Тим Ловенхопт — Книга 1: Совершенство мудрости, занятие 4

[Speaker 2]
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[Speaker 1]
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Ready, Tim?

[Speaker 2]
Yes, over here, over here.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, guys, welcome back. We have been going through a description of all the main eras, all the main periods of time, in this two and a half thousand year amazing tradition of wisdom we call Indowatang, Tibetan tradition. Okay?

Like incredible ideas that have been going on for two and a half thousand years. And we are not a bunch of people who own a museum and we put the ideas in a museum. Like, I was giving a talk in Amsterdam, I think, and the nicest place they could find was a computer museum.

Boy, that was interesting. So they had the first Apple computer, and they had, what's that guy from, Turing's, they had part of Turing's computer in there. And frankly, it's boring to walk through a computer museum.

It's a bunch of parts, they look like it's out of a garbage dump or something. And there's the Turing's computer parts, which don't look much different from Steve Jobs' first parts, and they don't look so different from Bill Gates' first parts. And we are not running a museum like that.

That's not what we're doing, okay? We're trying to say that these eras of ideas for two and a half thousand years are incredibly useful for an exciting, cool, fun, super successful life. And that's why the mixed nuts exist, and that's why the Asian Legacy Library exists.

So let's keep going on that idea that we were talking about. The different levels of wisdom for two and a half thousand years in these great countries of Asia. And then let's look at how well are those eras covered in the great books of the mixed nuts, the Diamond Cutter Classics Organization.

How well are we covering the main cool ideas of two and a half thousand years? I'll just go quickly through the list of eras. 2,500 years ago, the original sutras.

About 2,000 years ago, higher knowledge, Abhidharma. 1,800 years ago, the dawn of the deep emptiness teachings. Then 1,600 years ago, the cool, cool mind-only school.

Then about 1,500 years ago, these cool ideas about how to think deeply and figure stuff out, like Einstein did. Einstein invented the nuclear bomb before a single part was ever put together. He said it will blow up.

Just thinking it out in his head. These are guys who teach us how to do that. Then we have this very, very important connection between how you treat other people and how you can have cool ideas.

That's this blue box here. The morality school is about 1,300 years ago. Then you have Shenzang and his great translation, the second greatest translation group in history.

Then you have Lower Middle Way, exploring new ideas of emptiness. We saw yesterday new ideas about the meaning of illusion or magic show. Then great schools about how to meditate.

Oh my gosh, instruction manuals 1,300 years ago that we can use today. We can use today. Then Higher Middle Way.

If you understand this purple diamond box, you can build the largest diamond jewelry company in the world with no business experience at all and hating business. Warren Buffett will buy the company that you hate. Then you can relax.

You can start translating. Then this big movement 1,000 years ago in favor of compassion and love. They're like, don't forget the compassion part.

Don't forget the love part. Then this incredible synthetic synthesis of all the schools into a single path that can be used to reach the highest goals. Then we got people, I kind of see them as where the rough parts are, they smooth it out.

That's called the interpretation schools. Then finally you have these great books, new kind of literature where people say, why don't we present the ideas of the last 2,000 years in a single book and we block out each separate school. What we did last time we spoke, we tried to show that we have the Mixed Nuts or the Diamond Cutter Classics organization is covering all of these philosophical eras.

They all are cool. How many are there? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.

14 different great movements in history for the 2,500 years. How well did we cover them in the choice of translations? I blow up the picture here.

We said, look, from the Sutras to 2,000 years ago, the Mixed Nuts, the Diamond Cutter Classics, we are covering six of them. We finished already one, two, three, four of them. Incredible amount of work for a small group of translators.

How much did you do from Abhidharma? We got Stanley's book here. That's going to come out.

The first book in 26 years will come out next March. The classes will be ready next March. Have you guys covered Nagarjuna era?

Yes. We got Mixed 60 Verses, and we got Geshe Michael's Nagarjuna's Wisdom Book. We got those two translations.

Next it's going to be done, the classes will be done in about eight months. You've got to understand, one of these books is a lifetime of work. So far we talked about nine or ten.

All right. Did you do any mind-only school books? Yes.

We got Words Golden Key, came out in December. It's an e-book. If you haven't got it, you're a loser.

I think it's the best book ever translated in English about the mind-only school. If you get the book and you get word to explain it to you, then you can really understand the mind-only school. Again, I'm not talking philosophy.

I'm talking about having an amazing life. I have had an amazing life, and I am having an amazing life, and it's because I use these books. These are not a museum.

It's not an old museum of old books. It's a living tradition that you can use to have an amazing life. That's the whole point.

We're not interested in translating old books and putting them in a library to collect dust. After his first book, which is deep, we decided to go deeper, into an even deeper presentation of the mind-only school. That will take a couple more years, and we're working on that now.

We finished that for last time. Let's go closer to our present day. Here we're talking about these guys who figured out how to think like Einstein.

They figured out how to change how your mind works so that you can think like Einstein. What kind of books you got there, Geshe-la? We got Adam's Banishing the Darkness of the Mind, which is going to take another two years.

Deep, deep book on how to think, and how to think deeper. If you own a business, or you're trying to run a family, if you can think like Einstein, it's a lot easier and a lot more successful. Your family is more successful, and your business is more successful.

Then your life is more successful. Don't be satisfied with a crummy life. Don't be satisfied with a life that's half miserable.

If you learn how to think like Einstein from these books, man, your life is something. Are you doing any more of those Einstein books? Yes.

We got Ben Kramer's Jewel of the True Thought. It's going to be, I think, five books. The first book will be done with the classes in about two years.

Then we've got Adam's working on another multi-volume book called The Collected Topics of Einstein Thinking. He's going to come out with an amazing book. This book will be done editing in May 2022, in another three months from now.

We'll have a book on, what's that called? Chi Chodok. The whole book, Chi Chodok.

How do you think? How does your mind think? It's amazing.

It's called The Key to Emptiness. This particular topic in Adam's first book is called The Key to Emptiness. If you understand qualities and characteristics, if you understand the difference between car and Toyota car, then you can be good at anything you choose to do.

You want to be a filmmaker? Okay, I don't know. You want to be a fashion designer?

Okay, you can be the best in the world. Learn how to think like Einstein. And you can.

I don't care how thick you are. It's so refreshing. Wow, somebody can fix my mind.

Yay. All right. Are you guys doing any books from the great resurgence of morality, of being nice to other people, like controlling yourself.

Basically, the definition of Vinaya is learning to control yourself. When you want to steal something, or you want to mess up somebody else's relationship, or like that. How do you control yourself?

Yes, we got Alison's String of Precious Jewels. That will be ready for... the classes will be finished within the next year.

We have worked hard on that book. I don't know if you're aware, but the moral guidelines for full nuns, full Buddhist nuns, were basically lost a thousand years ago. 364 guidelines.

We found them from two and a half thousand years ago, and we put them back together. That's this translation. I think it's...

If that's the only thing that the mixed nuts did in our lifetime, that one book is a masterpiece. It's a revolution. We brought back the suggestions for how to live a life which is honorable, and clean, and ethical.

That's directly related to being successful. Are you guys going to do any of those Tang Dynasty classics? Yes.

We're going to go into the 1,800 pages of Master Yen Tzu, who is the student of Shenzong. He wrote 1,800 pages on how to interpret these ideas. It's the longest book in the tenure.

It's the longest book out of 3,700 books from ancient times. It's the only book, all written in Chinese language, of that size, that comes from that time. Shenzong's time.

This is the longest book. 1,800 pages in Tibetan translation, which will come out to about 10,000 pages of English. We're working on the first book.

It's called Sky Flowers and Magic Shows. Sky Flowers and Magic Shows. It's a discussion of illusion by this great, great Chinese master from the Tang Dynasty.

We started the translation. It's going to take another three years. All right.

What are you guys doing from the Lower Middle Way? Oh, we're really into Lower Middle Way. Okay.

What's that? Oh, well, we got Sugeng Hsieh's Dependent Origination. He's got two different books coming out.

The first one is over here, I think. Yeah. Sugeng's Wheel of Life.

The book will come out September 2022, in about six months from now. It's the best book on the Wheel of Life you ever saw. It's an incredible presentation on the Wheel of Life.

It's tough. It's beautiful. It's awesome.

Sugeng has actually finished all the classes, and that'll be coming out this year. Yay! Then we got Sugeng's...

decided to go deeper into the same topic, the Wheel of Life. We found a commentary from Vasubandhu, which is 1,700 years ago. It's very tough and very beautiful.

Mixed Nuts Diamond Cutter Classics team. We like tough stuff because it's more beautiful. If you can figure it out, then it's amazing.

It's more beautiful. He's going deeper the same way that word is going deeper into his book. Then we got Geshe Michael is working on Master Kamalashila's commentary to the Diamond Cutter Sutra.

This is the only extensive commentary from ancient India. We translated already and published what I think is the greatest commentary by Choney Lama Dharpa Shudra, from about 1,700. Master Kamalashila's commentary from ancient India is very interesting, because it's kind of a mix of mind-only and middle way.

It's amazing. We finished the classes. We went through the whole book.

We're translating it. Hopefully it will be ready in a few years. These books are kind of piling up.

We're working really hard. The result is we have the pipeline is kind of jammed full of precious books. To be honest, we're a little bit hesitant to release them all in a row so quickly, because it's hard to digest them.

You can't digest more than two books a year, three books a year. But we are publishing four, five, six books a year. Are you guys doing any of those meditations?

Oh, sorry. Tim's book, which is... You've always heard of the Perfection of Wisdom, Prajnaparamita, Bolo Bolo Mido.

You heard the word. But what it really means and how to really explain it, the best book is Lower Middle Way. Tim's working on that.

In fact, we're going to have a class on that today. The first chapter is all about how to be Mr. or Mrs. Know-it-all. How to be omniscient.

Wouldn't that be nice? To really know everything. You could avoid all kinds of problems.

I'm talking future also, and past. It's actually a study of how to become omniscient, which is helpful if you're married. Now, are you guys covering the great meditation manuals?

Wow, it looks like you guys are covering every single era of wisdom. Are you doing any of the meditation manuals? I'm glad you asked.

We got Venerable Utpala's Emptiness Meditations. It came out three, four months ago. It is awesome.

It is huge. It combines a translation of the idea of emptiness along with Kamala Shila's ancient book on how to meditate. This is not just a book about how to close your eyes.

He tells you how to get your cushion ready, how to get your house ready, how to sit properly, how to get your arms ready, how to get your eyes ready, how to get your neck ready, and then how to start thinking. It's a complete book of meditation mixed with one of the best books on emptiness ever written. That book is already out.

If you don't have it, you are a loser. Okay, my wife said don't talk like that. Geshe Michael is translating a book called The Angel Debates the Devil.

This is also a meditation book. Why do they call it The Angel Debates the Devil? It's an interesting book because the devil in one person's mind is debating with the angel in one person's mind about how to meditate.

The devil will say, oh, just close your eyes and think about black, black, black. Then the angel says, come on, that's not meditation. That's just kind of...

if you want to do that, you might as well just get very drunk. There's this beautiful debate about meditation technique which will sharpen your meditation. That's going to be done in a couple of years.

This green one here is The Illumination of the True Thought. That's Tsongkhapa's greatest masterpiece on emptiness. Extremely difficult.

I've been on it for five years already and it's going to take another five years, I think. That's Higher Middle Way. Venerable Utpala is working on a new book on emptiness.

It's much deeper. You can see this pattern where each translator is going deeper into their topic. Word is going deeper into the mind only.

Gang is going deeper into the Wheel of Life. Venerable Utpala is going deeper into emptiness meditations. Are you guys doing anything from that Kadampa era of the great books on love or how to develop a good heart?

Yes. We have Seiji Arau's Crown of Knives, an exquisite piece of poetry, long, long poem with a commentary by one of the greatest thinkers from Tibet. We are working through that commentary.

It'll be done in about a year. I just want you to feel how hard these people are working. I know you come to translation classes.

I know you get lost with us in the translation class, but you have to appreciate there's a bigger picture going on. We're working on 27 major classics that have never been translated from the two and a half thousand years. Are you guys doing any Lam Rim?

Are you guys doing any of these great summaries of all the schools? Yes, we got Gibson's Song of My Spiritual Life by Je Tsongkapa. He just started it.

He's making very good progress. Thank you, Gibson. He'll be done in about a year.

It's one of the sweetest books about Lam Rim because you don't see Je Tsongkapa ever talking about himself. This is the only book that I'm aware of where he talks about his own practice, which is very precious. Are you guys doing any of this interpretation, art of interpretation?

Why did the Buddha teach different methods, some of which are even contradictory? Yes, Geshe Michael is translating Je Tsongkapa's great treatment of this. Are you guys doing any Siddhanta?

Are you translating any of those great books which survey all the other thirteen great eras of wisdom? Yes, Ben Kramer's Essence of the Schools is done. The classes are finished.

We're working on the final translation. There you go, 27 different classics that have not been done in history. Sometimes I'm frustrated because what's happening with the Diamond Cutter Classics team?

I'm including the primary translators, the secondary translators who are translating stuff into French, German, Russian, Chinese, etc. The support team, and the many, many volunteers helping. It's amazing.

It's something that hasn't been done in history, or only once in history, back in the Tang Dynasty. I want you to appreciate what's going on. Now, something we're going to talk about next time we meet together, which is tomorrow morning.

I'm going to blow up this picture one more time. Look, there's all the translations. There's all the translations.

They cover every era of the great wisdom of 2,500 years. But where did those books come from? How did we find those books?

Like Geshe-la, you're translating books that are 2,000 years old. Where were they? Where did you guys find them?

Now, check this out. The black snow mountain outline that you see here, the black outline, which we have not talked about yet. The spinal column here is the great eras of wisdom.

The left and right channel are the books that these translators are translating. But the black snow mountain is how Asian Legacy Library found those books. There's a beautiful story of every single book.

Grandpa was there. Grandpa John was there. Grandpa Mike was there.

Next time we get together, which is tomorrow, we're going to go through each book that we are translating and we're going to blow up this snow mountain. Let's take the Heart Sutra commentary. Where did we find that commentary?

We went to Beijing in 1993. We found a single Xerox copy of that commentary in the whole world. We heard somebody had it, and we went to Beijing.

John Brady's team, ALL, went to JB, went to JB, went to Beijing and found it. Where did you guys get the Diamond Cutter commentary? We also reproduced that, and we found a copy in the Great Library of Asian Manuscripts in St. Petersburg, Russia. We'll continue telling you the story, the exploration story of Indiana Jones Brady and how he went around the world. Look, we're going to discuss each one of these books and figure out where we got it. This one we got in a Mongolian temple.

We'll be talking about that. The great work of ALL, well, it's not working. Sorry.

Which made it possible for us to have this translation team. Without the great work, 35 years this year, without that great work of John Brady and his team, we wouldn't have this translation group because we wouldn't have any books to translate. It's not easy to find a book that's been missing for 2,000 years.

We have the best people in the world who are doing it. I'll see you guys tomorrow, and we'll talk about how ALL's hard work built the house in which this translation team is working. Thank you, guys.

[Speaker 2]
All right, two minutes. Thanks, Keshia and Michael.

[Speaker 3]
Just take a breather for a minute. We'll get together for the actual translation portion of Tim's class. As you can see, Tim is dressed up, decked out in a Gucci vest with a Christian Dior tie.

His hair was done by Beverly Hills Salon. We can hear Professor Nicholas Joyce doing the live commentary. Where were the glasses from?

The horn-rimmed glasses were designed by a lesser-known Italian designer.

[Speaker 1]
We can hear Professor Nicholas Joyce doing the live commentary.

[Speaker 2]
Can you guys hear me over there? We can hear you over here.

[Speaker 1]
Wonderful. Cool. We can hear you, Tim.

Homework time. It's homework time.

[Speaker 3]
Boo. Boo. Oops.

[Speaker 2]
Boo. Boo. Let's try it again.

All right, there we go. Cool. Yay.

All right, here we go. At the beginning of every text and commentary, it's really nice to know the lineage of the masters who brought us the wisdom. In this tattoo, who are the four primary masters, and what are their dates?

[Speaker 1]
Ooh. Well, John Brady had a date with Connie.

[Speaker 3]
Is the first one Maitreya? Yes. Yay.

[Speaker 2]
Yay. I don't have a date for Maitreya because...

[Speaker 3]
Timeless. But he was, I mean, as a bodhisattva, he was a student of Buddha. Right.

Master Asanga?

[Speaker 2]
Master Asanga, yes. And what are the dates for Master Asanga?

[Speaker 3]
350 AD is the date, right?

[Speaker 2]
Yay. Did it unplug? Let me check.

Somebody turned it off. Or is it turned off? Sorry, there aren't any technical problems.

It's connected to it. It should be. No, it's connected back there.

All right, cool. Who's the next... Don't worry, it's just a homework.

Person in the lineage? Harivadra? Yeah, what are Master Harivadra's dates?

700, 600.

[Speaker 3]
I was going to guess 700.

[Speaker 2]
No.

[Speaker 3]
It's always 750.

[Speaker 2]
It's always 750. All right, and the next wonderful character in this lineage.

[Speaker 1]
Tim Lonehow.

[Speaker 2]
Nope, nope.

[Speaker 3]
I'm just going to take a shot in the dark and say Je Tsongkhapa. Hey. Could have told you his dates, but...

[Speaker 2]
I'm sure he's in this lineage.

[Speaker 3]
Yeah.

[Speaker 2]
Who's the author of our text?

[Speaker 3]
Kedrathimthadargya?

[Speaker 2]
What's his address? What are his dates? 1493 to 1568.

What was that, Sugeng?

[Speaker 3]
1493 to 1568. The main word, of course.

[Speaker 1]
Good job.

[Speaker 3]
He had to have won the money for Sugeng. It doesn't mean he is Sugeng.

[Speaker 2]
All right, good job. All right, so in the opening lines of every Tibetan scriptural text, there's typically a verses of praise. What is the Tibetan name for this literary section in general?

[Speaker 3]
Chögyi? Chöpa, Chöpa.

[Speaker 2]
Yep. And who is Kedrathimthadargya praising in one of the first three qualities he selects to praise?

[Speaker 3]
Omniscience?

[Speaker 2]
Not quite. Who is he praising?

[Speaker 3]
John Brady. All the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas?

[Speaker 2]
It's a little more obvious than that. There's a statue, yes. That's a clue.

And then you, and one of the...

[Speaker 3]
Paramita.

[Speaker 2]
Which you just saw, the first three qualities that he praises.

[Speaker 3]
Body, speech, and mind?

[Speaker 2]
Good job. Yay, awesome.

[Speaker 3]
Enlightened.

[Speaker 2]
All right, one of the things that I'm finding, you know, when I was learning Tibetan, was that in these classes, we don't do a lot of grammar. So I'm going to try to do a grammar point in every quiz. So some of us...

Grammarista. Grammarista, which... So anyhow, in the opening lines, the very first line, there's a lay there.

[Speaker 3]
Tim, can you either speak up or go closer to the mic?

[Speaker 2]
I can, yes. All right. Wow, fantastic.

Much better. Oh my god, it's so good. It's so relaxing when the microphone works.

Suddenly, it's like you're in my house.

[Speaker 3]
Can you be a barista?

[Speaker 1]
So in the opening lines, there's a lay. And typically, in this case, lay is not being utilized as a noun or a verb. So, easy question, not for the mixed nuts, for everybody else.

What is the more well-known meaning of lay? Ijohn says from in the chat. Yeah, but that's not the question right now.

The question is, what is the more well-known meaning of lay? The one that's not being utilized here.

[Speaker 3]
Ijohn says work, and she also means karma.

[Speaker 1]
All right, cool. Great.

[Speaker 3]
Somebody said karma, too.

[Speaker 1]
And so then the question is, what's the grammatical function that the lay is performing in this phrase? And then for extra credit, what's the grammatical name for that function?

[Speaker 3]
Oh, my God. Are you asking mixed nuts now?

[Speaker 2]
Ablative. Marking particle. Yeah, the mixed nuts can answer now.

[Speaker 3]
It's the ablative or comparative case. Grammar case.

[Speaker 1]
It's not comparative here.

[Speaker 2]
It can be.

[Speaker 1]
It can be, but in this case, it's not.

[Speaker 2]
Ijohn was correct in the translation, it's from. So what's the case called?

[Speaker 3]
It's not something like originative.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, it's like a source particle. Yeah. All right.

Does anyone know what that word in Tibetan is called for $20? That's $10. I love it when word doesn't get the whole thing.

[Speaker 3]
What's the case called?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. Jung is the first part of it.

[Speaker 3]
Yeah, originative. It's been a long time since I studied it.

[Speaker 1]
All right. Where'd you get $10?

[Speaker 3]
Oh, okay.

[Speaker 2]
No, why?

[Speaker 1]
No, why? Oh, okay.

[Speaker 2]
All right.

[Speaker 1]
All right. Bonus question. Here's another use of the word lay.

When lay is found close to a che or she. What does it indicate?

[Speaker 3]
Who said what? Who said what? What say?

Who done it?

[Speaker 2]
From this book, from this mouth.

[Speaker 1]
So it indicates a quote. So the format is like typically text name lay plus quote, plus the che she. And all of those elements don't always appear in Tibetan.

So good luck when you're trying to figure it out. All right. Cool.

Nice job, guys. And word, I owe you $10. Please send me your PayPal, please.

[Speaker 3]
Give it to Geshe-la. Yay. Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Did you get your hand raised? What's going on? Okay.

[Speaker 2]
All right. Cool. All right.

And Geshe-la, here's my attempt at the next.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. Here's our translation. This is tough.

[Speaker 2]
Yes, it was.

[Speaker 1]
Nice. Within the earth of the entire perfectionist. Good.

Yeah, that's good. That first part is correct. Not bad.

[Speaker 2]
I didn't know what to do with Caldeb.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, using your omniscience in a single instant, you clarify, you see, but that's okay, you yeah, and then when you do teach those students who are Caldeb, what's that mean?

[Speaker 3]
Lucky.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, then those people who have enough good karma, they go to the Rinchen Der.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, I'm totally off.

[Speaker 1]
They go to the, what is the gold mine of jewels in traditional poetics? Where do you get jewels from, according to Tibetans? Ocean, ocean.

Yeah, so people go to the ocean of ideas found in the great books, okay? And with your help, they can chupa, they can enjoy. Dugur means to their heart's content, okay?

Dugur means nine desires, and gu is a, the number nine is a traditional many-izer, okay? So when you say nine wishes, it means a billion wishes, okay? So, kelwa tsultsepa, you grant people the kelwa, the special ability to jump into the ocean of the great books, like with Mixed Net's team, okay?

[Speaker 2]
In this last sentence, I did not know what to do with the demon at the end.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, okay, here. You gotta show me the Tibetan though. Yeah, so to understand this, you have to understand the third chapter of Stanley's book, which says that the shape of this world is a big, flat disc, mandala.

And if you work in from the outside, you hit the great outer ocean, okay? And then if you keep going in towards the middle, you hit the circling mountains. I think there's seven, I forget, or nine, I don't remember.

And there's mountain chains that look like a target. And between each chain is another ocean. So instead of Pacific, Atlantic, you know, Indian Ocean, you got the great outer ocean.

Then you have a mountain chain that looks like a circle. And then inside of that concentric circle is another ocean. Then there's another mountain chain, there's another ocean, there's another mountain.

In the middle is?

[Speaker 2]
Mount Meru.

[Speaker 1]
Mount Meru, okay. So he's saying that you, Mipham?

[Speaker 2]
Invincible.

[Speaker 1]
Oh, Mr. Maitreya, okay, Mr. Invincible. You are like Fumbo. Fumbo is a...

It's Riram, yeah, like Mount Meru. You are like, I call it the peak, okay? It emphasizes the peak part, okay, Fumbo.

Ji means, yeah, illustrious. Good, okay. You are illustrious.

So you are like the great axis mountain of the world surrounded by the encircling mountains of the bodhisattvas, the gold mountains of the bodhisattvas, who sit around you in groups surrounding you, circling you, okay? Oh, that's the idea. Something else here.

[Speaker 2]
And then the last word.

[Speaker 1]
I bow down to you, yeah, I bow down to you. It has nothing to do with that. Yep, I bow down to you.

Now, something else I wanted to say. What was that?

[Speaker 3]
Did you explain the Sirki? Like, it doesn't have to do with the size of the mountain colors?

[Speaker 1]
Not in this case. Yeah, not in this case, yeah. That would be...

But there was something else I wanted to say about that. By the way, the altitude of those mountains increases as you go in, by half. So they get higher and higher.

Each mountain chain gets higher and higher. Yeah, so you got to imagine groups of bodhisattvas are sitting around Maitreya, and he's like the central mountain of the world. Those of you who studied the third chapter of the Yoga Sutra, we had, what was the Sanskrit word?

Dhruva. Dhruva, okay? The central axis of the world.

You are like the central axis of the world. Okay, cool, okay. You are as eminent and majestic as Mount Everest surrounded by lesser mountains, okay?

Okay, good. Yeah, okay. There's a cute discussion in the Abhidharma about why the outer ocean doesn't fall off the edge of the mandala, of the disc, okay?

And they talk about centripetal force and blah blah, I don't know. But anyway, it's a question. All right, here we go.

We don't have a lot of time, but we'll do what we can. Sorry. Sorry, I think I'm allergic to good translation.

All right, let's see here. Yeah, there we go. Okay, Ellie's going to check you and Tim's going to read.

[Speaker 2]
Okay. Good.

[Speaker 1]
So now he's bowing down to who? Togme. A sangha, okay?

You had a lot of tsewa for doors.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, a lot of love for living beings.

[Speaker 1]
And you got into your tusing of flak sam nam dak. Tusing means a ship. Your boat of personal responsibility.

Yeah, you climbed into your boat of taking personal responsibility for the happiness of the whole universe, okay? Out of your love for beings, you got into your I take responsibility boat, okay? And then you crossed the Chuter.

[Speaker 2]
The great ocean.

[Speaker 1]
The great ocean, the treasure house of water, okay? Until you got to the tomb of Mipham. Into the presence of?

[Speaker 2]
Presence of the Maitreya.

[Speaker 1]
Of Maitreya, yeah. Hey, thanks. You must have loved everybody.

Yes. And you took personal responsibility like jumping in a boat. Yes.

And then you crossed the great ocean to reach Maitreya. Yes. Songjo Ne.

And then you, third line, $100. Any of the mixed nuts. Come on, Nick.

[Speaker 3]
Oh yeah, you went to the wishing tree of great love, meaning the five books.

[Speaker 1]
No.

[Speaker 3]
Not great love, sorry. The five books of Maitreya. No, then you composed the five books with Maitreya creating a wish-fulfilling jewel.

[Speaker 1]
Nope. It's a reference to, it's a historical reference. All right.

The Island of Jewels. Yes, $100, Nick.

[Speaker 3]
Yes.

[Speaker 1]
What's the Island of Jewels? It's, what do you call it? Sri Lanka.

Yeah. Yay, Nick, $100 for the Amalie Defense Fund. Okay.

Yeah, you took off across the sea. Who did that in history? Who made that dangerous journey?

Lord Atisha. And, no, to Sri Lanka. Oh, Maitreya Yajna?

He just jumped. Shensang. Oh.

Shensang made extraordinarily dangerous journey, walked to the southern tip of India. I've been there. And then he got on a boat and went to Sri Lanka.

Come on. Extremely dangerous. Okay.

So, you crossed the ocean to the land of the wishing jewels, which is traditionally Sri Lanka, okay? And you brought back for us the best wishing jewels of all, which are, Tim? The Jamshid Dengar.

The five books of Maitreya. Yeah, the five books of Maitreya. And by doing so, you gonged our rewas, which we had in Gibson's text.

[Speaker 2]
You satisfied all of our hopes and dreams.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, you satisfied all our hopes and dreams. Honorific. You honorifically satisfied our hopes and dreams.

I bow down to... Asanga. Yay, Asanga.

Let's do one more quick, quick. Haso, check this guy. You can check another one.

[Speaker 3]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Didn't you skip a few?

[Speaker 3]
Didn't you skip a line? Did I? Yeah, but you're doing very well.

[Speaker 2]
Oh, yeah, I did skip a line.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. Yay, nice. Okay, good.

There's something I wanted to check. Okay. Anyway, okay.

We're going to read it kind of fast, because we're kind of out of time. You have Lhagsang Nandak. By the way, he's bowing down to Senge Sambho.

I like it. Haribhadra, whose name literally means... Lion of Purity.

Excellent, lion. Yeah, or Lion of Purity. Okay, Haribhadra.

Okay, Hari means lion. Hariram, Hariram, okay. So, your body has the top, the huge muscles of Lhagsang.

[Speaker 2]
Personal responsibility.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, personal responsibility. Your body is rippling with the muscles of personal responsibility. Okay.

And you have the rel kur, means the lion's mane, the hair around the neck. Okay. You are numba.

You are weighed down with this mink coat of a lion's mane, which is the mangoks you give to people. The advices you give to people. Okay.

Okay. You... Dare Kim is really cute.

Kim means the house, right? Like Kim Dag means householder, right? Dare means claws.

So, what's the house of the claws? Lion? No, your paws.

Your lion's paws, okay? Your hands, your lion's hands, okay? They're called here, this is a poeticism.

The house of the claws. And you are yowa in them. You're waving them around.

Okay. And you rip apart with your claws the shungs. Yeah, the great books.

How many? A thousand. You rip them.

You analyze them. Chupa nam je. You tear them apart with your mighty claws.

And you've got the mane of your advices. And you have the rippling muscles of your hwak sam nam dak. Okay.

And then you ke gyang means you, okay? With your great roar. Kemo means to laugh, but it's like, okay?

With mtob rigpa means your logic. Mtob rigpa means logic. It's the same as je pak tsemo.

It's the same as je pak tsemo, okay? And mtob means a very, very, very difficult word. It means you can deduce from the nature of...

You can deduce from the signs of a thing what's inside. And that's called power of a thing, okay? It means deduction, okay?

The roar of your deduction when you gelze, when you make your gelpas... Yeah, yeah. And I'm sorry.

Gelze means other commentators, okay? Other commentators who are nyi tungs, two dollars. Little guys?

I'll give you a dollar for each one of the two. Two-year-olds? Nah.

Tung means to drink. Right. That's confusing.

Who drinks twice? Elephants. Elephants.

They suck up the water in their nose and then they spray it into their mouth. Like two drinkers, okay? Now here, they're being compared to other commentators of the Perfection of Wisdom.

Okay? Those elephants, they're not small. They're not weak, okay?

But the roar... When he roars, what happens to the elephants who commented on the Perfection of Wisdom in the past? Jigpa!

Thank you. They get terrified. They get terrified.

When you give your commentary, all those other commentators who are strong and they are big, but look, when a lion shows up, even the elephants run away. Got it? Chag tse!

Honorific, you scared the shit out of them. You scared the honorific poop out of them. Chag tse!

And I chock down to the bedma of your shell.

[Speaker 2]
I bow down to the lotus of your hole.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, I bow down to your lotus. That's beautiful, right? We'll stop there.

Good job, Tim. I'm sorry to take up your time with the other thing, but that's the... When you're the new guy on the block, you've got to put up.

Tap into us all, Tim. As you know. We're going to continue tomorrow at 7 a.m. World Standard Time, Rimrock Standard Time, on that analysis of how did A.L.L. find all these cool books? And how did the snow come down to the mountain? Okay. All right.

We'll see you guys tomorrow. Nick, anything else?

[Speaker 3]
Mr. Nick? Yeah, real quick. Thank you so much, Keshe Michael.

Thank you, everybody. I'm looking forward to more classes this evening. Stick around here.

In about 10 minutes, we'll do yoga with Andriana. Stay plugged in. It should be a great class.

See you later. Thank you.

[Speaker 1]
Thank you. Thanks, everybody. Thank you, baby.

Okay.