Тим Ловенхопт — Книга 1: Совершенство мудрости, занятие 3

[Speaker 2]
This is your mix walking, oh my gosh, you don't know. The Saturday Batteries? Yeah, you don't know how I'm feeling.

Where did you walk from? With Kyrie? Yeah.

Home? Home? Kyrie.

Oh, you had time to get to walk? Yeah. I'm not tall, we can't hear you.

Sorry.

[Speaker 1]
I think he said Saturday Batteries, I thought he was coming up with band name ideas. It's Saturday in the east now, although you're still on Friday.

[Speaker 2]
Where's Mr. Lowenhaupt?

[Speaker 1]
He's just preparing, preparing and preparing. Preparing and preparing. Oh, maybe he's hiding under one of the nicknames here.

Maybe he's making his quiz still. Yeah, quiz is easy. Translation is challenging.

I would say relatively easy. Depends on the section you get for translating. Everybody's books are not easy either.

Sure, even Seiji's book got hard. Yeah. The Dura was pretty standard, you know.

It was challenging in other ways, right? Yeah. Yeah.

It's fun. Definitely a fun book, though. They are fun.

They are very fun. You know, even like I thought Will of Life is pretty standard, but it turned out to be very not standard. But that's exciting.

That's exciting.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, the Dharma is like a fractal.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah.

[Speaker 3]
That's very cool. Yeah, inside every atom, there's an infinite number of Buddha paradises, right?

[Speaker 2]
That too, yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, it's amazing. I mean, I'm still trying to visualize it, you know.

[Speaker 3]
Inside every atom.

[Speaker 1]
And very hard to visualize. Yeah. I got you, Aldo.

Aldo. Aldo, if I forget, I have to tell you that I love you.

[Speaker 3]
Me too. I love you all.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, I think about you guys often, man.

[Speaker 3]
I wish I could come down there and visit, Aldo. Yeah, it would be awesome. Please do.

Yeah, I've definitely been thinking about it, you know. Come to us. That was a must have.

Yeah, I missed you guys, man. Yeah, we missed you too, bro. Those retreats at that monastery, I guess.

What was it? Casa Salesiana. Yeah, those were so great, man.

Yeah, I was kind of thinking about those today, actually. It's a nice place. It's an amazing place.

Yeah, very beautiful. I was thinking about just everybody. Everybody seemed to be so, like, it was just so magical, man.

Everybody was in a really good space. And it just, yeah, not just the scenery. Just everything seemed really magical.

The teachings and, you know. It was a really special time. I was really glad to be a part of it.

[Speaker 1]
Welcome to the Mixed Nuts class. And today we're filming from Sedona College. We're going to have a special class today.

Before we do Tim's class on the Perfection of Wisdom Sutras from two and a half thousand years ago, I wanted to show you something which kind of explains the whole structure of what we're doing with the Mixed Nuts. I like to call it, here you can see on the screen, right? Mixed Nuts, The Great Idea Schools, Indo-Tang Tibetan Tradition.

So, what are we doing with the Diamond Cutter Classics group, with these 12 great translators, huge teams of volunteer oral translators, secondary translators into other languages, a large publishing company publishing all of our translations and distributing them all over the world. I wanted to give you guys sort of a review of what's the structure of our effort, of our project. What are we doing?

What's our goals? What's our time frame? And how are we going to do this project?

In Tibet, for example, this project took 700 years to do the same thing that we want to do. We're probably going to be faster, like 650 years. But it's a huge project.

We're talking about ultimately translating thousands of books from this ancient Indo-Tang Tibetan tradition. So, I wanted to give you an overview. This is the first time in five years that we have allowed two new translators to join the team.

And they, as you know, they really deserve being on the team. They worked hard, both Tim and Gibson. They worked really, really, really hard.

And they caught up, maybe past the other guys. And so, we've added two more important classics. So, now we are working on 12 different major translations at the same time, which is very ambitious because the longest one is scheduled for 50 years.

The shortest one is scheduled for about seven years. So, it's really a great long-term project. We like to call this building here the Red Western Tower because the color of these mountains around here is red.

And 1,400 years ago in China, during the Tang Dynasty, there was a crazy monk named Shenzang who wanted to go study the classics. He wasn't satisfied with some of the translations in his time. And he wanted to find some great teachers who could teach him the classics.

So, he snuck out of China, under the nose of the Tang Emperor, Tang Taizong. And he actually snuck out. And he was stopped a few times, but he still kept going.

And he walked through the Buddhist kingdoms of 1,400 years ago. And there were about 50 different small Buddhist kingdoms. And he walked for 17 years.

He walked all the way into Afghanistan, Central Asia, down into India, down to South India, crossed over to Sri Lanka to see what was going on there. And then walked back with 1,000 books, carrying 1,000 different books. He brought them back to Central China.

And the city was called Chang'an. In those days, for example, London was 50,000 people. Chang'an was a million.

So, just to give you an idea of what was going on in the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty had embassies from, I don't know, 50 different countries. And it was a very, very powerful time in Chinese history.

So, he came back to China. And the Emperor, who told him he couldn't go, congratulated him for his great success and gave him a tower called the Wild Goose Pagoda in Chang'an, which is now Xi'an. And I've been there with my wife, Veronica, and it's amazing.

And it's a beautiful tower. I guess it's 10 or 12 stories. And he sat there with his translators.

And they translated 1,000 books. And to be honest, no one has done a project that big since then. Different people have tried different translation projects.

Different people have done different projects. The Tibetans translated 4,600 books from ancient India. But no one has really gotten in one room with a bunch of translators and tried to translate the whole tradition.

Only Shen Zang and his team. And our goal here was to do the same thing. So, we named our building the Red Tower, the Western Tower.

And his tower is the Eastern Tower. And our dream has been to repeat what Shen Zang did. And we would like to translate the great books of...

It's really a tradition which spans three different areas of the world. India, starting in India, and then spreading to China in the Tang Dynasty, and then spreading into Tibet three, four hundred years after that. So, we like to call it the Indo-Tang Tibetan Tradition Translation Project.

The nickname we gave ourselves, the technical name, is the Diamond Cutter Classics Translation Organization. Our unofficial name is Fixed Knots. Because we're all from different countries, we all have different backgrounds, and we're kind of crazy to start a project that's going to take two hundred years.

And even in our lifetime, the books we have chosen, they will take between ten to fifty years to finish. So, it's a big project. I think every once in a while, maybe every four or five years, it's useful for me to explain what we're doing.

Especially when we have new staff and we have new translators, I think it's good for me to talk a little bit about what's the structure of what we're doing, and what are our goals, and what's the history. So, what you see on your screen here is the, you know, I call it the Great Idea Schools, and our goal has been to translate into modern languages, even modern Chinese, for example, the ancient classics. So, they were translated into Chinese starting almost two thousand years ago, but they're very difficult to read now.

The language at that time was very, very old. So, we're going to review that tradition. And I'm only going to take half an hour of Tim's class, and then we'll stop and we'll go to Tim's class, and then we'll pick up tomorrow during Gibson's class, and we'll continue this talk to review what this project is all about.

So, first of all, I'd like to give you a taste of what that tradition entails. I've made this mind map called Kaggle, which I highly recommend. It's basically free, and very powerful, and very easy to use.

Even a grandpa can figure it out. We're going to look at the whole tradition, the whole lineage, from the beginning up to now. The first thing you see on the screen here are the original sutras from 500 B.C. So, 2,500 years ago, there were spoken in India by Gautama 990 different lectures. 990 different teachings were given that we still have, that survive, especially in Tibetan translation. So, that's where our story starts. That's where our translation project starts, 2,500 years ago, with about 1,000 ancient sutras spoken by the Buddha.

The longest one is 100,000 verses. Call it 12 books, 12 volumes. The shortest one is called A, and it's one letter.

It's real. In fact, we're going to look at that sutra. If you want to memorize one, I suggest that one.

So, we start 2,500 years ago. Then what happened after that? In the tradition, and can you see it okay?

Yeah, it's okay. It's called Higher Knowledge, or Abhidharma. You can say 500 B.C. to 350 A.D. So, you can say this tradition went on for about eight or nine centuries. Abhidharma is really unbelievable. People took the 1,000 lectures by Gautama, and they turned it into a study program of basically about 10 great books, like encyclopedias. They cover the whole range of ancient knowledge.

You get a division of the types of things that exist in the world, both inner and outer, both mental and physical. Then, for example, you get cosmology. You get a discussion of the whole known world of that time, the mountains, the rivers, the different oceans, a beautiful explanation.

Then in the next chapter is the classic presentation of karma. What is karma? How is it created?

These are huge chapters. Each one would be a full English book. Then you've got a whole discussion of the defects of the human mind, a whole long discussion of 51 different problems with the human mind.

Then after that, you have a beautiful presentation of how to fix it. That's Abhidharma. That school was popular for about 800 years.

You can say they standardized the 1,000 oral teachings given by Buddha, sitting in meadows, sitting on mountains, sitting in the forests, in the gardens. They took all of those lectures and created a very complex and very, very thorough comprehensive system of philosophy treating the entire universe. I like the sections that discuss atomic theory.

They go down to quarks and photons. It's unbelievable. This is 2,000 years ago.

They get into light years. They describe measurements of the galaxy. They're pretty good.

These books are very exciting. Historically, the next thing we can say is the dawn of the Mahayana, or what's called the Greater Way. That was about 200 AD.

We can say 700 years after Gautama Buddha was here. There was a huge shake-up in the schools. There was a huge shake-up in the systems.

There were some very, very radical, brilliant Einstein-level philosophers, especially one named Nagarjuna, who took the ancient information and made a huge push to take it back to the energy of the original lectures. They took all this 800 years of encyclopedias, and they turned everything back into poetry, very, very deep, stunning, beautiful poetry. It cuts right to the deepest teachings on emptiness, or the true nature of reality.

Not some kind of weird black hole where you close your eyes and don't think about anything. It's a whole theory of how reality is created by the human mind. I've spent a lot of my life helping people see that they could use that information for the real world.

You see what I mean? As an experiment, just for fun, I used it to build a jewelry company, a diamond jewelry company, which became the largest in the world. It was bought by Warren Buffett in 2009.

I claim that if you really understand this dawn of the Mahayana guise, if you really understand those ideas, it's not a religious thing, or it's not just a cultural thing. People from any country, people from any walk of life, politics, business, economics, art, music, you can use the ideas from 1,800 years ago. They are radical, beautiful, powerful ideas that we can all use now.

I put it in red because it's one of my favorite eras. Let's move on. That developed into an era called the Mind-Only School, Chittamatra.

We can say 350 A.D., so about 150 years after these great deep emptiness teachings, there came to be a school which was very fascinated with the idea of how much of the world exists inside your mind. Could it be the case that the outside world that you observe, when you look at it, you are actually observing part of your own mind? Is it possible that a lot of the world that we experience is actually going on inside our own mind?

That was the epistemological foundation. Is it possible that a large part of what we perceive is happening within our own mind? The other half of that equation, is it possible that our ethical life creates what's happening in our mind?

Is it possible that how compassionate we are, how ethical we are, how well we follow the law, the tax laws, for example, actually shifts reality within your mind? Is it the case that the more compassionate you are to people in countries where they're hungry or at war, can we demonstrate that certain kinds of kindness or charity or sharing with other countries actually shifts your own mind and actually creates a huge change in your own reality? That school was called Mind-Only School.

Very, very profound and a big, big breakthrough. These are all like discussing the steps of science, the development of science. This is the development of deep, deep ways of thinking that you can still use today.

That's the cool thing. I don't care what religion you are or your culture or your language, what race you are. It doesn't matter.

These ideas are there. We like to call it diamond mining. I gave a talk at MIT Business School about these ideas to a very select group of entrepreneurs.

They asked me, what do you guys do? I said, we're diamond miners. They said, oh yeah, we heard you were in the diamond business.

I said, no, no, we mine great ideas. We dig around in the past eras, past centuries, and we find ideas that you can use to build the largest diamond jewelry company in the world. These are not some kind of hippie thing like you're meditating in a yoga class.

It's not that. These are hard information that's coming out of the ancient books if they get translated. Then people can use them for incredible innovation and creativity.

You can change whole countries, whole civilizations, by using these ideas. It's hard to describe how great it is that we have them. The next group of teachings is called logic and perceptual theory.

This was current around 500 to 650 AD, so call it 1,500 years ago. I know when I say logic, it sounds boring right away. Sometimes I say logic at a public talk and three people fall asleep right away.

It doesn't mean that. It means, look, there's only two ways of seeing what's in the world around you. Number one, use your eyes, use your ears, use your nose.

Use your direct senses. Your second option is to close your eyes and think, and use the power of thinking to discover deeper truths. Einstein, for example, predicted that light was bent by heavy gravitational forces.

He predicted it, and he predicted the nuclear bomb. He was sitting there with his eyes closed. He thought it out.

That kind of powerful thinking was the subject of the next school, about 1,500 years ago. They were fascinated by the exercise of clear thinking. You can call it logic.

You can call it rational thought. I like to call it clear thinking. If you master those teachings, you can think your way into the largest company in the world.

You can do incredible things with your eyes closed. You can be one of the greatest innovators in the world. It's cool.

The next school that popped up, this is called Vinaya, which means this is a resurgence of a school that existed over 1,000 years earlier. It was a fascination with the details of what does it mean to be moral, and what does it mean to be ethical. I know it's not a very popular subject.

I know it's not very sexy. When somebody says morality, you fall asleep almost as fast as logic. But the question, these deep ethical questions, what's the right thing to do if your country's attacked?

What's the moral thing to do? Or if you're personally attacked, what's the ethical thing to do? How is it that doing the right thing is the smartest thing and the most successful thing?

That's so cool. We explore ethics at a deep, deep epistemological level. How does doing the right thing change the planet?

It's weird. How does doing the right thing in my living room with my kids actually alter the history of humanity? That's unbelievable.

They got into that, and it's a wonderful topic. All right, next school. We're going up to Tang Dynasty, up to China, back to Xi'an, Chang'an.

Here's where you have Master Shenzang, Master Yen Tzu. Who's that other brother of Yen Tzu, Shenzang's other great student? Kuei-Tzu.

You have these unbelievable writers, like Shenzang's student Yen Tzu. He just wrote a little 2,000 page book, which you're talking 16,000 pages in English translation, about deeper reality. Oh my gosh, there was some kind of nuclear thinking bomb that went off in China.

It's about 1,400 years ago. It's all part of this chain of, I call it Indo-Tang-Tibetan chain, historical chain of these great ideas. We say it's like riding a tiger.

You can jump on that lineage and ride it. It's a great idea lineage. India, Tang, China, and then Tibet.

Indo-Tang-Tibetan tradition. Next thing after those guys was called Lower Middle Way. This is a special group of thinkers about 550 to 775 AD.

They started making textbooks about how to look deeper into how reality works. We want to cure cancer, then reach into reality and make adjustments. They wrote the rule books for how to mess with reality.

It's amazing. It's just amazing. They wrote technical books that teach you how to tweak reality.

You don't like the world you're in? You don't like your country's doing? You don't like politicians?

You don't like what's going on? Oh, just reach in and tweak it. Make the world a better place because you can reach into reality and make adjustments.

They wrote the books. How to do it. Next group.

Those same writers in the Lower Middle Way, they were fascinated with what you could do in a deep state of meditation. I'm not talking about a yoga class where you go and think about nothing and stare at the wall. The results of thinking about nothing and staring at the wall are very similar to the cause.

Meaning, you just did nothing. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about what happened inside of Einstein's mind.

What happened inside of Newton's mind. What happened inside of Socrates' mind. We can duplicate it.

With training, you can learn to think like that. Sit down quietly. It doesn't have to be on a meditation cushion.

You can do it in your car, in a nice traffic jam. Just go deep inside and explore higher ideas and greater ideas. They wrote manuals, instruction manuals.

They're just like driving manuals. You just read them and you can do it. That's the next great movement, 750 AD.

After that came what we call the Higher Middle Way. These guys went deeper into how to tweak reality. You can say that they were the ultimate reality tweakers.

They refined those earlier 1,250 years of ideas. They refined them to the point where you could make major changes in the reality of your business or your relationships or your health just by tweaking things in your mind. They set out the books.

They set out the rules. They set out the methods. It's amazing.

It's incredible. After that came a group called Lojong. This is a very interesting pocket in the Indo-Tibetan tradition of people who were fascinated with the idea of compassion and love.

Now we're not just talking about tweaking reality. We're talking about, is it possible to take the love, the compassion, the empathy, the emotional connection within a human being and turn it up? Can we create better human beings?

Can we give people bigger hearts? They wrote extraordinary texts about how to do it. Instruction books about how to make a bigger heart here.

Very beautiful. After that came a group called Lamrim. Lamrim, Steps of the Path, especially around 1400.

They looked at all these other traditions. How many traditions do we have? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

We have 11 eras before them. We have 11 different major eras, sometimes lasting hundreds of years. They said, wouldn't it be cool to create a single instruction book that combines all of them?

Wouldn't that be cool? 600 years ago, they did a huge project. They took all the great ideas and all the great schools of thought for the, how many years?

2,000 years before them. They made a single system that combined all of those into something that normal people could practice every day. It's extraordinary.

It's an extraordinary idea, and they succeeded. After that came a group called The Interpreters, Interpretation Schools. They said, oh, you Lam Rim guys, thanks for putting all those 2,000 years of ideas together in one book, but there seems to be some little contradictions, or this school 1,000 years ago doesn't quite fit that other school 1,500 years ago, and that doesn't quite fit.

Is it possible to reconcile the differences of the presentation? Is it possible to explain this 2,000 years of extraordinary reality tweaking and get to a smoother flow where it all fits together more smoothly? That was their big accomplishment.

Again, that was about 600 years ago. Then finally came a tradition where they said, look, I like this synthesis stuff. I like it where you combine everything together.

I like how you added compassion and emotional connection. I like that. But wouldn't it be also nice to have these kind of like history books that explain the original schools as they were originally taught.

So don't schmucks them all together. For history's sake, for tradition's sake, let's have a special new kind of literature where each book gives the traditional explanation of each of these historical levels, and that was called Siddhanta, which means philosophical schools. So there you got it.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 steps over the last 2,500 years of specific movements of great, great ideas that we can use now. We can use them now. We just need to be able to access them.

They're in ancient languages. They're in libraries all over the world. Bugs are eating the paper or the palm leaves.

How can we give modern world access to these 2,500 years of great, great ideas that we can use for our life and our world? We're going to talk about that next. That's where we get into the translation, the translation effort.

I'm going to stop there. We'll continue tomorrow at this same time, same place, in Gibson's class. We're going to go to an actual translation class.

We're going to go to Tim Lowenhaupt's book, which, by the way, if you're interested, the original comes from this sutra period, 500 B.C., and then his particular explanation comes from this lower Middle Way in about 600 A.D. Here we go. Flipping over to Tim's book, which I hope is here. If I do this...

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
You want me to Zoom? Yeah, I can do that. Can I get out of MBI and all that stuff?

So I don't get out of it.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, I'll go to Zoom.

[Speaker 1]
You got it, boss. Give me some time to find this. We're going to take just a few seconds here to make a switch.

Francisco Geshe-la is going to log in again, and then we'll have to promote him and everything, and I'm going to log in as well.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, Tim. Okay. Yep.

[Speaker 1]
And I can take this up. I see my handsome self.

[Speaker 2]
Okay. All right.

[Speaker 1]
I'll just take this opportunity to say thank you, Geshe Michael, for explaining that first part of this journey, and it's been amazing to be on all of this together, and if you want to know more about what he's talking about, you can go to his website, and we get together not only three times a year to do these translation classes, but most weeks we meet on Thursday nights to discuss some of the ideas that we find in these books.

It's called the Mixed Nuts Reading Club, and you're all totally welcome to come, and I'll post a link for the end of the term several times so that you guys can join that if you want. Yeah. It's on.

Oh, no. Yeah, it's on. Now is it on?

Okay. I'm going to get busted eating popcorn.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Go for it. Tim's going to do his homework. Get serious, you guys.

I'm limited by this court.

[Speaker 2]
Nick, can you hear me over there now?

[Speaker 1]
Yep, hear you just fine. Okay. Take the plane, boss.

Whoa. Okay. They're hearing echo.

It's up.

[Speaker 2]
It's not stable. Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Hold on just a few seconds here. All right. All right, I'm going to turn down my volume.

Nick, can you speak now?

[Speaker 2]
Speak now. Here I am. All right.

Great. Okay, so now we're going to...

[Speaker 1]
Hey, that's stuff for your homework.

[Speaker 2]
Okay. We're going to add spotlight. Okay.

Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Well, that's weird. How did that happen?

[Speaker 2]
Okay, this isn't going to work this way. Give me one more minute. You're muted, I think, or you're probably supposed to be.

No, it's fine.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. All right. Cool.

All right. There we go. Now we got it.

Sorry.

[Speaker 2]
You can if you'd like.

[Speaker 1]
You can eat your popcorn. All right. Here we go.

Everyone can hear me? Thumbs up? Nope?

Yeah, man. You sound good. All right.

Here we go. Look handsome. I tried.

Thank you. All right. We will do better tomorrow in this switch.

I apologize. Okay. All right.

Here we go. Quiz number one.

[Speaker 2]
Yay.

[Speaker 1]
We'll just have to go through your homework quickly. It's a long homework. It's a Ben Kramer.

All right. Cool. All right.

First question. Each major topic of the traditional guess a course has two commentaries that are studied at the major monasteries in our tradition. What are the two types and explain them briefly and what's the Tibetan touch to the overview and dialectical analysis.

And so, so we got the overview which sounds pretty simple. What's a dialectical analysis, Nick? It's often those guys were answering before me but I'll answer because you called on me.

Dialectical analysis is a more detailed exploration of a topic and it's usually written in debate format. All right, there they are. All right, here we go.

Question. This is a bit longer. This is more Ben Kramer type question.

Realizations is presented in a series of chapters. So first, what's the relationship with the title of the root text, and these chapters. In a parts which are like realizations.

Right, exactly. And so how does realizations relate to the title of the text word, just to be obvious. The title of the text has realizations in it.

Correct. Right. Thank you.

That's it. And if you want to read more you can read more about that. In the answer key when I upload it.

All right, second part, you already answered it. How many chapters are there, and what are the general names of those chapters. Eight, and instance or cup into that realization.

It's called realization. Right.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, so I actually want the name of the eight chapters in this omniscience omniscience, and the path and knowledge of the foundation.

[Speaker 1]
Right, that's the first group. So how else did we say omniscience is there another word for it. Another expression.

Mr know it all especially says, knowledge of things, knowledge of all things correct knowledge of the past knowledge of the foundation.

[Speaker 2]
Now there's a second group practices, practices right and what are the four practices. First one is not in English, please.

[Speaker 1]
The complete practice, we practice, what's the second one.

[Speaker 2]
This is the summit.

[Speaker 1]
And the third one.

[Speaker 2]
Practice of the end of the instant.

[Speaker 1]
Nope. That's the fourth one.

[Speaker 2]
The third and the fourth is practice of the end and the fourth is the instantaneous practice.

[Speaker 1]
Yes. And what is the eighth realization.

[Speaker 2]
Right, the ultimate body.

[Speaker 1]
And then the last part of this third, third part of the second question is what is the Tibetan word for chapter used in this context of the perfection of wisdom. Yes, and what does it literally mean word. The instance, time of something occurring on a text or occasion, occasion.

Correct. All right. This is now the third question is a grammar question.

Where did it go. In the very first opening line, there's an error in the input. All right, at the very last line shook has a side at the end.

So even if you didn't know that shook was misspelled. Okay, let's pretend you don't know that that's a misspelling. What other indicators.

If there are any indicators in this sentence would help us identify the misspelling. Last article starts with an F. So, could you explain to us why, how does that, how does a terminating particle work in Tibetan.

[Speaker 2]
It is all preceded by the letter that is the same as the last letter in the previous word.

[Speaker 1]
Correct. Unless, unless it's the archaic which would make it a to, which is the only exception.

[Speaker 3]
Right.

[Speaker 1]
So here we go nerds how many, how many terminating particles are there.

[Speaker 3]
11.

[Speaker 1]
Good job. All right. Okay, hypothetically speaking, if.

What's that. Maybe. So hypothetically speaking if shook had been the correct spelling.

What would have changed in this sentence, how would that terminating particle have changed. Cool. Good job.

All right. Yay. All right.

Now, I have. You didn't assign me anything but I tried. So, are you able to see the screen when I share it.

I am.

[Speaker 2]
Right, and I will. No. Oh, Tim you're muted.

We can't hear you. Hello.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. Turn up my. Oh turn on my video you want to see a handsome guy.

Yes. Yay. All right, here we go.

I'm checking Tim's practice translation of the first few sentences here. I bow down in devotion to the holy feet of the unconquerable conqueror. Yeah, that's cute I like it.

I pray to be taken into the care of. Yeah. RJES SU BSRUNG means take me after you.

Like pull me after you. RJES SU BSRUNG means who? Yeah.

Take me after you. You know, out of your great love. Please, please, please guide me.

Please take me after you. So RJES SU BSRUNG means take me after you. Okay.

Okay good. Now starts a lot of poetry.

[Speaker 2]
This first sentence is a disaster.

[Speaker 1]
It's not bad. Let's see. Yeah.

Okay, here we go. You know the two collections. You got that right.

Rinchen kam here means stuff. Jewel, raw jewel. Raw jewel like raw sapphire or raw ruby or something like that.

So your body has been tuned. Your body was born from the raw jewel of the two collections of merit and wisdom. Your body...

And by the way, the structure of this poem that's coming up here is we're going to offer our respects to body, speech and mind. That makes sense, right? What you do, what you say, what you think.

First we say your holy body was produced from the raw jewel of the two collections of merit and wisdom. Okay. And MER LA means in the very moment that we look at you, in the moment that we see you, as soon as we lay eyes on you, DONG BA'I MER LA We are released, LHLOD PA, from the chingwa, the chains of ya, a billion personal problems.

NGES PAR RGYA And the number 100 here is just as you guessed, it just means a lot. It doesn't mean more than 99 and less than 101. Good.

So you did a pretty good job here. Okay. Not bad.

Having bowed down to the physical body, we're going to bow down to the speech. Your speech is like DONG. DONG means...

What does DONG mean, you guys? Yeah, this spelling means you give good advice to people. Like DONG SNGA.

It doesn't mean DONG in the sense of restrained, which is a different spelling. Your speech is great advice for people. BYOD PA GCIG GI In a single utterance, in a single moment of saying something, you teach.

The verb is at the end of the three lines. DONG means you teach. BSAM PA means...

This spelling BSAM PA means fitting precisely the capacity of the student. You did a great job on that. That's a great job.

And every time you open your mouth, you are teaching both the BSAM PA and the RGYA CHE CHUNG. All of the details of both emptiness and compassion. Okay?

Cool. All right.

[Speaker 3]
Should we say emptiness and compassion?

[Speaker 1]
No, you would say the deep and the widespread. Or something like that. It's a code word.

Okay, cool.

[Speaker 2]
Oh, you skipped the third one and went to the fourth one. The third and the fourth are connected.

[Speaker 1]
Oh, okay, okay, okay. Now this gets messy. Okay, sorry about that.

At the beginning of a major classical commentary, they always have a page or two of poetry. Mainly, it's to express what's the book about, what kind of people were involved with teaching it, and the author's commitment to finish the next 50 years of work. Okay.

That's why we're going to be going through poetry for this class and the next class. CHOS ZIN GDAG... Okay, I didn't know this, but I looked it up.

When you have this classical poetry, at the beginning of a new book, you often have ancient poeticisms from the Kavya tradition of ancient India, which is the classical poetry like Danden, people like that. Great classical poets. They like to rename things.

Okay, I don't know. We had one the other day. I don't remember.

[Speaker 2]
The elephant being the twice drinker.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, the twice drinker. For elephant. Here we have CHOS ZIN GDAG PO.

CHOS ZIN GDAG PO. GDAG PO means the owner of a building or a business. And CHOS ZIN means...

It means crocodiles or whales. They didn't make much distinction. It means a water demon.

Sometimes it's a whale, sometimes it's a crocodile. This means the house owner of the crocodiles, which means the ocean. Owner of the crocodile house is a poeticism for the ocean itself, because the ocean itself is the landlord for the crocodiles and the whales, and the crocodiles and big fish, big dangerous fish.

DING LTAR SAB PA means... DING means... Yeah, deep as the ocean.

DING means the depths of the Pacific Ocean, for example. It means specifically how far from the surface of the ocean to the bottom, like a mile or two miles or something. LTAR SAB PA means the thing you are teaching is as deep as the Marianas Trench, the deepest part of the Pacific Ocean.

THUGS KYIS... In fact, that describes your holy mind. Your mind is as deep as the deepest ocean.

In a SKAD CIG, in a single instant, in any instant of time, you know all the Sambas, thoughts of your duljas. What's KAM mean, you guys?

[Speaker 2]
Realm.

[Speaker 1]
Propensity. With the character student, what does it mean? Potential.

Yeah, the inner potential. What do you call that? Propensity?

There's a better word. Predisposition or predilection? Predilection.

There's a better word. Sometimes you take tests at college. Aptitude.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, aptitude. So anyway, you have the ability in a single instant to judge both the thought process, to read them directly, and the hidden aptitudes of the students.

Different students have deep, deep, deep karmic seeds to be a great filmmaker or a great perfume maker or a great business owner, and that's your KAM. KAM means, what's that deep talent that you have that maybe other people don't have? That's called KAM.

So you have the ability in a single instant to read the students' deep capacity, even if they don't tell you. Okay, cool. All right, let's do one more line here.

JI BZHIN STONG NAS ME CHUNG CHUD KYIS KHOR LO KHOR TSE You Khor the Khor Lo. Yeah, you turn the wheel of the ME CHUNG does mean wondrous Dharma. And you turn it according to how you talked it.

Realize. Yeah. First you went and worked hard and realized emptiness and compassion, etc.

And then you turned the wheel of amazing teachings about what you already understood yourself. JI BZHIN STONG KHOR TSE DRO BA'I DEN CHOG Yeah, you are the... DEN means...

What's DEN PA? We had the horses were DEN PA-ing, the chariot... Pulling.

Pulling, dragging. You are the best puller of stubborn students. You just know how to pull them along.

So DEN came to mean guide. You are the greatest guide of students. THUB PA'I DBANG PO Yeah, you are the lord of the able ones.

Meaning you are number one Buddha of all Buddhas, which is pretty extreme. And Shakyamuni is said to be number one Buddha of all Buddhas. Tell me why for a hundred dollars.

Because he came to the worst planet on earth. Yeah, because our planet is terrible. So many people answered, you get one dollar each.

And just write to Ali, tell her she owes you a dollar. Yeah. Our Buddha made a deal with Buddha's central office that if I get enlightened, I want to be assigned to the whole planet of the most stupid and stubborn people there are in the universe.

And he got his wish. And here we are. Okay?

Cool? All right. Good job, Tim.

Really good job.