Тим Ловенхопт — Книга 1: Совершенство мудрости, занятие 37

[Speaker 2]
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[Speaker 1]
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[Speaker 2]
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[Speaker 1]
Well, we had an electrical failure upstairs, so we had to come down to the studio.

[Speaker 2]
It's a curse and a blessing, but it looks like mostly a blessing from our side. Thank you so much.

[Speaker 1]
It's the DCI, Shishi Digs.

[Speaker 2]
Don't tell Seiji.

[Speaker 1]
He's running it.

[Speaker 2]
I had a feeling he would have to be. Thank you, Seiji. Well, wonderful.

Thank you so much. Please take it from here. Tim, I know you're eager to throttle people with your homework, and we could use a good beating.

[Speaker 1]
I'm very kind, Ben.

[Speaker 2]
I think that about you, too.

[Speaker 1]
Thank you. All right, all right, everybody. So in the debate that we're in the middle of currently, it starts with a very simple sentence.

It says, if something is the speech of the Buddha, it's also a classical commentary. So if anybody remembers, the first question is, what is the counter example that you would use that we give to blow up this opponent's claim? The window of the tree?

No. The Perfection of Wisdom Sutra. That's the answer to question number two.

[Speaker 2]
Maitreya?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, something about Maitreya, correct. He's a future Buddha, but his shastra is not a sutra. Not exactly, no.

It's close. Does anyone else remember?

[Speaker 2]
Lord Buddha composed, I'm sorry, that Lord Maitreya composed classical commentaries, but he was not yet a Buddha.

[Speaker 1]
That's the answer to the second part of my first question. Oh, sorry. You're very, very close.

He did write classical commentaries, but he used the word loksu. Does anyone know what that means?

[Speaker 2]
It means separate from.

[Speaker 1]
Correct, separate from, right? So can we put it all together? He gave the speech of the Buddha separate from writing classical commentaries.

Right, and we're not certain if it's the speech of the Buddha or his own speech, but it mainly said that he wrote classical commentaries that were separate from his holy speech, from his ka. And so that's the first part. The second part is, which is kind of what you were mentioning, Stanley, and I think, and Venerable Utpala mentioned, is what's the potential problem here with talking about the speech, the holy speech, the ka of Lord Maitreya in classical commentaries?

Right, and we brought, I don't know if you could, could you guys hear Rob? No.

[Speaker 2]
Barely. Barely, so it's a Rob. Only because I knew what he was gonna say.

[Speaker 1]
So maybe you're a Buddha already.

[Speaker 2]
No threat of that here.

[Speaker 1]
We brought up a question which doesn't get raised in the text, which is, in the open teachings, Lord Maitreya is a bodhisattva, but in the higher teachings, in the Vajrayana teachings, he's considered a Buddha already. And we learned that we can't mix the two together. But we didn't really go into that in the text, and we moved on because the author said, moreover, Shenyong, and he moved on, and we didn't go on to it.

So. Yeah, we did not. So Ben, I think, was it Ben?

Ben, what's the second counter example that we give to argue against our opponent?

[Speaker 2]
I'm assuming because you're coming to me that it's the Perfection of Wisdom Sutra.

[Speaker 1]
Right, and the medium-length version. And how many verses does that have, more or less? 25,000.

[Speaker 2]
Great.

[Speaker 1]
So how is this used as a counterexample to the claim that the Kachik makes?

[Speaker 2]
Oh, it is the teaching of the Buddha, but it is not commentary because it's sutra, it's fruit text, and not commentary.

[Speaker 1]
Right, exactly. So he goes on to discuss why the speech of the Buddha. He's like, are we basically saying, is it a classical commentary or not?

So, oops, ding, ding, ding. Oops. So what's one of the absurd consequences that comes out of this argument?

That when you say a classical commentary is also the speech of the Buddha? That the medium Perfection of Wisdom is a commentary on the medium Perfection of Wisdom. Exactly, right.

Can something be a commentary on itself? Which doesn't sound too logical. All right, here we go.

What about the art interpretation, What I Really Meant? Is that a commentary on? What about the sutra called What I Really Meant?

That wasn't in the text. No, but Rob said, well, what about the sutra, What I Really Meant? It's a great example.

It's a very delicate example. It could be something. It is not commenting on itself.

He's commenting on his own teachings.

[Speaker 2]
But he's not commenting on himself.

[Speaker 1]
He's commenting on his previous teaching. That's what Buddha's teaching, but it's not his own. It's not a commentary on itself in the moment that it's being discussed.

Anyway, something like that. I don't know. Let's take it to the big round, Rob.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
All right. This was really challenging to find vocabulary. Yeah.

So, Yom Barma. Parma. Parma, that's what I said.

Just kidding. What's pardo? In between?

Yeah. So what's the Yom Parma? The in between mother?

Yeah. Which would be the medium length perfection of wisdom. Cool.

And I put, just for everyone's reference, if you go down or up, which one is which? Either way, you're going down. Wait, what's that Chloe?

[Speaker 2]
Going down is sarcastic.

[Speaker 1]
No. Going down is sarcastic, and then therefore going up is what? Agree.

We believe it. It's our position, yes. Nice.

Okay, good. And I use different arrows to help me remember. That's why I use this little ziggy zag thing.

That's a great idea. Because sarcasms kind of zigzag anyway. That's how I'm going to remember it until I forget next time.

All right. Cool. Let me go to my proto translation, which was very confusing.

All right. Oh, sorry. Why aren't you showing up?

There we are. Okay. Stanley, would you like to read this?

Really loud. That's the starting here. That just means it's what's referring to, I'm sorry.

What was that?

[Speaker 2]
All right.

[Speaker 1]
So here's my wonky translation. I mean, this sentence is really impossible. PHYI MA GDUG NA I disagree that...

That's referring back to that, which thank you for finding that one, figuring out which one it was. Well, the last thing they said was RGA'I GONG BRAL DU GYUR PA'I RTEN BYED YIN MA THAL YIN PA MA CHUD CHEN DANG LDAN DE PHYIR KA'I PHYIR So when he says PHYI MA GDUG NA, he means if you disagree to the last thing we said. But that's not talking about the last thing we said.

It was an earlier thing we said. Yeah, it's a way back. And the last thing we said here, what it's referring to, and by the way, when they say, if you disagree to the last thing we said, you have to go back and back and back and see what was the last thing he said.

And it looks like to me, DE LAS GZHAN PA'I KA'I GONG BRAL MA YIN PA'I PHYIR Is the Middle Link Sutra a commentary on the Middle Link Sutra, right? Because what other thing would it be a commentary to? He said all sutras are also commentaries.

So we said, let's take the Middle Link Sutra. So I guess it's a commentary, right? He said, yeah, that's what I said.

And we said, well, I guess it's a commentary on itself because what else would it be a commentary on? And he said, no. Okay?

Yeah. Okay. So if you don't agree that a classic commentary is not a commentary on something other than the speech of the Buddha, are you saying that there's not some other sutras?

That's what I did, because you had the MIN GZHAN and then you said maybe it's new and then... Yeah. And that's when I just said, I'm kind of giving up.

No, it's extremely difficult sentence. And I believe it's miscarved. And I believe that it's negative when it should have been positive.

Okay? Which makes it almost impossible. So YUN PAR MI PHYIR BYA'I DUS BYAS I wasn't sure where we were going here.

Oh, okay. Good. What's a PHYIR BYA'I DUS BYAS?

Do you remember? PHYIR BYA'I DUS BYAS PHYIR DU means for the purpose of, it's a synonym for PHYIR DU. Okay?

So PHYIR DU. DUS BYAS means what? Student.

Student. To be a person to be trained like a wild horse. Okay.

And PHYIR DU BYAS DUS BYAS means the student for whom a book was written. This book was written for this type of student. And that's a beautiful concept in Buddhism.

There's certain PHYIR DU BYAS DUS BYAS. There's certain people that the author had in mind when they wrote the book. And that's called the target audience.

I like to call it the target audience. Okay? So he says, let's talk about the target audience for YUN PAR MI.

For the middle length? Yeah, for the middle length. There must be, going backwards from THAL.

Okay? There must be, where's that? There must be.

Where's that? Where's B? YUN PAR.

YUN. Yeah. A different sutra.

Which is able to... A different sutra. Where's that in the Tibetan?

DOS GZHAN GCIG Yeah, there must be a different sutra, which if they read it, and that's understood. They didn't say it. Which if they read it, if those students read it, who are the students again?

The people with... They're the specific students for whom the middle length perfectionist wisdom sutra was composed or spoken.

[Speaker 2]
Okay?

[Speaker 1]
There's certain students who would benefit the most from the middle length perfectionist wisdom sutra. The sutra was spoken just for them. So then, according to you, there must be some other sutra that they can use.

Okay? To understand the subject matter. To understand the subject matter of the medium length perfectionist wisdom sutra without ever reading the medium length perfectionist sutra.

There must be some other sutra they can use to understand the meaning of the medium length perfectionist sutra without ever reading the medium length perfectionist wisdom sutra. Okay, got it? And I think there's a terrible error in this sentence.

I think it's new. It's not me-new. Okay?

I'll say it again. Okay? I'll say it again.

And it took me like hours and hours to figure it out. There must be some other book that they can use to understand the perfectionist wisdom, medium perfectionist wisdom. Okay?

I'll say it again. Are you saying that there's some other book they can use to understand the medium length perfectionist wisdom sutra if it's not the medium length perfectionist sutra, perfectionist wisdom sutra? Okay?

Does the medium length perfectionist wisdom sutra, does it explain something? Yes. Yeah.

Does it explain itself? Probably not. According to him, because he said all sutras are awesome commentaries.

According to him it does. Yeah, so it must be that to understand the medium length perfectionist sutra, you have to read the commentary called the medium length perfectionist sutra. Okay?

And then he says, I disagree. Which means you don't have to read the medium length perfectionist wisdom sutra to understand the medium length perfectionist wisdom sutra, even though he said it was a commentary to the medium length perfectionist wisdom sutra. Okay?

So then we come back with, oh, there must be some other sutra that you have to read to understand the medium length perfectionist wisdom sutra. He said all sutras are also commentaries. So we said, well, then that particular book must be a commentary in itself.

And he said, yeah. Then we said, well, you must have to read it to understand it. And then he said, no, no, no, I didn't say that.

You get it? You must have to read the sutra as a commentary to the sutra to understand the sutra. Right?

And he said, no, no, no. And then we said, oh, so you must have to read some other sutra as a commentary to understand the medium length perfectionist wisdom sutra. Got it?

He said all sutras were also commentaries. We said, well, then the medium length perfectionist sutra is a commentary to the medium length perfectionist wisdom sutra. And he said, I never said that.

And we said, oh, well then to understand the medium length perfectionist wisdom sutra, you'd have to go to some other sutra to understand it. Got it? As a commentary.

If you still hold to this view that all sutras are also commentaries. Okay? Got it?

And then we got into, is it a commentary on itself? And he's kind of like, I guess so. Okay?

And then we say, okay, it's a commentary on itself, right? He said, well, no, how could it be? And then we say, oh, there's some other sutra that's a commentary on this sutra.

Okay? That will help you understand this sutra. Got it?

Okay. And he has to say, I give up. Okay?

And there's something very serious going on here, which is that I believe they made it negative by accident. The sentence is negative by accident. And that means this has been going on for 500 years and nobody noticed.

Unless someone miscarved it or something, okay? And we have another carving in the world and we can't get to it yet. It's in a certain difficult place.

Who's working on that? You're going to go back and work on that. We're working on that, yep.

Now I've talked about it. We'll talk about it in a second. So then the last question was, okay, so there's another sutra that helps.

There's another sutra you have to use as a commentary to this sutra, right? Okay? Then we say, go to the next Tibetan paragraph.

Yeah. We say, du mi nü te, yon bar ma te juk ja shintu sa pe, God, this is poorly written. do dang de che du ja we juk ja dul ja te tak chen gyi rik chen wangpo shintu nunpo yinpe che.

Yeah, du mi nü te. You can't agree to that. Because...

Now that we did this, I'm not going to look at what I wrote. Yeah, let's see. Let's just talk about it.

Yeah, let's just talk about it. By the way, there's only three major carving errors in the single sentence. Good luck.

yun par ma de juk ja shintu sa pe do The yun par ma is a very subtle do. The Medium Length Perfection of Wisdom Sutra is an incredibly profound sutra. Yeah.

And the che du ja we dul ja for that sutra... Is this intended for? Yeah, the disciple for whom it was intended is, first of all, they're take chen gyi rik.

They're greater way. They belong to the greater way. And they are wangpo shintu nunpa.

They're very intelligent. Yeah, good. So why would they have to go to a different sutra to understand this sutra, which according to you now cannot be a commentary on itself.

So they'll have to go to another sutra to understand the first sutra. Because you just said that first sutra can't be a commentary on itself. You changed your mind.

No, no, the first sutra can't be a commentary on itself. Oh, so I suppose they have to go to another sutra to be a commentary on the sutra. Okay.

And then he says, okay, I agree. And then we say, well, look, they're already incredibly talented people. They can understand the first one.

They don't have to go read a second one to understand the first one. Okay. He still wants there to be a sutra which is a commentary to this one.

And we say, well, what's the point? Because these people can understand it the first time without having a commentary. Got it?

The people for whom the second perfection of wisdom was designed, did not need a commentary to understand it. So why on earth would the sutra itself be a commentary to itself? Okay.

You all right? Yeah. It's going to get easier.

All right. You ready, Timothy? Yep.

We're going to go to grandpa's. Can you go to grandpa's text, Digi? You know what, I think it might be easier if you share your screen.

I'm not on the Zoom call. Okay. I will share.

Should I get on the Zoom call? No, I'll put it up here.

[Speaker 2]
I mean, I can put it like that, but it'll block Tim.

[Speaker 1]
I'm too good looking for that, Seiji. I don't know. It looks better or something.

Right. Seiji, I'll share it. I have it here.

All right. You can go to Tim's screen. Okay.

There we go. Okay. I suggest you read the first sentence just because the rest of the time you're going to pick on somebody else.

Right. Gacik, I have a random question. Why is there always a space after the ga?

You guys tell me. And then the- Why don't they put a comma after a G? Because the side of the ga looks too much like a she and it would be confusing.

Yeah. Yeah. You got it.

As soon as I saw the letters.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. Gacik.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
And by the way, if it's a na, you must also put a space. You must put a dot before the she. Otherwise it looks like a ga if the slash is too close to the letter.

With a na. With a na. Na, okay.

Okay. All right. Gacik.

Kage tongpa yena. Tongpa shakya tupa rangyu ki dupe kyab. Tensho nuntho gen yena.

Gen sonpa poy jetsun jamgun rangyu ki dupe kyab serna. Nice. This is not so difficult.

And in fact, the rest of the class is not so difficult. That was the worst part. Gacik, somebody comes and says, if something is the ge tongpa.

Is the 100,000 verses. Yeah, 8,000 verses. Which is basically the long story of BDAG TU NGUL, the bodhisattva called Ever Crying.

And you might be interested to know that these long, long Perfection and Wisdom Sutras are not philosophical texts. They are science fiction stories. And they are wonderful reading.

And you can't learn much from them. Just kidding. But they are more like long, long stories of incredible people.

And they would be fun to work on someday. Kage tongpa yena. If something is the 8,000 verses, which happens to be the speech of the Buddha, then it should be gyul gyi dupa, and that's an idiom.

It must exist within the mind stream. It must be taken in by the mind stream. It must be included into the mind stream of who?

The teacher Shakyamuni. Yeah, Shakyamuni. Dupa means Muni, right?

Teacher Shakyamuni. It must be... If something is the Perfection and Wisdom in 8,000 verses, it must exist where?

In his mind. Yeah, in the mind stream of Shakyamuni Buddha. YIN PA LTAR It must, must.

No exceptions. Then we say... We're not done yet.

Oh no, and he says, if something is the DENG PHYIR MUN DOG RGYUN The commentary to the Jewel of Realizations. No, equal. It's a positive.

Oh. If something is the Classical Commentary Named. Oh, the Classical Commentary.

Oh, I see. The Classical Commentary Named. Okay, the Jewel of Realizations.

Yeah, Named the Jewel of Realizations. Then it must exist within the mind stream of? Je Tsongkapa.

Lord Maitreya. Lord Maitreya. The person who composed it.

Nice. Who was the person who wrote it, right? Who composed it.

Okay, so let's see how our counter... What's our... We're going to give a counterexample.

That's the first thing you always have to do, right? Let's give a counterexample. Well now, do you want to call on someone?

Well. Well then. Word, would you like?

You idiot. Could you call on someone in the group? Because it's hard for me to see everything, right?

[Speaker 2]
Oh, we can.

[Speaker 1]
Actually, I'm ready to go. Sure. I will...

Oscar. Oscar.

[Speaker 2]
Hola, hola. G-Y-E-T-O-M-P-A-L-A TSIM CHANG SLOGS SUM TSUL SHING DU BYED PA'I SEMS CAN MED PAR DAG Down or up? Nice.

G-Y-E-T-O-M-P-A YUL ANG DEN PA'I DUL BYED MED PA'I PHYIR Good.

[Speaker 1]
He's the Shensong of Mexico who wandered through Southern Asia. Okay. Well then, Let's consider a SEMS CAN, going backwards from the middle of the second line.

Let's consider a living being. Good. A living being who's still in samsara, right?

[Speaker 2]
Specifically.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, exactly. Not a non-Buddha for sure. Okay, let's consider a living being.

And by the way, so is Buddha not a living being? Or a living being out of samsara? We assume suffering living being.

When we say SEMS CAN, we assume suffering living being. How about a suffering living being who is correctly or properly doing three things to the 8,000 verses? He's properly doing three things with the 8,000 verses.

What are they? Memorizing them, holding them, and releasing them? Yeah, yeah.

It says hold, hold, and read. And then we know from the Diamond Cutter Sutra, it means memorized. The first hold means memorized.

And then the second one means keep it in the world. Take care of it and pass it on. Keep it in the world.

So keep, keep, and read. So let's take a normal living being who is memorizing, who memorized the 8,000 verses, who keeps it around and passes it on, and who reads it frequently. Let's take that kind of person.

ME'A THAL Going down. Is that not in their mind stream? Yeah, there must be no such person.

There must be no such person who studies and passes on the 8,000 verses, right? Why would he say that? Because there isn't.

Because it's only in the mind stream of Maitreya? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Maitreya has it in his mind stream.

Only he holds it that way. So if you say that the definition of a sutra is that it has to be in the mind stream of the person who spoke it, then what about a sutra that some student studies well? Okay?

Okay, here we go. How about, Edward, could you choose someone else online? Sure.

How about someone maybe who isn't? Anyway, but you choose whomever. I know what you mean.

I got the vibe. Okay, sorry, I couldn't figure out how to say it properly. No worries.

Claudia, do you want to read? Nice.

[Speaker 2]
Okay. MA RUG NA RIG PO GONG RANG YIN PAR YIN PAR YIN PAR THAL DE YOD PA PHYIR So, was that an up or a down?

[Speaker 1]
YIN PAR No, she's doing that skillful thing of going in the middle.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah. I don't know.

[Speaker 1]
Based on the structure, I would say it's down. Yeah, sarcastic. Sarcastic.

Yeah, sarcastic. He went down. He said, I disagree.

What did he disagree to? That there could be no disciple of the Buddha who had the 8,000 verses in their mind stream. Okay?

Only the Buddha could have the 8,000 verses in their mind stream. Okay? Okay.

DE KHO KHO RANG YIN PAR THAL YIN PAR THAL DE YOD PA PHYIR DE KHO KHO RANG YIN PAR THAL If you disagree that there's no... How do you say? LTA RGYAS STONG PA RGYUD LA BSTAN PA'I DU BYANG MED PA'I PHYIR We say...

I guess you're saying that it's impossible for a disciple to have the 8,000 verses in their mind. He said, I disagree. Which means...

There is a disciple. DE KHO KHO RANG YIN PAR THAL DE YOD PA PHYIR But isn't he himself? Yeah, and not Lord Maitreya?

Yeah. Isn't he who he is? Who's he?

Maitreya. No, the last one. The student.

Yeah, the student.

[Speaker 2]
Some guy.

[Speaker 1]
Isn't he who he is? And we say, why do you say that? We say, well, do there exist people like that who memorize the 8,000 verses?

Yes. So do they have the 8,000 verses in their mind? Yes.

So are they a Buddha? No. No.

Okay. Then are they who they are? Yes.

Yeah, yeah, okay. Got it. DE KHO sometimes can be read as KHO.

The only person who cares about that is word, but... Sometimes you can smash them together and say DE KHO. That same guy is who he is.

That same person is who he is. There are such people. All right.

Duna, how about Juan in the back? Really loud. Duna.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, good.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. DUN NA LDAN DROD RJE RGYUD KYI KHA RGYAS STONG PA CHOS CAN Let's take the RGYAS STONG PA. The 8,000 verses.

Going backwards, which is KHA. The speech of... A Buddha.

Of a Buddha. Which is in the mind...

[Speaker 2]
Mindstream.

[Speaker 1]
The mindstream of a student. Of that particular student. By the way, his original position is that if something is KHA, if something is the word of the Buddha, it has to be in the mindstream of a Buddha.

So we say, what about the 8,000 verses which is in the mindstream of a student? What's he going to say next? What are we going to say next?

I guess it's in the mindstream of a... Buddha, right? Because it's the 8,000 verses, right?

So let's take the 8,000 verses that a student has memorized. Okay? I guess that's in the mindstream of a...

Buddha. But everything is in the mindstream of a Buddha. Now, the 8,000 verses in the mindstream of a student, the fact that it's there is in the mindstream of a Buddha.

But not the 8,000 verses that is in the mindstream of the student. Okay? Anyway.

The 8,000 verses that a student has memorized, are you telling me it's in the mindstream of a Buddha? And he says, why do you say that? We say, it's the word of the Buddha.

You're the one who said that. You said if it was the word of the Buddha, it had to be in the mindstream of a Buddha. So let's say a student has memorized the 8,000 verses.

Is the particular haso, 8,000 verses that the student memorized, is that particular one in the mindstream of a Buddha? You're going to say no? Okay.

Because he's not a Buddha. He's a student. Okay.

Supposedly. RGA RGYUD DANG PO YIN PAS BYAS So we say, oh, it must be in the mindstream of my Buddha, because it is the word of the Buddha. And you said it couldn't be the word of the Buddha unless it was in the mindstream of a Buddha.

Got it? Okay. Not too difficult.

I don't know why everyone's whining. Okay. Khor Sum means, look, you just defeated yourself.

Khor Sum means you just defeated yourself. When you said that the word of the Buddha had to be in the mind of a Buddha, and then we asked you about the word of the Buddha in the mind of a disciple, and you said, no, it's not in the mind of a Buddha. It's in the mind of a disciple.

Then you defeated your own position. We didn't have to do anything. Khor Sum means you just hit yourself on the head.

Okay. Good. Now this one's difficult.

As if the others weren't. You want someone to read it? Yeah, Word, could you select someone?

Sure. Elva?

[Speaker 2]
Hello, teacher. Thank you. You're welcome.

SA BA SDUG MI NUS TE KHAR RGYAS SDUG PA LA SDUG PA'I DRUG RDZOGS RDZUS TZANG BA RIGS PA'I PHYIR Nice, good job.

[Speaker 1]
Thank you. Hang on, just a moment. I got to send an email.

Okay, we're going to use that later. Okay. SA BA SDUG MI NUS TE Oh shoot, I must get back there.

Sorry, sorry, hang on. Okay. The 8,000 verses that is in the mind of a student must be, according to you, in the mind of a Buddha.

Right? Okay? And he says, right.

He has to go there. He's trapped himself. There's only one way out.

He has to say right. What did he say right to? The 8,000 verses, which is in the mind of a student, is in the mind of a Buddha, of the Buddha.

Okay? That particular one, okay, is in the mind of a Buddha. And then we say, you can't agree to that because there are people who are trying to practice the ten...

Ten activities of the... Well, the ten practices. The ten great practices.

There are people who are trying to practice the ten great practices using the 8,000 verses as a guide. Using the 8,000 verses as a guide. There are people trying to practice it using the 8,000 verses as a guide.

Who is that? A student. Yeah, a student.

A Buddha doesn't have to use a practice inside the 8,000 verses as a guide to their daily life. They already did that. To get enlightened.

To get enlightened. They don't have to follow ten practices to get enlightened. They're already enlightened.

Got it? Now, what does Mixed Nut have to do at this point? We need to find out.

We got to go get the ten activities of a disciple who's not yet a Buddha and that's why they're practicing the ten activities. Grandpa went and got them for you. Here's a classic, famous verse of the ten activities that was written by Maitreya himself.

That's a good place for us to work with. Where? In Utta.

What is Utta? Separating the middle from the extremes. Oh, she's a wonderful yoga teacher from Germany.

Oh, nice. No, yeah. Utta is the book by Lord Maitreya where he separates the middle.

He isolates the middle out of the extremes. He gives you the middle and he throws out the extremes. He wrote the...

Who's going to read the verse, Tim? I'm sure they're going to go, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. Where's the break?

Oh, I see. How about Rob? Six lines.

Six lines. Loudly. GOM PA DE CHOS CHOS?

CHOS CHOS CHOS CHOS CHOS? Wait.

[Speaker 2]
What is that? CHOS CHOS CHOS PO'I CHOS PO'I DAG NI NI Good. TSOS RNAMS PUNG PO BAG Good.

[Speaker 1]
CHOS MED Nice. YIGS KYI RGYUS YIGS KYI RGYUS People were doing this with the Medicine Buddha Sutra. Writing it down in letters as a spiritual practice.

SPYOD PA Offering. Making offerings. To enlightened beings.

BYIN PA Giving. To unenlightened beings. NYEN To the scriptures.

Listening. Listening to the scriptures in class. LOG the scriptures.

Read them. Reading them out loud often. NYAM SU LEN PA NYAM LEN Practicing.

Yeah, then practicing. He just said take, which is not very helpful. But he has meter to consider.

BYED PA Those books to others. Explain them. Yeah.

And then SVAD GYAL Reciting. Reciting. Yeah.

Reciting. And then SEMS PA about them. Kind of just think about them.

Yeah. Thinking about them. And then BSGOM PA Meditate on them.

These are the six spiritual activities in a lam. BDAG NI NI means BDAG NI here means in one ball or in one group. It doesn't mean Mahatma or something like that.

It means a combination of many elements. BDAG NI If you practice these ten, SEMS PA PHUNG PO BAG TU MI You'll collect great merit. You'll collect infinite mountains of merit.

Try to remember as a translator that sometimes mountain is a good translation for PHUNG PO. He's got mountains of money. Not me, but somebody.

We use it in English to say lots. It just means lots. Aren't there ten practices at the beginning he talks about?

We did this in the very, very... Now you're going to get me interested here. I think we lost your text.

We did. But weren't there like ten different... Yeah, here they are.

There were eight realizations. I'm sorry. That's a different thing.

Okay. Can you go... Share your screen again?

Yes. Okay. Okay, good.

Now, who's going to read the next line? Xiaoping. BYAS SOGS PA DAG KYANG RANG LUGS NI Good.

Struggle with this, Tim. Tell me what you think it means. Somebody asked the question, what are the ten activities that a non-Buddha is working on and a Buddha would not be working on as a non-Buddha?

Right? Okay. Then we got the ten activities listed by who?

[Speaker 2]
Maitreya.

[Speaker 1]
Maitreya, I mean, who's better? Especially now, in this book. Who's better, right?

Then we said, some people do, but RANG LUGS. Someone agreed, but that's not our position. Or that is our position.

Some people do. What? They want it.

They agreed that that's the ten. KYANG But... But we say...

But this is our position. Who some people say? Lord Maitreya.

Maitreya. Oh, yeah, some people say that, but that's not our position. He's disagreeing with...

Maitreya. Yeah, Maitreya. Okay.

KYANG KYANG KYANG KYANG KYANG All right. Sorry if I'm wrong. Now, who's going to read?

Let's read the first two lines here. How about Chloe?

[Speaker 2]
Nice.

[Speaker 1]
Let's just do those first two lines. If you're a Chinese speaker, you got to be careful with ya. Ya.

Yen. Ya yen. It's not in.

Ya. Yeah, it's hard. It's difficult, apparently.

I don't know. A real English and real Tibetan, why? It's hard.

It's yi ya, yi ya, yi yin. You can't say yin, yi ya.

[Speaker 2]
Okay?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, yi yin. Yeah, lay on it. Yi yin, Geshe-la.

Yeah, okay, you got it. Okay, because we, shepa, we say, this is not explain, it's accept. Accept, okay.

Okay, shepa, as opposed to? Shepa. Shepa.

We say that the chu chu chu, the 10 practices, are par ching chu. 10 perfections. 10 perfections.

Oh, that's cool. Right, okay. Starting with jimpa.

Giving and the rest. Yeah, giving and the rest. I thought there was only six.

Well, there's six and then four about how to get, how to attract the students. Yes. How to gather disciples, right?

Nice. We say that's the 10 that he's referring to here. Okay?

What's the whole point? Why did we bring up these 10? Because it was part of our counter example.

Yeah, because who, a Buddha doesn't need to do the... Yeah, who has to work on these 10? Students do.

A non-Buddha, okay. All right? So the guy, a guy, somebody can be working on these 10.

By the way, memorizing, reading, studying, and still have the 8,000 verses in their mind, that doesn't make them a Buddha. They're definitely not a Buddha because they're working on it. That's the whole point.

Okay? It's a sarcasm actually. And now he has, he wants to prove why, he wants to prove who came up with this second 10, which is the six perfections plus the four ways of gathering disciples.

Okay? Who came up with that list? Why do you guys say you accept that one?

He says, I'll tell you why. Who accepts the 10? Who accepts the 10 the way I say it, not the way Maitreya said?

All right. Who's going to read that, Tim? How about Olga?

[Speaker 2]
What did you have?

[Speaker 1]
No, starting here. That one.

[Speaker 2]
Yes. Nice.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. The two, the jelpa and the shepa, the two commentaries. And the two commentaries when you're talking about the ornament, the jewel of realizations, is normally Haribhadras.

Haribhadra, Senggye Sambho, wrote two commentaries to the jewel of realizations. So when you see in a perfection of wisdom text, lower middle way text, and they say the two commentaries, they're talking about Haribhadra's two commentaries. So the two commentaries by Haribhadra and sher chung gi shepa tsawa'i gompa ser teng ne, ser teng is Je Tsongkapa's early commentary on the perfection of wisdom.

Huge, two volumes. What does Geshe-la always say about that?

[Speaker 2]
Book.

[Speaker 1]
He was young, he was 25 or so. He was kind of showing off, and it's too long, and it's too, it sounds like some guy's showing off. It's like, I don't know, when people play piano and they go, ah, they try to play fast or something.

Sitar players do that. But it's encyclopedic. It's like a good resource for lists and stuff.

Later he stopped that style. He didn't do that style. He gave up that style.

sher chung ne shepa'i cher. Why do I explain the ten the way I explain it? Well, you got Haribhadra number one, you got Haribhadra number two, and you got Je Tsongkapa.

Is that good enough for you? Or do you vote for Maitreya? That's an interesting argument.

I got a lot more material here than I think you don't particularly need. Okay, let's go a few more minutes. We also have the extra 15 for it.

We could use that time as well. There's no new show? Oh no, we have the discussion time.

No, we're going to still do the discussion time. Okay. Okay, so let's skip down Geshe-la's notes, which are too long.

Geshe-la. Yeah. Where was that, where was the question?

What was Uta quoted? What book was that, that first citation was from? It's from our commentary.

Oh, it's just further along in the commentary? No, it's from Gungtang Koincho Tenpei Dunmei, 1763. Okay, he's a good teacher, by the way.

He's part of an East Tibet Renaissance in the 1700s. There was a short flash of brilliance for a hundred years. Okay, who's going to, why don't you read to close it off?

All right, Shenyang. ,DE SLONG LHA, ,DJIN GYI DRAG YIN NA, ,DE SLONG LHA LAS, What, how do you say it, LAS? LAS DJIN.

LAS DJIN RANG RGYUD KYI DGOS PA'I DGA' KHYUN DGOS PAR DTA'O Good. ,GOS KYI DAM BYA THEG PA'I PHYIR, Good. LAS DJIN is John Doe.

That's an idiom Stanley, 20 bucks. What's John Doe? Any person.

John Doe is when we want to just say any person in the world. Like John Doe. In Tibetan they say somebody Dorje or something.

I don't know what they say. Mr. Chen. Yeah, yeah, okay.

So LAS DJIN, but unfortunately it's also the name of... Maybe Dharta? Yeah, LHA means Deva.

DJIN means Dharta. So it's that nasty half-brother of Lord Buddha. Unfortunately, the word that's used in modern scriptures to say any old guy, is also the word for this unbelievable person who tried to murder Lord Buddha.

And as a translator, you better know which one they're talking about. Okay, all right, that's what I'm saying. So let's take that monk, GALENG LAS DJIN.

So just any old monk. Yeah, any old monk. The speech of that monk, okay?

Let's talk about the speech of that monk. Does it have to be... Are you saying it has to be included into LAS DJIN's mind stream?

Yes or no? No. And the point here is this.

Can someone else quote him? Yes. Can someone else meditate on what he said?

In that case, it's what they're meditating on included in the mind stream of Devadatta. No, no, it's in their mind stream. You see what I mean?

Okay, got it? You okay? All right, let's take...

If something is something that John Doe said, does it have to be speech included into John Doe's mind stream? And you say, no, I mean, he could be quoted on the radio. Okay, all right.

But Dharmakirti, you're the one who said that. You're the one who said that. Yeah, you're the one who said that.

You said if it's a speech of the Buddha, it has to be included in the Buddha's mind stream, which means nobody can quote it, nobody can practice it, nobody can memorize it. Okay, got it? Let's do this last piece.

No, let's leave the last piece for Tim. Okay. By the way, there's a definition of speech, all right, in the Vinaya.

And of course, you'll all remember it from Xiaoping's text. But just kidding. We had like 10,000 lists in that text.

And there's five qualities to speech, okay? There's a definition of speech in the Vinaya. Like when you tell a lie, then that speech should have five qualities, five characteristics, okay?

And it's going to be relevant here. And Tim's going to translate it for our next time. So Xiaoping, can I borrow your text?

Yeah, I can. If you remind me, I'll send it to you where it is. But it's difficult.

It's extremely difficult. By the way, the next text's up. So in the car on the way here, I finished Seiji's text.

And after seven years of work. And we have two choices of what to do next, which is Stanley's text or Xiaoping's text. And I have a proposal.

I've been working on a text by Je Tsongkapa. It's the greatest explanation of emptiness in existence, Gompa Rabso. And I started it in 2017.

How many years ago? Seven years ago. I didn't have time to finish it.

I propose I do that one first.

[Speaker 2]
Wonderful.

[Speaker 1]
And then I'll get to your two books by the end of the year or something like that, okay?

[Speaker 2]
Wow.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, and I'm afraid if I don't, I might not finish. All right. Now I have an advertisement for you guys.

Tim's going to show you guys something. Ta-da. So I have two forces that are working against me right now in my life.

Okay, one is my kidney, okay? And it's slowly going to drop out or something like that. And then, so I know I have only a certain amount of time.

And I also, on my computer, there are two and a half million documents, mostly short translations or things I prepared for lectures or something like that. So there's two and a half million documents there, including the ACI courses and DCI manuals and all that stuff. So my lawyer, who's a good friend of mine, is insistent that I should organize them and get them in a place where if something happens to me, everybody can have them in one place.

And then I would like to put them in some kind of order. I would like to put them in some kind of categories, right? If you're studying perfection and wisdom, all those teachings are there.

If you're studying Middle Way, all those teachings are there. So Jamie Plant is already doing that with the videos and the audios, recordings. He's got 10,000 finished.

They are pretty well categorized. And he's got 5,000 left to do. But he does not have access to the two and a half million documents on my computer.

So I feel like, my attorney is like, can you please get that stuff together? And we started like five years ago and I didn't get anywhere. I was too busy.

And the problem is I keep producing new ones every day. So I was trying to think of people who could help me to... Oh, and then another thing happened.

Here's another thing happened. Dun, dun, dun. This thing happened.

And this was last week or 10 days ago. Wang Xia in Shanghai, she said, somebody in China has an interview with Geshe Michael, a long interview with Geshe Michael, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. And they got an AI.

It's a video and it's me talking. And I don't like the me, it's too bald. And anyway, I'm not supposed to wear a mask.

By the way, I am not supposed to, and I do not teach religion in countries where it's not legal. And whoever did this AI, which I don't know who it is, we're working on it. I don't know whether to thank him or, anyway, arrest him.

But it's not me. I didn't approve it. I'm not trying to teach religion in the country where it's not allowed.

So I'd like to make sure I said that. And then I thought it was dumb. And I went home and I was telling Veronica about how stupid it is.

And then it occurred to me that if I had a good AI, they could be the interface for Maitri, who is never going to type instructions into a computer, trust me, in his lifetime. He will never interface with a computer by typing. He will ask.

And then the person who answers him better be interesting. You know? If he's going to use it.

Your children are going to want a human interface, an AI interface. They're going to want a face of a friend that's created for them. So they're going to...

How cool would it be if we used AI to search the database? Geshe Michael's collected works. If you could ask the AI, you know, I'm having a fight with my husband.

He's messing around at work with some lady. What does Geshe Michael say I should do? Because this is how people in the future are going to ask questions.

They're not going to look it up in the back of the Karma of Love book, where I wrote a very complex index. And I spent more time on the index than on the book because I wanted it to be usable. I wanted people to run in the bathroom, get the book, go to this index, fight, husband, personal, evening.

And that's exactly what an AI is for, you see? So if we have Geshe-la's, especially the two and a half million documents, if we have it in an AI, then you can kind of just sit in your... Just before you go off to a good night book club, you can say, Geshe-la and like Siri, right?

And he'll say, yes. And they'll say, you know, I have a problem with my husband, what should I do? And then if it's a good AI, which this one is not, he'll first give a long story about something else.

Then he'll tell a fart joke. Then he'll play a Jimi Hendrix song. And then he'll answer your question or something like that.

[Speaker 2]
So anyway.

[Speaker 1]
Is that how it usually happens? This is my dream. And so what I need is a team of people to help me subject categorize two and a half million documents and put them in the right place.

So I was thinking, I asked Anatole if he wanted to help me. Bought Rosa only two hours a day and the same two hours every day, or maybe three hours a day, but the same hours every day. And I've learned to do that with people.

I've learned to do that with people, especially when I pay them, not say, oh, please do this if you can, or when you can, or something. It doesn't work. And I've had that experience.

So I'd like to set hours, like start at 8 a.m. and go to 10 a.m. or 10.30 or something like that every day, except for Saturday, Sunday or whatever. So he agreed. I asked Tim if he would help with it because then he can turn around and use it for ACI.

They can expand ACI. They can put AIs of other teachers. There can be an ugly Tim also, AI, that you can ask questions.

If you don't like Geshe-la's answer, you can ask Tim and he might give you an easier answer, or something like that. So I want to involve ACI. I want to involve that group of people.

And so he agreed. He, finally they hired another manager at the hotel. Finally they hired someone to run the stupid thing.

Excuse me. Which pays my salary, by the way. So it's a good thing.

But finally they hired somebody else. Tim will have more time. And I want to use him for that.

And I also contacted Jamie Plant who's doing... He and his partner Bo are doing all the audio teachings and then video. We have Venerable Ellie, who's been collecting these teachings for 20 years?

25? How long?

[Speaker 2]
I started when you started teaching ACI.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. She started with ACI. That's some from her three weeks.

Yeah, so call it 1992 or something. And I asked Haggerty if he'd want to help from that. So there you got a bunch of people.

Why I'm announcing it here is that so you know what these guys are doing for two hours in the morning or two and a half hours in the morning. And also a lot of the stuff I have taught, I don't have on my computer or somebody recorded it in Australia or somebody recorded it somewhere else. So this is an open call to people to send in copies of things I wrote or lectures I gave that I might not have.

And I know lots of people have lots of weird stuff. And then we'll make an AI. I don't make an AI.

I don't personally think I'll ever use it, but I think it's stupid not to make it for the next generation because they won't use a keyboard. I don't think so. They won't even use a smartphone, I don't think.

Not that way. So I think it's a way to help preserve the teachings, which is what we're supposed to do. That's all.

And I thought to... So Tim just survived five years of this terrible management job of a hotel, which has nothing to do with anything he's interested in probably. And I can't believe that he spent...

Only this morning I realized it was five years. And it has helped the translators eat our families and my family especially for five years. And it was not an easy job and it was a very difficult job.

And the result of his work is that that hotel is number one in the United States in hotels of its size. So he went in and took this... I was there the first day.

I stayed there the first day. The owner was gone, left. And he took this hotel new.

He took it and he worked on it for five years and got it up to number one in the United States on TripAdvisor. So I'd like to thank you for all the support, for all the mixed nuts. Thank you.

Thank you. I'd like to congratulate you on your liberation.

[Speaker 2]
Thank you.

[Speaker 1]
And then you're going to be enslaved tomorrow for another purpose, but more noble. And I don't have anything to give you, but this just came out. I'm not advertising the book.

I'll do that next week. But this is called Door to the Diamond Way. And it's a very beautiful explanation of Tsongkhapa's introduction to the Diamond Way.

It's an extraordinary introduction to the Diamond Way. And I'm going to be teaching it soon to certain people. You understand what I'm saying?

This is like bar puh. Bar puh means you give the first copy to a special person. So I'd like to give it to Tim.

[Speaker 2]
Thank you. Thank you.

[Speaker 1]
Any shmil or not? Just cry a little bit? Just a little bit, yeah.

I know you missed the hotel. Yeah. I can give you some of my tax work if you want.

It's okay. Thank you. It was an honor to be able to do it.

You know, when we sat around that table, that first day, who's going to do this? Everyone turned away and everyone looked down, including myself. Who's going to manage it?

And I said, I'll just try, you know? And I think it was a beautiful experience. And I'm really happy that they're bringing in someone who is a full hospitality expert.

Yeah, I bet it won't be number one next year. We'll have a competition then. No, but I'm really happy.

And I'm really happy to be moving on to these new projects. It's pretty cool. Yeah, and Tim's expertise, his work originally, before he got distracted by us, was exactly this kind of programming on interfaces.

He was, for medical instrumentation, he was very good at that. So it's kind of the same thing. We're just not asking about livers.

We're asking about husbands and stuff. Same thing. Okay.

Anyway, good luck on that task and thank you for taking it. We're going to have a, we have a little time for discussion, maybe 10 minutes or something. Five minutes?

Five minutes. How would you use this weirdo text in your real life? Anybody?

Does anyone have any ideas? Rob has his hand up. Oh yeah, come up here, Rob.

It's more fun. Okay. Actually, I should open this, but it was the part about the 10 activities of a person, like what you should be, what you wanted, what practices you should do in order to become an enlightened being.

And so, of course, when I read that, it just became like a roadmap immediately, like something you can immediately take and put into practice today is to just go through those 10 and probably just grab a couple that maybe like jump out at you and just start with those, rather than like, oftentimes everybody's like, that's too much. There's too many practices. And so maybe just take one or two and maybe you can meditate about it immediately and just sort of like, how can I put this into practice tonight or tomorrow?

It's just sort of easy, low hanging fruit, really. This is the way I saw it. And so as soon as I saw that, I was like, I love when there's like an applicable pathway immediately.

But what do you think about the two, we've got two lists of 10, right? We got this in the first list from Maitreya, and then we got the second list, Haribhadra and Jetsun Kappa. Like, why do you think there are, what are they trying to say?

Like, we have a really high being giving us one and then we have other high beings giving others. Like, what do you think? I don't think it's meant to be a contradiction.

No, I mean, it's a win-win actually, because it doesn't matter what your personality is. You're definitely gonna fit into one of those 20 actually. And so it really covers all your bases.

That's just the way I see it. I think it's just sort of, you don't have to be like, which is better? You can just do them all or whatever one your heart sings to and just do both.

Eventually you'll end up doing all of them, which is great, which is such a beautiful part of the practice is that there's just endless ways in which can reach you to put things into practice immediately. You don't ever have to think to yourself, when are they gonna start talking about something I can do? Like, it's just, it's right there.

Yeah, so. I like that. Yeah.

Is there anyone online who has any thoughts about that or any other additional musings? I have an idea, Tim. Who's that?

This is Alex. Hi, Alex. Hi, how are you?

Great, it's good to hear you. We can't see you though. Oh no, cause I don't have my camera on.

I'm on my phone. Cool. But what I was thinking was about this part about the text or the sutra being in the mind stream of the Buddha.

[Speaker 2]
And then if we study it, it seems like that version is in our mind stream. So when we're reading or memorizing these texts, we're kind of syncing up our mind stream with the mind stream of a Buddha. I thought maybe there was something there.

[Speaker 1]
That's cool. I like that. If what's in my mind is in the mind of a Buddha, then maybe that could help me become a Buddha, maybe?

[Speaker 2]
Yes, I would think, or at least to be thinking like a Buddha during those moments.

[Speaker 1]
Oh, that's cool. I like that. Uh-oh, it's my compadre in Kyoto, right?

How are you, Tim?

[Speaker 2]
Great. It's great to see you.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, it's good to see you too. Yeah, all of a sudden, I don't know, I have like special appreciation for you. I don't know why.

Thank you, thank you very much. Just kidding, just joking. But it is true.

I mean, the appreciation, yes, but it has been big since before.

[Speaker 2]
But before moving on into some of the news that are happening around the WorldView Network, I have a question with your text because, okay, so traditionally in the open teachings, they say once you see emptiness directly, seven lifetimes, you get enlightened.

[Speaker 1]
Correct, right? So- Maximum. Maximum.

So the average, can we say like average, a lifetime is 100 years, let's say. Okay. So let's say after you see emptiness directly, 700 years, you get enlightened.

Okay. Okay, so what about, some people argue that Maitreya is just a Bodhisattva. Some people say, no, it's already Buddha.

But even in the open teachings, that was like more than 700 years ago. So even in the open teachings, even suppose he was a Bodhisattva, but by now, 700 years after, he has to be enlightened.

[Speaker 2]
What about the WorldView? Well, I mean, and not only him, but every other Arya probably that we know about. Okay.

[Speaker 1]
So what do you think? I mean, come on, why is there a discussion? We all know he's already enlightened.

It has to be. I think it just might be the seeds that you have that you're not able to see him yet. And you gotta figure it, you have to plant those seeds to be able to see him.

But you just study the text, it says 700 years, seven lifetimes. It doesn't say you'll be able to see Maitreya, it just says in 700, he'll be able to.

[Speaker 2]
I think when he's in his birth in Tushita heaven, where the lifespans are much longer, not like these lame, schlubby lifespans we have here. He's teaching other Bodhisattvas in his heaven, waiting for the time to be born here. And it's a much longer life.

I bet you would find that they don't all have to be human lifetimes. Maybe, that's true.

[Speaker 1]
But then in a way it's better if you, after you become Arya, just come here quicker, faster. You know, like it's better to be here and spend your seven lifetimes quickly.

[Speaker 2]
I think the news- Well, luckily we have Geshe Michael filling the gap. I wanna thank Geshe Michael, who's been filling the gap while we wait for Maitreya to come. I'm in no hurry, Geshe Michael, please take your time here.

[Speaker 1]
Thank you for preparing and don't hurry anywhere. Thank you, Tim, for a wonderful class.

[Speaker 2]
I'm putting again the opportunity for people to subscribe in the chat if you didn't get a chance to yet. Thank you to all of those who are already subscribed. Of course, you can use the QR codes on the screen as well.

Stay tuned after the Peachtree World News. Utpala is standing by, ready to do the Q&A in roughly 15 minutes, although we're stealing from Juan's time. Juan, thank you so much for standing by, ready to go?

Ready to go, thank you, thank you. Actually, I should be thanking you.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, yeah, so let's just take a little review on certain events that are coming up very soon. And we talk about some of them just like last week and some of them even in our Asian Dragon Year, Dragon New Year celebration.

[Speaker 2]
So we are following up with them and we want to show you some of them.

[Speaker 1]
So Gina's gonna be helping me sharing the screen. Thank you, Gina, very much. And let's go.

[Speaker 2]
Yes, so in March, a little more than a month, but almost like exactly a month from here, there's gonna be a very cool event happening in Kyoto. It's gonna be from March 19th to March 23rd. There are gonna be even more activities there.

So if you're around there, who knows? You may be able to see other things happening. But for this particular program, Tim already is extending the invitation.

If you can make it, it's gonna be very, very cool. 400 USD investment, come on. It's like a super great price.

There is gonna be Chinese translation live. And if for any reason this time you're like, no, I didn't know with enough time or whatever it is, there is gonna be another event happening in June. So let me show you that, yes.

For that, the QR code is not yet around, but soon it's gonna be around. So it's for you to know it's happening. So number one, first time is gonna be this March.

And again, it's gonna be on June the 4th. So if you can make it this time, you can start planning for next time. Okay, but before that, and after March, after Kyoto, there is gonna be another very cool event happening this time in Diamond Mountain in United States, in Arizona.

Geshe Michael is gonna be taking us through our Steps on the Path retreat. And that's gonna be happening April 12th to 21. Soon I'm gonna talk to the organizers of this event and I'm gonna get for you a QR code.

I don't have it yet, but I'm letting you know it's coming. I'm gonna get the QR code and share it with you soon. So you can plan ahead.

And what else do we have? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Next we have, just to remind you about this very cool and interesting project YSI is planning.

It's also happening in June. Errol and other teachers are gonna be taking us, including Geshe Michael, is that correct? Is gonna be talking about some experiences of the three.

No, yeah, the teachings that he shared while he was doing his own three-year retreat. Seems to be very, very special event. They are getting ready already.

So if you're interested, you can start gathering more information and signing up in the QR code there it is. So this is the news I have for you so far. We're gonna share more in the upcoming Mixed Nuts classes.

[Speaker 1]
But we still going with some of, we want to still share with you some of the great projects that some of the organizers and friends all over the world are doing and are sharing with us.

[Speaker 2]
This is part of the collection of videos that we were not able to share during our celebration for the new year, but they are really worth watching. You get to know what's happening in other countries, what are they doing, what kind of projects are they getting into and the people that is getting benefit from it. So we want to share with you some of these videos.

Let's see, maybe let's say two videos. We have more, but for now, I will say let's go for two. And Dina, if you can help us sharing the very first one.

Thank you very much.

[Speaker 1]
This is Malaysia or Indonesia. Thank you so much, Diamond Cutter. Thank you for your amazing support.

Thank you.

[Speaker 2]
So thank you very much to all our friends from Malaysia. It's wonderful what you're doing. Thank you for supporting all these wonderful projects.

Thank you very much and for keep going and having these plans for the 2024. So thank you very much.

[Speaker 1]
And we hope so much success for you. And then we have, I think the next video is, I don't remember if it's, oh yeah, this is now from Indonesia.

[Speaker 2]
Oh no, this is Tongming, yes.

[Speaker 1]
Go top. Live your life. Yeah.

[Speaker 2]
So as you can see, Geshe Michael is going to be touring in Asia in June. Check it out. We're going to be sharing more QR codes if you're interested soon.

But thank you. This was the project that Tong Ming has been doing. She was here recently and we had an interview with her also for the celebration of the Dragon's New Year.

So Tina is her Western name, I guess, Tina Liu and Tong Ming her Eastern name.

[Speaker 1]
So sending best regards. Thank you for everything you're doing and best wishes and success as well. And we have one last video from today.

We have more, but for today, one last video. Now it's our friends from Indonesia. So let's check it out.

[Speaker 2]
There you go.

[Speaker 1]
So thank you very much, everyone, for sending your materials. I just want to extend the invitation. If someone has like some news you want to share or you want to contact us or sometimes like a schedule, an interview or something, we are available for communication.

[Speaker 2]
You can write us to info at PeachtreeWorldNews.com or you can just, I don't know, message me or Daniel or other members of the team. And we can figure it out. So thank you very much for sharing your news because they inspire us and also make us rejoice.

So we get the 10% out of them. Thank you so much.

[Speaker 1]
You're making our life better. And yeah, we'll see you next time. We go now to the Q&A with Utpala.

[Speaker 2]
Thank you so much. See you next time. Thanks Juan.