Сяопин Джоу / Элисон — Книга 2: Самоцвет истинного намерения (Панчен Лодро Лексанг о «Виная-сутре»), занятие 3

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Курс: Xiaoping Zhou / Alison — Book 2: The Gemstone of True Intent (Panchen Lodru Leksang on the Vinaya Sutra) — Diamond Cutter Classics
Урок: Занятие 3 («Xuanzang's Tower»), встреча 22.01.2024
Ведёт: Геше Майкл Роуч, Элисон Сяопин Джоу (перевод на китайский)
Дата и место: 22.01.2024, место не указано
Источник: YouTube, канал Diamond Cutter Classics, плейлист PL1KVm5jgTljRBpdDsc-GnPM-ab-9EEPLy; расшифровка TurboScribe
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[Speaker 2]
Greetings, everybody. Good evening. Good afternoon.

Good morning. It's good to have everybody here. It looks like Allison is preparing herself already.

I want to thank everyone for coming. I want to, in advance, thank all the translators who are working so hard to help deliver this message in real time. I don't understand how you do it, and I don't do a good enough job to speak slowly most of the time and support you.

But we're all going to do our best today. We're so grateful for you, grateful for everyone who showed up today. Allison, are you standing by and ready?

Oh, yes. Thank you so much. We can see your screen.

But can you hear me? No problem, right?

[Speaker 1]
Quite well.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, good.

[Speaker 1]
Do you want me to sit here?

[Speaker 2]
No, no, no. I think they can see me here. And then by like, yeah, I open my, my video.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, great. There we go.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Here we go. Thanks, Dr. Thank you. Thank you.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah.

[Speaker 2]
So first question. A penchant for black stone, wrote a book, which is the name of the test. Today, an ornament of the true intent.

And Geshe-la translated as a gemstone of the true intent. Why is it an ornament? It goes on here already.

The book's already incredible. It's a comment of the comment. The jewels which go on top, right?

Yes, yes. Because it's a commentary on a commentary on Vinaya. So the original commentary is already beautiful.

So that's why we, it's an ornament. Yeah. Second question.

[Speaker 1]
Wait, does he get $100?

[Speaker 2]
I did an offer.

[Speaker 1]
Talk louder.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Second. We got a cheap teacher here.

[Speaker 2]
Please list four masters who are considered Vinaya holders in last class.

[Speaker 1]
Never been accused of that. Who's that first one? Come on.

[Speaker 2]
Do you know?

[Speaker 1]
I know the answer.

[Speaker 2]
Okay. Anybody else? Okay.

[Speaker 1]
98.

[Speaker 2]
Anybody remember? I remember.

[Speaker 1]
That's one. That's counts as one. She said.

[Speaker 2]
Oh, by Stephen. Okay.

[Speaker 1]
So we're going earlier than that.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Earlier than the author for them. And I asked her to. Who?

[Speaker 1]
I'll give you a clue. It starts with.

[Speaker 2]
Okay. I'll give them the best one for free. It's upali.

Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
25 bucks. Okay.

[Speaker 2]
Hey guys, just to remind you. You have to speak extremely loud because people. Okay.

Any other people?

[Speaker 1]
We got one.

[Speaker 2]
Yes.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah.

[Speaker 2]
Usually, normally we don't consider him as. We talk about it in the. Okay.

Last course. Yeah. Yes.

[Speaker 1]
That's three and we only have an hour for class. You guys.

[Speaker 2]
Okay. So the last one. Or Dharma Mitra.

Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

The last one. Please list some of the words of Vinaya by the second Buddha, Je Tsongkhapa. Yeah, but make a whole list.

And it's, but as long as you answer one, it's fine. The Brief Essence of the Ocean of Discipline, the Work Outlining the Vows of Individual Freedom.

[Speaker 1]
That's the name of half the books in Tibet. No, I'm kidding.

[Speaker 2]
I'm kidding.

[Speaker 1]
I think Venerable Pala answered, can you repeat? The Brief Essence of the Ocean of Discipline, the Work Outlining the Vows of Individual Freedom.

[Speaker 2]
Wow, you remember correctly. Wow. Okay, here's a whole list.

[Speaker 1]
That must be about my race.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, so here's the list, but it's difficult for us to remember all of them. So just now is this one, The Brief Essence of the Ocean of Discipline, or the Vows of Individual Freedom.

[Speaker 1]
Where have we seen that book before?

[Speaker 2]
Yes. We spent years on it.

[Speaker 1]
We spent six years on it.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, we spent six, seven years. Not really. Yeah, my last book is a commentary on this book.

Okay. Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Wait, the second book is interesting.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Who knows about this second book here? Five pages, it's a letter. Vinaya.

Oh, that's the ACI, what was it? Nalangja Three. Yeah, ACI.

[Speaker 2]
ACI Three. Oh, sorry.

[Speaker 1]
Three.

[Speaker 2]
Meditation.

[Speaker 1]
It was the, we translated the whole thing in, no, it's in the ACI class on Vinaya. Oh, nine. Nine.

Nine, I think. The Relationship Between Vinaya and Meditation. Yeah.

[Speaker 2]
Do you want to go through all of them, or no?

[Speaker 1]
No, I think that for me, the Nam Tseg Teng, Nam Tseg Teng, down below, I think it must be. Yeah, there it is. Nam Tseg Teng.

[Speaker 2]
Nam Tseg Teng.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
I gave a long teaching on that at Diamond Mountain in 2000. 12, something like that. That's true.

It was a very good commentary. Okay, it disappeared until they were finished. Great.

No. Okay.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, three Tibetan words. No Tseg Teng.

[Speaker 1]
I'm not sure that's correct. No? I don't know what that is.

Ray, organize it. It should have a saw before the nu. Oh.

Oh, okay, S-N-O-D.

[Speaker 2]
Oh, okay.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, nu du kye. Nu du kye. Okay.

Okay. Okay. Yeah.

Okay. A really good organizer, like Geshe Michael. What's the Sanskrit for nu?

[Speaker 2]
Maha. Maha. No?

[Speaker 1]
Pitika.

[Speaker 2]
Pitika, oh.

[Speaker 1]
Like tripitika.

[Speaker 2]
Tripitika.

[Speaker 1]
Great.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
That's good of scripture.

[Speaker 2]
Okay. Okay. Second one.

Naya hongzhen. Yeah, just.

[Speaker 1]
The Naya hongzhen.

[Speaker 2]
Naya hongzhen.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah.

[Speaker 2]
Third one. Zhoi du, S-O-N-O.

[Speaker 1]
Say again.

[Speaker 2]
Zhoi du. Zhoi du. Okay.

Either way. Okay. Okay, either way.

[Speaker 1]
Three dreams.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, third one.

[Speaker 1]
Three dreams.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, three dreams. Ethics, meditation, wisdom.

[Speaker 1]
Yay.

[Speaker 2]
Two paragraph. Words.

[Speaker 1]
Words translated.

[Speaker 2]
I asked words.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. Let's go backwards, okay? Let's go backwards from the fourth line.

Okay, ready? So, du means what? Bunro is an animal.

Yeah, bow down. Du means bow down. I bow down with kupa.

Respect. With great respect. At the shop.

Foot. Yeah, at the holy feet, please. Okay.

Two people. Lekpa dundrup. Okay, from the end of the third line.

Lekpa dundrup. It's a personal name. It's somebody's name.

It's a person whose name was Lekpa Dundrup. And there's another person named Rinchen Drakpa. Those two du's.

Okay, these two guys. He's bowing down to these two people. Lekpa Dundrup and Rinchen Drakpa.

What did they do? They served up lekpa. Well.

Very good gaten. Gaten means a dinner party.

[Speaker 2]
Festival.

[Speaker 1]
Gaten means entertainment for... Oftentimes, a book is called Entertainment for the Wise. I like that.

I like it. They say, like, Deer Party for the Wise. Or something like that.

So, oftentimes, they'll call a book The Wild Party for the Wise People, or something like that. Gaten means, like, a really nice wild party. Gaten, okay.

So, they made a gaten. They created a gaten. For who?

For droas. Sentient. For all living beings.

They prepared a party for all living beings. Okay. Well, what kind of booze did they serve?

Well, there was a boomba. Kumbhaka. Right?

There was a big pot. Sangbo.

[Speaker 2]
Beautiful.

[Speaker 1]
Wonderful. Lek means great. Lek.

Tam means filled to the top. Big balut tams means full to the top, okay. They offered everybody a big bottle of beer.

Filled to the top, okay. Where was the beer? In their coop.

Okay.

[Speaker 2]
In their mind?

[Speaker 1]
In their heart. Yeah, in their heart. The beer was served in their heart, okay.

What was it filled with? Tutti. Nectar.

In Sanskrit? Amrita. Amrita.

The nectar of deathlessness, okay. They had a dinner party. They served big bowls of booze, filled to the top, okay.

And they served it in people's hearts. And they filled their hearts full of this booze, which is amrita.

[Speaker 2]
Nectar of deathlessness.

[Speaker 1]
Tutti, okay. What was the tutti made of? Lekshe.

Good explanation. Yeah, good explanations, okay. From the gyud.

Their lineage? Lineage of Dambha, holy people. Okay, so it's one long sentence.

Very difficult. These two dudes who, Lekpa, Dundu, and Rinchen, Darpa, I bowed down to their feet. Why?

They threw a party. Oh, for who? All living beings.

What did they serve? Booze. Amrita.

The nectar of immortality, okay. In these, where was the booze kept in people's hearts? Okay.

What was the immortality booze made of? Lekshe.

[Speaker 2]
Good explanations.

[Speaker 1]
Great explanations of what topic?

[Speaker 2]
Vinaya.

[Speaker 1]
Vinaya, okay. Now, I'm going to ask that Xiaoping hire for free. Hire for free, either word or nick or bend.

They're going to go find out if these two people ever wrote a good Vinaya book. Because maybe they did and maybe they didn't. Maybe these are just his teachers and they didn't write a Vinaya book.

He bowed down to Kheduji and I don't think Kheduji ever wrote a Vinaya book. You know, this is supposed to be a Vinaya lineage bow down time at the beginning of his book. But it seems like he's throwing in some teachers he just likes.

Okay. Now, somebody has to go check the BDRC database, see if there's these two authors, see if they ever wrote any Vinaya. If they did, what are we going to do with their book?

They're going to input it. So we'll have it in our hands as we go through this very long translation. This is a 30, 40 year project.

And we're going to need all the resources we can get. He's crediting some great teachers of the past. If they wrote anything about this topic, we should have its input.

And so we can search it when we have a question. So this appears to be two Vinaya duwazenbas.

[Speaker 2]
Lineage holders.

[Speaker 1]
Lineage holders. But it could be just some teachers he had. And it's possible we don't have any of their books.

And it's possible they never wrote a book. Okay. Got it.

They just threw a party. All right. Got it.

Nice. Okay. Next paragraph.

Okay, good. We have to go completely backwards here. Okay.

The syntax in English is the complete backwards of the Tibetan. So we can go to the end of the line. I'm going to jar this book.

This jar means composed. Okay. Usually it means to join together or something like yoga, huge, jar.

Okay. I'm going to compose this book, jar. I'm actually, it's not a book.

I'm going to put together for you a true sin. True sin. A boat.

A boat.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
I'm building a boat for you guys. I promise to build a boat. This is the Tsongpa Dam Chawa, $100.

Tsongpa Dam Chawa, $100. Tsongpa Dam Chawa. Come on, Arun.

Tsongpa Dam Chawa. Huh? Not even a word.

Not even a word? Word's asleep? Clutch to compose.

Yay, $100 for Dr. Kramer. At the beginning of every Buddhist book, the author will say, I promise I'll write this book. And they either die or they finish.

And we do have books where the person died halfway through. They were carved halfway. And it goes halfway through a sentence and it stops.

And you start the next book and you go, where's the rest of the book? We say, he died. So it's a very serious thing.

It applies to translators as well. I will either finish this book or I will die trying. This is where he promises.

And it's always, it's a standard thing at the beginning of a Buddhist book. I jar, I will. And he doesn't, he uses a pun.

He says, I'll put together, and then it could mean a book, right? Then he says, it's not a book, it's a boat. I'm putting together a boat for you guys.

What's the name of your boat? Gongyans.

[Speaker 2]
Onamin.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, a jewel of the true intent. And we already talked about jewel in the homework. Okay, it's extra dressing on the true intent.

Gongyans, of the dik chen, the great commentary. Dika is a Sanskrit word for commentary. In Tibetan, it's often, if you need a one-syllable word for commentary, you put dik.

The real word is dika, okay? And then the typist in our organization always type it wrong. Okay, it's dik, it's not dika.

Yeah, it should have been dik, some genius corrected me. Dik chen, say dik chen. Dik chen.

Okay, chitin, you guys know. Chitin? It's a meeting that'll, it's a general presentation.

Yeah, general presentation, as opposed to a tach, which is a dialectic analysis. So chitin means a general commentary. General commentary, yeah.

So he's promising us a general commentary. What's it called? Gongyans, okay, the jewel for the true intent.

The gem of the true intent? What gem should I say?

[Speaker 2]
Gemstone.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, let's call it gem. I'm trying to get out of the joke, there's so many, okay. I promise to write the book.

Okay, last line here is, I promise to write the book. It's required when you write a Buddhist book. You have to promise at the beginning.

A Buddhist does not undertake a project that they don't intend to finish, period. Or don't undertake it, don't do it. Okay, choose your projects wisely.

You will get old, your hair will fall out. Things will stop working in your body. You know, choose your projects wisely, but then commit, commit to them.

Okay, he says, I commit to build this book, okay. Which is his book, okay. Why?

Pen chidu, chidu means in order to. Okay, chidu means because what I want to do is pen. Yeah, I want to help people.

Who do you want to help? That soaks up dooljahs.

[Speaker 2]
Oh, yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Who soaks up disciples? $150. What's the Tibetan word for disciple?

[Speaker 2]
Dooljah.

[Speaker 1]
Dooljah, but what does it mean?

[Speaker 2]
To be tamed?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, the wild horse to be tamed. Okay, and if you think about it, the English word kind of means that. Disciple.

Yeah, someone to be disciplined. Okay, so in Tibetan, so she made 50 bucks. You pay you 50 bucks.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
So I'm writing this book because I want to penba.

[Speaker 2]
Benefit.

[Speaker 1]
All those dooljahs, big tsok. So tsok can mean a tantric festival.

[Speaker 2]
Connection.

[Speaker 1]
And tsok can also mean a big bunch of people. So here it means a big bunch of people. Who?

Dooljahs.

[Speaker 2]
Disciples.

[Speaker 1]
What kind of dooljahs are they?

[Speaker 2]
Fortunate.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, kelsang, which means?

[Speaker 2]
Fortunate.

[Speaker 1]
They have the good karma to finish this book. Or they have the good karma to hear this book. And only one person out of 10 million has the karma to hear this book.

Okay, it's very rare. Kelsang means people who have their karma to be in this class. And you think it's not so special, but your future Buddha will disagree.

That's the best goddamn thing you did in that lifetime. Okay, kelsang. I'm writing this book to help all the lucky people.

Why? Because they want to do, I'm sorry. They do, they want.

Okay, they want, do, do. They want to go to the paro tu chenpa borobolo mi do.

[Speaker 2]
The other side?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, the other side. Yeah, they want to cross to the other side. The meaning of prajnaparamita is to cross to the other side.

They want to cross to the other side. So what are they going to need?

[Speaker 2]
A book.

[Speaker 1]
A book. And then he compares samsara or, then he says, if you study my book, I'll get you to the paro tu chenpa. I will prajnaparamita you to the other side of the getso.

But his getso is the teachings on duwa.

[Speaker 2]
Vinaya.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, and he says, look, these vinaya teachings are like an ocean, and they really are, okay? The first part of the pangyur is like 16,000 pages of vinaya. The very first part of our holy books is 16,000 pages of vinaya, okay?

It's like an ocean, okay? Good. Duwa getso, ocean of vinaya, okay?

You're going to reach it because I'm making you a boat, but you're going to need somebody to steer the boat. Okay? Which in Tibetan is teypun.

Teypun means captain. You're going to need a captain of the ship. You can get on the ship, but someone's going to have to drive the boat.

Okay? Who's the boat? Who's the boat captain?

Yeah. Yongzin kepa. Say yongzin kepa.

[Speaker 2]
Yongzin kepa.

[Speaker 1]
Yongzin is a high, high, high word for a lama or a spiritual teacher. Okay? Usually only the two teachers of the big lama are called yongzin.

My teacher's teacher was the yongzin. Very rare. Okay?

So kepa means wise man. Now, put it all together. I'm going to put together, I'm going to build a boat for you.

It's like Noah. Noah, I'm going to put a boat together for you. What's the name of your boat?

Oh, it's the Jewel for the True Intent, which is a general treatment of vinaya. Okay? Who are you making this boat for?

Lucky people who have enough karma. Well, what do they want? They want to cross over the ocean of vinaya scriptures.

They want to master the vinaya. Okay? And by the way, I'm also supplying a captain.

Okay? A ship captain. Yongzin kepa.

And that can refer to his own teacher or it can refer to other teachers.

[Speaker 2]
Okay? Okay.

[Speaker 1]
He just gave a long list of the lineage. So he could be referring to all of those guys. These are great, great masters who can sail your ship.

[Speaker 2]
Okay? The previous masters.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. He's inviting you on a boat. He's inviting you on a luxury cruise.

I saw an advertiser, isn't it? It's a three-year cruise or something like that. It's like, what is that about?

This is a 30-year cruise with Captain Xiaoping.

[Speaker 2]
You mentioned 15 years. So now, Xiaoping is 30?

[Speaker 1]
Well, it's 20 years just to get to grow up. Your mom took care of them. Are you done?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, thank you. Can I have the seat? Yeah, you have the ship.

Okay, let's have it. Let's try this seat.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. Let me do something here. Okay, good.

We finished this one.

[Speaker 2]
Finished two.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. I've got these little things here. You might notice on the input of this particular book, we've got these weird DDs, okay?

It doesn't mean attention deficient disorder. And I made a rule when we started inputting books 35 years ago, I made a rule. If there's a carving of a picture in the book with a caption, you have to put DD.

When you're typing the book, you have to put DD. And then you have to write the caption under the picture. Usually it's a Lama's picture, okay?

Or a deity's picture. So it's a rule for our input operators. When there's a little picture carved on the side of the book, and I'll show you one.

Where did you go? Okay. Okay, got these pictures here.

See? By the way, that's Upali. So going back to our text here.

So I require the typist to put the name of the picture plus DD. So if you are looking for a picture of a certain teacher, you can tell our search program. Where did those AMO guys go to?

You can tell the search program, look for this teacher's name near, within one line of DD, and it will find you. And I found the only carving in the world out of 141,000 books in Russia, we have the only carving of Choney Lama, for example. The only one.

And we found it because of this system. So respect the system, understand the system. Someday, if you translate a book, you're looking for a picture of your author, you just might find one, an authentic picture, which is really cool.

Okay, all right. Yeah, can you read the, Sheldon, can you read the first line and a half?

[Speaker 2]
Oh, okay.

[Speaker 1]
Up to the cursive.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Stanley's going to correct her, as he usually does at home. Well, maybe it's the other way. De La, he's not saying, he's wise.

[Speaker 2]
De la di den chok duwa dok tsarwa chakpa la go de way wang du chay ne?

[Speaker 1]
Chay ne. What's a den cha? We had a big discussion in Tim's book.

Classical commentary, shastra, shastra. These are commentaries from ancient India on the sutras and tantras, okay? Sutras and tantras go into a collection called the?

Kangyur.

[Speaker 2]
Kangyur. Kangyur.

[Speaker 1]
And then the classical commentaries to the sutras and the tantras go into the Kangyur. Then the Tibetan commentaries go into a place called Sombong. Sombong.

So, I'm going to explain to you, chakpa means, I will explain, chakpa, okay? A den cha called duwa dok tsarwa. The root sutra on vowed morality.

I like to translate vinaya as vowed morality. By the way, can you have vowed morality which is not monastic? Yeah, the one day vows, okay?

So, vinaya is not just for monks and nuns. Vinaya covers lay people also, okay? So, you can't say it's this section on monastic vows or something like that.

It's not. It's eight different types of vows and one of them is a one day vow. One of them is a lifetime layman's vow, okay?

So, it's really vowed morality, promise, morality where you make a promise is called vinaya, okay? And duwa, but is it a dok? No.

Vinaya sutra. Yeah, vinaya sutra is similar to the yoga sutra. It's not a...

[Speaker 2]
Sutra.

[Speaker 1]
Sutra, because the definition of sutra is it has to be spoken by a Buddha, okay? So, in this case, dok doesn't mean sutra. It means...

[Speaker 2]
Short book.

[Speaker 1]
Short book, okay, short book. So, dok, the word sutra can mean short book, okay? So, and some of them are 100,000 verses.

Okay. So, I was going to make a commentary to the vinaya sutra. Who wrote the vinaya sutra?

Yeah, gun means good qualities.

[Speaker 2]
Gunaprabha.

[Speaker 1]
Gunaprabha means light. Gunaprabha. And he wrote it around 1,300 years ago.

It's not a sutra. It's not a 2,500-year-old sutra, okay? He wrote something called the vinaya sutra.

It's long and it's difficult, okay? We're required to memorize the root texts in the Geshe course, but we are given an exception for vinaya. It's too long, okay?

The short book is too long. And there are many commentaries on the vinaya sutra. And this is, in my opinion, okay, listen, out of hundreds and hundreds of commentaries, this is the best.

This one is the best, okay? It's unbelievable, okay? And unfortunately, it's kind of long, okay?

So, here it is, Shepala. And you came in at the beginning. You were there at the beginning.

You can tell your grandchildren. I was there when Shanti started. She's almost finished.

[Speaker 2]
Thank you.

[Speaker 1]
We call it dewa ko. Ko is an ancient word for understand, okay? Or actually, it's a modern word for understand.

Dewa means easy. So, what's ko dewa?

[Speaker 2]
Easy to understand.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, hey, I'm going to write a commentary, which is so easy, even an idiot can understand. Okay, so, ko dewa. By the way, when a person is kind of goofy, we say, ko dewa.

[Speaker 2]
Ko dewa.

[Speaker 1]
He's the ko dewa. He's like, hey, hey, hey, hey. He's the ko dewa in modern Tibetan.

And this book was written 500 years ago. And he's saying, I'm writing this, wang tu che means in that style. What's he mean?

You guys are not so smart. I'm going to write it easy way, okay, guys? He's trying to get you to not give up in the first page.

He's like, don't worry. I wrote my book to be understandable by anybody. Okay, all right.

And I'm going to cover it in, oh, okay, anyway. Who's going to read the next section starting with Shun, Shelby?

[Speaker 2]
Oh, I need to pick people?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, you're already boring.

[Speaker 2]
Correct.

[Speaker 1]
Don't forget, you got people in this room you can embarrass. I don't mind to stand up.

[Speaker 2]
Oh, okay. Ting Niu Yen, would you like to read?

[Speaker 1]
Yay, Ting Niu Yen. Yeah, thank you. He la yi ten chu.

He's starting at the beginning. We're going to start in the second line.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, second line.

[Speaker 1]
Right here.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
From Shun, right? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Shun so so she pa cha wa yin pe.

Tok ma nge pa chung we sun trim ki wang tu che te. Whoa. She pe kap su rang luk sak pa thang.

Shen luk gak pa yi le thang po la. Ah, yeah, that's unbelievable. Tell me that word that you learned from it.

Okay, all right, here we go. What's shun mean? Shun can mean a major text.

It can also mean a major highway, and it can also mean the federal government. Okay, it has three meanings, okay? So shun, here it's major text.

So so she pa cha wa yin pe. She pa cha wa yin pe means I'm going to have to explain the sections individually. There's many, many sections to the Vinaya Sutra.

So he says, I'm going to explain each section of this great class separately. So so she pa, okay? And then we're going to start with, tok ma means to start with, okay?

Tok ma means start. Tok ma means at the start. And then he quotes a book, okay?

There's a short quotation here from another book, okay? Here's the quotation. nge pa jungway tsultrim gi wang du che.

Say, nge pa. nge pa. jungway.

jungway. tsultrim.

[Speaker 2]
tsultrim.

[Speaker 1]
Wang du che means on the topic of, or on the subject of, okay? It's an idiom. It has the word power, but it doesn't mean that.

Wang du che means on the subject of tsultrim. Morality. Yeah, and then he says a very, very, very important thing.

He describes that morality as nge pa jungway. Nge jungway. Renunciation.

Renunciation. Okay, so whoever wrote this quotation, they're saying, let me tell you a little bit about the morality that helps you get out. Because that's the literal meaning of renunciation in Tibetan.

Let me tell you a little bit about the morality that helps you get out, okay? And supposedly you understand what he means, right? In other words, this person who wrote this line thinks that Vinaya's function is to get you out of samsara.

Okay, let me tell you a little bit about the morality that gets you the hell out of here, okay? Somebody described Vinaya like that. Who was that?

Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun. In the red color, right? Nge pa jungway tsultrim kyi wang du che te.

Okay? It's the very first line in Vinaya Sutra. Got it?

It's the opening lines of what? The Vinaya Sutra. The most important Vinaya book ever written.

It's the first line, okay? Why'd you write the book? I want to help you get the hell out of here.

Okay, nice. Which means keep your morality. Do not hurt other people, period.

Be nice to other people, period. Why? Nge pa jung.

You can get out. You can get out of here. Nge pa means definitely you can get out of here.

That's the opening line of the most important Vinaya book ever written. So what's the first line he should write his commentary about? Duh.

He's quoting the first line of the mother book of Vinaya. Okay, got it? And the first line is so sweet.

It already means you should not hurt other people. You should be nice to other people because then you can get out. Okay?

It's beautiful. Nge pa jungway. The whole essence of Vinaya is in the first line already.

It's like a master stroke of a sword, you know. It's like he killed the other guy in the first session. Oh, did you want to fight?

Oh, sorry. Kap sir. Okay, when we're commenting on that, and by the way, when we're explaining to you what he means when he says keeping your morality gets you out, okay?

There's a rang nuk shakpa. Wait for it. That was a foreign version of...

We'll hear from our side. We'll hear from our side. What does that imply?

Yeah, exactly. Yeah, and then we're going to hear from those guys who don't agree with him, which is the ancient method of presenting Buddhism. Okay?

You let the other guy talk, and then you destroy him, okay? That's the Buddhist principle. By the way, what's the third part of that system?

Subhadra. He gets to come back and attack you on your attacks to him. And then, of course, you prove he's wrong, all right?

But the fact that he gets to come back in a traditional Tibetan scripture, the other guy presents his idea, we destroy it, then we present our system, and then he gets a chance to come back and destroy our system. And I think it's wonderful. It's like philosophical democracy, okay?

I think it's... And it's the best way to learn in the whole universe. To hear two guys argue about something is the best, it's the sweetest way in the universe.

And to respect the other guy and let him come back and attack us again. You got any more problems? You want to punch me again?

You know? Your nose looks pretty broken, but if you want, try it. All right?

Okay, it's real sweet, okay? So he has modified that structure, okay? His system, in his book, on this topic, which is, no, what's the first line mean?

On this topic about what does the first line mean, we're going to have some debate. Maybe we'll get different ideas about what it means to get out, okay? Or maybe we'll have an argument about what's vinaya, okay?

But first of all, in this particular question, the author prefers to present his idea first. And then he's going to let the other guy come and attack him, okay? Which is nice.

Very democratic, okay? So there's the original quotation in red. And we're going to start here, Shelby.

Who's reading?

[Speaker 2]
Okay. Rob, you want to read it? No, we can sit here.

We can sit together.

[Speaker 1]
By the way, this kind of couch would be good. Okay.

[Speaker 2]
This kind. Okay.

[Speaker 1]
She's buying a couch for tomorrow for the palace.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Good. Sorry. What does that one say?

Yeah. Good. Okay.

Gopay. Gopay. Yik-cha-le-she-bar-chao.

Nice. Now, there's a point up here that I didn't mention. When he talked about the title of his book with the metaphor of a ship on the ocean, okay?

And he said, I'm going to fix for you a ship on the ocean. He called his book jewelry or a necklace that I'm going to put on the great commentary. And that great commentary is by the first great teacher who was a student of Je Tsongkapa, okay?

So technically, his commentary, massive commentary, is a commentary on a pretty big commentary on Vinaya that was written by a student of Tsongkapa, okay? And then later he became the first big lover, okay? So here he says, I'm going to show the Jawa connection, good, between the earlier parts of the text and the later parts of the text.

I'm going to show you the flow. I'm going to demonstrate the flow of the Vinaya Sutra, okay? And also the commentary by that first person, okay?

Then I'm going to go into a general presentation on the general meaning of those classics, probably Vinaya Sutra, okay? I'll tell you, I'll give you a little overview of the Vinaya Sutra. Then I'll give you the detail.

Chedak Deshepa means, then I'm going to smash the whole thing down into tiny pieces and feed it to you. And that will take us 40 or 50 years to finish. So it's amazing, it's unbelievable, okay?

I'm going to take, chedak du means I'm going to break it down into pieces. And I'm going to explain the meaning to you, okay? By breaking it down into pieces.

The meaning which is locked up in the pieces put together, I'm going to break them out and show you the meaning, okay? And that's the whole commentary, okay? The first two steps are like one sentence each or something.

Okay, here's the first part that he promised, which is kind of the flow, the general flow of the Vinaya Sutra. Faith. Shepard Zhang is, you can learn it from someplace else, okay?

She Zhang, right? You can learn. You can learn the first point about the flow.

Just refer to this other book, okay? I'm not going to cover it here, okay? What's the other book?

It's a yukcha, Tim. Yukcha. It's a monastic textbook, which means it's either a tattoo or achievement, okay?

Which monastic textbook? The one that I wrote. Dak yi kupa.

Dak yi, the one that I wrote before on Vinaya. You want to know the flow of the Vinaya Sutra? I'm not going to repeat it.

I already wrote that in my other presentation. Okay, so he's referring to another book that he wrote on Vinaya. This one is huge.

This one is massive. And it gets bigger because it's often printed with another one, by the same author. And they kind of hang together as one book now.

And I think he's talking about what we put at the end, which is the second half. It's like a 10-year project. When we finish the first 40 years, we can start his other commentary, which is usually glued onto the end of this one.

[Speaker 2]
No.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, all right. So it says, you want to know the flow? I did it already.

Go read the other one. Are we going to do it now? I think not.

I think it would be too confusing. I'm not going to go there. When we get there in 30 years, you can remind me.

Somebody raised their hand in class one day. He was a scientist from Bell Laboratories, one of the best scientists in America. And he said, he asked my teacher, he said, how long is this going to take?

How long can you teach us? How long is this course? And my teacher said, well, the first part is 20 years.

And the guy's like, what? And he says, 20 years. And the guy's going, what?

And he says, my teacher says, I can teach you for 20 years and not repeat a single thing. Do you believe me? And the guy's like, I don't know.

He was honest. He said, I don't know. 20 years later, in the same room, my teacher stopped the class.

He said, he goes like this. 20 years finished. Hey, you.

And then the guy was still there in the same chair. And he's like, did I repeat it now? And the guy's like, what?

Did I spend 20 years without repeating anything? He goes, yeah, you did. So if you're still around, we'll cover this point later.

Okay, who's going to read this part? Shelby, who's that?

[Speaker 2]
Oh, the YSI people.

[Speaker 1]
She pronounced your name wrong. Sorry. She always means Mr. Hungry. That's not too far off. Thanks, Shelby. Okay.

Nipaala Gundro Gundro gi nam shak chir tempah dang juh jah sol trim ki nam shak jay jahk tu shaypah Oh, froze. Terrible, terrible, Jack. Chirbam dur dur ki nam shak shaypah dang sum.

Hey, nice. Thank you. Nipaala means, he promised us two parts here.

It's kind of like he's going to, it sounds like he's going to talk about the other person's opinion now. Remember he said he was going to allow the other person to complain? Okay, so that technically, that's the second part here.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry, he's not talking about that. He's talking about this second.

I'm going to give you a general overview of the book, okay? And then he says, to give you the overview, I'm going to start with gu dral ki nam shak. Say gu dral.

Gu dral. Ki nam shak. Ki nam shak.

Say, guh sol chir shi. Guh sol chir shi. Again, guh sol chir shi.

Guh sol chir shi. Okay?

[Speaker 2]
I'm sorry, I was thinking of your seat.

[Speaker 1]
Oh, I know, I see the ballpoint. Okay. Very, very important beginning of a Buddhist book, okay?

And it's after the pledge to compose the book, comes a, what do you call them? It's a warranty of value. It's a statement of the value of the book.

And what it is, is it's a promise that this book is high quality enough to waste your life on, okay? And it's a promise. It's a four-part statement of quality.

It's like a quality stamp at the beginning of a Buddhist book. Say, guh sol chir shi. Guh sol chir shi.

If the book has guh sol chir shi, it's worth spending your next 20, 30 years in. If it doesn't, it's not. So in a Buddhist book, in a commentary like this, first, the first job of the author is to prove that his book passes the requirements for a great book.

And that book should have four qualities, okay? They're called guh sol chir shi. We'll get into it.

So first he's going to, gun drak nam shak chir tenpa means, I'm going to prove to you that this book has the four qualities of a book which is worth spending your irreplaceable lifetime on. Guh sol chir shi tenpa. Then I'm going to give a, chir drak tu shepa means, I'll give a detailed presentation of all the parts of children.

Valid morality. Morality. Valid morality.

Sorry, morality. I like to call it ethics because morality has a bad name in the United States. No.

It does. It's some kind of conservative Christian or something. So if you say morality, people either run away or fall asleep.

Okay. If you say ethics, they're like, oh, okay. Juh ja means the topic of my book.

Juh ja means the topic of my book. So first I'm going to prove to you that it's a good book. Second, I'm going to give you all the details of the book which is the massive 20, 30, 40 years of, okay?

And we're going to talk about the subject, juh ja, of morality. And then we're going to do some chodon. Chodon means related points.

Some debates or questions that were brought up by the main book. Chodon. Oftentimes, chodon will mean, for example, den je gyel jang lu tun dang lu mi tun la tokpa je.

Den je gyel jang lu tun dang lu mi tun la tokpa je. Two lines out of Maitreya's Abhisamala Ankara. And they spawned hundreds of books.

Two lines gave birth to hundreds of books. Those books are called chodon of the two lines. Chodon means I'm going to expand on some topic, okay?

And it happens to be the two lines for the Wheel of Life. Those two lines started hundreds of books on the Wheel of Life, okay? So chodon means, I'm going to give you a little sense of what other topics were born out of this book, okay?

Other topics that were born out of this book. Chodon, dor du means briefly. Nam shag, I'll give you a presentation, shepa, soon.

I'm in a little rush because I want to get to those four qualities of a good book. And I don't have the wise-eyed people here all the time. And I want to use the time with you guys.

And I really want you to reach the debate on what makes a book worthwhile. What makes a book worth studying, okay? So I might steal a little bit of your conversation time because it's very rare for me.

So who's going to read?

[Speaker 2]
Wise-eyed president, Connie, would you like to read? I'm not going to read.

[Speaker 1]
We have two madame presidents up here.

[Speaker 2]
Thank you, Allison. Where am I? Dangpola, there?

Okay. Okay, don't forget. You're going to correct me because I'm reading terrible.

I got a Canadian accent. Not that Earl does. Okay, Dangpola.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, now there's a carving error here, okay?

[Speaker 2]
Oh, no.

[Speaker 1]
Dangpola ngundel ngakla. Okay. Forget this thing.

And thank God you have grandpa to correct stuff. The gal was a mistake for ngakla.

[Speaker 2]
Ngakla.

[Speaker 1]
All right? You got to pay me for those. That's it.

Dangpola ngundel ngakla. Okay, that was great. Yes, la.

Yes, la. No one appreciates me.

[Speaker 2]
I appreciate it.

[Speaker 1]
I fixed this carving. It's been broken for 500 years. I fixed it.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. Ngakla. You're paying ngosok.

Gusok. Gusok, thank you.

[Speaker 2]
Ch'u shi ngozhun wa dongten ch'u lu. Is that right? Ch'u lu la.

You're paying ngosok. Gusok.

[Speaker 1]
Gusok.

[Speaker 2]
Ch'u shi ngozhun wa.

[Speaker 1]
Ngozhun wa.

[Speaker 2]
Ngozhun wa. Dong ni le dong koni.

[Speaker 1]
Yes. Very good.

[Speaker 2]
Thank you. Very good.

[Speaker 1]
Thank you for some drugs before the class. Okay. So, that quality stamp at the beginning of a Buddhist book, it should have good draw.

Say good draw.

[Speaker 2]
Good draw.

[Speaker 1]
Good means there must be a statement of a worthy goal. An important goal. That's called guh.

Okay. It means necessity, actually. Okay.

So, all Buddhist books must start with a statement of a worthy goal. Okay. It's called guh.

Dau. And then they should, dau means, is this book connected to that goal? Right.

Right. Okay. Dau means connection.

So, every Buddhist book has to be evaluated in two terms. Number one. Does it have a guh?

A statement? Is it going somewhere? Is it going to help me reach something?

And then dau. Does the book help me reach things? Okay.

Guh means, is there a worthy goal? Dau means, is this book going to get me there or not? Is this book connected to that goal or not?

That's called dau. It's very beautiful. Guh.

Is there some high goal that we're going to reach? Dau. Does this book help me reach it?

And you shouldn't read a book if it doesn't. You shouldn't waste your time unless you're going to live forever. Okay.

If your hair will never fall out, you can read all the other stuff. You can read unrelated books. Okay.

Go ahead. Okay. If you're going to die, please try to find books with good dau.

Because you don't have time. You think you have time. Oh, look, you're so old.

I'm young. I was young in the class yesterday. I don't know what happened.

Trust me. You'll be sitting here explaining the book at 71. I used to be sitting in the room.

Good dau. Good dau ngak la. Good dau ngak means, ngak means speech.

In Sanskrit, vak. Speech, right? Vocal comes from that, okay?

Vak. So good dau ngak means a statement of purpose and connection. A statement of purpose and relevance.

Okay? This book has a goal, and this book is relevant to reaching that goal. And then every Buddhist book should have a ngak, a statement at the beginning.

A statement that this book has a high purpose and it's relevant to reaching that purpose. Then there's a statement of that in the beginning of the book. That statement should specify the four parts of the contract, okay?

And you wanna know them now?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
In case we don't get it. Does this book have an ultimate purpose? Like, does it have an ultimate goal?

Is there a... Sorry, cancel that. First one is subject matter of the book, okay?

The subject matter of the book. Secondly, is there a short-term goal of the book? Short-term goal of the book.

Oftentimes, it's to finish the book. Okay? Is there a short-term goal here?

Yeah, like finish studying Vinaya. Is there a long-term goal? Get out of samsara.

So those are called short-term goal and long-term goal, okay? You start with subject matter. Does it have a short-term goal?

Does it have a long-term goal? And then the fourth one is called connection.

[Speaker 2]
Does this book have a connection?

[Speaker 1]
Does the second one connect to the first one and does the third one connect to the second one? And that's called internal connection.

[Speaker 2]
Can you repeat that?

[Speaker 1]
Does the short-term goal relate to this book? And does the long-term goal relate to the short-term goal? And so the fourth requirement of a good book is called relation.

[Speaker 2]
Relation.

[Speaker 1]
Does two relate to one? Does three relate to two? Four, four is two relates to one and three relates to two.

Got it? Cool. You can get short-term goal if you depend on the book.

And if you get to the short-term goal, you'll get to the long-term goal. Long-term goal is in the Vinaya system. What's the big emphasis in the Vinaya system?

Lowest school. I talked about the six flavors the other day. What was the first flavor of the emptiness?

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
You're going to die. You're going to die. You know, impermanence.

Okay. In fact, their emptiness is the fact that nothing's not impermanent. They're so hung up on impermanence.

They're like, what's emptiness? Emptiness means nothing's not impermanent. Okay.

They're hung up on that. Okay. Their goal is, can you stop death, for example?

Can you stop death? That's their long-term goal. So what's the short-term goal?

Study this book. If I study this book, will I get to stop death? That's the promise.

That's the contract at the beginning of the book. Okay. If you study the subject matter of this book, if this book has subject matter, if you study it, you will understand how to stop death.

And then you will stop death. And there's a connection between the book and those two goals. That's the statement at the beginning of every Buddhist book.

To put it briefly, every Buddhist book has to give you a valuable goal, short-term goal, and then a valuable ultimate goal. And it has to prove to you that the book will get you there. And if it doesn't, don't read the book.

And don't study it. Got it?

[Speaker 2]
Geshe-la, what's the typical name for this?

[Speaker 1]
Gusop Chushi.

[Speaker 2]
No. Oh, Gusop Chushi. How do you translate it?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, the four qualities, starting with the four qualities Four qualities. with the most important part of them being goals. Goals are the other, goals are the other of the four qualities.

The four qualities that include goals is the name of this section. And you show up at a monastery and the first, and they say, he's studying with Geshe Michael, you know? And then lama say, oh, really?

And then he'll say, this happened to me, so I know. And say, what's Gusop Chushi? And you're going to say, I don't know.

But that's the opening of every Buddhist book. Does it have a goal? Does it have an ultimate goal?

And is there a connection between the book and that goal? Okay. So the first thing some teacher's going to ask you is I'm studying scripture and Geshe Michael, oh, really?

What's Gusop Chushi? That's where someone's going to check you. Okay, just say something about connections, rituals.

Okay, Gusop Chushi.

[Speaker 2]
Geshe Michael, so you mean in every ancient text is that the long-term goal, do they always say that get out of samsara or to reach Buddhahood?

[Speaker 1]
You tell me. School.

[Speaker 2]
It's the ultimate, right?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, what's cool.

[Speaker 2]
That's the ultimate. Yeah, depending on the school.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, what's cool. Yeah, but every Buddhist book should be covering at minimum, freedom from suffering. At maximum, helping all living beings, okay?

Okay, got it?

[Speaker 2]
I've been talking to sutras and all the commentaries.

[Speaker 1]
All tantras also, all commentaries. Now, the answer to your question will be that Gusop Chushi must be presented either directly or implicitly. Either there has to be a formal statement.

My book has the four parts. Or it should be obvious to any intelligent person that their book has the four parts.

[Speaker 2]
Also, it could be implicit.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, yeah, it could be implicit. Okay. Okay, that's allowed.

So we can use this as a- No, we don't read books that don't tell you how to get out of samsara or to help a living being. We don't waste our time on other books or other activities. Unless you need to see a movie to keep your sanity.

Which happens to me. Okay, Gusop Chushi. Musunga means what?

By the way, forget the poverty and poverty.

[Speaker 2]
It's fine.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. Mungzin Musung. Identify?

Yeah, he's going to identify them, okay? He's going to give a statement at the beginning of his book which identifies the short-term purpose, the long-term purpose, and the connection of his book to achieving those two purposes. Okay, got it?

And not only in his statement at the beginning of his book, but in his whole tenchu, in the whole shastra, is going to be a Gusop Chushi. The whole book, okay? So he says, you want a Gusop Chushi?

You want a statement of purpose? Okay, I'll give you two. Wow, where?

Well, first at the beginning of the book, I'll give you a statement. And then I'll give you a statement in the rest of the 40 years of study. Okay, was that enough for you?

Got it? So the statement of purpose has a statement of purpose. And then the whole tenchu, lu means the whole body of the scripture, has a statement of purpose.

And I'll tell you what they're going to be. I'll explain them to you, okay? I'll give them to you, okay?

Got it? That's the promise of our author. We still have a little bit of time.

Who's going to read, boss? Come up here.

[Speaker 2]
What, would you like to read?

[Speaker 1]
He's got to be here anyway.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, look at this, yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Mm-hmm. Okay. Tenchundi gusok.

Gu, how? Gusok. Gusok.

Sok. Sok. Yep.

Chushipote. Gusok. Tundrel ki ngak ndi jo chayin.

Now, it's cute. Does your statement of purpose have the four things? Okay.

Are you going to, do you promise your book has a purpose? Yes. So your promise should have the four qualities.

[Speaker 2]
Mm-hmm.

[Speaker 1]
Gaya? Mm-hmm. That little promise should have the four qualities.

Do you promise your book has the four qualities? Mm-hmm. Do you promise your book is relevant to our short, suffering life?

Yes. Does your promise have those four qualities? Do you promise your whole book has relevance to our short, suffering life?

Yes. Does your statement that your book has those qualities have relevance for our short, suffering life? Mm-hmm.

Is your opening statement enough to help us get out of suffering?

[Speaker 2]
Mm-hmm.

[Speaker 1]
Do you guarantee that the statement of guarantee has a guarantee?

[Speaker 2]
No, no.

[Speaker 1]
It's cute, right? Mm-hmm. Here we go.

DENG CHEN GYI GUSO CHU SHUG PA'I DE'I The four qualities of the entire commentary are what my promise is talking about. The fact that my whole book has the four qualities is what my promise to you of the four qualities is talking about. In fact, it's the first of the four.

We said the first of the four was the subject matter. The subject matter of my promise to you is another promise. My promise is already a scripture.

Yeah.

[Speaker 2]
It's done.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. And it is. And it is.

When you say my book will help you not to die, already you brought up the most important thing in this school. It's death, you know? I promised you my book would help you with your death.

Wow, I'm so relaxed because you finally brought up something important. Even your promises brought up something important. Even if you died today and I died today, at least I heard somebody say, I have a book that helps you not to die.

Well, man, that's cool. Even the promise of the four has the four. You see, you got the point?

The promise that this book has the four already has the four itself. Yummy. So the dzun dzang means the first of the four, which is subject matter.

Okay, so dzun dzang means, he could have said first of the four. He said subject matter. Even my promise has the subject matter.

Okay, got it? All right. Now he's going to describe, we read this last part.

Ne? Shall we?

[Speaker 2]
Ne?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, stay there. You can't go anywhere. Yeah.

[Speaker 2]
We have another question.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, we have our world news. Ne ka kyi go pa se. Ne ka kyi go pa.

That's the name of the second of the four. Okay, the first of the four is called dzun dzang. Dzun dzang means subject matter.

Whether it's the subject matter of the promise or the subject matter of the book that you're making the promise about. Okay, and the second, what's the second thing, Iris?

[Speaker 2]
Short-term.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, short-term. Ne ka means short-term. Here, ne ka means short-term.

Go pa means goal. Okay, short-term goal. Okay, what is the short-term goal?

Finished the book. No, but what's the short-term goal of the promise? $300, $300.

$300, I'll say it again. Wait, calm down. $300.

$300. What's the short-term goal of the promise?

[Speaker 2]
All right. You need to read the book. You understand the four.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, you're cheating. I think you've read it.

[Speaker 2]
No.

[Speaker 1]
$300. Yeah, $300 for standing. Okay.

$300, okay? The short-term promise of the whole, the whole short-term promise of the promise is that you will understand the four if you read my promises. That's the short-term goal of the promise.

The short-term goal of the promise is to understand that the book itself has those four.

[Speaker 2]
No.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, the short-term goal of the promise is to understand that the whole book has those four qualities. Okay, cool?

[Speaker 2]
Cool.

[Speaker 1]
Why did he, why did he make the promise? He just wanted you to understand that the whole book had those four qualities. Okay, got it?

So there's four qualities of the promise itself. And then the promise is about the, the promise is a promise that the book has four qualities. But the promise that the promise, the promise that promises that the book has four qualities should have the four qualities itself because it's part of a Buddhist book.

Got it? And very cool. Very cool.

Okay, I think I think we're done right now.

[Speaker 2]
One minute left.

[Speaker 1]
Well, one minute and I can say, I think we better stop.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah. Thank you so much, Keshe.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, you're gonna translate this too.

[Speaker 2]
Okay. Thank you.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, and by the way, then he's done with Gosop Trishu.

[Speaker 2]
Oh, the four.

[Speaker 1]
He's done with the four qualities. What's that bold part in the middle for 10 cents?

[Speaker 2]
Picture.

[Speaker 1]
Picture? Yeah, BD. When you see BD, there's a picture there.

And I did not, I just said drawing, drawing. I was in New Delhi in a hot office with no electricity and three bored young ones who were very tired and I went BD, okay, got a BD. And they're like, yeah, sure.

Okay, I'm going home. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do.

[Speaker 2]
I'm going to watch the news. Thank you. You're the heart of the news.

That's why I'm following him. Thank you. You're welcome.

I was gonna go talk at popcorn.

[Speaker 1]
Yay. By the way, this is the part where you can't even do it. I hope you're ready.

Am I good here?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Here. Where? Okay.

Thank you, everyone. Thank you, Geshe-la, for the class. Very beautiful.

Thank you for being. So as many of you may know online, well, the audience here, of course, you know, but for those of you online, these days we're having a very cool and special program, which is done by Yoga Studies Institute. What?

Okay, cool. So yeah, we are in the middle of a very cool event done by. Excuse me, Juan.

I'm sorry, Juan. Could you please not speak so loudly? It's blasting out the speakers.

Thank you. Thank you. All right.

I pushed the microphone a little bit out of the way. Okay. Everybody calm down.

Okay. We have YSI in the house. They are doing like a very cool event and here they are with us.

So please give them the welcome. Welcome. We want to invite some of the most important members of the team.

Everyone is important, but they are like very crucial part of the field. Vanilla, please. Earl, we would like to invite as well.

Geshe-la to come with us. This here, please.

[Speaker 2]
Sorry, Juan.

[Speaker 1]
Well, well, well, well, well, well. So we are planning a very special activity, but first we would like Connie to tell us a little bit of what's going on here. Like why are we here today and doing this special thing?

[Speaker 2]
Thank you, Juan. Thank you so much. We actually wanted to talk to Geshe-la about the revival.

Geshe-la calls YSI the zombie organization.

[Speaker 1]
Rolang.

[Speaker 2]
Rolang.

[Speaker 1]
Rolang. Rolang means dead body and lang means dead art.

[Speaker 2]
You told a beautiful story the other day, Geshe-la. You're a teacher of Chai. When you told about people doing yoga and then after your retreat, you went left ways around the United States.

That kind of started, I think it was the start of YSI. Yeah. And then after we came out of three retreat, you took Earl and Rosa, and then you bought this guitar.

And we were just wondering about the whole, maybe if you could speak a little bit about the role of music or what this guitar has to do with maybe even the Hatha yoga.

[Speaker 1]
Well, in the Hatha yoga, they talk a lot about the sound of the chakra. So the chakra's making music. Whoa.

And so I do play music. I think music is important for young youths to play. And there's an interesting comment in the one day vows by my teacher's teacher that Xiaoping and Stanley helped to translate actually.

And they say no playing music during the one day vows. And then my teacher's teacher, who was the greatest teacher in Tibet at that time, said, unless the music has higher meaning. And then basically it comes down to music has higher meaning if you give it higher meaning.

So all music has higher meaning. And all music can help your chakras. Same as asana.

Even rap music? Yeah. Yeah, it's a lot easier than all those asanas.

[Speaker 2]
Yes, so we were wondering if you wouldn't mind to sign that guitar because we're going to use it in an auction. And we would like you to write Nekarasa on that and your name. Later on, whoever wins it in the auction, we can put there and I can put it there.

[Speaker 1]
This way. You guys take the end. Okay.

[Speaker 2]
So yeah, I love the idea of auctions. It really helps fundraise for YSI.

[Speaker 1]
Kishla, can you speak about the meaning of Nekarasa? Yeah, we talked about Nekarasa in the class. Eka means one and rasa means taste.

And what it means in this, in this, can I sign it? Yeah. Okay.

What it means in this case is that all music has a single taste or a single element in it, which is, it elevates the chakras and it can help open the chakras. All music is Nekarasa. All music has the one single delicious flavor.

Yes, so we will- That's the Sanskrit spelling. Edamanagari and then sound, Nekarasa.

[Speaker 2]
Thank you, Kishla.

[Speaker 1]
So we were talking about Nekarasa, meaning one taste, everything being equal, especially in regards to emptiness. And then we were creating an auction to raise money for YSI so that we can continue to offer a lot of scholarships to these programs. And then I thought, well, an auction's not very Nekarasa.

Like only one person wins an auction. So we wanted everyone to be part of what we do with YSI. And we did a road trip.

We were doing a yoga sutra chapter two road trip. And cousin Vinny and Bob came up to interview Geshe Michael. And the road trip was about a question of, can we reach unshakable faith or unshakable love?

And they were sitting at the porch at Geshe Michael's house. And so this whole road trip culminated in this one last question. It was a search for the answer to this question.

Can we find unshakable peace or unshakable love? And they asked Geshe Michael this question. And this dove came, this white dove came and flew right where they were sitting.

And then they recorded a song called Endless Love. I think. And so there's a link on the, there's a QR code for that song.

So if you want a piece of that story and a piece of that crazy love and that unshakable love, you can get that recording. And if you want a piece of the guitar, we'll auction it off. We'll auction it off.

And those funds will go to support YSI. And it's actually quite a high quality. Yamaha is a very high quality.

What's the story of the guitar? I have no remembrance of it. I gave it to someone.

Yeah, I was learning to play classical guitar and I was carrying one around and I had to leave it and I gave it to the person.

[Speaker 2]
Would you like to play that?

[Speaker 1]
No. I like the recording. I really like it.

Yeah, can we watch the recording? Yeah. I think we've got a little intro.

Here we go.

[Speaker 2]
Well, nice.

[Speaker 1]
Oh, it's a silent recording. Yes, it's a silent music recording. You've got to turn your head.

I can hear her heartbeat a thousand miles and the heavens open every time she smiles. When I come to her and in prayer I belong. When I run to her like a river of song she gives me love, love, love, love crazy love.

She gives me love, love, love, love crazy love. She's got a fine sense of humour.

[Speaker 2]
You're muted, Connie.

[Speaker 1]
We're observing the Eka Rasa anthems of their voice. This is Bob Sereno. I'll talk a little bit while we're getting the audio worked out.

That was such a beautiful moment. I was super grateful to share that. Someone once said, how much did you guys practice before you recorded that?

I was like, well, that was our second time playing. We had a blast. It was a really sweet way to finish.

As soon as Mike is ready, we can get back to you guys. Cousin Vinny feels like an integral part of YSI's team. If you're the cool solo, that's Cousin Vinny.

Beautiful vocals by Kesha Michael. Is your mic working yet, guys? Not quite yet.

If you want to win the guitar, and you're in the mainland China, there you go.

[Speaker 2]
There you go.

[Speaker 1]
We had an image of your great grandkids, the graduates of the YTT. We wanted to announce some dates for our YTT this year, and the trainings that we'll do this year. These will be the Lady Naguma teachings based on what Kesha Michael brought out to the world after his three-year retreat.

Those are the first graduates of the YTT. Great group with Zhang Qian. This is the Rod Dimond's graduate list.

Starting to put to an hour our YTT graduates out into the world and bringing up the next generation of yoga teachers, which we shouldn't think of as teaching on a yoga mat. It's so much more than that. If you'd like to have your little picture, we'll be doing these trainings throughout the year.

I really look forward to continuing to spread Kesha Michael's teachings and to really have an opportunity for people to go in depth. We are out of time.

[Speaker 2]
Thank you, Kesha Michael. Kesha Michael, thank you so much. Thank you.

That was a great time. Thank you. Thanks, Michael.

[Speaker 1]
Thank you. We will have to show that song because I saw it and it's very beautiful. Soon we will have it.

Maybe we can buy it and if they let us share it with all of you, we will. But in the meantime, you should buy it. I think it's very, very beautiful.

What I hear, it's amazing. Geshe-la singing beautifully, playing the guitar. It's a very, very beautiful song.

We want to invite you as well to sign up for the Lady Nilguma Yoga Teacher Training. If you are not yet watching the Hatha Yoga Pralitika 3, please sign up. The teachings are amazing.

What?

[Speaker 2]
It's pretty good.

[Speaker 1]
I don't know.

[Speaker 2]
I think they are going to give me a car or what.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. Geshe-la has a new frog and the license plate just arrived. Here we have it.

Congratulations, Geshe-la. It was a birthday present, probably. It's not easy to get that.

Amazing. Congratulations. This, unfortunately, is not to be auctioned, but the guitar is.

Which two? Me and the truck. You're older than the truck.

Not for auction, none of you. Please sign up. Sign up for Hatha Yoga Pralitika and see you tomorrow.

We are going back to the next class, which is Adam Andrade. We are planning a New Year's Chinese event. It's going to be on Friday, February 9.

We are planning cool surprises. I won't tell you more for now. Sign up.

It's going to be very fun. Chinese New Year, the year of the dragon. Geshe-la is a dragon.

He will know a lot about those years. He's going to inspire us, tell us some cool stories. See you then.

Go back with Adam Andrade.

[Speaker 2]
Thank you so much, Juan. Thank you, Teacher World News. Adam, you are off the hook.

It's not really you tonight. It's me. I suppose I can give us some homework.

Which is what everybody really wants. Yay. Cool.