Сяопин Джоу / Элисон — Книга 2: Самоцвет истинного намерения (Панчен Лодро Лексанг о «Виная-сутре»), занятие 6

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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 6 (дорожка c006, по плейлисту — встреча 13.04.2024)
Ведёт: Геше Майкл Роуч; Элисон Сяопин Джоу (ведёт занятие вместе с ним, читает тибетский текст, ведёт 15-минутное обсуждение)
Дата и место: 13.04.2024, Diamond Mountain (Аризона)
Источник: YouTube, канал Diamond Cutter Classics, плейлист PL1KVm5jgTljRBpdDsc-GnPM-ab-9EEPLy; расшифровка TurboScribe
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I mean, this webinar chat thing. Can you turn it off, you guys, on my screen? Yeah, there you go.

Slows, nice. Good, yeah, so that's actually the most popular book so far, and it has sold amazingly dozens. And, yeah, so, no, I'm just, the strategy is we translate the books, not many people want to read them, and then we create courses out of them, business courses, and those are very popular, and there's about 200,000 people taking those courses.

So that's cool. So that's emptiness meditations. This is also a good general book for learning how to meditate.

We included the whole translation of Kamalashila, Bhavana Karma, how to meditate, in here. So there's several books inside about how to meditate, and there's a very rich emptiness meditation in here. So that's a nice book to get.

It's called The Door to Emptiness. If you've heard about Chi Chedrak, or this is a basic idea about how the mind works and how the mind creates mental pictures and how we perceive the world, this is a book about that. It's a whole book about Chi Chedrak, and that was completed by Adam Andrade.

Good job, Adam. It's called The Golden Key. This is the commentary on the most famous book on Mind-Only School.

So it's a good explanation of the most famous presentation of the Mind-Only School. Very deep and very difficult, and Wordsmith completed this one. This is a book that just came out.

It's two volumes, because it was too fat for one book, because the fat head of the translator, which is Nick Lasher, and it's called Nothing is the Way It Seems, and it's one of Nagarjuna's most famous books on emptiness. It's called The Sixty Verses, and it took about eight years of hard work, and it's an amazing translation and amazing commentary. So if you're interested in emptiness, going deeper, this is a great book to go deeper about it.

We just finished this, and most of these, I think you're more likely to see the e-book come out first, and we now have a dedicated Diamond Cutter Press app for your phone, and you can get all the e-books and the app at the same time, okay, on your phone, and it's an amazing commentary. There are very, very few commentaries on The Sixty Verses. That's why we chose it.

It's one of his five great books. Cool? This is Ben Kramer's book.

It's called The Great Ideas of the East, A Survey of 101 Enlightening Belief Systems from Ancient Asia, and this is a genre book called Siddhanta, which means studying all the schools, and what's the difference between the schools, and what do the different schools teach? So in one book, you can get a survey of 101 different schools, and it's very, very cool, very, very, and very difficult, and Ben did a good job on that, and that's already been turned into a DCI course, advanced level two, I think, and it turned out to be a great DCI course, so we take most of the translations, which nobody can read, and we turn them into courses for people around the world, and we have, I think, about 140,000 people took that course, so it's pretty cool.

All right. The Sunlight on the Path to Freedom, that's a commentary on Diamond Cutter Sutra. It's strange that in history, there have only been a few commentaries on the Diamond Cutter Sutra.

I can't think of any normal commentary from ancient India. There is one by Kamalashila. It's heavily mind-only.

This is a more general commentary from the emptiness point of view by Choney Lama. It's the best commentary I ever saw to the Diamond Cutter Sutra, so if you're interested in the Diamond Cutter Sutra, you should get this one. This is called Stopping the Circle of Sadness, and it's Sugeng Shi's translation.

By the way, the last book was me and Ellie, and this book is me and Sugeng Shi, and it's a monastic textbook on the Wheel of Life, so if you're interested in the Wheel of Life, this is the deepest presentation I ever saw, and my teacher taught it to me about 40 years ago. It's tough, and it's beautiful. And by the way, Sugeng's now working on a deeper commentary from about 2,000 years ago, but this is from about 500 years ago, and it's quite amazing.

So if you're interested in the Wheel of Life, and we put in all of the pictures of the Wheel of Life, and the explanation of the pictures, and some of the early sutras that tell the story of the Buddha. The Buddha painted it three times, and the stories are quite amazing. These are the two existing sutras of the Medicine Buddha, and there's two Medicine Buddha sutras that still exist.

One we found in a stupa in Afghanistan, carved onto tree bark, and we saved it, and John Brady's team saved it, and we translated it. So these are the two great Medicine Buddha sutras. That's all there is.

Medicine Buddha's practice is pretty succinct. There's not a lot of books about it, but these are the two sutras, and it was very difficult to find them and to translate them, and we finished them. This is called All the Kinds of Karma, and there are two great books in history about karma correlations.

If you do this, you get this. If you do this, you get this. And I was in Austria many years ago, and I was teaching about that topic, and Renate and Norbert asked me, could you translate those two books?

And this is the first one. This is called All the Kinds of Karma. It's by Lord Buddha himself, and it's a sutra where he gives all the possible actions you can do, and then the karmic result that you will get from each action.

And we found the carvings at Bodobudur, and Gina Rivera from Guadalajara, she and her team created drawings from the carvings, the ancient carvings, and it's very beautiful. We also found the Sanskrit, saved the Sanskrit, so if you're interested in Sanskrit, you can use the Tibetan is here and the English is here. Hopefully Spanish soon, I guess.

And then there's the new, the second great book on correlations is the one I showed you this morning. Do you guys have that? The three notebooks?

Yeah, four, yes. It's been disappeared. What's the karma of stealing Darwin?

I'm just kidding. So this is the second great book of correlations. It's four notebooks like this, and we finished it this week.

It took eight years, and it was hard. There's a lot of words. And that's Seiji Arao Takahashi, did this translation, and it's amazing.

And it's the greatest lojong in history. And in that lojong, they give all the karmic correlations. I used this book 25 years ago when I wrote the Diamond Cutter Business Book.

I used this book for the correlations in the business book. So you can find it here, the original. And that will be publishing very soon.

We're going to start Xiaoping's text. I'm going to leave all these books here, this week. Please don't take them out of, well, I don't care.

Take them home, read them if you want. Please bring them back, okay? Every day, all right?

Give other people a chance. But you're welcome to take them home or take a book and read it and see if you like it. You can get them all through the Good Night Book Club, which we'll talk about probably Monday, okay?

Is that good? All right, good. All right, here we go.

Oh, okay. Yeah. So we're in the middle of a, Xiaoping translated Tsongkhapa's great teaching on vinaya, which is vowed morality, which is about 2,500 years old in the original text.

And there are about 16,000 pages. And we finished Tsongkhapa's commentary. And when I was, when we were working on that, I kept searching the database for deeper questions.

And I kept hitting this one author named Lodro Lexong. And he lived about 450 years ago. And we just realized that he wrote an amazing, amazing commentary.

So this will take maybe 25, 30 years to finish. It's very, very long. It's very detailed.

It's very beautiful. And how long have we been at it? For about a year or so?

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No, about a few months.

[Говорящий 1]
Six months? Yeah. So Xiaoping's working on this one.

And it's an extraordinary commentary on morality, ethics. All right, so please read. You want to use your cursor this way?

Oh, do I need to do the cursor thing? Yes, you need. No, don't curse, but do the cursor thing.

Cursor. Okay. I'd be against ethics, actually.

,RTEN CHOG MDID LA, ,DE NAS THOB PA'I, ,LHAG MA'I MYONG STE, ,GYIS THOB PA DE MDID, ,NAS KHAB GYIS THOB PA RGYUD PA'I, ,NGO PO LA DE CHUNG DU MDREL, Okay, cool. We're talking about ,GOS SOGS CHOS ZHIG. Say ,GOS SOGS.

,GOS SOGS CHOS ZHIG ,GOS SOGS CHOS ZHIG And as we've been saying, every Buddhist book, at the beginning, there will be a statement that this book is important and this book will help you in your life. There's a formal statement at the beginning of all classic Buddhist books that it's called ,GOS SOGS CHOS ZHIG. And it means this book has an immediate goal.

This book has an ultimate goal. This book has subject matter. Subject matter, immediate goal, ultimate goal.

And then there's a connection between the subject matter, the immediate goal, the ultimate goal. So the connection is considered the fourth quality. So there are four qualities to every Buddhist, real Buddhist book.

It has an important subject matter. It has a short-term goal. It has a long-term goal.

And this leads to this and this leads to that, which is called the connection or the relationship. Okay, so ,RTEN GCOD GYI means, ,RTEN GCOD means? Commentary?

Yeah, this classical commentary, ,DI LA BRTAN NAS. So he's advertising the four qualities of the Vinaya Sutra. This is a long, long commentary on the Vinaya Sutra.

Vinaya Sutra is not a? Sutra. Sutra, okay, it's a commentary called the Vinaya Sutra because it's short.

Okay, it's very, very short. So sutra used to mean short book. And so it's not a sutra in the sense of spoken by Lord Buddha.

,RTEN GCOD GI LA BRTAN NAS, If you rely on this book, you can get LHAG MED NYAMS DE. Nirvana without remainder? Yeah, nirvana with nothing left over.

And different Buddhist schools have different definitions of ultimate nirvana. It means nirvana where nothing is left over. The lowest schools, which is what Vinaya itself is part of, say that your mind will disappear, your body will disappear.

You will not have any pain because your body and mind will disappear. That's a very primitive idea of nirvana that the higher schools don't accept. But that's the school we're in right now.

By the way, the translators are working on all the schools of Buddhism. The reason we have 12 translators is that there are 12 different schools of Buddhism in this two and a half thousand years. And they all have different languages.

So really you have to learn eight different languages to read the classics. And they are not the same. You can know Abhidharma language, but you don't know Vinaya language.

So we're learning Vinaya language with Shakyamuni. ,LHAG MED NYAMS DE GYI THOB PA DE, ,NAS SKABS KYI DGOS PAR, Achieving nirvana is the? Temporary.

Temporary goal. Why temporary goal? Why is it the short-term goal?

That's a debate. We're already having a debate. He says, achieving final nirvana is the temporary, is the short-term goal of this book.

So what the heck is the long-term goal? If ultimate nirvana is the short-term goal, then what's the long-term goal? ,GYI DGOS PAR GYUR PA'I DNGOS PO, ,DE LA, then he says DNGOS PO, which means what?

Functioning thing. Functioning thing. And that's the key here.

Functioning thing means something that does something. And things that do things always change by doing that. So achieving final nirvana is a changing thing.

First you don't have it, then you have it. It grows. You work hard, work hard, work hard, study, study, study, meditate, meditate, go on retreat at DM, and then finally you achieve.

So that's a functioning thing. That's a growing thing. That's something you have to cultivate, right?

As opposed to the nirvana itself. So cultivating nirvana is not the same as nirvana itself.

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Got it?

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Cultivating it is an action. The nirvana itself is an unchanging thing. Hopefully, right?

You don't want to pop back into samsara. Okay? Then he says DE CHUNG DU BRAL, DE CHUNG.

There's two possible relationships in the universe. You take any two objects in the universe, if they have a relationship to each other, it has to be either one or the other. First one is cause and effect relationship.

That's one of the two possible relationships in the universe. The other is a relationship of identity. Like this brown table is a table.

So this brown table is related to all tables. It's not that this brown table caused all tables. It's not a cause and effect relationship.

It's a relationship of identity. This is one of the tables in the universe, which is a table. So all the tables in the universe and this table are related.

They are not cause and effect, but they are related by who they are, their identity. If you're an American, you're a person. I mean, mostly.

Okay, like that. Okay, all right. So he says here, it's involved in a developing relationship.

The nirvana, the attainment of the nirvana is involved in a relationship of occurrence. These four things, short-term goal, long-term goal, and the text itself have a relationship, a cause and effect relationship. The text will get you to the short-term goal.

The short-term goal will get you to the long-term goal. That's the relationship, which is the fourth group. Okay, got it?

Okay, here we go. You want to read one more, Shelby? Okay.

You can do the cursor.

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Oh, okay.

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DE DENG CHO'I MDI LA DE CHUNG DU BRAS PA'I BRAS PA STE DENG CHO'I MDI GOS SOGS ZHOG ZHING NANG DENG CHO'I RGYUR PA'I BRAS PA YIN TE RGYA CHER BRAS LAS Nice, okay. DENG CHO'I means this.

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Commentary.

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Indian commentary, yeah. DE LA This? DE CHUNG DU BRAS PA DE CHUNG DU BRAS PA means a cause and effect relationship.

So these four qualities of the book have a cause and effect relationship. The subject matter will lead you to a short-term goal. Short-term goal will lead you to a long-term goal.

And that connection is the fourth element. Okay, got it? Relationship.

DENG CHO'I MDI GOS SOGS ZHING NANG ZHING DU RGYUR PA'I BRAS PA So of the four qualities of a good Buddhist book, the fourth one is relationship. There should be relationship between the immediate subject matter, the ultimate practice, and the goals you want to achieve. That's a statement at the front of every Buddhist book that advertises, this is a Buddhist book.

And they always put it in the serious classics. You always have a statement at the front of the book, this book has the seal of approval of Buddhism. It has all four qualities of a Buddhist book.

And by tradition, if you meet up with a book that doesn't have these four qualities, you should not waste your time on it. Because your time is very, very limited. You have only a few years.

Trust me, from 71, they go like that. I was 25 yesterday, I don't know what happened. No, and then suddenly your body's falling apart and the doctor's like, you got to do this.

You're like, no. And they said, well, if you don't, you're going to die. Okay.

And it gets like that. You do not have time. If you think you have time, you're deluded.

The time you have will disappear. It will melt away like ice, in the hot desert. And you cannot waste your time on useless information.

If it has those four qualities, study it. If it doesn't, junk it. All right.

Which means you got to throw out your cell phone. No, sorry. Well, okay, go.

You want to have someone else meet? Oh, okay. We have a microphone here.

Be careful if it flies over your head. I don't like this customer.

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Would you like to read?

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Yes. You do the cursing.

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Oh, okay. Okay. Nice.

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Nice.

[Говорящий 1]
Thank you. Thank you very much. What's DU BA'I DO?

DU BA'I DO. Vinaya Sutra. Vinaya Sutra.

Similar to the Yoga Sutra because it's not a sutra. Okay, it was written much, much later. All right.

But it is the root text on Vinaya. This is what everybody uses for Vinaya. And her book is a commentary to the Vinaya Sutra by Guna Prabha.

DGOS PA means, what's the purpose of the book? But again, if a book has a purpose, study it. If it doesn't, junk it.

DGOS PA NI THABS and THABS BYUNG. Say THABS. THABS.

THABS BYUNG. THABS BYUNG. $100.

Shut up. I didn't even ask the question yet. Forget it.

Cancel the bet. I was going to ask, yeah. THABS K?

Yeah, skillful means or unexpected strategy. Sanskrit? Upaya.

Not papaya. Upaya. Okay.

So that's generally the meaning of THABS is a method. And by the way, I don't know. Like your kids are doing something wrong and you tell them they're going to grow a third ear if they keep doing that.

It's not really true, but it's a trick to make your kids behave, okay? Buddha did that all the time. So THABS in the ancient, ancient, ancient scriptures means cause.

And THABS BYUNG, that which comes from THABS is an ancient, ancient expression for result. So THABS or method, and THABS BYUNG means what comes out of the method is an ancient, ancient way of saying cause and effect. Do this, get that.

Do this, get that. So it's very ancient here. THABS, say THABS.

THABS. THABS BYUNG. THABS BYUNG.

THABS BYUNG means that thing which came out of the THABS. So THABS means method. THABS BYUNG means the results you get from the method.

And it's an old, old way of saying cause and effect. So he says the essential relationship here is not a relationship of identity. It's a relationship of cause and effect.

If you are ethical, you will be freed from suffering. If you are ethical, you will be freed from suffering. Got it?

Cool? That's the cause and effect. THABS, THABS BYUNG.

DRAG PA YIN TE. GYUR DANG BRTZEN NI CHE BYA BA'I THATSI GO THATSI GO is an ancient, ancient word for ancient word. THABS.

THATSI means ancient, ancient word. Ancient word for ancient word. Oh.

Okay? THATSI. So he says, you know, this whole thing about ethics is that you can get to nirvana if you follow ethics.

You can avoid pain if you follow ethics. That's the cause and effect that we're talking about in this book. That's what it be.

By the way, even in a worldly way, in business, you can be highly successful if you understand ethics and you use it. You can make the largest diamond jewelry company in the world with no experience, no business experience at all. Just follow Vinaya.

It's very interesting. It's amazing. And so anyway, he's quoting an ancient author.

The rules of our translation team is that we have to go find the ancient quotation and we have to check it and make sure that's what it really says. And we find many discrepancies because it's been thousands of years. Luckily, we have John Brady's database.

By 2005, they finished all the existing books from ancient India. It was a huge, huge project. Those are 4,000 books.

They had input all of them by 2005, something like that. All the books that survived from ancient India are in the database. We finished.

It took like 30 years or something. Hard work. We worked like demons, okay?

And it was hard. It was really hard and we finished it. So anyway, we can go in a few seconds.

We can confirm that the quotation is correct or not. It's probably my wife telling me not to brag. Okay, so anyway, we went and found it.

We found the quotation. It is correct. It's spelled correctly.

Everything's fine. Okay, who's going to read next, Shanti? Okay.

Venerable Gyatse, would you like to read? Thích Chánh. Can you see?

At the top.

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Thích, no, Thích Chánh, Thích Chánh. LEN DE'I THA THOB PA'I PHYIR ROL ZHES GSUNGS PA'I PHYIR Nice.

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Yay, thank you. So Rinchen Tsanwa means Ratnamala in Sanskrit, and there's a famous book by Nagarjuna called Ratnamala. Precious guide.

Which is advice to a king. And Nick is now translating that book. He finished the 60 verses, and now he's translating the Ratnamala.

But the name Ratnamala became very popular. So other people use it for other books. So this is another Ratnamala, Rinchen Tsanwa, that was written by His Holiness the First Dalai Lama, Gendun Druk, in about late 1400s.

And he wrote a great commentary on ethics. And this long, long commentary, much longer, is actually based on the one by the First Dalai Lama. So we're going to get a lot of quotations from the First Dalai Lama.

Okay, here we go. WON NA means? Well then.

Well then, okay. BDAG GCIG GI BRAL BA and DE'I SBYUNG GI BRAL BA. Say BDAG GCIG.

BDAG GCIG. BRAL BA. BRAL BA.

DE'I SBYUNG. DE'I SBYUNG. BRAL BA.

BRAL BA. BDAG GCIG BRAL BA means a relationship. It's one of the two possible relationships.

A causal relationship? It's a relationship of identity, okay? A coffee cup is one kind of cup, okay?

So coffee cup is related to all the cups in the universe by identity. It's identity. It's not cause and effect.

Coffee cup did not cause all the cups in the universe. But coffee cup is one kind of cup in the universe. So therefore, the group of all coffee cups in the universe has a member called this coffee cup, and it shares a relationship with all the coffee cups.

It is a cup, okay? That's one kind of relationship. What's the other kind of relationship?

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Cause and effect.

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Cause and effect. So BDAG GCIG means relationship of identity, and it means this coffee cup is a cup. But this coffee cup did not cause cups.

It's identity. It's a relationship of identity. Take away all cups, and this cup will disappear.

Got it? That means they have a relationship of identity. Okay, take away all cups.

This cup will disappear. That's called BDAG GCIG KYI BRAL BAR, okay? And DE'I BYUNG MI BRAL BAR means cause and effect relationship, okay?

So in this book, we are advertising subject matter, short-term goal, long-term goal, and we're advertising that this will get you to there, and this will get you to there. There's a relationship. Is that relationship of identity, or is it a relationship of cause and effect?

Cause and effect. Yeah, cause and effect. So the Dalai Lama is answering himself.

Okay, he says, which one is it? Oh, it's the cause and effect one. GANG GRUB BYAS NA BYAS NA means if you ask me, which one is it?

Well, it's DE'I BYUNG. It's a cause and effect relationship. Why?

Okay, now that's the useful part. RTEN BYAS DI LA BRTEN NAS If you BRTEN on this BRTEN BYAS, if you rely upon this ancient commentary, what's the ancient commentary? Vinaya Sutra.

If you rely on the Vinaya Sutra, then you will DOG PA with an S. You will realize sutra. MORAL If you use this ancient book, you will finally understand what's ethical and what's not ethical.

And I'll give you dollars, right now. Except you. If you can, what was I going to say?

What was that? What makes something moral or not, okay? In Buddhism.

It gives you a good result. What makes something moral or not in Buddhism? All of them.

It gives you a pleasurable result. That's not all of them. All of them.

If you get a result that makes you happy, it is moral. It's moral. And if it causes you pain or suffering, it's immoral.

Okay, good. $1,000. I can't do too many of those.

Yeah, isn't that interesting? What's right or wrong in Buddhism? If it brings you happiness, it's right.

If it brings you pain, it's wrong. If it causes happiness, it's ethical. If it causes suffering, it's unethical.

And that's so interesting. So in Buddhism, that's how we decide whether something is something you should do or not. If it hurts you, it's ethical.

Sorry, unethical. And if it helps you, it's ethical. Okay, very interesting.

Because hurting others hurts you. So we don't have to mess around with, is this action going to hurt another person? We don't have to worry about it.

If this action hurts you, it's unethical because it hurts others. Got it? And we don't have to worry about is it ethical to undo this or not?

Eat the last slice of pizza. You see what I mean? It's a beautiful, simple system.

So, tenge di la tenne. If you use this book, you will understand morality. And that's the first one, right?

Does it have a subject matter? Yes. What?

Ethics. If you use it, short-term goal, you will understand what's moral and what's not moral. If you understand that, you will stop all your pain.

And that's basic level Buddhism. Basic level Buddhism isn't worried about meeting Vajrayogini face to face. Basic level Buddhism doesn't want to have two things.

Okay, basic level Buddhism is get the hell out of suffering. Okay, then we can talk about Vajrayogini later. Okay, the basic level Buddhism, get your rear end out of suffering.

This one, all right? Okay, tsud labpa tokpa dang. DE'I THOG NAS If you understand what's ethics, NYAMS SU LANG NA If you, NYAM LEN, put it into real practice.

Now there's the trick, isn't it? It says, if you learn what's ethical and then if you do it, oh, I got to do it. Okay, NYAMS SU LANG NA'I DE'I PA'A NYAMS SU LANG NA'I Nirvana, you will reach nirvana, which is the goal in the lower schools of Buddhism.

Okay, you will reach nirvana, the end of all pain. You will reach the end of all pain. Okay, so this book has a subject matter.

What's that? Ethics. If you follow it, you will get, sorry, book has subject matter.

The immediate goal is to figure out what is ethics. The ultimate goal is to stop your pain. And there's a connection between the first three.

Okay, got it? Okay, all right. And I, we input this book like 20 years ago and I went and confirmed that the reading was correct, the spelling was correct, it's correct, okay?

So here's the actual quotation. In the dark letters, okay? So I always go and I check and I make sure that the author said what they said he said, because if he didn't say what they said he said, I want to know what he said, okay?

And it takes a lot of time. It takes a lot of work. And it's only possible because you guys are so generously supporting John Brady's project.

Thank you. Okay. Hint, hint.

Next one, who's reading? Sophie, would you like to read? Oh, pain.

That's supposed to get her out of pain.

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Okay, I think it's a good comment.

[Говорящий 1]
It is a painful book. Eat the microphone.

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Sorry, what? Closer. LHAG MED LHAG MED LHAG MED KHE TOP PA DU CHE NI DU CHE NI PEK CHEN PEK CHEN CHOB CHOB DI LA CHOB CHOB RE CHEN RE CHEN RE CHEN NE TOP PA NE TOP PA LHAG MED LHAG MED MED NYEM THAI NYEM THAI DE THAI DE THAI IM, CHA, IM, IM, Better.

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Nice. Nice. Cause and effect relationship.

This book has subject, has ethics as its subject matter. If you understand, then the immediate goal is to understand what ethics is. The ultimate goal is to achieve the end of all pain.

And the fourth point is that these first three have a cause and effect relationship. And this guy says, no. He says, it cannot.

And we're like, huh? Mr. D number one said so. And he's like, I don't care.

It's not a cause and effect relationship. Why? There's a problem here.

There's a problem here. Yeah. Who said unchanging?

Nice. Yeah. Oh, would you like to achieve a nirvana which changes?

Would you like a nirvana that flips back to samsara? Then there cannot be a cause and effect relationship between this one and this one. Okay?

Studying ethics and following ethics cannot cause the permanent, unchanging ending of your suffering, because that's unchanging. Unchanging things cannot be created by anything. Okay?

There's no such thing. It's impossible. See the problem?

Short-term goal, that's fine. Read the book, understand ethics. That's your brain, you know, synapse is going, but, but, but.

Some are going, but, but, but, you know. But understand ethics, follow ethics, and then achieve the end of all suffering. Oh my gosh, we would like the end to be unchanging.

And that's not a cause and effect. All effects are changing. All causes are changing.

Somebody objects here. Somebody objects. Can you, anybody want to take a shot at how they resolve it?

Yes, Sunim, the Deutschlanter philosopher. Yes. I think that they go the cessation route, that it is an end of a cessation when you get to nirvana, and not a permanent state.

It is permanent. It is unchanging. Yeah, that's not where they go.

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Okay. That's not where they go.

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But by the way, it's an eternal question. It's an ancient Abhidharma question.

[Говорящий 2]
I think you can cause the process of removing obstacles.

[Говорящий 1]
What about achieving nirvana forced on you by your own seeds that you've planted? That's okay. I'll take that.

Okay. By the way, so in the Abhidharma school, in the baby school of all schools, they posit a topa. Say topa.

Topa. Topa means to achieve nirvana. But in the Abhidharma school, topa is a belt.

Topa is a belt. Topa is a holder. The word topa, which means achievement, in Abhidharma, there's a special one called the belt.

Okay? And its function is to keep unchanging things on a person. Okay?

Got it? So in the lowest school of Buddhism, when you achieve nirvana, you achieve a belt for nirvana. And unfortunately, the word for achieve and the word for that belt are the same word.

It's called a holder. It's called an achievement holder. Okay?

You achieve nirvana, that should be unchanging. Then you're going to need like a knife holder belt or something. You're going to have to put the achievement of nirvana and the belt's going to keep it wrapped on you.

Then they say, you want to get cute? Then they say, oh my God, you're going to need a belt for the belt. Okay?

And they call it tope topa, which means you need a belt to hold the belt on. You need a clasp to hold the belt on, and you need a belt for the belt for the belt. They said, no, let's stop at two.

This is Abhidharma. This is one of the irritations of the Abhidharma school, if you really want to know. So here it's very, very difficult.

Toba, in the first line, is not a verb. It's the belt. It's that ancient Abhidharma word, topa, a holder.

Why? You can't put an unchanging thing in a changing body or its changing mind. You cannot insert an unchanging thing into a changing entity.

The mind is always changing. The body is always changing. They cannot have the nirvana in them.

The nirvana has to be glued onto them. Got it? This is Abhidharma.

So LHAG MA'I NYAMS PA'I THOB PA means the belt. I call it belt, but you can call it whatever. That's a dukche.

That's a changing thing. That's a product. Dukche means product, of course.

That's a product. Why? What's a product?

Not the nirvana. The belt. Got it?

The nirvana is unchanging. You're going to have it forever. You can trigger it, but you can't cause it.

Okay? And then you got it. DUK CHE YIN PAS, BSTAN CHOS DI LA BSTAN NAS If you use this book, you can get to nirvana without remainder.

You can get to some unchanging nirvana, but you're going to need a THOB PA for it. And getting to that THOB PA is the ultimate goal of this book. Getting the belt is the ultimate goal.

Nirvana is not the ultimate goal. Getting the belt for nirvana is the ultimate goal. Then we can say cause and effect.

Then we can say it's all cause and effect. The book helps you get to the understanding of morality, the understanding of morality helps you get to the belt for unchanging nirvana. Then everything's okay.

Then there is a cause and effect relationship. Fourth one. Okay?

Don't look so confused. Okay? This is Abhidharma.

You wanted it. You got it.

[Говорящий 2]
Okay.

[Говорящий 1]
SNYING NAS BSTAN NAS Then he says, look, you can say that the ultimate, kind of the ultimate goal here is the belt. But the real ultimate goal is the nirvana. Okay?

Okay, got it? SNYING DGOS TZAM SNYING means heart, right? And this is an unusual spelling.

Ultimate. DGOS means goal. TZAM means kind of the ultimate goal.

Okay? Kind of the ultimate goal is the belt. The real ultimate goal, soul, right?

Lam soul, lam sum, three principle paths, right? The real ultimate goal is not the belt. Why?

Because the belt is a changing thing. Now they're putting the belt down. Okay?

Can you call the belt the ultimate goal of this book?

[Говорящий 2]
No.

[Говорящий 1]
Well, kind of.

[Говорящий 2]
No.

[Говорящий 1]
Well, you have to if you say cause and effect relationship. But is it the real ultimate goal? No.

Unchanging nirvana is the ultimate goal. But it's not the one in the four qualities. Okay?

Got it? Got it? Okay.

I had a guy in class that I was super jealous of for 20 years. I won't mention his name. But one day he asked a question.

He said, are all unchanging things negatives? Are all unchanging things absences or negatives? And the teacher kind of went, well, yeah, they are.

And I'm like, Then I had to try to figure it out. So you can cook it. Keep going.

Who's going to read?

[Говорящий 2]
Where's the, Christina, would you like to read yourself? I have to see it. Gyalte?

Is that where we are? Yes. Gyalte.

DE NYID DGOS GYIS TSOR BO YIN NA THAG PA YIN DGOS PA'I PHYIR TE Yeah, good. Thank you.

[Говорящий 1]
By the way, as a teacher, what do you do when the student is correct? No, you ask them to do it again until they make a mistake. Oh, okay.

So you don't get a big hit. Okay. NYID DGOS GYIS TSOR BO Main one, main one.

Principle. NYID DGOS means the ultimate goal. This one, ultimate goal.

He says, now the main ultimate goal. Now he's saying ultimate goal and kind of ultimate goal. What's the kind of ultimate goal?

The belt. What's the ultimate goal? Nirvana which never changes.

He says, look, if something was the TSOR, if something was the main ultimate goal, it has to be THAG PA. Cannot be MI THAG PA. Yeah, it has to be unchanging.

It has to be unchanging. If something is the ultimate goal of this book, it has to be unchanging. You don't want a nirvana that flips into samsara on Sunday or something.

Okay, you don't want a nirvana like that. Okay, got it? The main ultimate goal here is unchanging.

But you know, ultimate goal is changing. You got to hold it. Got it?

Okay. Now this author loves to prove things through logic and through scripture. This is Buddhism.

You prove it or you quote it. You either prove it or you quote it. I was a big prover in the Geshe course.

Why? I didn't want to memorize 10,000 pages. You cannot take a book in the debate ground.

You got to have it in your head. So I was like a big logician because I didn't know the book. Okay, gotcha.

Gotcha, Dale. They call, recently someone told me, did you know what your nickname was Geshe-la in the debate ground? I said, no.

He said, Ari Mamluk, the American military guy because I was like 12 inches taller than everybody. Tibetans are kind of short. Anyway, that's how I got, okay, that's how I won debates.

Okay, who's going to win? Christina, one more paragraph, please. ,RGYA KSHER DRANG LAS, ,YANG YIN LEN DE PA NI DON DANG, ,BAR TSOR BU DE DGE ZHING DAG, ,BA'I PHYIR ZHES GSUNGS PA'I PHYIR Nice, thank you.

Some of you may know this amazing yoga teacher in New York named Dharmamitra. But there is an ancient Dharmamitra who was a great commentator on the Vinaya Sutra. So this is from his commentary.

It's called the Fat Commentary, RGYA KSHER. The Big Commentary says, ,YANG YIN LEN DE PA, Nirvana is DON DANG BAR TSOR, is mainly ultimate. When we talk about nirvana as being the goal of the book, we're mostly talking about ultimate goal.

So, because it is DGE and it's BDAG PA. DGE BA and BDAG PA. It is goodness and it is unchanging.

And there's the actual quotation from John Brady's book. In five minutes, we're going to stop for 15 minutes and Grandpa will sit down and Xiaoping will lead a conversation. This is a custom of our classes.

For 15 minutes after the technical class, we have a discussion open to everybody. That's when you're supposed to talk. And talk about how you could use this in your real life.

How can you use this in your life? To me, the fact that ethics is defined by whether it hurts you or not, hurts you or not, not other people, is very fascinating. And it could have huge, huge implications.

It's wrong to wage war on another country because it hurts people? No, it hurts you. That's so fascinating to me.

I mean, that would make everyone moral in about five minutes. So anyway, let's keep going. We got two minutes, let's not waste it.

[Говорящий 2]
And Jiana, would you like to read?

[Говорящий 1]
And by the way, after that 15 minute conversation that Xiaoping will lead, we'll have the Peachtree World News in a 15 minute segment by the Star Newscast. Hustle, okay.

[Говорящий 2]
Please read. UNA TENGCHO DI'I GO SOG CHOG ZHIG YI BO DE CHUNG GANG DANG GANG GI TENG SHES NA Nice, thank you.

[Говорящий 1]
YANG CHOS Commentary? Yeah, ancient commentary. GO SOG CHOG ZHIG Now you should know that.

It should be rolling off your tongue for the rest of your life. GO SOG CHOG ZHIG The four qualities that make a book a Buddhist book. And they make a teaching a Buddhist teaching.

And if that teaching or that book does not have these four, do not waste your time. First one, subject matter. Second, short-term goal, learn ethics.

Long-term goal, stop your pain. Number four, these three have a connection. These three have a connection.

Then he says, somebody comes up, by the way, this is a partial debate text. Someone's coming up with questions. Hey, I have a question.

What? SHES NA means I have a question. And it's an artificial way to start a new subject.

Somebody comes in, I have a question. What? What's the SHUNG for these four?

What's the SHUNG for these four? Yeah. Can you quote the part in the Vinaya Sutra where these four are mentioned?

Give me the SHUNG. This is very typical in a debate in a monastery. Oh, the Vinaya Sutra has four things.

Yeah, really? Give them to me from memory. Quote the book.

Quote the book. So he's asking, quote the book. Show me, show me.

Give me the quotation inside the Vinaya Sutra which advertises these four qualities. And you'll have to tune in to the next show. Right, Tim?

Am I right? No? Okay.

So I always want to stop here. Just a little bit more. Okay, and I'm going to sit down and Xiaoping's going to lead a conversation.

Thank you. Thank you Geshe Michael. Thank you very much.

Anybody you would like to share? So it's an open discussion. Anything you learned from this class today that you think you could apply in your work or in your life?

Yeah. Application. Yes.

[Говорящий 2]
So my mother and my sister, they died in 2018.

[Говорящий 1]
About 15 years ago, I confronted my mom because for our whole lives she had allowed my sister to abuse me and the family. So it hurt her to talk about that, but I'm questioned to tell the truth sometimes or to say my truth, sometimes it hurts someone's feelings, but maybe it doesn't hurt the situation or hurt us.

[Говорящий 2]
You know what I mean? The difference between having your fragile feelings hurt or being really hurt, so.

[Говорящий 1]
So this class, after listening to this, you think about the family issue. Thank you.

[Говорящий 2]
Anybody else? Ron? Oh, Geshe.

[Говорящий 1]
If I tell the truth and it's going to hurt someone's feelings is that ethical or not ethical? So you are not asking, right? You are just bringing it up, so for people to think about.

Ah, okay.

[Говорящий 2]
Oh, Ina, want to? I kind of want to answer the question, right?

[Говорящий 1]
Because if the definition of morality, if it hurts us, it's not moral, not ethical. And if it makes something good to us, then it is ethical. Then this is the answer.

What do you think you will get from the actions or words, right? And I was thinking about the application. Like recently I was working a lot with people with their relationship and you know, like why usually they need help because they start hurting each other, you know, like bad.

And I think it's a very profound idea that when you just stop hurting other people, you become happier, you know, like it's so easy, right? But like that nirvana actually, you do not really reach it, just you get rid of, you know, your stuff. So I was thinking about this application.

Wow, nice. Thank you, Ina.

[Говорящий 2]
Yeah. I think when Geshe-la started the class talking about how he didn't know anything about business and that just the act of trying to be moral or ethical and us talking about it in Kyoto and teaching it to a business class that like the simplest application, even if you do a really bad job at it, it's just the act of watching your morality throughout the day, the implications of it immediately of being successful in your business, your personal life, your happiness, just having like that six time book practice,

[Говорящий 1]
like automatically it starts to, you know, instead of having reading a course on how can I be a powerful leader?

How can I, you know, anything that we thought would create a success,

[Говорящий 2]
we're just focusing on, you know, not harming others and then sort of maybe reading these books at night, you know, keeping our minds in these sort of courses and stuff automatically, immediately, the effects is it'll start to have like an upward spiral in our life just by every day stopping and being like, hey, did I do a good job? Did I do a bad job? How can I make up for it?

Even if you're doing it that poorly, the act itself automatically just sort of creates a upward spiral.

[Говорящий 1]
Thank you so much, Rob. Yeah, like two weeks ago, yeah, about two weeks ago, Geshe-la taught a course about, we call it responsible business leadership and actually the content Geshe-la got, he got it from the morality. And after the course, I read all the feedback form from all the MBA, EMBA students.

I'm so pleased and happy. I think it's for Geshe-la to know also that those business leaders or those business person, entrepreneurs, they were, I think they felt deep happiness after learning that actually the ultimate reason for the source of your success, of your happiness in your business or in your life is to keep just trying to keep your morality. And they, I think they feel enlightened and they got so happy and they wanted to go deeper.

Yeah, thank you.

[Говорящий 2]
Okay, Sophie, yeah.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, yeah, yes, please come in.

[Говорящий 2]
We have embraced two little kids. So this is very relevant in the place I am because all day I'm teaching them what's, I'm helping them to learn what's good for them, what's not, what's acceptable, what's not. And just having this teaching, like what hurts you, it's not good to do.

It's so, it makes sense to them. It's very, very easy for a kid to understand that something that works will bring a good result and it's actually what benefits others. So it's really easy to raise kids by this system.

And you also see beautiful ripenings in them and they see them. And in general for us adults, it's very empowering, very liberating, like no more moral pressure. It's just free to understand that what will bring, what you have to do is what will in the end benefit you.

But if that is true, serving others will benefit others. That's just, I love that. So this is different and it really works.

[Говорящий 1]
Oh, thank you so much, Sophie. It made me so happy that to hear this class help to create more happy mommies and daddies. And I thought, Zhanpeng, yeah, want to say, you can say in Chinese, I can translate for you if needed.

Xiaoping laoshi, I think the hurt other people can hurt myself is an unchanging thing. I think I love other people and so this is also unchanging things. So I think living being not need me, just I need living being because I think they are my big, big jewelry.

So, da bao zhang, zhong sheng, da bao zhang, yeah. He said that all the living being are the big treasure for me. Feichang hao, xie xie, Zhanpeng.

Thank you so much. And this lady, please.

[Говорящий 2]
Thank you. So I think, okay, yes, it's good. So, actually, this morality, good morality help.

What's going on? Maybe, yeah, let me just, like this? Yes, actually, it helps me when I'm a very aggressive driver in New York and I'm so sorry, I have to confess.

It's very hard in New York when you in rush and you have three hours traffic to let somebody go in front because everybody needs to go. So, and when I learned this, it was very hard because when you try to follow 25 miles per hour, it's crazy, it's like walking, you know? So, and I start let people go in front of me because I have four kids and I told myself that I have to save my life for my kids to good morality.

I have to save everybody's life and let them go. So, and when I see some accidents, I understand that I can reduce accidents, you know? I can save life, somebody's life.

Even I will be five minutes late on the meeting, I can save life, not just mine for my family, but other lives as well. So, and I think this is what like, I still challenging, honestly, I'm not the best. I'm still driving like a crazy, you know?

But I try my best to avoid this and it's magic, you know? Because when you let people go in front of you, suddenly in five minutes, you see the traffic is disappear and you just drive like 15 minutes and you can be in Queens, you know? And you're like, wow, you know?

Like, unbelievable, you know? So, this is, for me, this is how it works. I always try to this morality on my own life, you know, everyday life, which is very, very, very challenging when you live in big city, honestly.

Wow.

[Говорящий 1]
Thank you. I think the traffic is a good, how to say, lab for us to do experiments. I think we can all do on all the different highways in different countries.

Okay, next one, please. I think we still have one person. And this lady, please.

[Говорящий 2]
I have a question about if something that we do is going to hurt us or not. If we can't see how our seeds are going to ripen and we do what we do with a good intention and with a good heart, but we don't know how the seeds are going to ripen. Like this?

Yes. Okay. How do we know if we don't know how our seeds ripen, which seed causes what?

[Говорящий 1]
And we do what we do with a good heart and with a good intention.

[Говорящий 2]
We don't know what the impact on the other person is. How do we know how to be moral? Very good question.

Anybody want to respond to this? Britta. I think that if your motivation is good, then that's a good seed.

[Говорящий 1]
And whatever happens to the people in front of whoever, whomever you're doing this act towards is their seeds, whether it's a good, something good that happened to them or something that is unfortunate. But I believe if it's your motivation, then it should be okay.

[Говорящий 2]
If it makes you feel good and the results are going to be good for you. Okay. One minute.

One last comment. Okay. This lady.

[Говорящий 1]
I'm very happy about this teaching because it again shows to me that you need to contemplate a lot about what you are doing as you asked, where from do I know what hurts me and what does not hurt me? And is there a contradiction between the behavior of a peacock and me not avoiding problems? Although I think it would become uncomfortable, what really makes me happy then?

And I see the challenge to contemplate about everything happening and finding out what the real reason is for what I experienced and how I can change it to a better experience. Thank you very much. Thank you.

Okay. Time's up. So I think I'll leave the next time.

Oh, should we? Ben or Nick, you will take over from here? Well, I'll give it to Juan Jasso.

Thank you.

[Говорящий 2]
Yeah, hand it on over to Juan Jasso.

[Говорящий 1]
Thank you so much Xiaoping. Thank you Geshe Michael. Thank you everybody who's attending.

If you can hear me. Really fun class. Really fascinating stuff and great questions.

And we will be at Diamond Mountain still for the next few classes on Monday and the following Saturday. So I look forward to seeing you all at those classes. And if you don't come regularly.

[Говорящий 2]
So for some of you may not know, a year ago we started with a project called Picture World News. And what we tried to do is to bring some of the news that are happening around the world related to the World View Network, the World View Organizations. And Francisco, you're gonna help us sharing some pictures?

Okay, great. So first of all, we want to encourage everyone here or online to tune every week to this wonderful project. You just, how to say, attend to one of the classes on Mixed Notes Reading Club, Shuangshan Tower Translation Program.

And we do this every Saturday, every Monday. So we really want you, if you are interested to come and join us, there is a QR code. Then you can sign up for the programs every Saturday, every Monday.

We have to speak slower. But yeah, yeah, yeah. Come, it's wonderful classes.

And then every time we have a little break. Is the volume or the speed? We have also little segments when we present news, we share content, we try to create a space for everyone and the organizations to share, to meet, to have a good time, make friends.

So you can check it out here. And next picture, please. It's our social media, if you're ever interested.

Oh no, yes, that one. We have a website, we have monthly events. We have Instagram and YouTube channel.

If you have something you want to share, please feel free to write to us. We can accommodate you. And for a modest price, maybe, nah, just kidding.

No, no, no, you can just contact us and we are very accessible. So just tell us what you're about to and we hear. Okay, so now we're gonna stop.

Lately, as you may know, I have the beautiful opportunity. Thank you, Geshe Michael, very much. Thank you, Tim LaRouche very much.

They invited me to Kyoto. And it was a beautiful, beautiful, amazing trip. Thank you so much.

Thank you, really. Yeah, it was so beautiful. And I really want to encourage people, if you have a chance sometime, try to go.

It's wonderful. It's like something I was not even, I just wanted to go, I didn't know why. It blew my mind.

It's better than I thought. So I want to share with you just a quick video and then invite Tim Lowenhaupt with me. Maybe come, Tim.

He was a wonderful, wonderful guest. Thank you so much for coming. I found out that in the good days, you're even funny and friendly.

Just kidding, just kidding. No, he's wonderful. And I'm very happy that I had the chance to spend time with you, hang out.

So can you turn off the lights, please? And then we can watch this just a minute video. Tim taught the first wisdom course there in Kyoto.

[Говорящий 3]
It was so beautiful.

[Говорящий 2]
No humans, you know, some people are so, they don't have the economics. People, you know, I know people in my town, you know, both parents were poor children. They move up and they don't have the time.

So I know one day... The courses are being taught in Japan, as far as I know. And we have mostly people from Asia.

Live translations, a lot of fun. So Tim, don't go, don't go yet. No, I can't see it.

[Говорящий 1]
We want to thank you very much for this wonderful project. Thank you.

[Говорящий 2]
Everybody came. Did you like the program? Oh, yeah.

We hope to see you next time. And for those of you who couldn't make it, we hope to see you in June. See you.

See you.

[Говорящий 1]
Bye. All right, Juan, tell me about your first couple of days in Kyoto.

[Говорящий 2]
My first couple of days have been great. We came to celebrate the springtime in Sakura. This is the time of the year when mostly like people come because of the nice weather and the blossoming of the trees that are about to ripen into beautiful flowers.

So we're excited to see that happen. And we hope it happens soon. Reporting from VTree World News, springtime, Kyoto, Sakura.

So we had a great time and we hope June is awesome as well. People who may not know, Tim Lowenhaupt is teaching the courses. Next one is going to be in June.

And if you can, try to go. It's wonderful. Also, December is going to be something.

So, you know, just start making plans. But now we have here Tim, and he wants to share with us a little bit of what's happening today and whatever else you want to say. First of all, thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Juan.

Could you turn on my mic a little bit? Thank you, Juan, for that beautiful photo.

[Говорящий 1]
That moment when it was snowing in Kyoto was hysterical. We were so cold. And he handled it really well.

So what we're doing today though is for everybody who's online in most countries are able to stay for the entire day here at Diamond Mountain with us. So after this class, we have another class where we're going to be talking about how to go deeper into meditation and how to do those practices. And so today for everybody online, everything we're doing from the first meditation through this morning's classes, we have one more class at 10.15. It is a free for everybody, right? And all of you here, well, don't worry about you guys, but call all of your friends and tell them to join. And then after the first day, if you would like to continue with the course, Gina or whomever is doing that, you can join this course for $99. And that's gonna be everything.

You're gonna learn everything there is about our special practice. You're gonna learn about how to go into retreat, how to do all the preparations for it. Now, what if you can't afford the $99?

One of the cool things that ACI does, excuse me, I know, oops. One of the things that this organization does is that we do offer the courses to everybody. If you can't afford it, we'll find a way to help you help out.

So as soon as this QR code shows up, you can sign up. And if you can't afford the $99, just tell us how much you can. If it's $1, if it's $5, if it's $98, it doesn't matter to us.

Just let us know. And if you've already joined the free track and you have given us a donation, just let us know if you would like to join the rest of the course, because that's what ACI, this is what this organization does, is we give away the teachings for free. And we hope that by giving away for free, that it might generate the karma for us to continue offering those teachings for free.

Get it? But it's really, really important to us. If you wanna come and you're not able to afford it, just let us know, sign up on the QR code and we will get that in.

So thank you, Juan, for allowing us the opportunity to advertise during your program. Thank you for coming to Kyoto and making us so enjoyable.

[Говорящий 2]
Thank you, it was a pleasure. Thank you very much, team. And we also want to share another picture.

Thank you. We want to share another picture because as you may know, on the 20th, there is gonna be a special, special program anniversary, celebrating 20 anniversary. Yes, I'm just rushing because time is short.

But for those of you who are online, people here, you don't need it, but you're gonna be here. But for those of you who are online, you can register for that special event, special teachings, special party coming up, Diamond Mountain 20th anniversary, happy birthday. Happy birthday, Angela, for one of your babies and all the organizers.

And okay, so now we still have some minutes. And just before we invite our next friends on stage, I would like to let you know that in Taiwan, something very cool is happening. As you know, all these wisdom comes from ancient books.

And there's like an organization, ALL who's trying to preserve the books and the wisdom. They're doing a great, great job. John Brady is the director and he's running it.

And in a few days, he's having a very special night event where they're gonna fundraise for it. We want to share a video and then share with people online the QR code if you wanna sign up. So could we show them video?

And could you help us with the lights just for a moment? Thank you.

[Говорящий 3]
I'm the president of the Asian Legacy Library. And I'll be coming to Taipei. We're gonna be holding a concert, a beautiful exchange of ideas and music on April 17th.

And I welcome you to come. We're going to be enjoying and celebrating with music and also giving you an introduction to the Asian Legacy Library and the work that we do in the world. So I ask you to join us.

It's a wonderful night. We'll have a great time. Classical music is so dear to my heart.

We'll have an enjoyable moment together. See you on April 17th. Thank you.

[Говорящий 2]
We may have the fortune of speaking live online, but live with John Brady on Monday. Let's see what happens, but maybe we can talk to him more about it. And just to finish, I want to invite the wonderful team of the Book Night Club.

Yes. Good night, book club. Not, okay.

To, yeah, yeah, just come up here. And we want to just hear from you a little bit of what's your plan. I saw you brought a lot of red books.

What are you planning to do with them? Ina and Olga, please. And then just share with us what's happening.

Hi, yeah, thank you, Juan. So as you guys heard, Ina, Olga, hi, hi. Okay, oh, thank you.

I'll take the whole thing. So Geshe-la was showing all these great books earlier, and we want you guys to have them. You may or may not know that this box set back here is one of, I think only like two or three in the world of all these books printed like that.

And so we have a couple of things that we'd like to share with you guys. The first is that we are offering one book, The Golden Key. We have copies of this here at Diamond Mountain, and it is for sale if you guys would like a copy of this very, very special book.

It was the first time that we've printed it like this. So it's very special to be able to have one and even to hold and to kind of read through while you're here as well. So we are offering signed copies of this, signed both by Geshe-la and by Word, who assisted with the translation.

And there'll be a QR code for that. And then as on an ongoing basis, we also want to enable people to get books and to join the Good Night Book Club, which we'll talk a little bit more about, but essentially it's a program for people to receive books in the mail on an ongoing basis. You can sign up starting at $30 a month and we'll send you books throughout the year.

This is one of them for many regions and we'd love for you guys to have them. Yeah, yeah.

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Hi, guys. So we are representing two different regions, Europe, America and- Latin America. Latin America, oh, sorry.

So, and it is very exciting because first time in history, you will be able to get this historical books. Probably it will be unique edition because it's edited just by Geshe Michael. I have gotten one already.

I'm reading this one and practicing Good Night Book Reading Club. So what it does to you, it does something to your mind because we are giving away our telephones with my husband. I give it to him.

He gives to me and computers and everything. And then out of a sudden, you have a feeling like, oh, where's my precious? You know, like, what should I do?

Oh boy, we need to talk to each other. We need to read books. And so it's actually amazing.

Maybe you didn't notice how you became addicted to your phones and computers. So these books are amazing because they will replace you with some kind of very quality time. And then you can think about it when you will be sleeping and you may have a great meditation or great ideas in the morning.

So this is why we think it's a great idea to subscribe because you will get lots of good karma by you just heard that it is important and that you can create lots of good things for you. And also it's fun, actually.

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Thank you. And it just, for me, bring tears to my eyes to think how much Geshe Michael work for us. For me, this is also a great opportunity to fundraise and to be part of this, that it's our legacy.

We are working together to make this available for the next generations. And this is also a great opportunity to keep this wisdom alive. So please join.

Thank you.

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You have QR codes if you want to subscribe. And I mean, you can donate any amount of money, right? It's not necessarily should be.

Just the books will come with certain amount of money. But the donation, you're welcome.

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Thank you very much. We wish you success with that. They actually forced me to sign up like two months ago.

I was resistant, but when I did it, I really appreciate it later. So I really encourage you to do it. I was talking to some friends yesterday.

They were confessing they haven't signed up. We're gonna keep going forward and find out who hasn't signed up. Keep putting pressure on you.

But anyways, it's really great because two things. You learn new content, which helps you and your people around and you support this wonderful project, preserve the wisdom in this beautiful planet. So it's a great win-win situation.

Well, thank you very much. And breakfast is waiting for us. Do you wanna say anything else, Tim?

Okay, come. Thank you very much online.

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For those of you who are online and want to see Ward Smith's class, the link is in the chat and you have to flip over to that class.

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All right, so pardon me.

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Yes, so for local announcements, we're gonna be having Chinese and Vietnamese translators and Russian, I guess. That's how that's happening. We're gonna give 15 seconds, 20 seconds for that.

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And then I have a few local announcements.