Вордсмит — Книга 2: Трудные места школы «Ум только», занятие 75

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Hi party people. Welcome to Xuanzang's Tower. Happy to see y'all.

We get to enjoy another wonderful Monday or Tuesday, depending on what time zone you're in. We've got some great classes lined up for you today. We have a class with Birdsmith, Mind-Only School, and we have a class with Seiji Arau, which is Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life.

Both amazing classes that I'm very much looking forward to. Tashi Michael, are you there? Si, senor.

Great. But I, you know, Word's gonna do his thing if he can figure out his computer. Still working on it.

Can you use mine? Hang on, Nick. Yep, sure, sure, sure.

Let's take our time. Well, I'll take this moment to extend deep appreciation for all of our interpreters translating us into many languages, deep appreciation for Worldview Productions team for archiving, staff, managing all the tech, and appreciation for YSI for putting on these amazing Bhagavad Gita teachings. Hey Nick, we had the first yoga class at Peace Tree Cafe.

I heard about that. Yeah, Miss Ma taught. It looked like the Sermon on the Mount to me.

A religious experience. So it wasn't just like...

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Puss and are the toe touchers.

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Puss and are the cinnamon roll eaters.

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Do you eat cinnamon rolls during class?

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Seeing it? Yeah, I'll never admit it. They'll never admit it if they do.

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Very advanced pose.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, Word is ready. Okay, can you see him? Yeah.

Hello. Thank you. We see you guys and we hear you guys loud and clear.

Okay, cool. Okay, welcome everybody. We are doing Mind Only School.

Geshe-la said we all got books like us. My school is complicated and difficult. Well spoken.

All right, here we go. So this is a review from last class. I agree.

We're in the end of a discussion on the definition of the seventh consciousness in the Mind Only School, which is called a messed up mind. That's a technical term. We're using it in the translation.

And no, it's the part of your mind that contributes to all your mental problems in the Mind Only School. Okay, so we're wrapping that up after, I don't know, six years. We started in February of 2021.

Four years. The second time. First time was in 2017.

Yeah, we couldn't figure it out the first time. Okay, so first question from last class. At what stage has a Buddha's seeds reached their ultimate potential?

Good question, because if they haven't, then they aren't. They aren't a Buddha? Hey, I'm just quoting Jason Coffey.

I don't know anything. If you were in the last class.

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Eighth level?

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No, not a Buddha yet.

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Ninth?

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Keep on going. Yeah, I'm sure he's sharing the screen. It's not showing over here.

Really? I'm sure. I'm sure.

You were sharing word. I am sharing. I can see.

I used to mix nuts. Wonder if you just went sounds like one. Maybe.

No. I am. I don't know what's going on.

But that was the question. It's not going to help you to see it. You don't know.

Okay. I know it's a style tactic. I'll tell you.

Okay. Last time we talked about diamond-like meditation. And it said when they reached diamond-like meditation, they all their seeds would have went to their most highest potential.

It was an argument for them not having a foundation consciousness. Okay, you have no idea. That's okay.

No, but there was an interesting part. I don't know if we reached it yet, of what the foundation consciousness turns into and what the messed up mind turns into. I don't think we touched.

I don't think we got there yet. No, it's coming. Okay, cool.

Does a ninth level bodhisattva still need a foundation consciousness? Good question. No?

Sorry. Okay, let's see. Apparently not.

Their mind has already reached a transformed state in which they are ready to achieve the power of awareness called Oh, excuse me. The four individually pure. Okay.

Which is one of the states of powers of an enlightened being. Okay. Question three.

Does an eighth level bodhisattva still have to make conscious effort to do good deeds?

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Apparently not. They don't.

[Speaker 1]
It seemed like they would. But since you're asking the question, I'm going to say no. I mean.

Yeah. Yeah. It's kind of a trick question.

Yeah. No. So we were talking about.

Hey boss, here comes the big boss. No, but it is as if their mind no longer has thoughts of himself. That's my cat's name too.

It is just as, you know, it is just that these thoughts do not need a foundation consciousness behind them to occur. Like they still, even though they don't have a foundation consciousness, they still have thoughts that they can think of things. And that was the point.

The question was, well, if they reach this high state and their foundation consciousness is gone because they no longer have mental afflictions, negative emotions, does that mean their foundation consciousness disappears to altogether? Therefore, they have no mind. And of course not.

So yeah. Okay. So you guys can't see my screen.

No one can see my screen. No. Oh, we cannot.

I don't know why. Okay. Um, bit.

So, uh, in the mother tongue B, huh? Yeah. Apostrophe B A D R T Z O L bits.

To make effort. Close. Yeah.

Yeah. We, we said conscious effort, but same. Okay.

Um, uh, that's a nice, isn't that fun? Uh, drone D R U N G S, uh, P H Y U N G space B A.

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Pull out from the roof.

[Speaker 1]
Yay. Perfect. Yeah.

Yanked out from the root. That's my official translation. And, um, this last one is a sentence.

Did it come up all of a sudden? Yeah. Oh, right.

When I didn't want the answer up there. Right. Perfect.

There it is. Thanks. Very helpful.

Um, okay. Read it. Shunzo.

The mother language. Okay. Yeah.

What, why did we say that? What's the point? What's the context?

Smarty pants. It's what it close. It's what an eighth level bodhisattva can still say to themselves.

They can still say, I want to help all living beings, even though they have. Unless even though they don't have a foundation consciousness, which has negativity attached to it. Oh, that's the question.

That's that's the section we just ended. You got to look at the old classes. Okay.

Here we go. Student translation. Can you read just the first one?

Yeah, here we go. Okay. Yeah, that's the one I was talking about.

If that were the case, then those who have achieved the power of cheap power. Yeah. And then we just generous minds.

Mm hmm. Consist of clear. Okay.

Okay. Oh, clear and knowing. Yeah.

So it's, it's a trick word because it's a definition of mine. So instead of saying mine, he called it clear knowing. But that's okay.

The translation is okay. Clear awareness. That is awesome.

So you can. Mm hmm. So you got to say, do these high, do these high bodhisattvas in our hearts?

Do they possess? Yes or no? Yes.

Yeah. But we don't call it. Right.

Right. They possess mind, but we don't call it negative consciousness. And then what's the corresponding one for the other of the extra two consciousnesses that the mind only school says exists?

Messed up mind and. Foundation consciousness. Foundation consciousness.

So do they still have mind? Yes. Do we call it negative consciousness?

No. And do they still have some kind of foundational consciousness, but we don't call it foundation consciousness. What's that mean?

Yeah, they have a state of mind which has ripened from karma. But we don't call it kunshi anymore. I thought kunshi was where the karma stayed.

I think the point is, there's still stank someplace, but you don't call it kunshi anymore because it's not negative anymore. Well, here's a trick of kunshi, okay? Just appreciate it in the future.

It's like the shell of an egg with an egg inside, right? The stuff inside is karmic seeds, right? But the shell has also come from karmic seeds.

So the holder of the karmic seeds has also come from karmic seeds, okay? What he says is, look, it still has karmic seeds, but it's not the egg anymore, okay? It still results from karma, but it's not the container of karmic seeds anymore.

Okay, something like that. And so wait, what's the gemitsara? I couldn't quite get it in.

That's a good question. Those two states of mind can no longer be called foundation consciousness and negative consciousness because they don't contain all the components that would be necessary to give them those names. They don't have the complete meaning?

Yeah, they are not complete in all the senses of messed up mind and storehouse mind. Yeah, probably because storehouse mind and messed up mind imply some kind of messed up that these people are beyond. So the required characteristics to say they have foundation consciousness or messed up consciousness are not enough.

They're incomplete. Matsang. Matsang means not complete, okay?

So the characteristics that would make them a true foundation consciousness and would make them a true negative consciousness are incomplete because they're too nice. Okay, that's all. Next.

Shall I read or shall someone else torture somebody else? Oh. Lindsay!

You're close.

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Okay.

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Z is just a low tone S, okay? It's not a Z. We just use it because there's no two S's in English, okay?

It's not Z. Just think of it as an S, but low tone. Zen.

How do you feel? I feel fine. This doesn't say that.

Normally it would. Normally, at this point, these guys say, oh, there's a lot more to say, but I don't want the book to go on too long. It doesn't say that?

And go on too long means the last book I translated was 2,000 pages, okay? I finished it, it took me 12 years. Finished in January.

So when he says I didn't want to go on too long, he's serious. But he did not say that here. And it's interesting that he didn't say it here.

What did he say? I don't know. Jawa mang du yu.

There's a lot more I could say. Mu means I admit, you know? Mu means I admit.

I admit there's a lot more to say here. Ki is correct. It's the disjunctive ki.

But this tripa means, it's a very important word, meaning you take a root text verse and you expand on it. You see what I mean? Like Nick's book had a whole explanation of which books of Nagarjuna were expanded from his first book.

And they were all tripas. From his wisdom. All the other of the six great books of Nagarjuna, the five, are tripas from individual lines from his first book.

See what I mean? So what he's saying is, chok means what? Allowed to?

Yeah, allowed. dro chokpa duway. You ask your teacher, can I go to town?

Can I go to the village? He says, is it movie day in the village? You say, no.

Okay, you can go. Chokpa duway. So he doesn't say it would be too long.

He says, let's do that some other time. It's different, right? Normally the guy, the guy meaning the holy man, normally they'll say, I don't want my book to go on too long.

But what he's saying is, we can do that later. We can do that in another book. This book is famous for its brevity.

This book presents the whole mind only school in a short poem. And I was trying to think of where a word could go next in the mind only school. And this short poem pretty much covers everything.

So I don't know. Okay, Chokpa, what's the next part? Yeah, as such, that completes our presentation of the definition of the negative consciousness.

Yeah, so if, you know, his book is called Yi Dang Hun Shi, Yeah, a presentation of mind and foundation consciousness. And it's an odd name because? Because the book isn't about mind.

Yeah, it's about negative mind. So that's another story. But what he spent a long time, it took us several years to cover negative consciousness.

And he just finished. Yay. We no longer have negative consciousness.

So he's covered foundation consciousness and he's covered negative consciousness, which is all he promised to cover. So what's interesting is we're getting close to the end of the book. We're about, we're about, no, we're over 90% done, 95% done.

Two more months, maybe, something like that, according to my estimate. All right. What do you got after that?

You told me to do all the chapter names for the whole book. Translate. Oh, down here.

Okay, you want to know? Yeah, go ahead. Can I do it?

Yeah. All right, Lindsey, you're up.

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Up. Up. Up, up, up, up, up, up.

Oh. Up, take, move, down, pull.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, okay. Translate one. I wrote, thus ends the first chapter of the Ocean of Eloquence, an in-depth commentary upon difficult questions about negative consciousness and the foundation consciousness where it plants its seeds, a presentation of the definitions of foundation consciousness and negative consciousness.

Okay. So who wrote the root text and who wrote the commentary? Jason Koppel.

Okay, good.

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Yeah, it's an honor coming. Okay, got it.

[Speaker 1]
Now, something weird. You wanna say something weird about the chapters based on this? Yeah.

Oh, we're not, let's do the names of the chapters. Okay, so? Yeah, you want someone to read them?

Sure. Get some other, I mean, student up here. Lydia wants to read.

Yay, Lydia. Yay. Yay, mama.

If they torture you at home, torture them in the class. Yeah. Taking care of the house.

Stop. Welcome to the Tibetan classes. Stop.

That chapter will come when you get back to work, right? Right, Noah? Oh, she's looking.

Only 20 words. Okay.

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Way. Way.

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Name. Mm-hmm. Yes.

Chair.

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Uh-huh. Jumper. Yes.

Lake park. Shape. Bay.

Yes.

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Gatso.

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Gatso. Mm-hmm. Shaywa.

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Shayjawa. Shayjawa. Mm-hmm.

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Lake. Troop. Troop.

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J.

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Shepa.

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Yeah.

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Pele Mipa.

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Mipa. Mipa. Yay.

Yeah, so the first chapter's name is, I'll give you the definitions, you know, from blah, blah, blah, and he names his whole book. And then he, for the second chapter, he repeats the whole thing, but he just changes the name of the chapter, which is? This chapter is about arguments.

Yeah. Droopchase. Call it.

Justifications or something. Yeah. There are two kinds.

When you want to prove something in Buddhism, logic and scripture. So he's going to give supporting evidence, supporting logic, and he's going to give supporting scriptural statements in favor of these seventh and eighth types of consciousness. That's the second chapter.

Third chapter word. Let's just go to the one word that's different. Okay, let's just do that.

Namshitsokungyordopadapa. Good, what's that? That is a refutation of the belief that consciousness can be grouped into nine.

Yeah, I mean, eight is already weird, pushing it. Yeah, now somebody comes and says, hey, I got a ninth one, and we're like, don't even open your mouth, okay? All right?

So that's the third chapter. What's the fourth chapter? Namshitsokungyordopadapa.

Yeah. A refutation of the position that all types of consciousness can be put into a single group. Yeah, good, okay.

Now, here's the punchline. The first chapter, which we just finished after years of work, it ends on page 41, okay? 400 to 41?

Well, in the Tibetan, on folio 41, okay? Remember? Keep it in mind.

The second chapter ends at page 42, okay? Got it? The first chapter goes to page 41.

The second chapter goes from 41 to 42. The third chapter goes from 42 to 43. And the fourth chapter goes from 43 to 44.

So don't be, when you trans, here's a lesson for our translators. And after eight years of work, I don't have a lot of secrets to tell the translators. But here's one.

Don't stick to their division if it's silly, okay? Don't put out a book, which many people do, like the Lamrim Chenmo translation. 20 scholars worked on it.

And they do this kind of thing. Chapter one is going to, this chapter one will be 328 pages. Chapter two will be eight pages.

Chapter three will be eight pages. And chapter four will be four pages. So you don't divide it.

Like, that's what I'm trying to say. Don't follow what he calls chapters. Don't blindly follow the author who calls chapters.

Think about it and divide it up in a more edible way, okay? All right, let's go back to the text. Yay.

Now we're on chapter two. Take the plane, boss. Okay.

I don't know. I'm not taking the plane. You decide who's reading.

You are the plane. Nipa, right? Oh.

Oh, I have to take this plane. Yes. I don't even know where I am.

Am I on the Zoom call? Oh, hi. I don't turn on my video, as far as I understand.

Okay. Are we good? Yes.

Okay. You wanna have somebody read? Sure.

Captain Bill. That's why I called on you. Yeah, that's it.

That trick don't work. We know that one. We know that trick.

That's the second one.

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I know that one too.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, that's a good one. Left them at the house. I have my glasses at home.

My dog ate my glasses. By the way, these are so short, Captain Billman. It's like flying from Philadelphia, Kansas City.

Okay, read this. Nipa, you gone crunchy, drippa, chippa, tumpanik. Yeah.

Stay, stay, Captain Billman.

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Oh, okay.

[Speaker 1]
By the way, Captain Bill is in the Overseas Study Program. I'd like to thank him, first of all. Changed guts, literally, to go there.

[Speaker 3]
Whatever's left of him. If you've seen Indian traffic, you know what I'm talking about.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, we're really interacting. Nipa means what, you guys? Second.

Yeah, yidam kunshi. Negative consciousness and foundation consciousness. Yeah, and now dribche.

Arguments or proofs, depending. Yeah, here are supporting statements or ideas in favor of this seventh and eighth kinds of consciousness. Okay.

Which no other school accepts. Come on, stay. Accepts some weird, lower-middle-weird guy.

Really? Possibly. Can we put just a presentation on again?

Yeah. Yeah, I'm going to present.

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Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, now Dr., sorry, Captain Bill has to do it again. Giltay namshe jukla tadepe kunshi dangi ke lena deyda yudpar gangi shey chena. Yeah, word, you want to translate it?

Sure. Kelte, if it were the case, namshe jukle tadepa, that separate from the six usual consciousness that everybody talks about, ke lena, there was some acceptance of kunshi dangi of two other consciousness, one called foundation consciousness, the other one called negative consciousness, chena. Then you may ask, teyta yudpar, how do they, what are these things, gangi shey?

How do we even know that they exist? Yeah, what makes you think they exist? Gangi shey.

Okay, what makes you, you got any proof to show for this weird idea that there's a seventh and eighth kind of consciousness? Then there's the root text, which we translated. So what happened historically with word is we went to Tsongkapa's explanation of the mind-only school.

We tried it for a few weeks and it was way too difficult for us. Then we found an easier commentary and we finished that one. It took six years or so.

And then we went back to Tsongkapa and we could read it after that. But the translation of the root text is already done because we did that in the first book. So we're not going to cover that because it gives you all, it lets the cat out of the bag.

Who's, we want to have Dr. Bill, Captain Bill. One more, one more, Captain Bill. Dila, Lungdan, Rigpa, Jukje, Nisam.

Word, okay. So Dila, with that in mind of what are these crazy consciousnesses, Jukje-ni will use two methods to prove their existence. We'll use Lung, scriptural authority, Tang, and we'll use Rigpa, reasoning or logical proofs.

Good, okay. Let's find another victim. Nice job, Captain Bill.

Jack wants to read. Jack, yay. Jack's like, please.

Pretty good reader. You're welcome.

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Bangpola-ang.

[Speaker 1]
That's just for recording. Here, use this in your notes.

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Bangpola-ang. Kung-shi dang-nyun-yi-ki-lung-ni-le. Tang-pon-ni-chu-mung-pa-tek-pa-chen-pu-to-le.

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Good.

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Oh, keep going.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, and I want to see what? Dang-dang-dang-dang-dang-dang-dang.

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Tok-ma-me-pe-du-ki-ching.

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Ying.

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Ying, okay. Chu-nam-kun-ki-ne-ying-te-de-yu-pe-na-jo-kun-tang-mya-ng-en-te-pa-pa-ang-tok-bal-gyur.

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Yay. Very good. Let's see if Jack can translate something.

Dung-bo. Dung-bo. Good, kun-shi, kun-shi's kun-shi.

Okay, foundation consciousness. What's nyun-yi? What's nyun-yi?

Yeah, negative consciousness. What's unusual about it here? That he said the whole word?

Yeah, he used the whole word, which he has not done in the whole book. He keeps calling negative consciousness, consciousness. Maybe it's a statement on the state of his student's mind.

My mind. Lung-ni-le. Two different books, say.

Yeah, I'm going to give you scriptural proofs, but I'll do it separately. I'll give you scriptural proofs for foundation consciousness and then I'll give you scriptural proofs for negative consciousness. Of those two, here's the dung-bo first.

Here's some scriptural backup for the idea of kun-shi, foundation consciousness. And then my source, he says, if you want to know my source, it's chen ngun-pa, Jack. Abhidharma.

Abhidharma, okay. Ngun-pa is Abhidharma, chen is dharma, okay? So there's an Abhidharma thekpa-chenpo, not thekpa-chenpo.

Mahayana Abhidharma. Mahayana. No.

Sutra, okay, sutra. So he's going to quote a sutra called the Mahayana Abhidharma Sutra, which is weird, because Abhidharma is the classical lower school. But there are higher Abhidharma school sutras, okay?

Togme, I think you got to help him out. Togme. Beginning.

Yeah, me, Jack. Me. Less.

Yeah, beginning less to. Time. Ying.

Realm? Ying means like mystical realm or something, the mystical space. It even sounds like that, right?

Ying. Ying. Where are you from?

I'm from the ying. Okay, in the mystical space with no beginning in time. Okay?

That's a pretty good start. Chö nam kun. Chö kun, Jack.

Chö kun. All stuff? All the stuff in the universe, it is there, ne.

Existence? Ne. Place, existence?

It's their place. That's where they live, okay? It's where all the stuff that lives in the realm of all time from beginningless time lives, okay?

It's the place where all the stuff in the universe has lived for time with no beginning. Okay? Sounds very poetic, doesn't it?

De yu. De yu. Yeah, it exists.

It really does exist. And dro kun dang. Everybody.

Well, here it's negative. All suffering people? Yeah, dro here means jot down.

We're going to have it in Seiji's text. Jot the births, rebirths. Here it means rebirth.

Goings. Goings, okay? So if you have it, you are reborn, okay?

And you can also nyan nyan dang pong. Achieve nirvana. Yeah, you can also achieve nirvana.

There's a space in the universe which has existed for time with no beginning. It is the place where all objects reside. If you have it, you have to be...

When you have it, you have to be reborn, or you can achieve nirvana. What is he describing? Well, kun shi.

Remember he promised us scriptural proof of kun shi, of foundation consciousness, okay? And it's a little, what would I call it? Debatable, okay?

It's like if the universe exists, you know, he's like, that proves kun shi. Something like that. No, but it makes sense.

He means if there's a refrigerator where all your karma stays for a time with no beginning, then people either suffer or they get free. So it's the foundation. Okay, kun shi, kun shi.

It's the foundation of everything, shedang. Then I went and got it. There is a book.

It's Thepa Chombudbha. Mahayana Sangha? Yeah, it's by Arya Sangha.

So it's interesting. It sounds like it should be Abhidharma Samutraya, though. Well, it's interesting that they call it ching nam du thepa chenpo.

Okay. By the way, I think he's quoting it. Sorry, he's quoting it.

Oh, okay, yeah. Oh. And he, it's quoted five or six times in the Tang year.

I don't see it in the Kang year. So people quote it, but it's kind of passed on through the generations, okay? And it looks like the same, right?

Yeah, it's the same. It's the same. Okay.

Who's gonna read the next literature? It's Jack. You pick.

Jack is gonna pick. Okay. Yay.

She's wearing a blue sky top. Ooh. Ooh.

It's a plug.

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Chokun Sabun Thamthepa Chepa. Namphar menpa kun shite dewa kun deway kun chi nam she mi. Dampadag la nga nge shedo shedang.

[Speaker 1]
Let's go slow. Let's go slow and translate it together, okay? Chokun, Ethan.

Everything. Everything in the universe. Sabun.

Seeds. Yeah, kamche. All of them.

Yeah, it's the seeds. It's all the seeds for everything, okay? It's all the seeds for everything, all right?

It's also those kun shi. It's the support of everything. Yeah, especially for the nampar menpa of those sabuns.

Everything that's ripening. For the ripening of those seeds. It's the foundation for the ripening of all the seeds and promises.

Therefore, this kun shi nampar shedo. Therefore, this kun shi nampar shedo. This consciousness called kun shi.

Yeah. Nge shedo. It eyes.

It says eye. Eye, me. I taught it.

And then something cool. To the dampa. To the holy ones?

Yeah, to the specialist student, okay? So that's obviously something that a mind-only school guy is going to enjoy quoting, okay? Is that just the name of the thing?

There's this idea that there's all these seeds. There's a place where all the seeds stay in your heart. It's the root of all things.

And I have taught it, but only to specialists. Special means? Yeah, so that's obviously going to be quoted by any mind-only, okay?

And it comes, we find it in the same source quoted, not from the source, but it's quoted in the source. Is there any big difference? Tang chenpo, number shepa.

Yeah, he puts an agyeku-i here. It is the consciousness of all seeds. That's all.

Agyeku-shepa. Yeah, there is the shepa. It's a number of a number.

Number shepa, it's a number of a number. Oh, that's very interesting.

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Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
That's a big difference. That's a big difference, yeah. He doesn't say in the Tengger, it's the place where all the seeds ripen.

He just says it's the consciousness where all the seeds are. Big difference. Okay.

Let's push this one down so somebody can read it nicely. Who's going to take a shot? Anna.

Yay!

[Speaker 3]
Yay!

[Speaker 1]
Good. That's okay.

[Speaker 3]
Yeah, Marten.

[Speaker 1]
Good, nice, nice. Sheldon. Let's go slow through it.

You want to? Okay, gong de, do de gong de, sang din mir mo chenpo. Oh, what I really meant?

Yeah, the book called, the sutra called, What I Really Meant. Okay. LEN PA'I number shepa.

Taking? The consciousness which takes, and probably birth, okay? It doesn't say, right?

The consciousness which takes is sab ching tar. Don't know. Sab mo?

Sab mo. Seeds? It's deep and subtle, okay?

The consciousness that makes you take, and I assume it's take birth, is subtle, sorry, it's deep and subtle, okay? In it, sab and tam ching. All the seeds?

Yeah, all the seeds. Bap means they fall, like a stream of chu. Yeah.

[Speaker 3]
Of the river?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, like a stream of water. What's chun bap, you old New Yorkers? Yeah.

Glasses of water. Chun bap is the traditional name for that discussion of three people sitting around a table and seeing the glass of table, glass of water and different. That section of ancient scripture is called chun bap.

But here he's talking about the place where all your seeds, he's talking about the glass where all your seeds are poured. Got it? The flow of your seeds are poured into this glass.

Okay. And you shouldn't mistake it for duck. Self.

Yeah, but, and he spells the duck without an S. What's the implication? Yeah, mistaken.

Yeah, it's not to be understood as meat. Don't mistake it for meat. It's just the refrigerator where your seeds sit.

But don't think it's meat, okay? And here's the clincher for those mind-only school guys. Kids.

Chi pung. I ma ten. Do not support.

I don't teach this to chi ba. To children. Yeah, I don't teach this to their kids.

Okay. I teach this to the adults. Take that little way.

Mind-only guys. Yeah, this is interesting because chi ba is a synonym for someone who has not seen emptiness. And here, middle-way guys are being referred to as chi ba.

I teach this to the adults. Yeah. Okay.

By the way, Word fixed this. You can see all the corrections he had to make. One, two, three.

He went through and checked the original scriptures and he made some important corrections. Okay. Yay.

By the way, here's another quotation of those lines. A couple of them, right? Yeah.

Yeah, they're pretty much the same. Interesting, hold on. I'm going to push this down.

All right. Here we go.

[Speaker 3]
Pabpa Lanka Shekpa Lekyang SEMS NI KUN ZHIG NAM SHES TE GNAR SEMS PA NI YID RGYUD NO YUL LA NYAM PAR RIG PA GANG DI NYID NGYUK PAS NAM SHES RGYUD CHE SOGS DKA'I YAS PA THEG PA CHEN PO'I RDO DE RNAM LAS BYUNG YONG Yeah, this is very tricky.

[Speaker 1]
This is very deep, actually. I got to make myself a note for those two. Sorry.

[Speaker 3]
Oh yeah, that's right.

[Speaker 1]
It's sexy, it's cool. Okay, Lanka Shekpa. Journey to Lanka?

Yeah. The Exalted. By the way, there's certain words in the world which are interesting examples of misspelling, of confusing transcription with pronunciation.

One example is the Tsongkhapa's name in every scholar's text. They just flatly confused transcription with pronunciation, which is ridiculous. But imagine getting stuck with your name spelled.

My teacher, it happened to him, Farchin, okay? It's, anyway, don't get me going. Why am I mentioning that?

Oh, Sri Lanka's name is misspelled. Sri? Yeah, it's misspelled.

Okay, someone took the British word with the diacritical on it and took the diacritical off and misspelled the country's name. And it's stark. And it's stark, it's like Moscow.

Okay? Yes. All right, another one of those British things.

Bapa Lanka Shekpa. What's it mean, Lanka Shekpa? Journey to Lanka?

Yeah, journey to Lanka. Which is always important because repeatedly in the scriptures, why is journeys to Lanka important? Because it's like an island where you can just find jewels on the ground.

Yeah, okay. So there's always a hidden connotation when you say somebody went to Lanka. It's always a hidden, a double entendre.

It's always meant to imply someone struck it rich, okay? Usually spiritually, okay? Anyway, the Siddha's name is journey to Lanka, okay?

Except for that monkey that jumped over the speech strands.

[Speaker 3]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
SEMS NI KUN ZHIG RNAM SHES TE Mind is a synonym for the foundation consciousness. Yeah, okay. So that's number one in our presentation of eight.

Eight. Yeah, okay? If you divide all consciousness into eight parts, which is only the mind-only school thing, number eight is called foundation consciousness, okay?

First line, he's covering number eight, remember. Second line, NGAR SEMS PA NI YI The mentality which thinks, me is the consciousness, meaning negative consciousness. Yeah.

Lord Buddha doesn't give the full name. So Tsongkhapa's okay, right? The name of Tsongkhapa's book, he doesn't call it messed up consciousness, he calls it consciousness.

And Lord Buddha did the same thing. He didn't say NGON NYID YIN NO, he said YI YIN NO. He has an excuse, because he was making meter.

So eight, consciousness number eight is covered in the first line. What's covered in the second line? Seven.

Consciousness number seven. How many we got left? Six.

We got the first six. Let's see if he covers the first six. Those consciousnesses which NABARGRIPA use.

Which is aware of objects. Yeah, those consciousnesses which engage in objects, they are jukping objects. Those are the engaging ones.

Yeah, and that's a synonym for the six. When we say engaging consciousnesses, it's a synonym for the six. It means engaging in an outside object, okay?

So in this one quotation, a fairly reputable source has described eight kinds of consciousness. Who was the source? The Buddha.

Yeah, Lord Buddha. So if it's good enough for Buddha, it's probably okay, okay? So they're using this as the scriptural justification for a consciousness, including the two that only the Manjaro school normally accepts, okay?

Okay, anticipatory translation. I'm $100, except you. What's coming next?

We just finished it. What'd she say? Oh, you're hurting me, you're hurting me.

Okay, cancel the bet. Is that clear? Canceled.

He promised- Lung and Rick. Lung and Rick. He promised scriptural quotations, and then he promised- Logic.

Logic. So I would anticipate that the next sentence is going to be logic to prove a seventh and eighth consciousness. Let's go see.

If you want to send me $100. What? No, it's okay.

I've said everything before. Okay. Yeah, okay.

Okay, yeah. Who's going to read the word? Yay!

Well, by the way, in eight minutes, we stop this part of the class, and we have 15-minute conversation led by Mr. Worm to discuss how on earth could you use this stuff in your real life, okay? And that's where grandpa goes and has a coffee or something. And then I get to watch the news, which is fun.

Don't remind my friend. They didn't win this. They crushed this.

So I don't think I should pay.

[Speaker 3]
But how about- I don't know who are the eagles.

[Speaker 1]
Nevermind. Don't worry about it. Okay.

Okay. Okay. Pakpa.

Pakpa. Pakpa. Lankar.

Shake. Oh, wait. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Okay. Nipanyanikilungni. Good.

What's it mean, you guys? Number two. What's the anticipatory thing?

What are we expecting? Logical- Yeah, we're expecting- Well, actually, no, we're up to scriptural support of the second one, which is nyunyi. Okay.

Now, there was nyunyi mentioned in the last quotation, but that's not the main one. Okay. So now we're expecting scriptural support of negative consequences.

Okay. Here it comes. Ranggaaniidang.

Ranggaaniidangteidangyikinampashipadangpaano. I don't know. I don't understand that.

Gongdao Lei. Okay. Gongdao says- What I really meant, scripture says.

Yeah. Ranggaani- Provisionally speaking, or sometimes? It could mean sometimes, I think.

Yeah, sometimes. Kernchiknamashipadangpa. The foundation consciousness.

Is kernchikta jukpa. Is, yeah, hangs out together with, or engages at the same time with? Yeah, with another, with a certain other consciousness, and he doesn't name it.

Okay. Sometimes your foundation consciousness links up with another consciousness. He does not name it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then ranggaani- And what, what should we do? Is it a name?

Yi. Yeah, I guess it's gotta be referring to nyi-nyi, right?

[Speaker 3]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, and that's nyi-nyi. Oh, okay. Sometimes, sometimes foundation consciousness links up with another consciousness, which is messed up consciousness, which looks at foundation consciousness, and thinks they're nyi, okay?

Yeah. Then sometimes, nyi-dangte. Nyi, sometimes both of them, or two of them.

Yeah, I would say sometimes it hooks up with two other ones. Oh, and sometimes it's with two, the nyi-nyi and the mental consciousness, the mental awareness. But this could just refer to yi as the object of nyi-dangte.

See what I mean? I think it's nyi-nyi, and I think it's seven and six. Nyi-nyi-dang-te.

No, no, no, because the first one, okay, it could be. It could be, okay? Okay, we have to check our commentary.

Then this is easy. Rengan-nyi. Yeah, and if you speak in that provisional sense.

Oh no, sometimes. Sometimes.

[Speaker 3]
Here's just sometimes. Yeah, then once in a while.

[Speaker 1]
Sometimes that, and sometimes, yeah, I guess you could say sometimes your mind hooks up with kunshi, sometimes your mind hooks up with nyi-nyi, and sometimes it... And when you see jukpa in a mind-only book, think six. When you see engage, when you see the verb engage, think of the six.

It always means the six, okay? So jukpa nengpa shepa. Yeah, those that engage, those consciousnesses that engage.

Dukkha dang, all seven. Meaning also... Also nyi-nyi.

Foundation consciousness. No, I think he's talking about nyi-nyi sometimes hooks up with those seven. Okay?

I think. Let me see. Sometimes it hooks up with kunshi, sometimes it hooks up with...

Nyi-nyi and mental consciousness. And then sometimes it hooks up with... And sometimes it does all seven.

All seven of the other guys. Yeah, all the other. Okay, good.

Yeah, they all travel together. They all hang out together. Len chik juk.

Yeah, and by the way, there is no such quotation in that sutra, okay? And the closest thing is this. And it's not bad.

It's okay. Okay? But it's a little bit of a stretch.

And by the way, you could search for the number seven. It doesn't even occur in the whole sutra. I'd look forever and I'd find it again.

So there you go. Who's gonna read the next one? Oh, wait, you got any time?

You have two minutes. Two minutes, yeah. I'll pick Rosa, actually.

Come on, Rosa.

[Speaker 3]
Rosa!

[Speaker 1]
Yay! Yay! She's so happy she's trained.

It's only two lines and then you get to yell at word. Perfect. You don't even have to wait.

Which one? Sera.

[Speaker 3]
Okay. Sera dan pa wam pom po. Chupa la kun chi la nam pay ne pay chit.

Yang pa chan pay ni long chok.

[Speaker 1]
So pay suk ku so wo topo zen dan.

[Speaker 3]
Nice.

[Speaker 1]
Sera dan pay do. That's your favorite book, the Golden Land Sutra. By the way, it's the most popular sutra in Mongolia.

So every time I used to go there, I used to ask for a teaching. So it's called the Sutra of the Golden Land. Yeah.

Okay. Okay. In the 10th book of that, the 10th book of that Golden Land Sutra says, if you're able to jang out the yi, which kun chi, which ne is in kun chi.

If you are able to clean out the mentality or mind where the kun chi lives or where the kun chi stays. No, it stays in the kun chi. In the kun chi.

Yeah. Oh, it stays in the kun chi.

[Speaker 3]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
If you're able to clean out the yi. Oh, the mentality. Yeah, probably negative consciousness.

Which is fixated on the kun chi. Which is fixated on the kun chi. Because it believes kun chi is.

Me. Me. Okay, that's what messed up mind means.

Conscious number seven is looking at conscious number eight. Can we see? Yes.

If you clean it out, guess what happens? You can achieve the ku, the body that is long qi, which is enjoying itself all the time. Dzogpa, completely.

In the Buddha paradigm. Completely enlightened. Clean out the messed up state of mind, which is looking at the foundation consciousness, thinks it's me.

Clean that out, you're Buddha. Yay. Not bad.

Okay, we're next time. Yay. And there's the quotation.

By the way, it's the wrong bamboo. Oh, really? Yes.

Oopsie. Maybe it was a different edition again. Could be.

So, I don't want you to do that one. I want you to do... Sorry, these are all the...

Notes? Notes. That's too easy.

These two paragraphs, tek du and pung bo. Okay. Okay.

Tek du and pung bo. Okay. Okay, sure.

[Speaker 3]
See you next time. Okay, bye.

[Speaker 1]
Yay. I know, the torture is just starting. Okay.

So, this is when we have a discussion of the very practical uses of what you just learned. I know there's so many. You don't know which one to start with.

Does anybody have any ideas of how we can practically use this? I mean, the last line was to become perfectly enlightened forever. So, that could be one.

I don't know. Any ideas? Okay.

You're like, I take it back. It's not worth it. So, I've been confused if the foundation consciousness has all of your karmic seeds in it, right?

Right, right. And then karma is movement of the mind and what it brings. Mm-hmm, it's gone.

How, what are you left with after the foundation consciousness is gone? You've still got thought consciousness number six. True.

But you're not planting any karmic seeds because you don't have a foundation consciousness to plant them in anymore. And then are you creating karma anymore? You are, but we don't call it a karma.

Yeah, I was confused. Like, what does it look like at that point, right? Do you have subjects and objects anymore?

You do. We just had that part in the last book. Yeah, and I didn't understand it.

Yeah, you still have thoughts like, I'm me and I help people. That's what it said. Okay.

Meaning, even though you don't have, basically, my, yeah, second mic. Thanks. Thanks, Tim.

So, basically my understanding after nine painstaking years of trying to figure out this one point, because both books are totally about this one point, pretty much. And the question basically is, how do you use this in spiritual practice in this school? Okay?

Meaning, where is this all going? If I get rid of my kunshi, my foundation consciousness, is it like a lobotomy? Do I just, am I just like, or is it a way to get rid of it and still walk around and be able to do things?

Or is there some third choice that we didn't think of? And it's, I don't know, some third, third and a half choice. It's basically, you still have these mental capacities, but they don't call it karma anymore.

They don't call it kunshi anymore. Kunshi, it doesn't say it outright in all the books right away, but kunshi is actually like a dirty thing. Like it's like, even though they call it nyuni, like messed up mind, kunshi is messed up too.

It's like, and they say it, the reason they call it foundation consciousness, because it's the foundation of everything that's messed up. It's not just all the karmic seeds. It's karmic seeds that create negativity.

So you still have these mental capacities, but they don't call it foundation consciousness anymore. So you can still plant seeds. You can still think, I want to help people.

You can still be long choose, right? But you don't have a foundation conscious anymore. Okay, so if you can still plant seeds, where is it being planted then?

In your non-kunshi kunshi. Okay, all right, yeah, yeah, yeah. The seven and a half.

Eight and a third. Eight and a third, yeah. No, and to be honest, Jason Kappa, who is probably explaining the school better than anyone in history, at the same time doesn't belong to this school.

So he's also showing some of the holes in the logic of the school, which there are, because it's not the ultimate school. There is logic, there is holes in the logic. And it's, the mind only people would have you think, oh, he only taught this to the big boys, the non-cheapest, right?

But that's just to make them feel better, okay? It's just a step to get to middle way. So they use it as a step to get to middle way.

And because of that, there's holes. And if you examine those holes thoroughly, you can get you very far to the eighth, ninth level, bodhisattva level. But then you'll be like, wait a second.

So am I gonna be brain dead in a second if I finish this thing? And it's like, no, you still have a mind. You don't have to call it kunshi or anything anymore.

It's just your mind. One. Oh, I'll slow down.

Okay. Any other wonderful questions? Well, okay.

I've been thinking about practical uses of this school for like nine years, okay? Cause I'm forced to think about this stuff. It's my job.

And honestly, again and again, it comes to mind, comes to me that there are, for me, I have many logical loopholes in my mind, right? You think, I don't know. I argue all the time with Lydia, my partner, okay?

And I always think I'm right. It's horrible. But then like, you know, when the negative emotions go down a little bit, I'm like, oh yeah, huh.

Maybe she did have some valid points, you know? And it's kind of like that where we have to have a way in which we can examine our own minds. And if we just say, oh, the pen, and it's coming this way, it's kind of easy for us to be like, oh yeah, I believe the pen.

Yeah, it's coming. Yeah, totally, you know? But then there's all these nuances to us and our minds, which kind of, you know, we can kind of skip over and act like, oh yeah, middle way, yeah, pen, uh-huh.

And it's like, well, how happy were you today? Miserable, you know? You know, and so there's a joke like, your understanding of emptiness is directly proportional to your happiness.

And if you believe that, you're like, uh-oh, okay? What do I really understand, you know? And you know, I have my good days and my bad, but based on that, I'm more mind-only school than middle way.

You understand? So that's how I like to think to apply it. I like to apply it to the parts of me, parts of my mind that have logical issues.

Yeah, see, I agree. Anybody else? Are you just scared because you don't have to sit up here?

Okay, I'll tell you something practical. We're about to finish my book, okay? I'm very excited.

I'm very excited to be completing the book. I feel like the practical purpose of all of these books is to help clean out our minds, really. There's some beauty or magic to these books that if you even attempt to understand them, right?

And it's very difficult. I mean, Jason Copper wrote like 10,000 pages of the hardest philosophy ever. You know, I was a philosophy major in college, and it was very difficult.

These European philosophers, Descartes and Kant, and all these great philosophers, you know, Hegel and Nietzsche, you know? And Jason Copper blows them all out of the water. Like, no, it's...

And, you know, 15 years ago, when I heard my teacher say, oh, this is the hardest philosophy, we will debate one page for a month. And, you know, I'd be like, come on, a month? Well, I figure it out like that, you know?

No, I still, you know, I still haven't figured this book out. You know, you have to read it over and over. And every time you read it, something happens in your mind where kind of all the wrong thinking kind of just bubbles to the surface.

And it's, I don't know, it's like magic or something. It's just, I don't want to say there's anything in the book because that would refute the whole idea of the books. But for me, at least, there's something amazing that happens.

And I've had other people report it too. You know, it just, it does something. I think the effort, you know, the attempt to figure, to think about this stuff, there's some power in that, you know?

And it, I don't know, it just, something switches, you know, or something switches on. And I don't know, I think that's the most practical purpose of all of this, because otherwise it's just something on the shelf, you know, that it can't help anyone, you know? So that's what I think.

Yay! Oh, online, Anatole, please. What's your question?

[Speaker 2]
Oh, I just saw that you mentioned like, and I think it was brought up in the class today too, about when you actually remove your negative consciousness than your Buddha, and then something about like that happening at one of the higher Bodhisattva levels. But then in the Q&A, you said something about still having some mind-only ideas, I think, at the eighth and ninth level, but in actuality. And then I was thinking, isn't it in the highest school that you don't have mind-only ideas once you reach the first Bodhisattva level?

[Speaker 1]
I mean- I see, I see. Yeah, I get you. Okay, so Anatole's question is, this is how I teach.

This is, she's imitating me. So Anatole's asking, Jason Kappa seems to say these things that happen on the eighth and ninth level, according to the mind-only school, right? And he says, basically on the eighth level, you reach no more negative emotions, okay?

And so, which means you can't have a messed up state of mind anymore. And then on the ninth level, you start to reach extremely subtle states of mind where you can't think things are, even your thoughts are not coming from you in a way, right? And then finally, Jason Kappa says, or he quoted on when you reach Buddhahood, you will reach Buddhahood if you completely destroy the negative consciousness.

Okay, but Anatole's question is, isn't it true that anyone who sees emptiness directly is middle way and therefore, as soon as you get to the first Bodhisattva level, you shouldn't have any mind-only type ideas in your mind whatsoever? I would say, exactly, well, he's saying, yeah, exactly. According to which school, Ina says, I would say this, Anatole, as far as I could say, you could be an Arya on the first Bodhisattva level and understand emptiness, but still have subtle obstacles, omniscience in your mind, which would then be arguable of when and how you got rid of them.

And so then it could be that a mind-only school understanding could take you to the eighth or ninth level, even though you were an Arya in a middle way sense. What? What?

What? What? What?

What? What? Hold on, I'll tell you when I get there.

Okay. Okay. That's time.

Yay! And now we'll have the news with Juan Hasso. Good work.

Thank you, Juan. Thank you as well. Yay!

[Speaker 2]
Okay. So this is gonna be challenging because I'm having something that is team around. What?

Yes, yes, yes, yes. Tim was teaching me the other day about, oh, the seat is very warm. High intellect, but down there, I don't know.

Yeah. Yeah. So Tim was teaching me, I don't know where Tim is, but he was teaching me about rich people's problems.

And I think this is one of those because now we have so much content that 15 minutes is not enough, but we'll try. Let's move quickly. The most important news are, no, well, really, you can follow our channel.

If you want to present something, just email us. You can follow Instagram or watch recordings on YouTube website and come every Monday and every Saturday to the classes where we show the news. But really, I think it's the classes, the real jewel are the classes.

And Get Your Michael teaches us. Thank you so much every Monday and every Saturday. Thank you.

That's the next news. No, it's actually very interesting story. It's like when your teachers force you to bet against him.

What do you do, right? But I took the bet and the bet was we have to support the brotherly friendship city, Philadelphia Eagles. And yeah, then I don't know.

I never win these things, but yesterday I won. So thank you so much. He didn't ask me.

He just say, you're gonna bet for this team. I'm gonna bet for this team. Give me your hand.

And I say, okay. So, but what I find very beautiful is that the Philadelphia Eagles are supposed to be the brotherly loving city of brotherly love. And then because of that, today I was thinking about what happened in the morning.

Next picture, please. So this is the YSI team. They invited me to participate in one of their talks.

It was very, very fun, very, very beautiful. You guys can watch it if you want. Just talk to them for the link.

But, you know, I felt it was a great opportunity. Thank you very much. For interconnection between organization is really, really great.

I was hesitant a little bit to do it, but Benji was very skillful. He sent one of his troopers and she was very smart because she talked to me and it was like, you wanna do it? And I was like, I don't know.

And she was like, if you do it, you can invite our audience to your programs. And I go like, okay, that sounds good. You know, in this business, I say that there is many threats, very few bribes, but they did it well.

So they invited me and we have a lot of fun. Next picture, please. And wait, no, the video.

I just want to share something very beautiful that the YSI people also organize. And I just want to thank them because I think that's, to see these kinds of things happening in the world, I don't know, when I say the world, I mean in the daily life, it's very, very beautiful. So please, if we can share the video.

We did go to the nursing home because I think it's Benji and Teresa's idea. Thank you for taking us. I never go, thank you for dragging me there.

I actually enjoy it very much. So thank you so much. And yeah, so I'm very happy to, as Petrie World News, to serve as this part of interconnection between all the organizations.

I think we are a big family. So I'm very grateful for that. And I want to show you a download of a few events that are coming up.

The ESCU is having an event on March, actually. We, some of us are going to Japan. They are doing their events.

There are other events happening, but Xiaoping shared with us a very cool video I want to share that summarize a little bit of what they did in 2024. So you have a little picture of what we're going to be doing in Japan. So next video, please.

As far as I understand this year, you're going to be having events in Japan, in Sedona, in New York. It's going to be very exciting. Let's see how it goes.

We wish you the best for this year as well. While other things are coming up, we have this interesting, very interesting visit to the Dunhuang Caves in the desert happening in April. We also have, we should be watching the pictures.

And we have also the visit in Diamond Mountain in April. And we also have, for example, the event in Mexico. And yeah, just a quick download on what's going on.

So we are very grateful on this event. Thank you very much, Connie. I don't know where she is.

Thank you very much, Eric. I don't know where he is, but oh yeah, awesome. And I would like to invite you and Yuki, because I know you have special talks for all of us.

And while they come to the stage, I just want to mention that I hear Teresa is coming to Mexico in a few weeks. I don't know if you knew about that. She's going to be teaching Lady Niguma level two in Guadalajara.

So if you happen to be in Guadalajara, which for whatever weird reason I'm going to be there, maybe you want to take the level two with her. You can follow the curriculum. But she's teaching in Spanish, which is cool because it's rare when you get to hear a teacher in their native language in Spanish.

You know what I'm trying to say. Okay, Telod, what are you up to?

[Speaker 1]
Okay, thanks, Juan. We are finishing up a program with Geshe Michael, the Bhagavad Gita, the first chapter. So thank you, Geshe Michael, for teaching.

And part of what we've done is we've created an auction. And there is five minutes left. This auction is for a huge digital archive, special teachings on the notes from Geshe Michael for the Gita, his private notes from this course, so stuff that he didn't get to teach that's still there.

I found a recording of the person that taught us how to chant, Shankar. So there's a lot, and there's 600,000 pages of searchable files on the one flash drive. So the auction, the three bids so far, we're having three winners.

First winning bid, $5,000, thank you very much. Second, 1,300, third, 1,200. So you have four minutes.

[Speaker 2]
Four minutes, but we start late. We keep talking, we keep talking.

[Speaker 1]
So you have till the start of class time to bid. I wanted to share a few things that are going on with YSI coming up. Some of the things that YSI is doing this year is we're really focusing on the Leyden Aguma teacher trainings.

And we will be running those with groups in Russia. So we'll be doing all three of our level one program, the foundation, the master, and the teacher training. And that will certify teachers to be able to really have a very thorough understanding of yoga and how to teach safely and properly, inner and outer methods.

And we'll run that program with Pranam Ruh in Russia. So really happy with that program is really expanding and exploding. So those are the dates.

We'll also be running that program in our Chinese market through our distributors in China. And Yuki, do you wanna share a few things about that? In Chinese?

[Speaker 3]
In Chinese.

[Speaker 1]
So if you are English speaking, go to the translation channel. Okay.

[Speaker 2]
Many graduate from last year. Lots of people are curious what we're teaching. So we really welcome you to join our Leyden Aguma course series and eventually become a yoga teacher.

We'll start our foundation level in February. If you haven't signed up, please contact your distributor. And Juan just said, thank you.

[Speaker 1]
Yuki is gonna tell us if there's a new bid. We have another two minutes and I'll tell you about a few more programs. First off in September, we'll continue with the Bhagavad Gita.

Geshe Michael and I just met and plotted our plan. So look forward to that. It was amazing.

I actually tried to convince him not to teach the Gita and I'm so glad he said no. I was like, let's teach a different text and he said no. And I just, it was such a cool program and text and I was so happy that he didn't listen to me.

We'll teach also the Yoga Sutra, the second chapter. Oh yes. Here's the auction item.

Picture of Geshe Michael. This is the picture that's on my meditation room. It's my favorite picture of Geshe Michael.

It's him playing bass at a concert, playing Jimi Hendrix, Voodoo Child. And that contains the digital archive. A couple of courses, we'll be doing a program called Yoga for Negative Emotions, which sounds funny.

Yoga to get rid of your negative emotions. A very beautiful program using yoga methods to help control our negative states of mind. Introduction to Meditation, really focusing on getting to level four of meditation.

If you don't know what level you're on, that's a problem. We need to know what level we're on, the problems of that level, the solutions to that level, and the techniques on that level to get to the next level. So we need to know the map.

And that program is a beautiful program. It's about developing the map to get to stage four. Any new bids, Yuki?

Yes, no. No, okay. So congratulations to the winners.

We'll reach out. Thank you very much for supporting YSI for supporting this program and for Mixed Nuts and Peachtree for sharing the stage.

[Speaker 2]
$20 for like, fan.

[Speaker 1]
It's fine. Absolutely. All right.

[Speaker 2]
All right, well, thank you, Geshe Michael. Okay, and finally, just to welcome Dr. Sejerao and Geshe Michael again to the stage, we want to thank DCI, because look how many things they have provided for this wonderful production. You don't know, but your butts are comfortable because of this man.

So you should thank him. He brought all the, well, he let us use all the chairs. He provided the beautiful screen.

He provided the car for Gina and Francisco and some of the equipment. So thank you, Seji, very much. Thank you for being around.

Thank you for your friendship and please have a great class.