Тим Ловенхопт — Книга 1: Совершенство мудрости, занятие 20

[Speaker 1]
Tim, I'm going to give a little summary of where we are in your book, and then you're going to take it away. Let's go, or, you know, here we go. Okay, so we actually, we made very, Tim is doing a book.

Tim, do you want to summarize your book or tell us what it's about? Are you in the mood?

[Speaker 2]
Sure, it's not about much yet.

[Speaker 1]
Well, come on.

[Speaker 2]
Just kidding. Well, the first part, we're doing Arya Sangha's biography, which is quite, it's actually a lot of fun, and we're learning a lot about stuff we haven't heard before. And it looks like we're going to be getting into the story that we know today.

[Speaker 1]
How long ago did he live?

[Speaker 2]
Oh, a long time.

[Speaker 1]
I'll call it 1,700 years ago. So Tim's book is also almost 2,000 years old. And?

[Speaker 2]
And we've been going through the early debates on defining what an innovator is, and defining what is it that makes something innovative and not something where you're following somebody else.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, good. So it's kind of a discussion on innovation, and especially inner innovation, innovation within the human being, inside of a human being, which I think is a very beautiful topic. Okay, I'm going to go to the text itself here.

So actually, Tim, he's one of the newest translators, but he's making very good progress, which is six folio sites. So in these ancient books, one page is actually two pages. They call it front side and back side.

So when we say folio, it means two pages, front and back. And so when we say page, we say folio side. So he's covered, Tim has covered six folio sides last term, which is very, very fast.

It's good progress. I don't necessarily think fast is better. For example, in words text, it's extremely difficult, and I'm not trying to finish it faster.

But still, it's nice if we finish before 60 years. Tim's book is actually eight different books. It's a small encyclopedia about the perfection of wisdom.

We hear perseñāpāramitā, we hear perfection of wisdom, bodho bolamido, and it's exciting to finally find out what is it, what is the perfection of wisdom. So that's his book. There are actually eight different volumes.

The first chapter itself, explaining the first chapter of what Master Asanga heard when the dog took him to the paradise realms, it will take 50 years to finish Tim's translation. So we have to figure out how we're going to do that. But it's an extraordinary, deep book.

You might be interested to know, we have found and catalogued over 200,000 ancient books in John Brady's project, ALL. We have input about just about a million pages. We have typed in, searchable, about one million pages.

They are free online. It cost us, I don't know, eight to ten million dollars. Of all of those books, of all of those 200,000 books, the first one we ever typed in was this book.

The catalog number for this book is 00001. That's because it's the most important book that we could think of at that time. We're making good progress.

As I said, we're making good progress on the text. Our strategy in Tim's book, and in several other books, is to translate an ancient biography of the author. There isn't a huge tradition of telling the story of the person who wrote the book.

But Westerners, we are curious, modern people, we like to know something about the person who wrote the book. In Tim's text, each term, we will have five classes. One of those classes is going to be the biography of the person who wrote the book down, which is Arya Sangre.

With that introduction, Tim, anything else, Tim, you'd like to add before that?

[Speaker 2]
Just so everyone knows where we are in the biography, he was just born, essentially. He found out about how his mother wanted to bring back the teachings because they had degenerated significantly, but she felt as though being a woman in her time, she wasn't able to have the influence that she wanted to have. She decided to have a child, and that's Arya Sangre.

We're just in a place where he's struggling a bit. He's memorized a ton of stuff. He's quite adept at the teachings, but he doesn't quite understand the actual meaning of the Perfectional Wisdom.

[Speaker 1]
All right. With that introduction, I'm just seeing up here on the screen, By the way, I wanted to say one thing about Tim. Tim lives in Sedona.

He's the director of ACI. He works really, really hard. He has programs all year, deep, deep programs.

He has put together a very large team around the world of translators and other people who are helping. He just finished a three-day program in Kyoto, Japan. This was a Lam Rim, or Steps on the Path program.

We were supposed to have it in Vietnam. We had some trouble with the permit process. It takes like a year.

We didn't know that. We just applied too late. Suddenly, we had to change the program to Japan.

That program funds their organization for the whole year. Basically, we were struggling to get the funding. I have to say that Tim pulled it together.

We had a wonderful program in Japan. People came from all over the world. Due to a lot of people, for example, Sugeng and Shinten, we were able to make a lot of the budget for the whole year, which was our goal.

It was a very, very last-minute program. It was very difficult to pull it together in Kyoto. Tim did a great job.

Tim, in his free time, he runs the number one hotel in Sedona. The income from that hotel pays the salaries of our translators and a lot of our translation expenses, including grandpa's salary. I want to thank you, Tim, for your hard work.

I hope you have a long, healthy life so I can keep getting my paycheck. Okay. Thank you for your hard work for keeping the other organization going.

All right.

[Speaker 2]
Thanks for having a 70th birthday. Now that we talk about it openly, the band was amazing.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. The band was amazing. Somebody castled me about the cost.

I said, I don't care. I thought it was worth it. Anyway, now you have to suffer, Tim.

[Speaker 2]
I don't think we castled you about the cost, I think.

[Speaker 1]
You have to read this thing. Here you go. Senem is going to check you.

Senem is the director of Diamond Mountain Retreat Center and herself doing an extraordinary job, including building extraordinary white marble stupas at the retreat center. Thank you for that hard work. The retreat center looks the best it ever looked in 20 years.

That's because of the top boss there. All right, Tim, let's go.

[Speaker 2]
Enay. Nakdi Dorje Lopon Shikla.

[Speaker 1]
Make some mistakes and go slow for Senem.

[Speaker 2]
I'm not sure. I'm not sure. Is it shoe?

[Speaker 1]
Low tone. Sure. Senem, I'm not sure your microphone is on.

Let's see. Okay. Okay.

[Speaker 2]
Here we go.

[Speaker 1]
Nice. A couple of comments on the pronunciation here. Khyunkor, which means mandala, for no good reason because it's a second column, it has a prenasal.

So we say Khyunkor. It sounds like Khyunkor. And it means mandala.

Khyunkor.

[Speaker 2]
So you drop the L sound.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, and you have a heavy prenasal on a second column, which is unprecedented almost. And then this D down here for tor. This is not an English D, right?

It's a tor. Torwa. Okay, good.

Dor means stone. Torwa means to throw something out. Senem?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, okay.

[Speaker 1]
Tor, tor. Then he met a Dorje Lopon.

[Speaker 2]
A diamond master.

[Speaker 1]
Good, yeah. A master of the diamond way. And he studied...

There's a diamond way teaching called gyu trul drawa, which means... trawa means a network shape, like a net, or it's often used for light rays, coming in this kind of a net form. So trawa can mean a fish net, but usually it refers to a network of light rays.

And then gyu trul means something like emanation, or magical appearances, or something. So gyu ma means something like a... I don't know, like a mirage, or something like that.

The magic network, or something.

[Speaker 2]
Like a light that would come off if you put it through a crystal and it spreads out.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, like that. In Sanskrit, I gave it to you down here, it's called maya jala. Maya, you know, illusion.

Jala is that net-looking lines. So maya jala. Maya jala.

Wang shu means he requested that initiation. Tse is the polite word. And then he was able to shuk, which is past tense of njuk.

[Speaker 2]
Entered.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, he was allowed entrance into the kinkor.

[Speaker 2]
Into the mandala.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, into the secret world of this deity. And then there's this custom of metod torwa. Who can tell me?

Metod torwa.

[Speaker 2]
Throwing a flower?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, you drop a flower petal on the mandala. You close your eyes, or you're blindfolded, you hold the flower petal. Normally it's the five Buddha families.

The five Buddha families are flat on a mandala, and you take the petal and your fingers like this, and you close your eyes and you drop the petal. And then that petal will float down and land. Usually it lands on the floor.

No, just kidding. Sometimes it does. And where it lands, you see, where is your third line here?

It's called del che. What's the chewa delwa with which hla? What's that mean?

[Speaker 2]
Which deity are you greatly connected to?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, which of these divine beings do you have a connection to? hlakpay hla means special, your special divine being, hlakpa, your super divine being. Who is it for you?

Del che means, which one do you have a spiritual connection with from your past lives? Del che means, which one are you most connected to? And which one is going to make jinla come fast?

Which one is going to make the blessing? If you so want them.

[Speaker 2]
You bow down to them.

[Speaker 1]
This means you make requests. Which of these five Buddha family bosses is going to help you reach your goals nyurwa, faster, if you make a connection with them and you ask them for help? This brtakpao ratta tathagat, it means to check or to examine.

The purpose of dropping the flower petal is to check which divine being do you have the biggest connection to. And then you should focus your practice on them. So, metul dwelwa.

Dwelwa usually means to throw out garbage, for example, or to rid yourself of bad qualities. But here it means to drop the flower petal. And that metul, bap means it landed on jampa.

Maitreya. Lord Maitreya. That flower petal landed on Maitreya, even though he was taking an initiation into maya jhāna.

Then, please keep reading. Sunim, you're still up. Just interrupt him randomly, it's fine.

[Speaker 2]
Good, your reading is quite good.

[Speaker 1]
And by the way, Tim took some online classes to make his reading better. And I like the extra effort. I know you're extremely busy running ACI, running the hotels, making sure grandpa gets a job.

I don't know how he makes his paycheck, but he took some online classes for pronunciation, and he's doing a really good job. And by the way, we're hoping to organize some classes with a native Tibetan speaker who lives in Japan. And I'm hoping Nick and Ben and maybe Tim can help.

There is an excellent native speaker there who's a friend of mine for 25 years, and I hope we can get that together. Okay, your Tibetan will improve immediately. DE NAS RJES SU'I BYAMS PA What's RJES SU'I BYAMS PA, Tim?

[Speaker 2]
That's Lord Maitreya.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, and then DRUG. This DRUG is the active form, BYIS PA'O PO NGOS SU YOD PA And it means, try to reach. The word sadhana is based on this root.

So it means, in order to reach Maitreya, he wanted to DRUG. DRUG means reach a divine being. So he wanted to reach Maitreya.

Why? Because he wanted to tarwa the tenpa.

[Speaker 2]
He wanted to spread the teachings.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, and it's interesting that they mention his motivation here. It wasn't that he wanted to meet a secret deity face-to-face. It's that he thought if he could meet a divine being, then he could spread the teachings faster.

DE NYAM DE He thought to himself, GONG DE means he had this intention. And he went to the ri.

[Speaker 2]
Went to the mountains.

[Speaker 1]
He went to the mountain. The mountain's name is Chakang. Here's the Sanskrit down here.

KU KUTTA BADA KU KUTTA KA KU KUTTA KA is a KU KU KU KU KU It's a bird. It's an Anamata pig chicken name. I think KU KU RU is in Russian.

Anyway, KU KUTTA KA KU KU means a chicken, and BADA means the leg. So that mountain must have had the appearance of a chicken leg. What's a similar mountain?

RANG SRIG RIGS Yeah, what's the real name? Vulture speak, anyway. JAG PA PHUNG PO RI So anyway, and he went to a phuk in that mountain.

[Speaker 2]
A cave, maybe?

[Speaker 1]
A cave. A cave, okay. PHUG means cave.

And GEN means high, high honorific. He went in order to droop, droop, droop that phuk.

[Speaker 2]
To reach him, to meet him.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, nice, nice. GEN DE He drooped for lo sum. Three years.

He tried for three years. And he didn't get the smallest senma. Smallest sign of Maitreya.

Yeah, he didn't get the least message or anything from Maitreya. Nothing. And he got GYO BA.

He got upset. GYO BA means discouraged. He got discouraged.

He got really discouraged. There's the KU KUTTA definition, by the way. Okay, please read.

And let's get somebody else picking on you. Who we got here? Ryo, you want to pick on him?

Ryo just had a baby. I hope you can show us a picture. I think...

By the way, I'm just warning everybody, when you start going to classes, you tend to have babies. I don't know what it is. Okay.

All right.

[Speaker 2]
Tim, go ahead. PHYIR THONG PA NA GAN Never seen that word before. GAN PO?

GAN PO GAN PO SHING PA'I BA'A That's GAN. I've never seen that word. Is it BA'A or BA'A?

SNGDRABS SHING PA'I SNGDRABS MED Good. CHAGS KYI SDONG PO LA THAB BYAS PA THONG MED Nice.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. This PHYIR means to the outside. PHYIR ROL.

THON PA means to exit. He left the cave. He walked out of his cave and immediately he saw a GEMPO.

GEMPO means an old man. GAN is an honorific word for your teacher. You can say Lama.

You can say Acharya. You can say Guru. Or you can say GEMPO.

GAN. GAN is sort of a friendly word to use in the house. If you're living with your teacher, you can call your teacher GAN, which means elder one.

Hey GAN, what's up? So GAN, GEMPO, he saw an old man. This SHING is not AN.

This SHING means tree. And PA'I means cotton. SHING PA'I means the wool of a tree, the fur of a tree, which means cotton.

SHING PA'I is the Tibetan word for cotton. DAB MA means literally a leaf. But it means a small pad or a cotton ball.

This old man had a cotton ball. And he was rubbing. DONG PO means any cylinder shape.

Like he was rubbing a chunk of steel, shaped like a rod, but thick. Almost like a branch. Thick as a tree branch.

A piece of steel. He asked the old man, what are you doing? Why are you rubbing this big piece of steel with a piece of cotton?

And the old man said, I'm making a cup.

[Speaker 2]
Tim? Not a cup. I'm making a needle.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, I'm making a needle. I'm rubbing this huge piece of steel to make a needle. I'm rubbing it with a piece of cotton.

Okay. That's the word we're looking for, for a yabba cup, right? JAG PA PHUNG MA RIN GYI Anyway, keep up the king.

Then let's read some more. Who else we got here to check you? I'm looking for somebody.

Oh, Mr. Haggerty, it was really nice to see you in Japan. Thank you for coming.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, it was great.

[Speaker 1]
We had a good time. He was my bodyguard. It was quite impressive.

Okay, Tim, let's see if bodyguards can guard your pronunciation.

[Speaker 2]
Good, keep going. RIN GYI NA MIN SGRUB DANG YANG MED THA YANG NAG PA MA DOR NA RI BO NAM KYANG DA BAR LOG Good.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, good. KHAB JI LTAR BYUNG, he asked the old man.

[Speaker 2]
Why are you doing this? Why are you making...

[Speaker 1]
How the hell are you going to get a needle that way? JI LTAR means how. BYUNG means come out.

How are you going to get a needle by rubbing a huge piece of steel? I don't understand. Then the old man answers, if you have nyingto, if you have heart power...

Courage. Yeah, now, if you've got real courage, that person, kyebu, any person who has real courage... Now, every Tibetan verb, well, many Tibetan verbs, have two complete forms, meaning past, present, future, and imperative forms.

So there's kind of eight forms of every Tibetan verb. Four for SPYOD PA PO NGOS SU YOD PA and four for SPYOD PA PO NGOS SU MED PA That means not quite what we call in English passive or active forms, but rather one which indicates a direct agent and one which does not indicate a direct agent. You can say almost active and passive forms of the verb.

So DRUG means if you try hard. DRUG, DRUG, DRUG. You can DRUG anything.

If you try, try, try...

[Speaker 2]
Achieve.

[Speaker 1]
Achieve, yeah. This is a beautiful line to teach Tibetan verbs with. Because DRUG, DRUG, DRUG means...

It's less aspirated also. DRUG instead of DRUG, DRUG. DRUG means you'll get a good result.

DRUG means try, try, try. DRUG. And you'll see that with a lot of verbs.

This line is perfect for learning that. There's nothing you can not DRUG... Sorry.

There's nothing you cannot DRUG if you DRUG. What's that mean?

[Speaker 2]
Nothing you can achieve if you just try.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, good, good, good. Even if it's kawa, even if it's difficult, if you don't give up your nakpa, which I don't know the word and I looked it up. It means patience.

If you don't give up your patience... And by the way, these stories are ancient. These stories are a thousand years old, and there's going to be words here that we don't know.

RGYUD BA means mountain. Anybody know THAL BA? Dust?

Yeah, dust. And LOG means to smash something to dust. THAL BA'I LOG means to reduce something to dust.

If you knock at a mountain long enough, in the end you will have a pile of dust. If you rub a steel girder with a piece of cotton long enough, you can make a needle. It just depends on how much effort you want to put into it.

That's the old man. By the way, people are always asking me, what's tantra, what's Diamond Way, what's the secret teachings? It's that he collected so much good seeds in the cave that as soon as he left the cave thinking he didn't achieve anything, he meets this old man rubbing steel with cotton that he created.

That's the secret teachings. That's Diamond Way. He already succeeded, but he doesn't realize it.

That old man was created by his seeds of practice. That's why he met the old man when he left the cave, because he was upset. If you're upset at this book, that Tibetan is so hard to learn, just remember you created this book.

All right, Tim. Dr. Hagedy, we're still with you. All right.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, let's ask a question. Here we go. Okay, let's ask a question.

Here we go. Something like that. I'll practice it later.

[Speaker 1]
This is a mistake actually. Let me fix that. Yeah, sorry.

[Speaker 2]
,'JUG PA'I SEMS MA GANG YANG MA, ,'BYUNG BA'I GAL TE CHUNG BA'I GAL TE PHYIR DANG PA NA, Good.

[Speaker 1]
You know all this stuff. By the way, ser in modern Tibetan means to claim, and it's a pejorative. It means to claim falsely.

But in the ancient books, serwa just means he said. Here it just means he said. That old man actually replied with that poem, ser.

Then Master Asanga decided, I have to dzun dru tsong.

[Speaker 2]
I have to make some great efforts.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, and tsong means to start off like on a journey. It also means to write a book, to compose a book. But here it means I better get back and set myself to working harder.

Good, I got to do that. GONG NAS means he had that thought in his mind. LA RGYAS YANG means he went back again.

LA RGYAS YANG, he went back again.

[Speaker 2]
LO GSUM For another three years.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. I like this verb TZAM BYAS. BYAS means to cut, like dorje chupa is diamond cutter.

TZAM means that border between the retreat area and the place where you're not doing retreat. So TZAM means the retreat border. TZAM BYAS is the verb to go into retreat.

It means to draw your borderline. And then he dup, dup, dup.

[Speaker 2]
Tried, tried, tried.

[Speaker 1]
But he didn't dup, dup, dup.

[Speaker 2]
Have the least bit, the littlest sign of any kind of achievement.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, like not a single moment when he saw Maitreya, for example. Therefore, he got gyelwa.

[Speaker 2]
He discouraged again.

[Speaker 1]
And he chir tumba again.

[Speaker 2]
He left the cave.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, so chir is a locative. Chiru, he went to the outside, right? He left the cave.

And then he saw... I'm thinking word, are you available?

[Speaker 2]
Yes.

[Speaker 1]
Can you check his pronunciation? Or if you're busy, you can ask your daughter to do it. Okay, I think you can...

What's a tipa? Do you guys know? Bindu.

[Speaker 2]
A drop.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, okay. He saw drops of water. Word, do you want to take him through this paragraph?

Grandpa, have a coffee.

[Speaker 2]
Sure. What's chu? Tim?

It's water. Yeah. He...

So what's chu tic in the sentence? It's the subject. Drops of water.

Exactly. And they were in the rock or... Like on the cliff or something like that?

Like on the rocks. Yeah, rocks, cave, cliff, something like that. And he tung.

He tung that. What's sepa?

[Speaker 1]
Sepa means it was digging out a hole in the rock.

[Speaker 2]
So it was like the drops of water were washing away. Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
They were like creating a new cave. You see what I mean? Yeah.

[Speaker 2]
And tsunpe. We had tsundru earlier. A lot of work to do that.

Yeah. And for yunring. A long time.

Yeah. They drooped. A good droop.

They made lots of... The water drops made lots of efforts.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah.

[Speaker 2]
They needed a lot of effort or something like that.

[Speaker 1]
From the water drops, he realized that he would have to practice for a long time, okay?

[Speaker 2]
I see. He tung that. Yep.

He saw that, right?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah.

[Speaker 2]
And so for another... For another three years... He tsamched.

He went back into retreat. Nice. Yeah.

So that he could droop. Try, try, try. Yeah.

Once again to droop. But however, he didn't have the singlest sign of meeting Maitreya. Nothing.

And so he got all kyo again. Got all frustrated again.

[Speaker 1]
Nice.

[Speaker 2]
And he went out of the retreat again. He left the cave.

[Speaker 1]
Nice. Word. Why don't you read the next line with Tim?

Okay.

[Speaker 2]
All right. Go ahead, Timmy. Chachru.

Chachru. Yep. Chachru.

Yep. Chachru. Chachru.

Yep. Chachru. Chachru.

Chachru. First word. It's a bird, isn't it?

Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. Exactly.

[Speaker 2]
And the draw of that... Do you know draw? Sort of like the...

Basically the singing of the bird. Like the sound it makes. No, I think it's like the plumage or the feathers or something.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, and where's the famous weird example of this word?

[Speaker 2]
In Trondok it means to stick feathers on an arrow.

[Speaker 1]
Nice, nice, nice. Which means to overestimate reality, right?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, to add stuff.

[Speaker 1]
Nice. So the only other place we see this. So the feathers.

He saw birds landing on a nest next to this solid rock mountain. And their draws were sepa, the truck.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, Tim. First water was sepa and the truck. Now feathers are...

Were whisking, I think, wearing away. Yeah, they were making a cave. Just feathers.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, from solid stone. Where their wings touched the mountain and from hundreds and thousands of trips to their nest, they were wearing away the stone. He tong.

[Speaker 2]
Saw that. And so then dadung. I don't know what dadung.

It's now, like presently.

[Speaker 1]
It's an idiom and it means... dadung means still more. Still more.

Still have to timber.

[Speaker 2]
They would have to make more efforts.

[Speaker 1]
Good.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, he had this gong. Yeah, the thought or the motivations. Yeah, so he had to go for losun.

For another three long years. Yeah, laryang, laryang, laryang. Once again.

Once again, yep. Yeah, so he samche. So he could hopefully droop.

Nice. It made a retreat. He went back in retreat to hopefully go out to try again.

Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, good. He kept trying. This droop is not achieved.

This droop is to try to achieve, okay? Right? Okay.

Word, do you want to do one more paragraph? Because grandpa can finish his coffee.

[Speaker 2]
Yes, it's very important. Go ahead, Tim. Thank you, word.

Okay. Okay. And that way.

For the, in those 12 years, he tried really, really hard. Yeah, in those 12 years of drooping. But nothing, he didn't get anywhere.

He was never able to see anything. Yeah, so he was all kyo again. Now he's really discouraged.

Yeah, so he said, whatever, I'm going to tunne. Whatever, I'm done, I'm getting out of this. Yeah.

Yeah. So he chipper. Went to the outside.

He left. Yeah. He bounced.

And then, then he saw a chemo. I believe this is the. This is all the dog.

A mole of a key. A female. Yes.

Yeah. And. You just saw a role.

The mayor of that dog. Like Sarah may. The lower part.

Nice. Yeah. Yeah.

And it was all. Mangled up I'm guessing. It was all deteriorated was, it was a degenerated right.

[Speaker 1]
By one is covered with worms isn't it by maggots. Yeah, boom means.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, maggots were eating it right. Yeah. Um, and then, and then the road to the, as opposed to the room a part.

Yeah, we're so look at the note. Word into. Yeah, the maggots were sour.

They're already in. They were in the upper part of the body, like they're already inside it like the upper part the maggots were inside the outer part they were kind of covering right.

[Speaker 1]
I think I made a mistake when I wrote this I think I'm the bottom part, the lower half of the body was already eaten by destroyed by worms by maggots, and we're digging into the end eating to upper part now. Yeah.

[Speaker 2]
Wow okay that's, that's much more discretion we've gotten before. Yeah. And he told me he told me, he told me all this way he saw that.

Yeah, when he saw that he had a ninja clock. He got especially strong compassion especially powerful compassion, or, yeah, it was Kappa in his heart. It was in his heart.

[Speaker 1]
Nice. That's great job you guys. Tim you did a great job and word.

Word obviously you're a great teacher of Tibetan. All right, I gotta find a new victim is Adam around? Hello again.

Can you check Tim on the next on the next section here.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, happy to.

[Speaker 1]
Hey Tim make some idiotic mistakes. Okay.

[Speaker 2]
I don't know how to pronounce that next word. Don't don't care. Don't care.

Santa.

[Speaker 1]
Nice, very nice pronunciation. Thank you. Thank you Adam.

Adam you want to try take a shot on I'll interrupt you guys liberally. Boo, sell. Sell is a verb here.

[Speaker 2]
So, boo was the the worm right the maggot.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, if I sell those maggots.

[Speaker 2]
I get rid of them if I take them away.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, literally if I clear them from the dog's body, the boo's are going to shiwa.

[Speaker 2]
The boo's are going to die. Well, yeah, go ahead Tim. Sorry.

They're going to die.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, the maggots are going to die. But if I don't sell them, the dog dies. Good.

Nangway. Why did I say nangway you guys? Adam?

Nangway.

[Speaker 2]
To appear?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, this is a loaded word here. Why?

[Speaker 2]
Oh, because it appears that that's what's going to happen. Meaning that it appears like it's going to die.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, it's a loaded word here. Like maybe the whole thing's a cosmic play, right? So he decided to che the sha from his own nu.

[Speaker 2]
He decided to cut the flesh flesh from his own body.

[Speaker 1]
Nice, nice. Okay. And he'll put the boo's on that.

[Speaker 2]
Put the worms onto it.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, and take them up. Take them up that way and they'll still have something to eat, you know. Nyam, what's nyam mean you guys?

[Speaker 2]
You think?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, he thought to himself. And so he chen last word here, chente.

[Speaker 2]
He took them out, I think, right?

[Speaker 1]
This one means he went to, like Sheru Kapala Tuchimba, he went to the tronk here called Ajanta.

[Speaker 2]
The city.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, there was a town nearby called Ajanta. And Tibetans say that the Sanskrit j should be pronounced z. Like raja means king.

And that's actually more correct. So I believe this is Ajanta, which is the site of the Ajanta caves nowadays, famous cave carvings. So he went to the town called Ajanta.

And Adam, Tim, keep going.

[Speaker 2]
I don't know any of those words at all. That's wonderful. I don't know.

Good.

[Speaker 1]
By the way, LJ is a pre-nasal.

[Speaker 2]
Jason Udang, Chepartongne.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, by the way, I believe this is, I worked on this for a while and I couldn't decide, but I think this is Chepartongne. Okay, I'm going to put a question mark. So he needed a knife.

But he had been in the cave for 12 years, he didn't have a knife. So he went to the town, and he found, I think, a butcher shop. And he said, I need to borrow your knife, because I got to go back to the road and cut a piece of my body off.

And the guy said, no way, I'm going to give you my knife. Okay. So the guy said, but if you leave me something of value as a, what do you call that?

Collateral. Okay, so tepa, I forget the spelling exactly, but it means collateral. If you give me something of value, I'll keep it until you come back.

It's like a pawn shop. And so, sekshang means his, extremely rare word meaning his sage's staff, like Gandalf, right, has in the Lord of the Rings. I don't know, these magicians have a big stick, right, that they use to walk.

So sekshang, and it was usually hardwood, and it was valuable. So he, Master Asanga left his walking staff as a collateral, and he took the knife. So chuk means, he put down as collateral his walking stick, and then he borrowed a sergipuchi.

Adam? Chi? Pu?

Ser?

[Speaker 2]
I want to say, so pu is like a hair. Yeah, pu is a hair razor. So it's a golden razor?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, and supposedly it was highest quality. Gold is nice because you don't get so many infections, it's hard to sharpen. So he borrowed, yar means borrow or to loan.

By the way, it can mean either one, it's just contextual, borrow or loan. So he borrowed, he got a loan of a golden razor, which is not going to cause infections so much. And then, Adam, what's this say?

rang gi lu le shak che. He cut off some of his own body. Yeah, he cut the flesh from his own body.

And then he used that flesh to lung the booze out.

[Speaker 2]
To draw?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, to carry them. He was going to put the maggots on his own meat and transfer them from the dogs. But then he thought, if he uses his lakpa, if he uses his fingers, those booze are going to shit.

[Speaker 2]
They're going to die.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, they're going to die. dokpa means to have a worry or suspicion. Nowadays it means superstition.

He was afraid the maggots would die if he used his fingers to transfer them from the dog's body to his meat. dok ne. So it was gross.

Because it was going to be gross, he chen tsum.

[Speaker 2]
Closed his eyes?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, first he shut his eyes. He said, I'm going to have to pick up these maggots with my tongue. But it's so gross, I got to close my eyes.

So he closes his eyes, chen tsum. And jak is the honorific word for che, which means tongue.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
And this langpa is the active form of lemba. Took up the maggots. Yeah, he closed his eyes, he bent down towards the ground to lemba, to take the maggots up with his tongue and move them to his own meat.

And then suddenly, Adam and Tim, Timome. There was no dog. There was no female dog.

There was just Jetson, is the short name of Jetson Jampa.

[Speaker 2]
The Lord.

[Speaker 1]
Lord Maitreya. Standing there in the middle of...

[Speaker 2]
Light.

[Speaker 1]
It was probably a jawa.

[Speaker 2]
A network.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, like a halo of light, like a network of light. He tong. He's on.

Yeah. And Tim is going to translate this verse for next time. Yeah.

And it's a beautiful verse. And I'll give you a clue, Tim. It's whiny.

Okay, got it. Okay, he's complaining to Maitreya. How have you been?

What the hell, where have you been? What's taking you so long?

[Speaker 2]
Geshe-la, would you give a highlight of this class?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, it's a good thing. Hang on. What's today?

Right?

[Speaker 2]
Yes.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, sorry, my computer is not cooperating. Okay, good. All right, so just to wrap up, just to get...

Tim, you want to give a... Why don't you give a one-minute summary of what we just went through? I think from memory you can do it.

[Speaker 2]
So Master Asanga requested empowerment. And when he dropped the flower, it landed on Lord Maitreya. So he has a special connection with him.

And so he decided to go into retreat to meet him, to meet him so he could spread the teachings. And he had... Every three years or so, he was like, I'm ready.

He came out and then he realized he wasn't ready yet. He had to work harder because...

[Speaker 1]
Hey, Tim, excuse me, I'm going to interrupt you. I have a tower of light here on my... There's a tower.

Okay, that's a real tower. Okay, Tim, go ahead. That's the sun coming up.

[Speaker 2]
I forget where I was. Oh, so he keeps coming out of retreat. And he sees these signs of reasons he has to work harder, like different things of showing that if he just takes his time and has patience and works hard, eventually he'll see the results.

And so after 12 years, he's like, I'm done. And he goes out and he runs into a female dog who's on the street. And then he tries to take out the maggots and does all those things.

And then Maitreya appears in a jala.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, which means that... By the way, the Sanskrit is jala, right? Jala.

Which means that the 12 years worked, right? Okay. Back to you, Uncle Nick.

Well, that's it for the morning sessions. Thank you so much, Keji, Michael, and Tim, and everyone who came, and translators. So we'll take an eight-and-a-half-hour break for today.

And then we'll come back and we'll have classes on texts with Ben and Sugeng and Word. So looking forward to that. And don't forget, starting tomorrow, there's going to be a Tibetan basics class with Wordsmith in the morning, an hour early morning.

So just check the schedule. And then there'll be yoga classes after the morning classes and before the afternoon. So put it all on your schedule.

Stay healthy. Stay warm.

[Speaker 2]
See you guys soon.

[Speaker 1]
Bye. Thank you, guys.

[Speaker 2]
Thanks, Keshla.

[Speaker 1]
Thank you, guys. See you soon.

[Speaker 2]
Thank you, Keshla. Yay.