorite part.

Dön. What's it mean?

[Speaker 2]
Meaning of the names?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah.

[Speaker 2]
Etymology?

[Speaker 1]
Why do they call them heaps? Why do they call them categories? Why do they call them doors of sense?

He's going to explain. Which is nice for understanding Abhidharma. All right.

Number eight.

[Speaker 2]
PHUNG PO MED PA'I SHEPA THANG.

[Speaker 1]
Nice. PA'I SHEPA. Say PA'I SHEPA.

Not an English P either. It's not. It's not.

Listen. It's not PA'I. It's PA'I.

PA'I. It doesn't exist in English. Okay.

PA'I SHEPA. What's PA'I? Examples.

Yeah, examples. Or metaphors. I like this one.

I also like this category. He says, Oh, your five heaps are like five piles of garbage. He's going to compare it to something.

He's going to use metaphors to help you remember what five heaps mean. Okay. PA'I.

My teacher used to always compare them to oak leaves. Oak tree leaves. And every fall, every autumn, they fall down.

Like a hundred thousand leaves fall down. And he said, that reminds me. I'd say, what's a BAE for a PUMBO?

He'd say, oak leaves. Here's the rate.

[Speaker 2]
It's going to work.

[Speaker 1]
Five days later, he comes out. Are you still here? I'm like, the trees lose their leaves.

Now why pick them all up? What's the point? He insisted.

Then you rake them all up and you go back inside and another falls down. After he went inside, but he didn't know that. Last one.

[Speaker 2]
CHOS SUM KYI NAM KHA'I RAB DBYE ZHIG PA'O Something about Sri qualities.

[Speaker 1]
We don't know what they are. It's going to be divisions of Sri qualities. We don't know.

We don't know what they are yet. Anyway, it's a list of what we're going to study. Necessarily, we don't know them all because if we knew them, we wouldn't have to study it.

When you translate this kind of thing, you leave it a little bit flexible so you can change later. You kind of mark the space and you say, when I get there, I might want to change this word. All right.

Who's next? Thank you. Nice job.

Your pronunciation is quite good. It's very short. One line.

I'll help you. It's easier than driving a car. Who's the driver?

[Speaker 2]
Me.

[Speaker 1]
I think our level is the same.

[Speaker 2]
I'm sorry.

[Speaker 1]
No, no. It's okay. You're in.

You're in. Tambola.

[Speaker 2]
Tambola.

[Speaker 1]
Tambola. The husband's always right. Did you hear that?

That's what this sentence means.

[Speaker 2]
Tambla nyi.

[Speaker 1]
Three bar.

[Speaker 2]
Three bar.

[Speaker 1]
It changes to one. Yeah, Stanley, what's the note say? Repeated by Aaron, not in carving.

Yeah, the typist repeated the note. Okay, and you just have to get used to this. You have to get to where you can say, oh, I think that's a typing mistake.

And then you go check the carving. I'll show you the carving. Am I?

Yeah. I can't. Let me see.

Oh, you might have to stop sharing. This is the carving of your Abhidharma text right here. Oh, cool.

Okay, that's... Oh, we can see. Oops, sorry.

Did I mess it up? No, we have seen that. Oh, yeah, there it was.

Yeah, so I was working on it this morning because there were mistakes in it. By the way, word, the one, two, three, fifth line down. Okay.

What's it say? Car? Da, car, po, chen, pe.

It's yin, bei, chen. Yeah, yin, chen. But the typist messed it up.

And you can't blame them, right? You can't blame them. Look at this thing.

[Speaker 2]
Cool. See?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, I hear it. Yeah, so it's very similar to what you've done here. So are we back yet?

Can you see? I'm seeing this. Oh, I got to stop that.

How do I do that? The red button. Yeah, stop sharing.

And then start sharing again. Okay. Okay.

You want your kunming to read this? So you haven't explained this line. Oh, I'm sorry.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. So the first category, if you remember, was we're going to talk about the divisions of these classical elements such as the heaps.

[Speaker 2]
Right.

[Speaker 1]
The five heaps. Okay. And the way we're going to talk about those divisions is first we're going to do a chiwa, and then we're going to do a len.

Len. Oh. You want to read?

Yeah, question. Question and then an answer. By the way, if you join them together, say chiwa.

[Speaker 2]
Chiwa.

[Speaker 1]
Chiwa. Chiwa. This is some of the most interesting and enjoyable ancient books.

It's called chiwa. It's a genre of literature. It means what?

Q&A between the students. Yeah, the teacher got up and said, ask me anything. There are huge books, hundreds of pages, of random questions from students.

I used to take those books and split them up. Because each question is a different topic, and I have to categorize them in the database. Oh, I see.

So I spent two weeks on one chiwa. Everything from Vajrayogini to Abhidharma in the same page. And then you have to split them up.

It's really fun to hear a master, like a thousand years ago, give answers to questions. And the students' questions are usually really good. I mean, not nowadays, but they used to be.

Okay, so anyway. Then he says the first part, chiwa, questions, and then an answer. The first part is, bumbo nam ni shepa.

The question is found in the words, what? Bumbo nam ni. Bumbo nam ni.

He's quoting the Abhidharma Samuccaya root text. He's quoting the first words of the root text, after the eleven topics. He's still kind of in the dome still.

And the dome says, bumbo nam ni du. How many? Yeah, and our author leaves off the du, and it messes us up.

Because when I say, bumbo nam ni du, what's it mean? How many? Yeah, how many?

It's a question. When you add du, it becomes a question. If you chop the du off, it just means, hey, the heaps.

Okay? If you chop the du off the end, which is, how many? Then it's not a question anymore.

Our commentator chopped it off. And then he said, this is a question. It's very frustrating.

He introduced it and said, I'm going to ask you a question. And then he doesn't ask you a question. And then you're like, well, why is it a question?

It was a question before he chopped it off. Okay, thanks a lot. Du makes it a question.

And that's the root text. The root text of Abhidharma Samuccaya starts with, after the dome verse, it says, bumbo nam ni du. Oh, it's after the dome.

The first line of the content. It's kind of first line of content. And then translate the dark, Stanley.

If you did it right, I'll give you a Girl Scout cookie. They're going around, Du. I had to explain to him a cultural thing, so I ate a few.

I have no idea what it was. How many... Why there are...

Why there are... How many of the heap? No, just bumbo nam ni du.

How many heaps are there? Then he says, bumbo nam ni du. How many categories?

Yeah, how many categories. And then he says, kye je nam ni du. How many doors of sense?

If you ask. That's the root text. So the du is the question mark.

It's the du in duma. It's the du in duma. How many?

Got it? So he says, here's the question. Chiwa means here's the question, right?

Bumbo nam ni du. He should have left the du in there, in my opinion. How many heaps are there?

What's the answer? Then he says, I'm going to give you the answer. And our type is typed in twice.

Okay. Who's going to read the next part? Somebody is escaping.

Somebody is escaping. The real driver. No, the real driver.

Should we stop there? Let's continue. All right.

Oh, okay. Okay. Okay.

Okay. Yeah. Catch it.

Catch it.

[Speaker 2]
Good.

[Speaker 1]
Good. Good. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yang Du, Kong Lai, Qi Rui Hua, Yi Bai Xin.

Alright, very good. I'm still brave. Oh, Yong Gan.

Yeah. Okay, good.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. Okay, I like you're on time, I feel like I'm on time. Four minutes, four minutes.

By the way, you're supposed to, here, good luck. You're supposed to figure out how you can use this in your regular life. You're supposed to discuss that in four minutes, okay?

Just, and then I go sit with my beautiful wife and relax and eat Girl Scout cookies, okay? Cheers soon. Chang, I'll help you because we don't have that much time.

Well, Chang, we did before. Number, yeah. Yeah, this, by the way, what does chosun mean now?

The three things. Keeps, categories, doors of sense, good. So now, from now on in this text, when you say, when you say three things, he's talking about those three categories, okay?

That's Abhidharma in a nutshell. Chosun. Chang, jiwa.

Oh, a question? Yeah, somebody asked a question about those three categories, okay? And then we want to know the gyudzen for the question.

The answer? No. Reasoning.

Reasoning. Yeah, why did you ask that? Why did you ask this question?

How many tongpas are there? How many kye cheks are there? How many kamsa are there?

Why did you ask that question? Because, chun lungpay do. Abhidharma sutra?

Abhidharma sutras. Oh, the Mahayana Abhidharma sutra? No, it's ancient sutras.

Really, it's ancient sutras. By the way, there's also an Abhidharma sutra by somebody named Sangha Bhadra, which is a mother of all Abhidharma. And his name, Sangha means do, and Bhadra means sang.

So his name in Tibetan is du sang, which means Sangha Bhadra. Du means collection, right? Sangha.

And they always misspell his name as dun sang, which means high hopes. And it's not his name. His name is Sangha Bhadra.

But he wrote a mother, mother Abhidharma sutra. He wrote a mother Abhidharma book. Is there another case, Ben Kramer, where something's called a sutra because it's a mother book?

The Pramana Sutra? Yeah. Yoga Sutra?

Yeah, we got Yoga Sutra. We also got Vinaya Sutra. Oh, yeah.

Okay, it's Shantung Sutra. Okay. So anyway, I don't know which one he's referring to.

There are great seven books of Abhidharma, which are not sutras.

[Speaker 2]
Right, right. We don't know.

[Speaker 1]
But they are commentaries by great masters. Anyway, the Abhidharma classics, can we say? All right.

They, mupa means, at the end of the second line, mupa means they mention. They mention, it's three things. They mention heaps, categories, and doors of sense.

But ming tsam. They only say the names of them. Yeah, they just mention them by name.

They say over and over again, heaps. They say over and over again, doors of sense. They say over and over again, categories, okay?

But they don't give the term. Oh, the number. Yeah, okay.

Oh, that's why we ask. That's why Abhidharma Samuccaya starts out with, hey, how many are there?

[Speaker 2]
Oh, I see.

[Speaker 1]
You see what I mean? The whole book, after the summary starts, the first sentence is, how many are there of each of those three? That's all.

This book starts with a question, three questions. How many heaps are there? How many categories are there?

How many doors of sense are there? Okay, that's all. ZHES ZHIG YIN YANG BA'I JI TZAM DU MED NYAM DU BSGOM NAS Because they want you to understand the divisions of those three categories, okay?

They ask the question, T1. And that's, I wrote reflected in the du, because he didn't give it to you, which was cruel. All right.

Cool. All right, I'm getting out of here. Can you just do one more?

I'm just curious what's coming next. Oh, yeah. NYID PA LA GSUM The question was, the whole thing started out with the question, how many heaps are there?

How many categories are there? How many doors of sense are there? And that was the question.

Now we reached the answer. Oh, okay. Okay?

And to answer it, he's going to tell you the answer for the pumbas, then he's going to tell you the answers for the karma, and then he's going to tell you the answers for the keys. Okay. I'll tell you how many heaps, how many categories.

That's the leno. Oh, the answer. Len, yeah.

Okay, got it, thank you. Then it gets more complicated. Cool.

You're going to translate. Can you do these next two lines, dumbalani and dumbali? Okay.

Okay. All right, I'm going to go sit with my boss. I mean, my dear honey bunny.

My honey. Oh yeah, this one. Yeah, I will stop the sharing.

Okay. Wow, that's an exciting class, right? So we have, before the P3 World News, we'll have some time together to discuss what we have learned in this class.

Can't wait for the quiz. Yeah, thank you. I can't wait.

I can't wait. Anyway, so let me do a little bit summary. As we, as I remember, we start by talking about dividing all the book into two major parts.

So the first one is the first companion, and the second part is the last four companion of ascertainment. That's the start. And then we go into the becoming the master of nine topics.

Right? We start with how many or why this many definition of this objects, all these things. And I, if we master the nine, we become the masters of Abhidhamma Samuccaya.

And previously, if you remember, I don't know if you remember, but vaguely I remember that we are talking about the benefits of studying all these lists. And it mainly has two. It will increase your shamatha, because now you have some objects to meditate on.

And the object are clear. They are clear and they're thorough. They cover all universe, everything in the universe.

And then because of that, you gain wisdom, which is your vipashyana. And it's kind of like the beginning promise of this book. So now in this class, officially we finished the dome, the summary verses, which took us almost a year now, something like that.

I think so. We started 2023, or maybe more than a year. So now we, it's kind of like a good milestone for this book, because we finished the opening summarized verses, which has like 11 different topics according to Geshe-la.

And now we are entering into the first part of the nine, which is how many. And it starts in a Q&A, question and answer format. And then we finished this class by ending on the point where we talked about the answer for how many heaps, how many pumbo, how many categories and how many doors of senses.

Basically, that's what we did in this class. If you remember that. When you review it, it's quite clear.

The structure is quite clear. So now the challenge for all of us is instead of how many, oh, I will ask you a question. How many things you can take home and use it?

That's the question for today.

[Speaker 2]
I have an idea, Professor Stanley.

[Speaker 1]
Wonderful, let's get started.

[Speaker 2]
Hi, this is Alex with a little bit of a cold, sorry. I was thinking I'm working on hiring somebody for Sky Harvest, and I need to be able to have a job description that's very clear. And I need to be able to give the prospective candidate an idea of what we've done so far.

So I'm trying to categorize and make very clear what their duties might be, but it would be easy to forget to tell them something important about what our mission is or why we're doing it or what we've done so far. If I didn't have really good structure to be able to get what's in my mind over into their mind. So I think this clarity of structure could be very useful in business.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, definitely. Cool, thank you, Alex. Yeah, I totally agree, yes.

Especially with like, this book is massive and our life is massive and our work is massive. It's our time we put into it. So if we can have some kind of structure.

My personal experience is with structure, you can actually be more innovative because you can direct your energy better into certain categories and things like that. So definitely, that's a good point. Okay, I'll repeat it.

All right. He's going to answer himself. You know, why did we divide the universe into five?

Why did we divide it into 12, 13, 18? Because that's how many things you don't understand. That's how many things you actively misunderstand.

And that's, he says, that's why it's 35. Especially the five things. Cool, five things.

The two things are not like. Cool, cool. I'll summarize what Geshe-la said.

Did you guys hear or not really? Can you hear, no? Okay, so basically Geshe-la saying is that later in this text, the author will answer the questions like how many heaps and how many categories.

But actually really it's a list of things that we misunderstand in the world. Like particularly the first dharma, which is the kumbo, the heaps, is five things about the pen that we misunderstand. So, and that's why we talk about the five heaps.

Basically is to address five major misunderstandings of the pen, yeah. So a scientist would divide how many categories in the universe that we can observe. A Buddhist would divide how many things do we actively misunderstand.

Oh, cool, cool. The last line Geshe-la said is a scientist will define like how many, the categories of things, how many categories of things we observe in the universe. But a Buddhist will define like how many categories of things we actively misunderstand, yeah.

So all these things, according to what Geshe-la just said, all connect to our misunderstanding, which is the root problem of everything else. In that case, it's very important. Or if not the most important thing, right, yeah.

Anyone else? It's a tough act to follow, but we can try, yeah. Do you want to say here?

Yeah, come here, yeah, yeah. I just want to follow what Geshe-la has said.

[Speaker 2]
It's like, you know, all the sutras actually just focused on the categories, which people actively misunderstand. And so it reminds me that I should really, you know, focus most of my time on these classics. It's because these classics, it's kind of like the pills.

[Speaker 1]
And yeah, this like the pills, and the purpose is to cure all the disease I have.

[Speaker 2]
Some I know I have, but most of them I don't know I have, especially in a relationship, you know? So it's like, yeah, so it reminds me that, you know, the reason why we should focus, why teacher always remind us that we should spend, we should really focus our limited life, the precious time on the sutras, yeah. Yeah, this is something I think of.

[Speaker 1]
Thank you, thank you. The online audience, anyone else?

[Speaker 2]
Well, related to what Geshe-la just said, it's like, how many things do you misunderstand? Let me tell you about all existing things. That's how many things you don't understand.

[Speaker 1]
Well taken, yes. Yeah, cool.

[Speaker 2]
We understand nothing, yeah.

[Speaker 1]
We do misunderstand everything. Everything in the universe. So let me ask you guys, we have a few minutes.

After learning this class, what's the one thing you will take differently after this class in your life? Anything you would do a little differently?

[Speaker 2]
I have to study much farther back than the last class in order to answer your quiz questions.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, Xiaoping, please. I think it's just now continuing the discussion that actually we don't understand anything about anything in the universe. So I think it is, if we contemplate more about that, I think it is a good method or angle to be more humble, to tame ourself to be more humble.

Yeah, yeah.

[Speaker 2]
That's one takeaway today.

[Speaker 1]
I think what Xiaoping is saying is if you can, if you understand anything, you can be proud, but if you don't understand anything and misunderstand everything, then maybe we should be humble.

[Speaker 2]
No, I didn't say about the first part.

[Speaker 1]
I'm just kind of falling back.

[Speaker 2]
Thank you.

[Speaker 1]
Anyone else? Anything you would do a little differently after this class? We have a hand raised.

Wang Shi. Somebody is saying, if we, first one. Yeah, it's okay.

Thank you, Mr. Chen. I have a question. So if you are about your feelings and in your meditation and you have, when you're in meditation, you'd have your leg pain and you know it's from your previous seeds that brings you the pain in your leg.

Then at this present moment, how can I make myself not feeling bad or not feeling pain during meditation to have an hour long meditation to help me to touch the diamond world in the future? Thank you. All right, thank you.

Great, I think all this happiness will end. This class is finished. I'm very sorry.

But really, again, I want to thank Yeshua for teaching this book. By learning this, it really humbles us and it really teach me how much I don't know and how much I misunderstand and we'll keep on going. Now we'll invite, and we will.

One and only, one and only. So what we're gonna do today, what we cannot do, no, what we will do today, what we will do today is open up a little this thing. Excuse me.

This is the computer. You're gonna keep yours open? No, I'm not gonna.

You're gonna take yours? Yeah, it's good. Okay.

Thank you so much. This phone belongs to the boss, Yeshua. We're gonna move this a little bit because we need a wider.

Okay. Once you start having kids, people say you have to get a bigger house.

[Speaker 2]
We need to- The definition needs more.

[Speaker 1]
Why? Well, that's what I hear. I just hear.

We need to open. Okay. So please let me welcome Sibona and Chloe.

[Speaker 2]
Thank you.

[Speaker 1]
And why you made me come there? Because they have been helping me a lot lately with this project, Be True World News. So number one, I want to give them a thank you and welcoming you.

Thank you so much. Also, just for your information, today we are celebrating this wonderful, wonderful translation project from Sibona's house. So thank you so much for hosting.

She prepared amazing food, groceries. Rob Haggerty's upset because it was not exactly what he wanted, but no, just kidding. Just because I saw you like this, but anyways.

I'm just kidding. No, yeah. So, okay.

First, I want to introduce them a little bit to the audience. We talked already about it and we came up with the right question to ask. This kind of question I'm glad I'm asking because it's the kind of question you can ask your friends.

So Chloe and Sibona, would you be kind enough to talk a little bit of two things? What's your view, your general view on this thing, Be True World News, and what opportunities do you see for improvement in Be True World News? Yeah, and I told them they can criticize me if it's an honest criticizing, so please.

Yeah, of course. Yeah, so I think this is a fantastic question, Juan. Thank you for asking.

And my favorite thing about the Be True World News is that it's the hub of all the different spokes of the different organizations. It's the place where everybody comes together. And for me, that not just practically and functionally for getting the information about what's happening in the worldview network to the people, but also symbolically and metaphorically that there is one place where everybody comes together to me is an exquisite, exquisite thing.

And, you know, you ask about what you can do better and I think- But not me, Be True World News. Yeah. That may be some other time you can tell me.

Okay, do it if you want. So, you know what, when I look at the landscape of this show, I see such a beautiful expression of you and your heart and your love and the way that you conduct yourself is to me in and of itself a teaching. So no improvements requested from you, but from the community, from the audience, I request more from you guys.

And that is more engagement, more participation. Let us know more about what you're doing. It doesn't need to be a huge, massive event.

It can be smaller things, ongoing things, two people, five people. It doesn't need to be a huge thing for it to get here. So that's my- Okay.

Thank you very much. Thank you, thank you. And what about you, Chloe?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
What do you have to say? What do you say to your friends when I'm not around?

[Speaker 2]
So for, I love your question about what's your, what do you think about Peachtree can do for the students, the worldview organizations?

[Speaker 1]
What does it mean to have Peachtree World News?

[Speaker 2]
So I think this is a place where it's like our social media account, where you get to know everything about what's going on around the world, in China, in Turkey, in Indonesia. So this is a really a place where everybody comes to get information about other people. So I think there is a bigger vision in here.

I can see is that we rejoice for all the accomplishments from every single effort that all the people are doing in the whole wisdom community. So, yeah, so I think this also aligns with the new Geshe-la's teaching on the advanced level five, the feelings, the joyful emotions that we can celebrate the success in your part of the world and in other organizations. So that rebels to the world around us.

And then eventually everybody lives in the perfect world.

[Speaker 1]
Beautiful, but what is there to improve?

[Speaker 2]
Oh, what is there to improve? I would like to see more diversity in the Peachtree World News. You know, I would like to get to know more about everybody that who comes to the show, like, you know, not only YSI, but who are coming to YSI students.

What are their personal growth from joining an event? Some sort of a personal stories. So if you are interested, welcome to contact Juan or me or whoever it's your channel.

And I think that will be wonderful. You can share personal growth. This is just what I thought about right now.

And that will be an improvement. And in terms of Juan, I have to give him a shout out of being a wonderful friend. Oh, thank you.

I'm teaching yoga on Peachtree Garden and I had some concerns and worries.

[Speaker 1]
So he helped me, talked me through it. So that was wonderful. Thank you.

Glad to be able to help. Thank you so much. Okay, cool.

So now we're gonna do a quick test. It's a training test. Gina is gonna help us to do this because we are a news show.

So we are going to share the news really quickly. As part of this, I think it's, for me at least, it's kind of, I don't know, it's very healthy for me really to always keep room for improvisation. I understand it's very important to be prepared, but I find that excitement in the unknown improvisation.

So that's why I just tell you the answer, the question, but you don't tell me the answer and we'll see where it takes us. So great. Thank you for sharing.

Now we're gonna do this thing. So Gina, please. First new.

Cristina Cacica is about to start teaching Sanskrit on February 26th and February 27th, series two. For more advance to the next picture, please.

[Speaker 2]
So Lady Nibuma is happening in February 22nd in Mexico with Teresa.

[Speaker 1]
Pero Santo. She's coming all the way to teach in Mexico. Next picture, please.

Oh no, wait, something went wrong. Oh yeah, that's, well, anyways, that's- Where is the study? Yes, you go.

If you like these translation classes and you love learning on a regular basis, there are opportunities throughout the Worldview Network to study on a regular basis. The Five Houses has amazing programming. YSI has amazing programming.

If you're participating in one of those organizations and you wanna spotlight one of your programs, let us know. But there are places to study more and more and more all over the place. Wonderful.

So previous picture, please. Previous two pictures. Yes, so I'm about to be going to Guadalajara tomorrow and there are so many news to cover there.

Berta Velasco has been doing a wonderful job with a, how to say, palliative take care thing. And now I think we were hearing about some ideas to have like this new organization that helps people in their process of death. So maybe there is a special way to connect these two ideas, we'll see, but we're gonna be covering them.

Teresa Pirosanto teaching in Mexico, Lady Nygma II, Aldo's new baby, Aldo and Ria new baby. We're gonna get to meet Nila and also Sophia and Paola, giving food in the hospital and the bars. We will check what's going on.

Maybe also I get to catch Anatol and Aisha and other friends doing Green Stretch Pen. We'll see. Next picture, please.

Next one, please. Again, yes, you.

[Speaker 2]
So Diamond Silk Entrepreneur University will have a event coming up soon.

[Speaker 1]
In March in Japan.

[Speaker 2]
Yay, we have a group.

[Speaker 1]
Second group, wonderful. Shalpin is here and she's informing us it's the second group, the beginning of the second group.

[Speaker 2]
It's the second cohort starting in this coming March.

[Speaker 1]
March 29th to April 1st, correct? I think so, hopefully. Okay, next picture, please.

And finally, our dear friend. Oh yeah, you go. I mean, our dear friend Stanley soon we'll share a very cool special new video we are excitingly waiting for.

Thank you so much, that's all the news for today. And we have a special interview.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, so now thank you for the popcorn news. So now we have an interview segment today. Let's welcome Tina Liu.

And then you're welcome if you want. Welcome. Yeah, good.

Yeah. Okay, so we're gonna do, we will be talking English and then Wu Huayong will be speaking in Chinese. So if you need English channel, please go to that channel and then we too.

Okay, so welcome. Yeah, thank you. We feel home already here.

Yeah, welcome. And tell us more about who you are, where are you from, why you're here? Yeah, I start first.

Okay, my name is Tina. I'm a DCI organizer in China.

[Speaker 1]
And also, actually I am also the person in charge of the good night book club in China.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, and for the last year concerning about this is the Xuanzang's Tower program. And I feel personally feel so lucky that a teacher gave me the opportunity. So we have a small group of friends actually we actively support, make the major support to the Mixed Nuts Translation Program under the leader of teacher Nick and Feng.

[Speaker 1]
So actually, so I don't know you guys are here online or not, but I think today personally, I want to thank these people.

[Speaker 2]
Because like in total, they offered like 800,000 dollars to the program. So I really thank you if you are online. So continue this year.

This is good days. So Tina Liu has raised so much money for the Mixed Nuts Program and the whole BTC in general. So thank you so much for your effort.

Thank you. I thank you for your help from Lindsay. And yeah, she supports me about this job and also support me my personal life here.

Without her, I think I cannot settle down in Rimrock so quickly. With that, who is this handsome, beautiful gentleman here? Yeah, who?

So, You can speak Chinese. Okay. So tell us about yourself.

[Speaker 1]
Thank you very much.

[Speaker 2]
I can... You can translate. I can translate.

Okay. So I can translate in person for you? No, no.

You can say something for the teacher. You can hear everything. Feel good.

[Speaker 1]
He said, I feel good. Very good. I'm overjoyed.

And this is the first time that I'm in United States. Also have Geshe-la here with us. And I'm very happy and I see the teacher and also all my friends here with me.

And also, this is the first time that I joined Xuanzang Tower class.

[Speaker 2]
Congratulations and welcome.

[Speaker 1]
I'm not good at learning today. I should improve. I didn't do that well before.

I think this is great. It's like a family together. I think this is great.

We're like a family together.

[Speaker 2]
Oh, thank you so much.

[Speaker 1]
You both are a great example for many, many students and groups. And I see your stories and your daughter. And I know Tina Li has a lot more students and you have how many kids and families you serve last year?

[Speaker 2]
Actually, including online, our company majorly focus on teaching the system to mothers and the kids. So including online mothers. So we in total have 100,000 mothers online.

100,000 moms. So let's rejoice and thank you so much. Thank you.

[Speaker 1]
Is it Chinese New Year or Chinese New Year?

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
We're still in New Year in China. Yeah. So we would like to wish Geshe-la and all the Vajrayoginis a very healthy life and have a healthy body.

[Speaker 2]
Thank you. Okay, thank you so much. The time is up, but we will love to invite both of you back for more stories.

Yeah. Thank you for your contribution and wish you all the best. Time out.

Okay, thank you. I thank you. Thank you so much.

Back to Ben and Nick.

[Speaker 1]
Hi, well, thank you. Thank you, Tina. It's great to see you.

Thank you, Nick.

[Speaker 2]
Will you come here?

[Speaker 1]
I'm planning to.