Тим Ловенхопт — Книга 1: Совершенство мудрости, занятие 14

[Speaker 1]
All right, by the way, you did a great job in Japan and I'm very grateful for that. Let's see, let me find your text, okay?

[Speaker 2]
Oh, hang on. There's the birthday girl.

[Speaker 1]
Who's the birthday girl? This one right here. It's her birthday?

[Speaker 2]
Happy birthday.

[Speaker 1]
Xiaoping's her favorite. Hey, Allison, can you start the song? Allison, are you going to sing a song to Amelie?

[Speaker 2]
No, I don't know Baba Black Sheep.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, one, two, three. Hey, Amelie, it sounds like a sick coyotes.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, it was kind of, I don't know, for a three-year-old, kind of boring.

[Speaker 1]
I think they have a tummy ache, that must be it, I think.

[Speaker 2]
I'm scared of coyotes.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, and they don't sing too good either. Zoom birthday songs are always a little bit off.

[Speaker 2]
I get your, I get your, I get your, I get your teaching thing.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, they're going to teach class now. And we realized that one of the reasons that Allison is Amelie's favorite is because she thinks Allison's a kid.

[Speaker 2]
A big kid? A big kiddie?

[Speaker 1]
Big kiddo? Are you kidding me? I think Xiaoping's a big kiddo.

He's a big kiddo. Hang on, I got to find this. Okay, progress report for Tim's text.

Tim wanted to be a translator. He was not ready to be a translator. He didn't know enough to be a translator long ago.

And he worked really hard, and he actually took some other courses to learn spoken Tibetan. And he just worked really hard on his Tibetan. And he earned a spot on the Mixed Nuts.

And I'm grateful to the other Mixed Nuts. Every Mixed Nuts lost one class per term in order to fit in Gibson and Tim. And I'm grateful for that, for that willingness.

We finished five folios, we averaged about six on a good day. Hey, Daddy, Dad. Hey, Nick, you got to turn your mic off.

Okay, and we're going to do some biography. We've been studying the biography of a sangha. I guess, is it a sangha?

Yeah. And we're going to, I'm sorry, which is, which biography? We're doing Arya Sangha's biography right now.

Which, oh yeah, okay, Arya Sangha. And we're going to spend one class each term on the author, or the secretary who wrote the book down. And then we'll have four other classes on the, and so it's going to take us about three years more to finish Tim's first book.

If we finish all of these books, it's going to take 56 years, okay? And it's a great class. This is, we spend 12 years on this topic in the Geshe course.

It takes half the Geshe course to study this book, which is called The Perfection of Wisdom. And it's got an incredible amount of important things that you need to know to see emptiness or reach high states. So this is a very, very crucial book in the history of Buddhism.

All right. So Tim, we reached this part in Master Sangha's biography. And by the way, Tim worked, he's got, he's running the hotel that provides a lot of the funding for the Mixed Nuts.

He has a huge job. He's running ACI, which is thousands of people around the world. He's helping found the university in DHEU, we call it, the entrepreneurial, the EMBA and MBA university branch in Sedona.

And he still has time to translate his assignments very well. And I don't know how you do it. And he also doesn't get grumpy when he's tired.

And I don't know how he does that. But I think you're a really good example. And I'm not going to praise you anymore because you might get worse.

Okay. Let's start here. We've been studying the biography of Master Sangha.

And here's the next part. And I think Cat, Venerable Cat Cutting wanted to check you. I like your hair, Cat.

It looks nice. Thank you. Here we go.

Okay, good. This is the HAKTIM in HAKTONG. What's that mean?

Special insight. Yeah, especially there was a dude. What's a dude, you guys?

Demon. Yeah, a demon. DIG RTOG CHEN is an idiom that means a badass demon.

Okay? A real badass demon. And he JING GI LA.

He blessed. He did a negative blessing. He did a demon blessing.

ANA GAN MO. This is the KHE GA NA. An old lady.

Yeah, there was an old lady living near a Sangha. And a demon came and cured her mind. Changed her mind.

Yeah. And by the way, she was a Hindu, an elderly Hindu woman. MUTEK means Hindu, right?

Non-Buddhist. GAN MO ZHIG. And then NARE means like KHA CHIG NARE.

It means... And then she said, okay? Then she said, I'll give 50 bucks for Gandhi.

This is not Mahatma. Oh, it's incense? No, but you're close.

I mean, it is. It can... A good smell?

Some scent? I love it when you can't get something.

[Speaker 2]
It must be...

[Speaker 1]
All right. Gandhi is that stick that they use for in Vinaya. That plank.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
And it's a plank. You hold it on your shoulder and you hit it with another stick. And that's the call to Sojong.

And they still do it in the monastery. They don't use a metal bell. They use a plank of wood.

And they smack it with another plank of wood. And so that's called a Gandhi. And DRA means the sound of the Gandhi.

NANG PA here means Buddhist. So when those Buddhist guys bang their Gandhi stick, it just messes me up. GEM means bewilders me or it's hurting us.

Every time those monks bang that stupid stick, it's really hurting our group. ZHES ZHIG NANG STE OKUL LA OKUL is an ancient, ancient word for us guys. Like dak chak.

OKUL LA NUS MI NUS DAG PA here means we have to investigate. It's fitting, RIG, that we should investigate whether they are trying to hurt us with the sound of their stick. I think that stick sound is like a radio transmission that's hurting all the non-Buddhists in our land.

And she says, we got to check this out. I think that the noise of that stick is meant to hurt us somehow. She's ZER.

She claimed. OK, ZER. And keep going, Tim.

DAG PA Who's correcting? Let's keep going. KA All right.

DAG PA HLA TANG MU TANG NU CHIN GYI CHO PA KUN CHOG SUN GYI THOG DE DI DUNG PA MU THAG THANG CHAO BAY LEI PAG NAM PAR GEM GEM CHE PAR RIG NE MAG CHANG TE THAN PA NUN SO OK, I got to check something here. OK. Hey, Word, can you check CHAO BA for me?

[Speaker 2]
Yes.

[Speaker 1]
I think it means... Doesn't it mean fake or something? I think it means...

Who have gone wrong. But I don't know why she would... She's...

This is the old lady, OK? THOG DE means the old lady checked. And then she said, this THOG DE, which I couldn't find anywhere, I guess it means the Gandhi stick.

OK, this call to the meeting of the three jewels. Who are... Who get offerings from the devas and the dragons and even the spirits, OK?

These three jewels are respected even by the worldly gods, the Nagas and the spirits. When they bang that call to the assembly, did you find it, Word? Yes, Ken.

[Speaker 2]
It means like saying some kind of words that are wrong or mischievous or messed up in some kind of way.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, so I think it means that. So it hurts. It confuses the brains of those non-Buddhists who have gone wrong.

So I guess she's not saying this. Oh, I know. She thought that this verse expressed how the monks wanted to hurt the non-Buddhists, OK?

And RIGS NAS means having understood or having interpreted the sound of the sojong bell as intended to hurt the non-Buddhists, she's pulled together a myth that she mocked. Army? Soldiers?

Yeah, an army. She put together an army and she did war, chang. She made war.

She led a movement against the monks. And because of that, the tenpa nu.

[Speaker 2]
The teachings disappeared, declined.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, the teachings declined. Literally, it means the sunset, the sun of the teachings set in this world, OK? So they were destroyed by this old lady and her army, OK?

The monks were wiped out, OK? Basically. All right.

Let's read this one, Mr. Tim. And who do I got here? Maybe Utpala can check you, OK?

What was that? Right? Yep.

Uh-huh. I'm sorry. I don't know that one.

You don't pronounce the R. Yep. OK, cool.

CHUNG SRAS PHAL means the Buddhist teachings PHAL CHUNG SRAS What's that mean, you guys?

[Speaker 2]
Read a little bit.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, they recovered after being wiped out by the old lady's efforts. The Buddhist teachings recovered a bit. And then there was a king in U.

This is the U, similar to the U in Uma, meaning middle way. So there was a king of central India. He sent a gift to the king of Tak Sik.

And Tak means lion, Sik means leopard. Sorry, Tak means tiger, Sik means leopard. And this is a sound translation for Tajik, Tajikistan, which is Persia, OK, west of India.

So you could say, I don't know, modern Afghanistan or further, like into Iran. And he sent that king a re means a piece of cloth, nab sa. We pronounce the B sometimes, Tim, nab sa, especially when you make a small piece of clothing for a statue.

OK, so when you dress a statue in a little, like little monk's robes or something, it's called nab sa. He sent, it's a high honorific for clothing. He sent a piece of clothing.

Sug meppa means it was so well sewn that you couldn't find the seams. OK, seamless, OK, high quality. He sent a high quality piece of, article of clothing to the king of Tajikistan.

And this k doesn't mean born. This k means gift. So sometimes when you see this spelling, I think one out of a thousand times or one out of 5,000 times, it means a gift.

When you see a modern after it, it has to be the noun, as a gift, right, as a gift. He sent as a gift. Kur means he sent.

Mingar means in the, at the chest, at the chest of the shirt. I guess it was a shirt or a robe. There was a pattern that looked like a kangje for $20.

An imprint of a foot. Yeah, a footprint. It looked like a footprint.

So just by bad luck, in the pattern of the coloration of the shirt, it looked like a footprint at the chest of the shirt. RGYA BA ZHIG YOD PAS Then the king of Tajikistan got a tokpa. He got a wrong idea.

He misunderstood what was going on and he thought he was the victim of ngak.

[Speaker 2]
Magical powers.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, here this is the old meaning of ngak. Mantras. A curse or magic.

Yeah, a curse. Ngan means bad. So he thought the king of central India was trying to give him bad luck by sending him a shirt with a footprint on the chest.

Serne, then tim, mak. Then the teachings degenerated again. Yeah, he gathered his army, mak.

Oh, his army, okay. Yeah, and then the teachings knew.

[Speaker 2]
Oh, then they, okay.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, he made war. He led his army into battle and the teachings, what do you call it?

[Speaker 2]
Waned.

[Speaker 1]
They waned again. Good, okay. Let me see who we got here.

Is Adam around? I don't see him.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, I'm here again.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, let's do it. He's been climbing all the major peaks of Colorado with his daughter, which is kind of unbelievable. And here we go.

They criticized Tim very nicely. Nice, okay. Young, What was that, Adam?

[Speaker 2]
Oh, no, sorry, you got it.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. chuk chuk chuk torway chok te ni ma druk ne langpay suklak kang dang sung rag mangpo sek ne lub so Okay, cool. Again, the teachings fell, Tim.

The teachings... Recovered, okay, a little bit. Okay, okay.

And having recovered, yu, they came back, they were there, okay. And then there was a nangpay tsugla kang. What's that mean you guys?

Buddhist temple. There was a Buddhist temple, and outside the temple there was two... or you could also read it as non-Buddhist.

There were two djangpo. Djangpo means a beggar, okay. They had come to Longwa.

Beg. Who can give me the Sanskrit root there? Biksh.

Yeah, biksh. Biksh, like bikshu. Okay, beggar.

They were begging outside the temple. And then someone brought a bucket full of dish water, dirty dish water, chu, the water from washing dishes or the floor, and threw it on them, torwa, okay. And they got tru.

They were mad. They got angry. And this dru is a tantric dru.

This is like a drup tab. This is like sadhana. Conquer the angel.

They did the sadhana of the sun. They had some magical powers, and they did the sadhana of the sun. And they were able to sik, like jin sik.

[Speaker 2]
Scourge.

[Speaker 1]
They were able to scourge the Buddhist temples and a lot of the sumras.

[Speaker 2]
Texts, books.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, they burned a lot of the texts by calling on the power of the sun with mantras, okay. Sikne. And then once more, Tim, the teachings nup.

They waned. Yeah, they waned again. I like that word.

Yeah, by the way, it also means west, or it's related to the word for west, and also the setting of this. Okay, all right. The teachings again.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, literally. All right. Let's go back to...

I was thinking, Sugeng, I didn't hear your delightful voice, so we're going to go back to you. Sure, thank you. Oh, there it is.

Okay, good. Nice pronunciation. I don't know how you find time to do that either.

They'd say, at that time, there was a chamsay mo. A Brahmin? Good.

Yeah, a female Brahmin. And her name was Selve Tsultrim, which kind of means shining morality or something. And I looked for her name.

I found it in Tsingta Chenmo. They identify it as... They said Prakapa Shila, which is misspelled, and it's got to be Prakasha Shila.

So her name was Prakasha Shila, which is shining morality or something. Her name was shining morality. Tim, she chung chup sem kye.

As a verb. As a verb. She became a bodhisattva?

She got the wish for enlightenment. Yeah, she had bodhichitta. For Yun Ringo, for a long time, long ago, she had achieved real bodhichitta.

And she made a mun ram. She made a prayer. That she should sowa.

This is the Sowa and Sojong. She should restore her vows? She should restore the gyelway tenpa.

The teachings of the conqueror. Yeah, so she made a prayer that she could restore the Buddhist teachings. And that prayer was tu chen.

It was powerful. Very powerful. She had that kind of prayer.

And in her sampa, in her mind, she said, wow, a dra has come to the Buddhist teachings.

[Speaker 2]
An enemy.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, like dra chenpa. Len here means times. So, three times.

Some kind of obstacle has come to the Buddhist teaching three times. And then the Buddhist teaching has nupa.

[Speaker 2]
And it has... Is that the West as well? It has declined.

[Speaker 1]
And dra means now. We got to find somebody who is nupa, who has the nupa, who has the power to drawa. Drawa means to spread the teachings.

We got to find someone who has the power to re-spread these teachings. But Chen Minang... We haven't found him yet, or found that Minang.

I don't see anybody else, so what did she decide? She decided it was Arya Sangha? Well, she decided to take care of herself.

Oh, take care of herself. Oh, I see. Okay.

Yeah, she said, look, nobody else can do it. I'm going to have to take this job on myself. It's a cool story.

I always heard about this story, but I never read it. I never found it. And I'm really happy to read it.

All right, Miss Rebecca. Oh, did I see Rebecca or no? Are you there?

No. Alex Rivas? Can you help us out?

Criticize Tim. Even if it's not correct, criticize him. Okay, I'll try.

Okay. Okay. Okay.

Nice. Yay. Okay.

Nice. Okay. This is a very sad first sentence up to the comma.

And I'll give 30 bucks for that one. I'll give you a clue. It's very sad.

But they didn't think a woman could do it? Yeah, because I have sungwang. Because I have kind of stumbled onto a female birth.

He knew.

[Speaker 2]
I can't do it.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, I was born as a female, so there's nothing I can do, which is a very sad comment on that society. I was born as a woman. I can't do anything.

So, I better get a poo from my loo. Give birth to a son from my body. Yeah, I better give birth to a son from my body.

This shuk is chuk, which means, and I will incite him or I will encourage him to spread the Buddha's teachings. Nyam means what, you guys? Think she thought to herself.

Yeah, and then dupa is an ancient euphemism to have sex with somebody. It means to gather, right? It means to gather.

So, she gathered together with a person from the Gelrig. Oh, the royal caste. Shatria.

Yeah, she had relations, which is probably the English way to say dupa, with a member of the royal caste, and she trung tokme. Gave birth to a sangha. Yeah, she gave birth to a sangha.

By the way, later she dupa with... A Brahmin. A Brahmin caste.

Yeah, with a priest caste, and she had... Vasubandhu. Vasubandhu, okay.

She really... And I'm sure she was widely criticized, and I'm sure everyone... It's like the story of the Virgin Mary.

Nobody believed that she hadn't had sex with somebody other than her husband. I'm sure she had great criticism from people, but she really did do it for the teachings. So, we never know.

Okay. Tim. Let me see who I'm going to pick.

Rosa? Are you in a good mood to criticize Tim?

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Welcome back, by the way. I hope you had a good time in España.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
I don't know. I don't know. Chela?

Yeah, Chela. Chela, she... It should be Kiwang.

Kiwang, okay. It's totally... Okay.

Kiwang. Sometimes it's Sangdra. Sangdra.

Sangdra-la-ne-tu-bun-di-gyel-way-ten-pa-sin-pe-shik-nam-ong-nam-du-de-ngwe-shik-yi-la-nak-te-de-ta-la-lang-bay-ching. Good. By the way, this writing is quite old.

This style. This is from an ancient history book. And the language is very difficult, and it's not what we're used to.

So, what do you mean, Tim? The mother. Yeah, the holy mother.

The holy mother gave birth to this holy son. This se can mean prince. It can mean bodhisattva.

It can mean son. Matak means just after she gave birth to the baby. A ah.

She wrote an ah letter on his tongue. Che means tongue. With Kiwang.

Kiwang is a kind of saffron pigment. Okay. It's a saffron pigment.

Holy color. She wrote the letter ah on his tongue. Which is supposed to...

Lo-no-wa. It's supposed to be a... Tap here is like tap she, meaning skillful means, of helping him to have a bright mind, sharp mind.

Supposedly, if you write ah on your baby's tongue, which is the first letter of the alphabet, it will make their mind stronger. Shing. And then she was careful to keep Tsangdra...

What's that mean, you guys? Ritual purity. Yeah, she kept him almost antiseptically clean.

She kept cleaning him frequently, making sure he was in almost a ritual cleanliness. Ne-te. And then she was thinking to herself, may it happen that this child is the tenpa dzinpa.

What's that mean? Tenzin.

[Speaker 2]
The holder of the teachings.

[Speaker 1]
May he become a holder of the Dharma. So the very common Tibetan name, Tenzin, means may he become a holder of the Dharma. And ba shik yi la nak means she was almost obsessed.

Nak means she was obsessed with making him into someone who would bring the teachings back from the three shocks that the teachings had received. She was almost obsessed with her son being the one who would bring the teachings back. And tab la be means she did everything she could to make it happen.

Yay. And by the way, there's another spelling of Tsangdra, which is probably more common. Where was there a gay?

Okay. All right. All right.

Tim Reed and Xiaoping, can you check him? Yes. Okay.

Yes. Yes. So the yulm, she loved him.

She trained him in yi gye. Alphabet?

[Speaker 2]
Or reading?

[Speaker 1]
Or reading and writing, yeah. And she taught him tsi. Math.

Math, and the rikshas, the four rikshas. The Vedas? The sciences?

Yeah, the Vedas of the Brahmins, yeah. Which are what we call the open sciences, not the Buddhist scientists. So she taught him the open topics, or the shared topics, sciences, the shared sciences.

She taught them rang nyi. What's that mean, you guys? Yourself.

Yeah, which implies what? She knew them? Implies that she's going to take him elsewhere for spiritual training.

Wow. Okay, so she did the basic first grade, second grade topics herself, but the implication is that they went elsewhere for his spiritual training. Okay, Tim and...

I don't... I can't see everybody. Venerable Upala?

They're doing some work outside, so maybe someone who doesn't have a lot of noise outside would be good. Is Venerable Eli here? Yeah.

Can you bother him? Oh, I'm sure, yeah, without even trying. All right, okay.

Okay, Timothy, go for it. Okay. Nice.

Okay, when he had kepa che, Tim, or anybody, grown bigger, when he had grown up a bit, okay, when he was a bit older, that shu nu said something to his yum. That yu said to his mom. Yeah.

What's the lay of my pa? Where did my dad come from? What does he do?

Yeah, what was my dad's occupation? Shu is honorific. He politely asked her.

And mom said, I didn't kepa you to kyongwa, your father's rig.

[Speaker 2]
I didn't give birth to you so you could do the same job your dad did.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, I didn't go through all the trouble to give you birth so that you could carry on your father's occupation, or your father's class, caste, right? That's not why I gave birth to you. Rather, kyi, rather, kyi before akama always means rather, the sangye kyi tenpa was nyamba, Tim.

The teachings of the Buddha was in dreadful despair. Yeah, and I couldn't sepa it with my sim. I couldn't fix it with my mind.

I couldn't stand it. I couldn't bear it, right? This is the third perfection, right?

I just couldn't stand it. And that's why, kyi. That's why you were born.

That's the only reason I gave birth to you, you slacker. Okay. Let's keep going.

Eli, let's keep going with Tim. Okay. Gyalwe tenpa la, rabtu chung la, denu sum lokpa tang, samten la be ne gyalwe tenpa darwar kyi, gyalwe, nice, gyalwe tenpa darwar kyi, shig che sung ne.

Yeah. I want you to rabtu chung.

[Speaker 2]
Leave the home life.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, I want you to leave the home life and go into the Buddhist teachings, okay? I want you to lokpa the denu sum, the tripitaka.

[Speaker 2]
To read the three baskets.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, I want you to study the three baskets of scripture. And I want you to work hard on your samten. Samadhi or meditation.

Yeah, on your meditation. And then you better darwar tenpa. Better spread the teachings.

Yeah, gyi shig means do it, man. Come on. You got to get on it and spread the teachings.

Chesri said, therefore he... One more time, Venerable Eli. Rabtu chung te, ge sul tang, dene, ken lo ge dung tang che pe, u su nyen par sok te, denu sum la jang ne, lo re la sik chen bum kyi sik tun, ni, nikas tuk su, chupar sepe ringpor ma tokpar, ne nu sum tuk su chu.

Nice. Your reading is pretty good, Tim. Thanks.

Then he did rabtu chung as his mother had asked him to. He lived the whole life. He became a ge tsul.

He became a monk. A novice monk. And then after that he nyen par sok.

Complete ordination. Yeah, he took complete, full ordination in the presence of a vow master, the required other masters, and the required audience of attending monks. He took ordination in the proper way.

And then he started to jangpa denu sum.

[Speaker 2]
Practice.

[Speaker 1]
Studying the Tripitaka. Yeah, he started studying Tripitaka. What are the three baskets, he dies?

Sutra, concentration, and Vinaya. Sutra, Abhidharma, and Vinaya. Vinaya, Abhidharma, and what's the third one?

Sutra. Sutra. Sutra, yeah.

Okay, good. And he worked a bit harder than we did. And every year he covered, boom, verses.

Sikshe means verses of scripture. Four lines, or two lines in the Sanskrit. Thousands and thousands.

A hundred thousand. A hundred thousand. He memorized and he grasped every year a hundred thousand verses.

Both the meaning and the wording. He memorized it and he understood it. Tuk tsultrim means he grasped it completely.

Rinpo ma toppar means before long he denu sum tuk tsultrim.

[Speaker 2]
He grasped the three baskets completely.

[Speaker 1]
Before long he was a master of all three baskets. Okay. And here comes the important part for Tim.

And who's gonna check? Joy, are you translating? Yes, she is.

I'm sorry. How about... I don't know.

Tim, do you want to self-medicate? Who would you like? How about...

How about Aisha? Okay, Aisha. Yay!

Thank you, Aisha. You are unbelievable. She works so hard on the Sanskrit and she's very, very good at it.

Okay, here we go. Okay. Nenam dudde basik tukla changme.

Changme. Changme. Good.

What's unkyang, you guys? Unkyang. But he was having some trouble with the Sharchinditos.

Perfection of Wisdom Sutras. Yeah, Prajnaparamita Sutras. Those precious teachings.

Especially he couldn't get the BED DIN. And by the way, Tim, if you're gonna study Perfection of Wisdom, the BED DIN is crucial. Isn't that the hidden meaning?

Yeah, the hidden meaning. Yeah, there's a deeper meaning to the Perfection of Wisdom. And he knew he wasn't getting it.

Okay, he knew he wasn't getting it. What's the BED DIN called in Tibetan? NGON RTOG GI RIM PA The stages of realization.

Okay. Those were RTOG DKA' BA for him.

[Speaker 2]
Hard to get them.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, he was having trouble with it. So, RTOG DE DUN THENG PA CHEN PO'I SNANG GI NUS YONGS SU BYA PA NAM ZHIG NA Then NAM ZHIG NA NYE means, when am I ever gonna figure out the real meaning of the entire body of these scriptures of Perfection of Wisdom and the Greater Way? Okay.

He knew he wasn't seeing the whole thing. And he was getting frustrated. ZHIG NA NYE means, NAM ZHIG NA NYE means, when am I ever gonna figure this out?

NYAM DU This BYANG is a form of the verb, DOR BYED BYANG for example, BA BYED DARA, what's it mean? Hold or understand. Yeah, he held it in his heart.

Only those... He was focusing on his frustration that he thought there was a deeper meaning of the BOD DOR BA LA MI DO, of the Perfection of Wisdom and he wasn't getting it. Hey, we're just perfect, Tim.

Please, me. SOS KHRIMS BDAG PAR BYA BA DANG SOGS BSAG PA DANG DRIPA BYONG BA'I DGOS DU MA LA LAM PA'I PA DANG NANG DU YANG DAG SBYOG LA DAG DU GRUB PAR ZAD DO Good. So as a means of trying to figure out the deeper meaning of the Perfection of Wisdom, he did the following things.

He kept his sutra very DAR PA. He kept his morality very pure. Yeah, and he tried the SOGS BSAG.

Purification? This means he tried to pile up good karma, like DGAL BA, right? Then, yeah, here's the one.

He tried the BYONG BA, his DRIPA. He tried to purify his bad deeds. Yeah, BYED PA means he tried really hard.

DGOS DU MA means in many different ways. He tried all kinds of different ways to keep his morality, to pile up good karma, and to get rid of his bad karma, which is the classic purpose of the GYOR CHOS, the preliminary practices, right? And then, NANG DU YANG DAG SBYOG He spent a long time on his inner life.

He spent a long time working on his inner life. DAG DU, this DRU is the DRU and TSUN DRU.

[Speaker 2]
Work hard?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, he worked really hard every day on that. We're going to stop Asanga's biography there for your term, because you're going to have many terms, and we don't have to rush through his biography. We're going to finish the biography long before you finish the first book.

So, I'm going to take you, just for good luck today, I'm going to take you to your text, and we'll do one sentence for good luck. Right? Nick, we go till 8, right?

Yes, sir. We have two more minutes.

[Speaker 2]
I've got three minutes.

[Speaker 1]
I'm going to use it. That's the way you should think. Yeah, we're in the middle of a debate.

I just want to remind you the debate we were on, and I'm going to ask Tim to read it, and we'll come back to Nick. Tim, read these four lines, three and a half lines. This is the debate that we're in the middle of.

Okay. Yeah. Somebody comes and says, if something is a sutra of the perfection of wisdom side of things, which is meant to...

which is explained by the ngun tok gen, okay? What's ngun tok gen?

[Speaker 2]
The ornament of realization.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, I like to call it the jewel of realization. Okay. If something is the sutra that Tim is going to be translating the commentary to for 56 years, okay, then if something is a sutra explained by this book, then it must be a primary sutra or a root sutra explained by this book, okay?

If this book explains a sutra, that sutra must be one of the main sutras it explains, okay? Is that okay, Tim? You got it?

If something is a sutra which this book explains, it must be a major sutra which this book explains. How's that? Okay.

You good? You good? Okay.

And then we say, well, then I guess the Sherchen Yikyi Chigma is a major sutra which is explained by this book. Then I guess the Perfection of Wisdom, right? Is the...

Yikyi Chigma. Anybody remember? Just one word of the Perfection of Wisdom.

Yeah, Perfection of Wisdom. It's a sutra, which is... It's a sutra in one word, right?

Yeah, it's a sutra in one word. What's the word, by the way?

[Speaker 2]
Ah.

[Speaker 1]
Ah. Okay. By the way, I guess it could be, ah...

Ah... Okay.

[Speaker 2]
There's a sutra... Yeah, that's what I said.

[Speaker 1]
There's a sutra of the Perfection of Wisdom, which is a single letter. Ah. That's the whole sutra.

And... So grandpa always says what? If you want to memorize a sutra, memorize this one.

Yeah, if you guys can remember this one sound, ah, you can tell all your friends you have memorized a sutra of the Perfection of Wisdom. Okay? And you won't be lying, exactly.

Okay? We're in the middle of that debate and we'll come back to it. Nick, anything?

Any parting words? Just... Just thank you all again for coming.

You're off the hook for yoga today, but you must do yoga tomorrow. Because we have so many amazing teachers on the schedule for yoga coming up this week and next week. And have a nice, relaxing break.

And we'll be back this evening with three classes, starting at 5.30 Arizona time. So please come. And...

I'm just really grateful for everybody showing up and participating. So just keep listening to the classes. Don't stress if you don't understand everything.

It will sink in. Okay, cool. Thank you, Nick.

Thank you, Tim. Good job. Thank you so much, Geshe Michael.

Thank you, Tim. Thank you, Stanley. Thanks for your mind map, Stanley.

Yeah. Now I understand where we are in that book. That was a great mind map.

Actually, it was quite accurate. Cool, cool. See you guys soon.

All right. I love you guys. We love you too, boss.

Bye, Amelie. Happy birthday, Amelie. She thanks you wholeheartedly.

Thanks for singing to her. That was cool. That was pretty bad, but it's okay.

[Speaker 2]
All right.

[Speaker 1]
She loves you.