Сугэн Ши — Книга 2: Колесо жизни (первый принцип и подразделения зависимости), занятие 32

[Speaker 1]
So we were too excited to end it. We just forgot about that. Oh, so you got lucky is what you mean to say.

Okay, thank you. Okay, let's start Sugeng's class. Sugeng, do you want to give a little...

Do you want to explain your text, what text you're working on? Yeah, my pleasure. So I'm working on the Will of Life text, and this is the second book.

The first book we have completed, it was the Commentary to the Will of Life Teaching by Kedrop Thempadargye. And it was kind of interesting. At least for me, I learned a great deal of basic to understand the teaching so that when we come to the second book, which is Commentary by Master Vasubandhu, and which has not been translated before, at least I could follow using what I have learned from the first book.

And this book is very interesting in the sense that we... So we actually discussed on the title, which is the first principle and the divisions. And we spent quite a fair bit on the first principle alone.

So it was said that the first principle is like the sutra and the divisions are like the commentaries. But because of that, Master Vasubandhu spent quite a fair bit of time on the first principle. And basically we are debating.

The first principle consists of two lines. If this is here, that is there. If this happens, that happens.

So just these two sentences alone, there are many arguments and Master Vasubandhu basically destroyed the wrong understanding that they are different. So basically they are the same. The one sentence is explaining the other sentence.

So both are the same. They are not different at all. And he presented his arguments on why this is so.

And it is a very interesting read if you have the time when the book is ready to go through the arguments. And then we went into the first link. Oh no, before we go there, we discuss about why there are exactly 12 links and not more and not less.

And then we talk about each one link triggering the other link. So there was an interesting question. What is the trigger for the first link?

And we went into the discussion about the conditions and the material cost, the condition and the cost. And there were a series of interesting arguments as well. So basically we are saying that the wrong understanding is the condition for the misunderstanding, but not the cost.

So that means that we cannot say that there is a link zero or link minus one. And then we also talk about the misunderstanding as the main of the link of the will. And that's why link number one actually, we spend quite a fair bit of time in learning about link number one.

And at the end of the explanation of link number one, Master Basubandhu actually went into saying link number one is subsumed as it included in the other links as well. And he also went on to say that even after link number 12, anything after link number 12 should already be included in the initial desire. And he, again, he presented a few arguments.

And finally, before we end this, we jump into the definition of the myths of the misunderstandings. And there were seven definitions and obviously the correct one is the last definition. So we end that last term at this point.

Geshe-la. Oh, that's a beautiful summary. I think Stanley, if you teach these guys how to do that mind map, that might be cool.

I wanted to say one thing. When you sit in mixed nuts class, it changes your mind. The confusion you feel, it actually improves your mind.

I believe that. And it improves your understanding of the world. And I want to give a proof of that.

It's on my cell phone. I hope it's okay. What is that?

This is some sexy lady with her new car. Yeah. Yesterday.

Okay. And it's not my goal in my life to get rich. It's not my goal.

I have higher goals than that. But if you understand these books, even if you get, what do you call, confusion which is becoming understanding, I believe that your life will be more successful. I believe that great things will happen in your life.

And it's not the goal to get a big house or a new car. But if you study these things, those things are automatic. Those little goals are automatic.

And then you can do a lot to help the whole world. You can help the whole world. If you stay in the mixed nuts, be brave.

Listen to Sugeng's very difficult text. I say it helps your normal life also. Okay.

And he and Shinten have a wonderful life, wonderful family. And that's rare in the world. That's more rare than a new car.

Angela, I would like to introduce our new daughter. Hi, new daughter. Yeah.

Her name is Ani. And yeah, she is our host here. And she has been driving us around.

And yeah. And you won't believe it. She upgraded the Wi-Fi speed just for me from her guest house.

In Balinese, the thanks, thank you, they say suksuma, you know. Suksuma. It sounds like sushumna.

Yeah, yeah, suksuma. Nice.

[Speaker 3]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Good. All right. Here we go to work.

Let's go to your text. Let me see here. There's a lot going there.

So, the pages that you are translating, Sugeng, you will go slower per page because you are using tengyur. And tengyur page is this big. It's like this big.

Because the monks in the ancient monasteries hundreds of years ago, they don't have eyeglasses. And so they carved the text very, very big. And your book, there will be more English pages for each ancient language page.

So, your page numbers will be a little slower than other people, but it's the same amount of text. I predict you can finish this book in 2028, the classes. It will take eight years total.

And I think we can make a bunch, several different books, I guess, if we want to. And the one challenge we have with this book is we don't have the Sanskrit. Yesterday, we found a new version of Nick's new book, the Sanskrit.

And so that's very helpful. For Stanley's book, we do have the Sanskrit. But Sugeng's book is a big challenge because we don't have the original Sanskrit.

We don't know. Sometimes it's going to be very difficult to understand the book. Because we don't have the original and we don't have any commentaries.

Nobody in 1700 years tried to write a commentary. Okay, you are the first one. And we're going to add a biography of Master Vasubandhu.

It's going to make the book about 100 pages more because we're adding some other teachers. Here's the structure of Sugeng's commentary. It's built on the 12 links in the Wheel of Life.

Sugeng's text is based on the 12 links of the Wheel of Life. The most important link is the first link. It means, what does it mean that you don't understand the world?

If you understand the world, you can have success. You can have a new car. You can have a beautiful family.

You can go spend time in Bali as your job. But you have to get over misunderstanding. Misunderstanding is the longest part and the most difficult part of this commentary.

That's what we're studying now. Okay, Sugeng, usually with your text, we've been doing a little bit of biography. Like, what's the story of Master Vasubandhu?

How did he live? What's his background? If we have five classes together this term, as usual, I would like to spend one class in biography.

We finished Vasubandhu's biography already, Master Vasubandhu's biography. Traditionally, when you present his biography in your introduction of your book or something, or in the appendix, traditionally we cover the biography of his major students, of his most important students. So today, with your permission, I would like to cover one of his students, the biography of one of his famous students, whose name is Sthiramati.

Which means strong mind or solid mind. Sthiram means, like the definition of yoga in the Yoga Sutra, is what, Mr. Kramer, of the asana?

[Speaker 2]
Sthirasukham.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, sthirasukham, steady and... If it's steady, then it's pleasant. If it's not, it's unpleasant.

You guys will know. Sthiram means strong or steady. And mati means, of course, mind.

So we're going to read the biography of Sthiramati together today. Just the first class. And then we'll go on to ignorance or misunderstanding.

All right, and who's checking you? Is Mr. Word there?

[Speaker 2]
Yes.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah? Are you there, Word? Yes, sir.

Can you check this guy? Sure. Try to criticize him.

He deserves it. Very good. Thank you.

SANGS RGYANG BA'I NANG NA GZUGS PA'I SANGS SANGS RGYANG BA'I NANG NA GZUGS PA'I Okay, I really want to try this myself. What's dagny chenpo in Sanskrit, you guys, Word and Sugen? Oh, mahatma.

Mahatma, yeah, great being, great person, like Mahatma Gandhi. Dagny chenpo means mahatma, okay? Yignyen?

What's vasu mean in Sanskrit? Treasures of the earth. Good, nice.

Yeah, treasures of the earth. So his name Vasubandhu means friend of the treasures of the earth or something like that. He had a loma, what's that?

Student. And that student was kepa about ngamba. Expert on the higher teaching?

Expert on chung ngamba, chung ngamba. Abhidharma.

[Speaker 3]
Abhidharma.

[Speaker 1]
He was an Abhidharma. Kepa Chok, number one Abhidharma scholar. And his name is Master Sthiramati.

So Sthiramati doesn't have any long A and any long I, it's just Sthiramati, okay? Easy, Sthiramati. Now, his story is that Lopan Yignyen, what's that mean, Sugen?

Master Vasubandhu? Yeah, he was nang na shuk. He was sitting in a sang that was full of drumar.

Sitting in a warehouse full of food? No, don't you guys remember what he used to do? He's sitting in a...

By the way, at Diamond Mountain, one day we found an old bathtub.

[Speaker 3]
Oh, a man's nest?

[Speaker 1]
No, bathtub, sang. Sang is a copper bathtub. He was sitting in a copper bathtub filled with tila, like tilapia.

Sesame seed butter? Yeah, sesame seed butter. And Vasubandhu used to enjoy...

I got to try it. He used to enjoy sitting in a bathtub filled with sesame seed butter or oil. I think it's good for lung, but it's probably also good for your skin, right?

Right, Xiaoping? Must be. So, he enjoyed sitting in a bathtub full of sesame seed oil in a place called bhagavihara.

Vihara means resting place or a temple. And bhaga, that's a long story. So, he was staying in a place called bhagavihara.

He was doing his usual bathtub thing. And what's he doing in the bathtub? Anybody remember?

Reciting all the classics that he was... Yeah, he will memorize books sitting in the bathtub. I like it.

People make fun of me memorizing in the toilet, but I think it's very peaceful. Okay, all right. So, please read and...

Word, can you keep helping him? Please. Yes.

Good, nice. I love that bumde word. I don't think it's a specific collection of texts.

I think it's either it's 99 or 80 famous books. It's called the bumde. So, it just means the major collection of scriptures called the 80 scriptures.

Sometimes it's called the 99 scriptures. What's Sheldon Swadyaya, Mr. Kramer?

[Speaker 2]
A recitation.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, he was reciting the sacred books. So, he used to sit in the bathtub full of oil and recite his books. Maybe I should try that.

I have such dry skin. bumde geshe shed tun zepe tse There was a pugrun. Pigeon?

What's that? Pigeon? Yeah, and sometimes...

Where do you see this pugrun?

[Speaker 2]
Center of the Wheel of Life.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, in the middle of the Wheel of Life. Sometimes it's a...

[Speaker 3]
Rooster.

[Speaker 1]
A rooster, and sometimes it's a pigeon, because these two birds love to have sex. And so, it represents desire. But this one is just a normal pigeon, okay?

What's gyun du? Nyen. In a flow?

Yeah, in a flow means usually, or hour to hour. He would nyen. What's a nyen tu?

Listen? Yeah, he would listen to these holy books being recited by Vasubandhu. Dönpa means he used to hang out, okay?

He used to hang out. But unfortunately, one day, po-wa He died? Yeah, he died.

Namsik means one day. Tse po-wa means he died. He died and passed on to the next world.

And then he was born as... He was born in the tarkop, which is the opposite of the wu. The hinterlands?

Yeah, he was born in the... Barbarian lands. Outlying lands, where...

Outlying land means there's not strong Buddhism. America is a tarkop, okay? Buddhism is not strong here.

So we call the outer country or outer lands, okay? He was born there into a country called Drama. Okay?

And Drama, apparently, you guys, if you've been studying Vimalakirti, it's a Litsavi nation. It's the nation of the Litsavi race, okay? So it's like a...

I don't know, kind of a rich country, okay? He was born into a country of... A wealthy country.

But he was born in the... Among the different castes, he was born into the mangrik. What's that mean?

Do you guys know? Lower caste? Yeah, lower caste or commoner.

Commoner. Mang means many, right? So rik means caste.

So he was born just in a normal family. Middle class family, okay? Okay.

The pigeon was born into a middle class family. Go ahead, Sugeng. Word, can you help him on one more line?

Sure. You guys can translate this if you think about it. I'm going to shut up, which is rare for me.

[Speaker 2]
Sugeng, do you want help?

[Speaker 1]
Yes, please. Okay. You know, ke.

We've had that a million times. Yeah, born.

[Speaker 2]
Matak is like a... It means like right after he was born or something?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, just after he was born. Diwa. Go to the diwa word.

He smelled something. No, this is like... He asked.

Yeah, he asked a question to his dad, actually. Lopun Kanashu. Where's my teacher?

Where'd my teacher go? Yeah, where'd my teacher go? Where's my teacher?

Where's my teacher? Who's his teacher? Vastu Master Vasubandhu.

Hey, where's my teacher? Pe is an instrumental word. Yeah, his father said.

Yeah, his father replied. Sugeng. Who's your teacher?

Yeah, who's your teacher? Okay. And I guess the baby said, Yinyan.

Vasubandhu. Where are you? My teacher is Vasubandhu.

Where's Vasubandhu? By the way, if you become an Arya, if you see emptiness directly, you also see that immediately in your future lives as a baby, you will run into great teachers and they will take care of you for the rest of your lifetimes. So, it is a real thing.

This is a real thing. If you see emptiness directly, then as soon as you're born, you are exposed to great teachers for the rest of your life and they take care of you. And you know that.

You can look forward to that. All right. This seems to be a good combination.

Hey, what? Word and Sugeng. Sugeng, let's read this one.

And Word, can you check him? Okay. Okay, Word, help him get through it.

Yeah, I think I got it. I got the first sentence, I think. Okay, good.

Hey, we just had. Yeah.

[Speaker 2]
And so the opposite of Takhope here.

[Speaker 1]
The central land?

[Speaker 2]
No. No. Buddhist places.

They draw to there.

[Speaker 1]
Draw?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Went there, you know. Yeah. Okay.

Oh, who's going? Tsongba. Merchants?

Yeah, there were merchants headed for central India. And the dad, Thiba there. Yeah.

Yeah, the dad. You know Thiba, we just had it. Thiba.

Thiba? Yeah, he asked them. He questioned them.

Yeah, he said to the merchants, Hey! And he took where Yignyen Shuk. He was asking where Master Vasubandhu is living?

He heard. He heard it. Yeah, he got the information about where Master Vasubandhu was living.

And when his son had chung say kyepa, when his son had grown up a little bit, he kyal him to Yignyen.

[Speaker 2]
Kyal?

[Speaker 1]
Carried him. Yeah, he sent him off. Okay, he sent him off to study with Master Vasubandhu.

Okay. Yay, one more word. One more.

Okay, good. By the way, chimo means ABCs. Yigye chimo means it's ABCs.

[Speaker 2]
So who's the Lopin here?

[Speaker 3]
Master Vasubandhu?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. Oh, I'm sorry, you're correct. Yeah, Lopin Vasubandhu taught him Yigye chimo.

The ABCs? Yep, he taught him his very first lessons up to all of the Rigdnes. Up to all the...

Rigdne Nga?

[Speaker 3]
Five?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, the great classical subjects of knowledge, okay? Not just Buddhism. Buddhism is only one of the five.

Rigdne, he became a kyepa. He become an expert. Yeah, and this Lop means he studied.

He studied them until he became an expert, okay? All right, I'm thinking... Where's Stanley?

Are Stanley there? Yes. Did you fall asleep?

Are you okay? I'm, yeah, a little jet lag, but still. Oh yeah, don't give me this jet lag excuse.

Okay, help Vasubandhu get through this one, okay? We got to figure out how to put the histories in both books. I don't know.

The biographies. ,GZHIG PHOS BA'I RIL NAS BYUNG, ,YANG PHOS BA'I RIL, ,PHAG MED MA SOGS BAR RANG SA BA MI, ,'ONG SNYAM NAS ZAS PA'I PHOS YANG RIL BA'I, ,PHYIS PA NUS SOGS Nice, nice. Very good.

Your pronunciation is the best. If anybody wants to learn how to pronounce, they should talk to Master Sugeng. Okay.

What's CHUNG LUS mean you guys? Word, help him out. I'm sorry, Stanley, help him out.

Is that the youth? Yeah, when he was a little guy. Okay, the two is time, right?

He went to... Nalandra? Yeah, Nalandra Monastery.

And there was a ten, which means a stupa, okay? This ten means a stupa, okay? Of who?

Stanley. Dharma. Yeah, Tara.

There was a Tara stupa, okay? And by the way, this Tara stupa, a lot of cool stuff happens there. And in his chak, he had sema.

Sema means beans or peas, okay? So, Sthiramati went to Nalandra. He saw the stupa of Tara there.

And he had a handful of... Phu means best quality, okay? He had a handful of really excellent peas, okay?

And he thought, Phu, I will phu. Offer. Yeah, I will offer them to the stupa, okay?

But, I will just eat a sawa, a few of them. Yeah, I'll just eat a few. Maybe they are like crunchy snacks or something.

And he said, I'm going to offer all these peas to Tara, but you know, maybe I could just snack on a few. I'll offer most of them to Tara, but I'm going to snack on a few of them, okay? Yummy.

Ga shikpo. He offered some of them, okay? On the stupa, in front of the stupa, at the base of the stupa, and they jil.

Jil means they rolled off. They just all rolled off the stupa. All the ones he decided to offer to Tara and not to eat himself, they just immediately rolled off the stupa, okay?

Then yang po.

[Speaker 2]
They roll away. He did it again. He offered again.

[Speaker 1]
He offered them again. Then he offered more, and they jil. Roll away again.

And they rolled away the second time, okay? Then he said, Oh, I know why. Nyan means, he thought to himself, I know why I didn't sulwa the pakma.

Unless I ask this Arya Tara, right? Lady Arya here. Lady Arya.

Pakma. Lady Arya. If she doesn't give me permission to eat them, rang sa mi-ung.

Oh, hey, you know what this is? I just figured this out. This is mi-ung.

No. No, that's not going to work. No, let's take that.

Okay. Anyway, it's misspelled. It's not going to work out, mi-ung, that I can eat these peas unless I ask permission from the Arya Lady, from the Lady Arya.

Nyan ne. Then finally, se se pu. Se means, he offered the whole bag.

He had the whole bag of peas, and he offered them on the stupa, okay? And so gang, they yang jil. Oh, stay, say on?

Jil, jil. Jil. Again.

They also rolled off. The whole thing rolled off. The whole bag, just the stupa kicked the whole bag off.

And then this chimpa started to move. Yeah, started to cry. And chimpa means young child.

He's still a child, okay? What's chimpa's synonym for what? The jewel?

[Speaker 2]
So-so kyewo.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, so-so kyewo. What's that, Sugeng? Ordinary human, non-Arya.

Yeah, non-Arya. So there's interesting contrast here. If you're a sensitive translator, you want to bring out the contrast of pakma and chimpa.

This is an intentional contrast by the author. What's it mean, Sugeng? Someone who is an Arya and someone who is not an Arya.

Yeah. So you've got Tara, who's an Arya, and she's running the stupa. And then you've got Stutamati, who's a non-Arya.

But in this case, he's a real chimpa. He's a real young... You can say he's a young man here or he's a boy, okay?

And then he starts to cry. Because Tara did what? Rejected his...

Yeah, she rejected his... When he finally gave her the leftover piece, right? She said, don't give me the leftover.

This is how I make offerings also. Okay, I want this team, Stanley and Sugeng. Let's go again.

Here we go. DER BAG ME ZHAL NGOS SU BSTEN TE NGOS MI DGOS NGES KHYUR LA CHIN KYIS LHAB KYIS KHYIM THU SONG SUNG DE ME KHYEN RAB THOG ME DU NGYUR TE BSTEN DE LA SEMS ME DRO MA ZHES DRAG SONG Nice. What's BAG MA, Sugeng?

The Arya lady, Arya woman? Yeah, ZHAL, what's ZHAL mean, anybody? Holy lips.

Yeah, but here it means face, okay? Here it means face. NGOS SU BSTEN Displayed directly.

Yeah, she showed her face directly. She said, here I am. Here's Tara.

And then she said to him, NGOS MI DGOS Don't give me a little bit. NGOS NGOS Don't cry. Yeah, don't cry.

Who's the most famous NGOS in history, by the way?

[Speaker 2]
Whoever's ever weeping.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, yeah. Talk to NGOS, right? You don't have to cry.

I'm going to give you a jinla.

[Speaker 2]
I'll give you a blessing.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, I'll give you my blessing. And you go back to your KHYIM.

[Speaker 2]
Home.

[Speaker 1]
You go back home, and don't worry about it. I'm going to take care of you. I'm going to bless you, she said, soon.

Then his KHYIM RAB became THOG MED. His... And advancement become...

[Speaker 2]
Understanding.

[Speaker 1]
His understanding became THOG MED.

[Speaker 2]
Unstoppable.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, ASANGA, ASANGA, okay? Unstoppable, yeah. Unstoppable wisdom.

Maybe you could even call him...

[Speaker 2]
Sthiramati.

[Speaker 1]
Sthiramati, okay? Like strong mind, Mr. Strong Mind. I think this is a pun, right, Sagan?

His knowledge became unstoppable. And afterwards, PHRAG means... Everybody used to say, this PHRAG means, everybody used to say, what?

[Speaker 2]
Oh, he was the son of Drona, of Tara.

[Speaker 1]
Nope, the DEN, DEN. We had a DEN. That's the...

[Speaker 2]
CHOD DANG.

[Speaker 1]
The stupa. Yeah, CHOD DANG, CHOD DANG. Where the beans of Tara are.

People would call that Bean Tara's stupa. Hey, have you been to the stupa? Have you been to Bean Tara's stupa?

You ever been to Bean Tara's stupa? Yeah, the stupa became called the Bean Tara's stupa. That's so romantic.

Okay, let's keep going. Haso, you ready to check this guy?

[Speaker 2]
Yes.

[Speaker 1]
Give me some trouble. Haso, where are you? I need you up here.

[Speaker 3]
Yes, I'm planning on that.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, come on, come on. I need help. Okay, good.

What's LOP DANG, Sugeng? Teacher? Yeah, this master.

So, KUN ZHOG ZEGS PA or KUN ZHOG is a section of the Kangyur. And it's a large collection of small sutras, okay? Huge collection of small sutras.

I think, for example, the one that I remember from there is the Ten Bumi Sutra that Tsongkhapa uses it a lot. So, that section of the Kangyur, it's a collection of shorter sutras. And it has 49 sections.

So, LUS here doesn't mean chapter, it means sections. So, this collection of short sutras in the Kangyur has 49 different sutras in it. So, ZHIG CHU ZHES DGOS YAN CHE, more than 49.

HE THUG LA SNGA, HE SVA DBYA'I... Learned himself? Yeah, he memorized.

He memorized them, okay? He memorized the 49 lesser sutras of the Ratnakuta. It's called a section of the Kangyur.

And he also did a DBYAL PA.

[Speaker 2]
Commentary?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, he also wrote a commentary. DRAG SO, people say... DRAG SO probably means that we don't have that commentary anymore, okay?

They say, people say that he wrote a good commentary to this special section of the Kangyur. All right, keep going. Seiji's going to check you.

Seiji, by the way, did a great job. The Mixed Nuts should be proud of him. He taught all of those, that huge convention.

He was standing up there in very poetic Spanish. I never heard Seiji speak his native tongue. Oh my God, it's like poetry.

DRAG CING LHA SPRUNG DE TSUL GYIS NGREL PA NAM CHAGS RTOGS ZER CHOS NGON PA KUN LAS TSUL GYIS NGREL PA RAB TU BYED PA DE RGYAS GYIS NGREL PA LA SOGS PA BSTAN CHOS MANG THUD THAMSO Nice, okay. Then at that time when he was memorizing all those books and reciting them, his drakpa went to all the chok of India. Kirti, Kirti.

Oh, famous. Yeah, his name, that he was a master, the fame of his mastery, it spread to every corner of India. Khyap, khyap means spread.

There's the literal meaning of khyap. In logic, it means something else. And he wrote a drelpa to dzu.

Commentary to the Abhidharma. Good, he wrote a nice Abhidharma commentary. And the name of that commentary is NAM CHAGS RTOGS ZER.

And I'll give $100 if anybody has a piece of that even.

[Speaker 2]
The Burning Sky?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, not enough. I expect more from you, Word. I mean, the Iron Sky, literally.

[Speaker 3]
The sound of a meteor falling through the atmosphere?

[Speaker 1]
Man, you guys are... Oh, no, the lightning, when lightning strikes. Okay, the first blood.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. First blood of this term has gone to master, master. Master Word got the money.

Aiyah. Okay, don't forget the new rule. You have to collect the money from Venerable Jigme, okay?

And it's just a trust system. If anybody tells Jigme, I owe them money, she gives it to them. Okay, so if you ever have trouble paying your rent, just call Jigme and say you won some bets, okay?

So what's... NAM CHAGS means... So in the ancient days, they believe that lightning is made of the hardest steel, like, what's that called?

Damascus steel, right? And they believe that it has a diamond at the tip, and that's how it can break a tree or something like that. So they call sky steel.

THOG means a lightning bolt. Ser means a bolt. It doesn't mean here to say.

So THOG SER means a bolt, a bolt of high quality steel lightning. What's that mean? What is that?

Why is it here? Came out of nowhere or was powerful like that? What's powerful like that?

His commentary. Yeah, good, good. He called his commentary a bolt of unstoppable steel on the heads of all those guys who don't understand Abhidharma.

You see what I mean? It's kind of a cool name. When I was like, hey Nick, we're always looking for names for our band.

I think NAM CHAGS THOG SER is pretty cool. That's probably the best one we've heard so far. Unstoppable steel bolt of lightning.

Okay. So he wrote that commentary. Keep going Sugeng.

Now what's significant about this? Somebody tell me Haso. Why is this very significant?

Very significant. Hmm. Second commentary he wrote.

Abhidharma Samuccaya? Yeah, but why is that important Sugeng? Like Abhidharma Kosha, he wrote a commentary on Abhidharma Kosha and then he wrote a commentary to Abhidharma Samuccaya.

Why is it significant? Oh, is it because this signifies the mind only? Yeah, perfect.

That's his half brother's classic. That's his half brother's important mind only classic. Just to say he wrote...

I'm sorry, his teacher's brother. His teacher Vasubandhu's half brother. He's showing off that he knows the detailist school and he knows the mind only school.

He wrote a book on each of them. Okay, cool. And not only that, he wrote RAB TU BYAS PA DE RGYAS KYI BRAL PA.

Okay, RAB TU BYAS PA DE RGYAS KYI BRAL PA. I think this is a commentary on... I got to check, but PHUNG PO NGA'I RAB TU BYAS PA, which means a very famous book by Chandrakirti about the divisions of the five heaps.

I believe, I'm not 100% sure, I got to check. But if that's correct, why is that important, Sugeng? The third commentary here is a commentary to Chandrakirti.

Oh, because he's a middle way, right? Yeah, that means he mastered three of the great schools. He's just like a mixed nut, okay?

He's mastering different schools, okay? Very unusual, okay? Yay, student Makti.

When we say Chandrakirti, that means higher middle way, right? Yeah, higher middle way, exactly. Always higher middle way.

I believe, if it's the RAB TU BYAS PA I'm thinking of. Okay, there's some study I did about it. A few notes here, Sugeng.

[Speaker 3]
This is exciting.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, oh, by the way, look at here. Wow, we finished. You finished one minute early, right, Newton?

Six minutes, right? Exactly. No, actually, we have six minutes early.

Oh, so let's go to the text again. Never waste five minutes in this. Yay, here's your main text, okay?

[Speaker 3]
Yes.

[Speaker 1]
And we're going back to Vasubandhu's very difficult commentary on the 12 links. And I think that Tim wants to check you. Okay, go ahead, Sugeng.

Okay, good. So we're in the middle of the explanation of misunderstanding. And he says, REG ZHIG means, so just to talk about for a bit, REG ZHIG means for a bit, okay?

For a bit, let's talk about BYAMS PA. What's BYAMS PA? Love.

Love, right. Let's talk about love, okay? Then the mind that has the aspect of love, what's its essence?

What's the real essence of it? It's PHYAG PA MED PA. Cannot be broken?

PHYAG. Free of attachment. Free of desire.

Yeah, it's free of desire. And it's an interesting comment. It's an interesting statement.

The essence of love is freedom from desire, okay? That's an interesting idea. GANG ZHIG YIN Well, what's that mean?

What's that refer to? Oh, MI SDUG PA'I RNAM PA LA When you see a person who has MI SDUG PA'I, No suffering? This SDUG means attractive.

Yeah, this SDUG means attractive. The SDUG and SDUG NYAL, if you take the NYAL off, SDUG PA'I means attractive, okay? What's TANA SDUG?

TANA SDUG. TANA SDUG is a city at the top of Mount Meru where the gods live. And it's going to come in somebody's book.

I don't remember who. One of you is going to have it pretty soon. You're going to talk about...

Oh, it's Nick's text. It's going to talk about that city at the top of Mount Meru. Anyway, the city is called TANA SDUG.

If you look at it, it looks beautiful. Okay, so here, what's our normal reaction to a person who is MI SDUG PA? Which means ugly, okay?

What's our reaction to ugly things? ZHES DANG. We usually get hatred or we don't like them, okay?

So ZHES DANG is the snake in the Wheel of Life. And PHYAG PA is kind of the PUG RUN. What's a PUG RUN?

They're a pigeon. Yeah. So ZHES DANG MED PA.

If we can... An aspect of love is that we overcome both attachment and aversion. MI SDUG PA, okay?

Aversion, okay? YANG GANG ZHIG YIN, okay? DE NYID LA DE NYID DE, okay?

When we talk about these two, we talk about a polarity, okay? A polarity. What is the polarity?

PHYAG PA and ZHES DANG are MI TIN CHOG. MI TIN CHOG means they stand in... They stand in...

What do you call that?

[Speaker 2]
Opposition, exclusive?

[Speaker 1]
They stand in opposition.

[Speaker 3]
Opposition.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. They are opposition, okay? They stand in opposition, okay?

These two stand in opposition to each other. And it's not as if they don't have a TSIN NI. It's not as if they don't have a TSIN NI.

[Speaker 2]
You can recognize the definition?

[Speaker 1]
It's not the case that they don't have their own characteristics, okay? Their own defining characteristics. It's not the case, right?

By the way, Sugeng, traditionally they would say that RIG PA as opposed to MA RIG PA doesn't see a TSIN NI of these two emotions. RIG PA doesn't see a TSIN NI of these two emotions. So understanding doesn't see the...

What is TSIN NI again here? TSIN NI means like... Defining characteristics.

Defining characteristics of what? Of desire and hatred. Of attachment and hatred.

It doesn't see any definitions. What's that mean? Take it to fire.

Take it to fire, Sugeng. You got one minute left. Take it to fire.

Fire doesn't have TSIN NI. So fire itself doesn't have the hot and burning? Yeah, exactly.

So the idea of not having your own TSIN NI is very important when you're discussing the first link, okay? When you're discussing the first link, it's extremely important to understand that even a thing like fire is not hot from its own side. Take it to the kitchens, Sugeng.

The husband which is not coming from our seeds, he's angry because he's hungry. Yeah, yeah. Who made fire hot?

The seeds. When I treated somebody else badly last week, that is the heat in the fire. Now for a hundred dollars, and I just heard the word wake up, I don't even have to see him.

For a hundred dollars, and then we'll stop for this morning. For a hundred dollars, take this to the SEM MA. Take this to the SEM MA.

Take this discussion to the SEM MA. The indications? No, SEM MA.

Oh, the beans. Yeah, take this discussion to the beans. What?

It's a very famous example similar to fire. The numerist said that beans just had their own roundness. Yeah, you get close.

You got $25. And that roundness just... Beans and thorns had their own inheritance.

I didn't make beans round. I didn't make thorns sharp. Yeah, that's the simi of a bean is its roundness, okay?

The defining characteristic of a bean, of a pea, is its perfect roundness. And it's SEM YI MED PA. There is no characteristic?

Inherent characteristic coming from its own self? Wait, words trying to make another $25, come on. You're slowly getting up to a hundred words.

Very slow. It has no defining characteristics. Yeah, nobody...

Say it in plain English. Nobody... Nobody made seeds round.

Yay, nobody made peas round, okay? A hundred bucks, okay? That's the second hundred bucks you made this hour, okay?

That's called SEM YI MED PA, okay? That's what SEM YI MED PA means. Nobody made peas round.

Sorry, peas aren't round from their own side. Husbands aren't pissed off from their own side, okay? You made seeds round, and you made all the irritating people in the world irritating, okay?

It's you, and it's because of your pigeon-ness and your snake-ness that you have to see all this stuff, okay? Yay, let's stop there, you guys.

[Speaker 3]
Thank you. Come on.

[Speaker 1]
Grandpa's going back to bed, I think.

[Speaker 3]
Thank you, Keshava. Translation homework.

[Speaker 1]
Oh yeah, hang on. Today is the 15th. Let me see something.

Yeah, I want you to do the next three sentences, okay? MIG LA SOGS, NYID KYI LOGS, and DE BZHIN DU.

[Speaker 3]
Thank you.

[Speaker 1]
No, wait, I got a better one. Can you cancel that? Can you start with RIG PA'I DI?

Sure. And I want you to do the next three sentences, okay? Until CHOR NI, JIG RTEN LA?

Yeah, GANG GI MI KHRIN, CHOR NI JIG RTEN, and DE BYED DU, okay?

[Speaker 3]
There's four. Anyway. No sleep for you tonight.

[Speaker 1]
Oh yeah, and by the way, what's it mean, RIG PA'I DI GANG ZHING LAM? What's it mean? If we talk about, if we focus on this understanding?

Yeah, if we want to define, if we want to understand the first link, which is misunderstanding, well, what the heck is... Understanding. Understanding, good.

That's the part you're going to translate, okay? All right, I'll see you guys this evening. By the way, I asked Nick if...

I know that starting tomorrow we have a yoga... you want to talk about it, Nick? Sure, I can, but it might be better coming from you.

Starting tomorrow we have yoga classes. They're on the schedule for after this, so like in the morning sessions, starting tomorrow. What are our morning sessions?

And Geshe Michael requested if we could also do yoga sessions before the afternoon classes. So I would say 4 to 5 p.m. Arizona time. Yeah.

So we're looking for teachers for those classes, so if anybody wants to teach a yoga class, email me. If you know how to teach a yoga class, don't just wing it. We're all winging it.

Yeah, good point. So there's my email address. If you want to share a Zoom yoga class during that time, 4 to 5, pretty much any of the days that we're in classes, but they're still available because nobody has signed up yet.

My experience, personally, is that if I do yoga before the classes, my mind is much more clear, much more strong. So I asked Nick, it's good if we have classes after the morning classes for Europe and for America, but that means you guys in Asia, you're going to start yoga at 11 p.m.? I don't know. For me, it keeps me awake.

For Asia, and for me, I'd like to do yoga also just before the evening classes, which means in Asia, your yoga class would start at 7 a.m. You have to get up early and start your yoga at 7 a.m. Then I predict you will do much better in your classes. Your mind will be much more clear. You guys, I don't know, I'm looking at Alex Rivas right now.

You guys who are in North America, South America, you could do your class in the afternoon and be sharp for the evening classes. Or if it's more convenient for your schedule, if you're in Europe or you're in the Americas, you can only do the yoga classes after the morning class, which would be for you, that'd be like 4 p.m. in the afternoon or something. But I really suggest you do yoga every day.

I don't care. Nick said, look, Geshe-la, nobody's going to come. I don't care.

I'll be there. It's my secret for really having a clear mind, is doing daily exercise. All right, Nick, that's all the sales I can do.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. And thank you everybody for coming. Have a nice break, have a nice nap, and I'll see you soon.

Thank you, Geshe-la. Thank you, thank you, Geshe-la. Thank you, thank you, Geshe Michael, thank you everybody.

Thank you, guys. It's nice to be back. Yeah.