Тим Ловенхопт — Книга 1: Совершенство мудрости, занятие 2

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That's a great word, yeah. You know, in Portuguese, that's called a vagalume. Ah, that's cool.

Yeah. And they call a hummingbird a beija flor.

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Beija, what's the second word mean?

[Speaker 1]
No, it's a beija flor, flower kisser. Like hummingbird.

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Wow. It's beautiful. Yeah, it's kind of cute.

Recording in progress.

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Keep going, Nick.

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Is that a show beam? Who is that?

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No, it's something much more recent. I don't know. Aldo probably knows it.

Right. He's a world traveler.

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They still call it bossa nova?

[Speaker 1]
No, it's kind of like a reggae. They love reggae in Brazil, too.

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You have a good voice for it, Nick.

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Maybe I'll be in a Bob Marley cover band.

[Speaker 3]
Yes. Let's do it.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, yeah. We might need a drummer. Oh, sweet.

Yeah. What kind of guitar is it? Is that a Yamaha?

Martin. Whoa. Nice.

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Don't play.

[Speaker 1]
You inherited that from somebody.

[Speaker 3]
Nah, I bought it. Chuck sent me a song during the COVID that affected me so deeply that I decided I needed to start playing guitar again.

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All right. It went all in.

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Yeah.

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I commit.

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When I drop in, I drop in all the way.

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That's like when Jamie started playing guitar, too. He bought like four incredible electric guitars with like great amps. I was so jealous.

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Does that mean you're coming down here on tour, Rob?

[Speaker 1]
Yes. All my stuff is in Camberdy. Where do you play?

Guitar? I just bought a guitar. Yeah.

I bought so many guitars. I give them away. I give them away regularly.

Right, Nick? I was playing one today. Actually, just 20 minutes ago.

You got to teach Amelie to play. That'd be really fun. She strums a little bit.

The first time she started strumming, that was the biggest smile I've ever had.

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Ezra's got a drum teacher. He's got regular drum lessons from the head timpanist of the symphony orchestra here.

[Speaker 1]
You could make some money getting these kids a job. School of rock.

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Or sitting on the corner with a little tin cup.

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Busking?

[Speaker 3]
Yes, busking.

[Speaker 1]
Make dozens of dollars. Tim is nervous. Tim is nervous, you guys.

Let's go.

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Tim is next. Yay!

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It's basically all make or break in the first class, Tim. Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
I'll set expectations low and we'll just break, all right? He even combed his hair, you guys. He's really serious.

It looks good.

[Speaker 2]
It's mostly looking good.

[Speaker 1]
All right. Here we go. So I'd like to welcome Tim Lohenhaupt to the Mixed Nuts.

Yay! He actually worked pretty hard to get into the Mixed Nuts, and I don't think you guys know, but he actually took Tibetan classes for a while. And his Tibetan is getting quite good, actually.

So he took some spoken classes. Anyway, he's been doing a lot of Tibetan work for the ACI programs, and it's just been, I could tell he was serious. And, you know, I watched him for a while, because sometimes people get serious for a week or two.

But he kept it up for quite a while. So I thought we should do it. And congratulations, Tim, and welcome.

You don't have time to do this, but who cares about that? And let's get started on his book. That's exciting.

I want to introduce you guys to his book. Where is that? Yeah, here we go.

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Okay.

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Spotify is open.

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Didn't you know Neil Young is, like, anyway?

[Speaker 1]
Oh, yeah. Okay. So here's my little spiel about this text.

So the traditional Geshe course, which is 25 years, normally 25 years, is divided into five major topics. And in a university, I think each one would be a PhD track or something like that. So you're talking about five different degrees.

And textbooks were written at each major monastery to study the five great books. And typically... Let me get this up.

Hang on, hang on. Okay. Typically, there's a...

The two textbooks are called Chidun and Tathagata. And they're both about analysis. So technically, a Chidun is an overview of the whole subject, of the whole great book.

And then a Tathagata is a dialectical analysis, which means dialectic is a fancy word for... And by the way, Xiaoping, it doesn't pass the waiter test, so don't ask for a dialectic hamburger. It means debate and analysis, but always in debate.

So normally, the Tathagata, the dialectic analysis, is more detailed and longer. Although that difference between the two kind of got lost after a while. And nowadays, they're not that much different.

When we study the lower monastery, which is the independent group of the Middle Way School, in the monastery, we call it Prajnaparamita, which is Parottacimba. So even though the literature by Lord Buddha of hundreds of thousands of verses is called Prajnaparamita or the Mother Sutras, because that's the main topic of lower Middle Way writers in the monastery, it came to be called as Parchin or Prajnaparamita. We spent 12 years, the first half of the Geshe course is 12 years spent on one book here by a sangha, which is the Abhisamaya Alankara, which is one of a sangha's five great books that he recovered from going to the dog story and going to meet Maitreya in his heaven.

This book is 75 pages. Everybody in the monastery has to memorize it. I memorized it.

It takes about 45 minutes to recite. It will be quoted in this commentary. You're going to see a lot of quotations from Haribhadra.

He lived around the time of Kamalashila and Shantarakshita, who had a lot of contact with China. We're going to get some commentary by Haribhadra also. This commentary to Maitreya is traditionally in eight chapters.

Maitreya's book has eight chapters. These are the chapters. This book that Tim is going to work on is eight volumes.

It's thousands of pages. As I mentioned, it takes 12 years to finish just studying it, much less translating it. Here's the layout of these eight books.

The first three books, thick volumes, they all teach the first chapter of Maitreya's work. There's three books that teach one chapter. That chapter is called nam khen, which means omniscience, knowing all things.

We have three books dedicated to the first chapter. The fourth book in the Tibetan is chapter two of Maitreya's work. That's a special perception of emptiness called knowledge of the path.

The fifth book, which is chapter three, is a special perception of emptiness called knowledge of the foundation. Book six is a special practice that helps you get to enlightenment called the complete practice. Chapters five, six, and seven of Maitreya are short.

The commentary is a single book, the practice of the summit, the practice of the end, and the practice of the instant. Book eight is choku, dharmakaya, the body of enlightenment. Here are statistics for Tim's eight books.

It would take us 30 years. The first chapter will take 30 years. We all have to live a long life.

I figured, what the heck, let's just go for it. We could divide up the first chapter into five books. Each book will be exactly this size.

Just the first chapter will have five books. If we divide it up into five books, we could finish his first book in about five years. Four or five years.

Here is some breakdown of the Tibetan first book. It would be almost a thousand pages of English. That's why I suggest, Tim, we split it up into two books.

The first third of the first chapter I would split into two books. The two English books will have some... I wanted to give you guys some of the very sexy topics in the first book.

If we do a book in five years, it's going to include what is an innovator. We have this in DCI, what level?

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Nine.

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About creativity. It's a whole study of creativity and innovation. It's extremely useful for modern life.

I have to say, I used it a lot in my diamond business. It became number one in the world. I think it works.

Then there's a whole discussion of what is the word of the Buddha. What is ka? The second great topic is...

By the way, this was my pre-Geshe assignment. I had to debate this for my pre-Geshe assignment. I think...

It's a question, is Maitreya a Buddha? Is he a bodhisattva or is he a Buddha? This ends up being a wonderful commentary on the ideas of a secret teaching.

The second great topic in Tim's first book is a whole discussion of what makes a teaching secret and what happens in a secret teaching. It's extremely interesting to me. The third topic in his first book will be What is the Mother of the Buddhas?

What does it mean to be a mother of a Buddha? The fourth topic in Tim's first book will be Gokjar. This is the best presentation of Gokjar in the universe.

It's extremely important. That's the only thing we do from this topic. It's the most important thing.

What is the thing that emptiness is empty of? It's a brilliant commentary. There's a thing called the Three Kinds of Knowledge.

We'll be covering that. Then there's a brilliant presentation of what is nirvana. What exactly is nirvana?

You can see how sexy his first book is going to be. We will jump right into these ideas. I've used them a lot for DCI and in my life.

The second five years, they discuss the turning of the wheel, which is a huge, huge important topic. There's a discussion of why knowledge is more important than holy beings. There's a very interesting discussion of the different levels of students and how you judge the level of the student.

Then there's a thing called lam tok tsul. I spent about two years on this topic. It's a very detailed presentation about how you move through the different levels and the five paths and the three tracks.

It's extremely valuable. That was the first translation we ever published, was that section, many years ago, about 40 years ago. Then there's the types of perfection.

There's a thing called the realm of the final end, which is a sexy presentation of emptiness. There's a presentation of the four qualities of a good teaching, a worthy book. There's the definition of bodhidharma, and all the kinds of bodhidharma.

Then there are 70 classic topics in this book, in Maitreya's book. I spent about three years with my teacher studying those. Those are the subjects of the first two English books.

Very sexy. Then we'll go through the rest of the chapters. That will take about 30 more years.

Tim will be 97 when we finish. If we translate all eight books, it'll be about 5,000 pages of English. I thought, Tim, to introduce this book, we could go through the 70 topics.

They are incomprehensible. Nobody can understand them. This was the last carved book, I think, in the world.

I was there. Two 75-year-old gentlemen from Tibet carved this book for us. It took about five years.

Then they died, and that was the end of carvings. The 70 great topics of the Perfection of Wisdom can be summarized as the Luntokye. When you call this book Abhisamaya Avankara, or the Jewel of Realizations, what they're really talking about is eight different realizations, eight different states of realization.

That's the structure of the whole book. I thought, let's go through these eight, Tim. Let's read them together.

Then we'll jump into the actual book. If you want to know, without waiting 50 years, what's the eight great topics of your book, here's the eight great topics of your book. Stanley agreed to check you on this first one.

Be tough, Stanley. I own this. All right.

CHOS CHOS NUN GSUM DU THOG PA'I THAG TUG PA'I YAS HE NAM KHAN GYI SEMS NI Good. There are eight states of realization. It's the topic of the Jewel of Realizations, Abhisamaya.

Abhisamaya Avankara. The first state is NAM KHAN. What's that mean, you guys?

Omniscience. Yeah, it's omniscience. It's NAM PA THAMS CAD KHYAM PA The knowledge of all things in the universe.

It has a difficult definition. It is THAG TUG PA'I YAS HE THAG TUG means... We had THAG TUG THEG PA GCIG yesterday.

At the very end.

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All paths lead to one.

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Yeah, in the end of ends. For Khamseya Khonsov. In the end of ends.

In the final ends. Omniscience. NAM is the final wisdom.

The final state of wisdom. It's defined as the direct perception of ten different things. The direct perception of ten different things is the traditional definition of omniscience.

I went and got you the ten different things. Because it's frustrating if you don't know what they are. I'm going to push this down.

Let's see. Nick wanted to check you on these. Okay.

All right. DE LA NAM KHYEN SON CHE SON CHE KYI CHUG KHU NI CHU Bless you. CHU CHU NI CHU CHU TSEM KHE DAM LAK NEN CHE YAN LAK YAN LAK RICK MICK PA CHE DU CHOWA KO DROOP Yep.

JUG DROOP NJOOK NJOOK DROOP SOAK DROOP NEN JUN DROOP PA NEN JUN DROOP PA CHE CHU CHE CHU CHE CHU CHE CHU Yeah. Okay. It's like we're getting deeper into a rabbit hole.

The definition of omniscience, which is what you're going to spend the next ten years on, that's the ultimate state of wisdom which directly perceives ten things. The ten things are called NAM MKHAN TSUN BYAS KYI CHU CHU Tim, say NAM MKHAN. NAM MKHAN TSUN BYAS KYI CHU CHU CHU CHU We had TSUN in Stanley's text.

Who can tell me?

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Mark.

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Yeah, they said masculinity... Sorry, a deep voice marks somebody as masculine, right? So here, TSUN BYAS, marker.

The technical name is ten. It's ten different entities which mark someone as omniscient. Ten different entities which mark someone as omniscient.

The first is easy. What's SEMS BSKYED, Tim?

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Bodhichitta.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. The bodhichitta. And obviously the bodhichitta of a Buddha.

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Is that different?

[Speaker 1]
Not... I mean... I debated that for several weeks, so I'm not going to tell you.

It's a higher... It's pretty high. Okay, Dhamma, do you guys know?

Advices. Yeah, it's like personal advices, right? NGAN BYAS YAN LA means the component of separation.

The component of certain separation. And again, these are all deep ideas. It relates to jorlam.

It relates to the second path. And it relates to the stage called mucha where your understanding of emptiness is just kind of aspirational and not real. You heard about emptiness, and you would like to get there, but it's not a direct perception.

It's not personal. Obviously, if you're a Buddha and you have omniscience, then the question is, do you give up the qualities you had at the second path? Like when you reach Mahayana in the lam rim, do you give up the lower rimbas?

No, because the path is shared. Yeah, you just build on them. So it's a similar idea here.

RIG is an extremely important concept in the Prajnaparamita, which means sangye kyi rig, which means tathagatagarbha. What do you call that? It's the Buddha nature.

Yeah, this rig means nature. It doesn't mean family. Number four is Buddha nature, and it's an extraordinary discussion of Buddha nature.

mikpa means the object, capital O, like emptiness. che du jawa means the purposes of a Buddha, why Buddhas do what they do. Then there's called the four drupas, or the four attainments.

The first one is called armor, which is gochadrupa, which relates to the practice of the six perfections. Then you have jukdrup, the practice of entering, which is entering the Mahayana. Then you have sokdrup, which means the final collection of sunam yeshe.

Then you have ngenjun drupa, which means achieving renunciation, but it means reaching the tenth level. What you've got here, Tim, is ten details of the definition of omniscience, and even the details don't help much. We have to study each of them separately.

That's the first of the ngunto gye. That's the first of the eight realizations is omniscience. The second one is this one.

Please read. Oh, Hagrid, do you want to check them? Sure.

Here. Good. Okay, this is the definition of the second of the eight realizations, which are the topic of the Jewel of Realizations.

The second one is called lamshe, which is called knowledge of the path. It's defined as a khenpa. What does khenpa mean, you guys?

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It means knowledge.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, khenpa means knowledge, but it is a synonym in Buddhism for...

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A master, a knowledgeable person.

[Speaker 1]
That's khenpa. Omniscience?

[Speaker 2]
No.

[Speaker 1]
A tamche khenpa? Oh, no. It's a synonym for lam.

In fact, in some schools, the definition of lam is khenpa. Knowledge is path. A state of knowledge which belongs to a thek chen pakpa.

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Does khenpa then imply like a mastery, like a deep knowledge necessarily, like master like mastery?

[Speaker 1]
No, it does not imply that. It just means a state of understanding. Okay.

Okay, so anyway, we've got the state of knowledge in the mind of an Arya, who is also a bodhisattva, right? And here's an important concept that we'll talk about many times called simpa. Who can tell me?

I'm close. I like to translate it as imbued. Yeah, like smeared in chocolate sauce is the simpa I think of.

Okay, so it's just covered in two things. What? Number one, it's like ice cream covered in butterscotch and chocolate sauce.

I'm just, if I ever had it at home, okay. What's that, Tim? A direct perception of wisdom, direct realization of wisdom?

Yep, the direct perception of emptiness. Okay. The wisdom which perceives emptiness directly.

And nyingje chenpo. Great compassion. Mahakununa, yeah, great compassion.

So, if you had a state of mind, and if it was in the mind of an Arya, and if that Arya was also a bodhisattva, and if that state of mind was imbued, totally absorbed in the direct perception of emptiness, and great compassion, that's called the knowledge of the path, lam she. And that's the second of the eight great realizations of your book. And each chapter is called after one of these realizations.

So, the name of chapter two is lam she. Knowledge of the path. These are unique language used in the Perfection of Wisdom.

You will not see these much in other places. So, the study of the Perfection of Wisdom is completely, has its own language. And that's why I'm so happy that we have a new translator, because we have not covered this language.

If Grandpa goes to Nirvana, and I teach you 12 different languages, you got everything you need. That's all the great languages of Buddhism. So, the word lam she is pretty much unique to the Perfection of Wisdom literature.

Here we go, number three. Realization number three. Adam wants to check you.

I like your suit, Adam. You look like a banker. My gosh.

Maybe I can get a loan. Oh, God. Okay.

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Let's see what Adam's wearing. Nice. Okay.

Anyway.

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All right.

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Thank you.

[Speaker 1]
Thank you. Good. Good.

Okay. The third of the chapters, the eight chapters, is called shi she, knowledge of the foundation. Foundation knowledge.

And it's defined as the knowledge in the mind of an Arya, which is either included into one type or the other type. What's the first type? Included into...

It's the knowledge in the mind of an Arya who is acting at the level of Hinayana. An Arya who is acting at the level of Hinayana. The knowledge of...

It must be a knowledge of emptiness, but it's in the mind of a person who is acting in the Hinayana sphere. Or, which is actually in the mind of a Hinayana Arya. Sorry.

So, either it's a real Hinayana Arya's perception of emptiness, or it's in that general category. Okay. And that's the definition.

You can think of foundation knowledge as the perception of emptiness by a Hinayana person. Okay? Roughly.

Okay. So, what have we got so far? We got omniscience.

We got Bodhisattva's perception of emptiness. And we got a Hinayana Arya's perception of emptiness. Okay?

Got it? And those three are called khyapa sum. In the Prajnaparamita literature, they are called the three knowledges.

The big three. The omniscience of a Buddha. The perception of emptiness by a Mahayana Arya.

And the perception of emptiness by a Hinayana Arya. Okay? And those are called the big three.

Those are called khyapa sum. Okay? In the Prajnaparamita literature.

All right. Here's the fourth of the eight great states of knowledge in the Prajnaparamita literature. Who's going to check you is Xiaoping.

Yay!

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Hi.

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Okay. Now we start what's called the four practices. If you take the eight states of realization, there will be the three knowledges, and then there will be the four practices, and then there will be Dharmakaya.

Which makes eight. Three knowledges. Four practices make seven.

And then the Dharmakaya makes eight. These eight are the subject of this book. So now we're going to go through the four practices.

All right? GYEN GSUM GANG RUNG GI RNAM PAR means, look, your mind is in one of those perceptions of the first three types of knowledge. Either you're omniscient, or you're a bodhisattva seeing emptiness directly, or you're a hinayana person seeing emptiness directly.

But, if your mastery of shamatha and vipashyana, shihlak, combined, sung del, if your mastery of shamatha and plak tong, vipashyana, is complete and total, then you have what we call the total practice. NAM RDZOGS SBYOR BA NAM RDZOGS SBYOR BA This is only had by bodhisattvas. Okay?

So the emphasis of the fourth state of realization, which is the subject of the fourth chapter, is the combination of real shamatha and vipashyana. Okay? It's an emphasis.

Obviously the first three also have those. But in the fourth one we're going to talk about how the shamatha and vipashyana work together. Okay?

All right. A quick question. Realization number five.

Yeah, go ahead. It said in the beginning of the explanation of number four is that your mind is in any one of the first three perceptions. Well, what I mean is it's a little bit less, but it's basically the same thing.

You do have shamatha, and you do have vipashyana.

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But you're not necessarily one of the three above?

[Speaker 1]
Technically, you're on your way. Okay? Very complex.

All right. Okay. We'll discuss it in about 12 years.

Okay. Knowledge number five. Who's going to check you?

Sugeng! Yay! Yay!

,LHAG CHEN GYI, BRJOD LA'AM, ,MTHO PAS, ,GANG ZAG GIS, ,RGYU GYI, ,KEN GSUM GANG RUNG GIS, ,NAM PA NYAM SU LEN PAS, ,LEN PAS YESHE, ,ZIG DOR PA'I GYUR GYI SEMS Yeah, this is called the practice of the summit or the tip. Okay? The practice of the summit.

It's not the same as summit used in the jorlam, although it's connected to jorlam, the second path. So, knowledge number five, realization number five, is a person has attained jorlam, the second of the five paths, path of preparation, in the Mahayana, in the higher track, in the highest track, okay? And if they are exploring the feeling of one of the first three knowledges, omniscience, Mahayana perception of emptiness, Hinayana perception of emptiness, then we say they're at Sejor, okay?

They have mastered the second path in the Mahayana track, and they are practicing seeing things in the way that the first three knowledges do, okay? That's called peak experience or summit, okay? Alright, by the way, don't worry too much, okay?

It takes a long time to get a handle on these eight, and in fact, they almost never tell you the eight ahead of time. I'm just trying to help you out, okay? Okay, alright, six of eight, please read, and Seiji's gonna check you, yay!

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...

[Speaker 1]
... Yeah, now this is really hard, and don't stress about it, okay? I just want you to hear the names.

You don't have to understand them. THAR RGYI means to put an end to something. This RGYI is not instrumental.

It's a verb, to do, okay? So, THAR RGYI PA means to put an end to something, alright? And this is a practice called the practice of the end, the practice of the end, okay?

... It is imbued by 13 different qualities, okay? TSUL BA RE RE BYED PA LA BRTEN NAS, and every time you make the slightest effort, okay?

Anytime you make the slightest effort, you open a hundred and seventy-three doors to the three knowledges, okay? So, you have... your mind is imbued with thirteen different qualities, and every time you make the slightest effort, you trigger a hundred and...

a hundred and seventy-three different levels of realization, one by one. MA CHU BA means in their precise order, okay?

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Roughly.

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When you reach this kind of bodhisattva wisdom, we call it the practice of the final end, okay? So, look, you almost can't imagine these things, and so we're getting into a whole new thing that none of you guys ever heard of, okay? And just relax, okay?

You'll get there, okay? It's like the first time you heard Lam Rim or something, okay? That's okay.

Alright, number seven, please go. Gibson wants to check here. Emily's whispering the answers in his ears, you know, you guys?

It's not... it's not Gibson at all. So, uh, SO BA CHE GYI BYAS PA LA, BYAS PA LA BRTEN NAS, GYEN GSUM GYI NAM PA RGYA DUN CHU SA GSUNGS KHO RIN MA CHUG BAR DGONG NUS PA'I, NUS PA THOB PA'I SEMS PA'I YESHES, SKAD CIG SBYOR BA'I SEMS NI.

Yeah, this is called the practice of the instant, the instantaneous practice, SKAD CIG SBYOR BA. And SO BA CHE GYI BYAS PA LA BRTEN NAS, you simply make a single effort, and you set off the 173 aspects of the three kinds of knowledge, okay, in their exact order, and then you have the power to go into a deep meditation on each of them, okay? So it's deeper than the last one.

You're still triggering 173 states of realization in their precise order, and you have the ability to meditate on each one deeply as they're going by, in a single instant, okay? Yay! By the way, I mean, you're getting up towards omniscience, okay?

All right, here's an easier one, number eight.

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Who's checking?

[Speaker 1]
It looks like Gibson didn't do enough. SBYOR BA'I SEMS. Gibson is checking you. Gibson.

Yes. SBYOR BA'I SEMS. SBYOR BA'I SEMS. Good. So the definition of the eighth state of realization, which is the final chapter of this text, which you will reach in 40 years, is the Dharmakaya, which is the result of all practice.

Okay? Dwebu Chukwu. What's the definition of the Dharmakaya?

It is the ultimate goal, which is attained through the practice of the four practices, by meditating on the four practices. Four, five, six, and seven. When you meditate on four, five, six, and seven, and you reach Dharmakaya, you have reached the eighth of the realizations.

Okay? Okay, so let's summarize. And don't worry about it.

Okay? What you have to know is, when Maitreya's most famous book is called The Jewel of Realizations, how many realizations are there, Tim?

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There are eight.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, and they're included into three groups, which are the three knowledges, the four practices, and then...

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And then Dharmakaya.

[Speaker 1]
Dharmakaya. Okay? The three knowledges, the four practices, and Dharmakaya.

These eight states of realization is what we're going to cover in your book. Okay? And that's the structure of the whole book.

Okay? So, the whole... you know, somebody's gonna ask you, hey, what are you translating?

I'm translating a famous commentary on The Jewel of Realizations. How many realizations are there? Eight.

What are they? The three knowledges, the four practices, and Dharmakaya. Okay?

That's all. That's all you need to know. Okay.

Let's start the book. Okay? I got you a life story of a sangha, just for fun.

And we're gonna start it later. It includes the dog story, by the way. Then we're gonna have a life story of Master Haribhadra, which I found for you.

And then we're gonna have a life story of your author, Kedav Tenpa Dage, who, by the way, was the 22nd Ganden Thipa. Who can tell me what's a Ganden Thipa?

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Out of the whole lineage, Jatsab Kapha's throne.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, the throne holder of Jatsab Kapha. Who was the first one? Jatsab Jai.

Yeah, Jatsab Jai, whose name means... Throne holder. Okay, good.

So, the 22nd... I believe he's the 22nd lineage holder who held the throne of Jatsab Kapha. It means he was the premier Jatsab Kapha teacher in his lifetime, is the author of this book.

Okay? And there's a nice little biography of him that we're going to study. But not tonight.

I want to get you into the book for good luck, Tim. Say again? Did we already have that biography in the database?

Oh, it's too small, Nick. Okay, Yintang's looking. It's unsatisfying.

It's like having one... it's like having one handful of popcorn, right, Seiji? It's not enough.

That sounds terrible. Okay, all right. Okay, here's the actual book.

And we got, I don't know, we got ten minutes. Tim, I just want you to start off on it. And who's going to get the honor of checking you?

Hey, Hasso! Hi, Hasso. Okay.

All right.

[Speaker 3]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Pema, yeah. Okay. Nice.

Okay. We will remember this day, Tim, 50 years from now. And by the way, I'm serious.

I'm not messing around. This Mixed Nuts project is something serious. And it will take centuries to finish it.

And we're... that's what we're doing. And good things take a long time.

Okay. Americans rarely think beyond the next credit card bill. But, you know, we're starting a project that would take 700 years.

And I'm okay with that. Tenzin Lumbatope again. Okay.

By the way, the technical name of the Abhisamaya Alankara is the Shastra of the Abhisamaya Alankara. So, this is part of the original title. Tencha means Shastra.

It means classical commentary. What do you call the classical commentary translated as a group? Tengir.

Tengir. Okay, that's the Tengir. How many are there in their word?

3,645. Something like that. Okay.

So, this is just one of the Shastras. All right. And it's called Abhisamaya Alankara.

I remember learning the word Alankara from my Sanskrit teacher. And the way he described it was, alam means prepared or ready to go to a party. And kara means to get ready.

Alankara means to get ready. So, in ancient India, a necklace or the jewels that a lady would wear on her hands or neck at a formal dinner party was called Alankara. And it came to mean to get ready.

So, that jewelry was called getting ready jewelry. Alankara. So, we have here a jewel.

Jewel in the sense of a piece of fine jewelry, especially around your neck. It was spoken so beautifully that it's like a beautiful diamond necklace. And that's the name of this book, The Necklace of Realizations.

It's very beautiful. Abhisamaya Alankara. The Shastra, the classical commentary.

And we're going to study that root text of Maitreya, but along with the Jalpa, okay? Along with its commentary by... Nope, this is the commentary, so he can't be talking about that yet.

Haribhadra. Haribhadra, yeah. Who lived about...

I think you said 750... 1,500 years ago. Call it 400 years after Asanga, okay?

And so, we're going to study the root text by Maitreya, which was written 1,600 or 1,700 years ago. Then we're going to study the commentary by Haribhadra, okay? And what we are studying is a thatcha.

What's thatcha? Dialectical analysis. Dialectical analysis.

A deep, deep study of the perfection of wisdom, almost entirely in a debate format, okay? And this is how young monks... This is the first major text that a young monk studies in the monastery.

This is the first book that ALL ever input. Out of 16 million pages, this is the first book. This is S00001, okay?

This is the... Because it's the most important book we could think of to start the project with. 35 years ago today.

All right. Yay! Thatcha.

What's the thatcha's name? It's a...

[Speaker 2]
Like a garland of white lotuses.

[Speaker 1]
Good. Garland of white roses. Garland of white lotuses of fine explanation.

Lekpa shepa, of fine explanation. Shejawa. Who wrote it?

Kedrup.

[Speaker 3]
Kedrup.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, not Kedrup Je, but Kedrup Tenpa Dagye. What does Kedrup mean? Wise and accomplished.

Yeah, wise and accomplished. And by the way, it means... First of all, the person is wise in their mind.

And druk means they actually put it into practice. So it's a very high, high, beautiful name to call somebody Kedrup. It means they understand emptiness, but they're also nice to people, and they serve people.

And they do their meditation and their yoga. They are Kedrup and they are druk. It's a very beautiful name.

Sunggyun means from the river of his teachings, from the great river of his teachings, here is the cup tumble. Every great book has chapters, and the tradition in ancient India is to call each chapter by a different name. So the chapters in the Garjuna's wisdom are called bodhichittas.

What are you studying? I'm in bodhichitta number three. It means chapter three.

When you're studying Abhidharma Stanley, koshastana. I'm in the treasure box number two, like that. But in the study of the Abhidharmakara, each chapter is called a cup.

Cup means occasion, the occasion. The first chapter, shukso, is contained here like a holy being. Nick, we're out of time?

We're out of time. Oh, that's great. We just finished the title, Tim.

It was exciting, though.

[Speaker 3]
Yeah, totally.

[Speaker 1]
It's awesome. It's really awesome. Really exciting.

Okay. And those topics, I mean, we're going to jump right into Shingde Solje. We're going to jump right into how do you get creativity by understanding emptiness?

That's awesome. Okay. We need creativity for the Peachtree Healthy Eating Show, you guys.

I'm excited. Okay, stopped here. What's the date today?

9th. Okay. All right.

Good luck, Tim. Live a long life.

[Speaker 2]
Thank you, Geshe-la. Thank you so much.

[Speaker 1]
All right. Yay.