Сяопин Джоу / Элисон — Книга 2: Самоцвет истинного намерения (Панчен Лодро Лексанг о «Виная-сутре»), занятие 8

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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 8 (дорожка c008 плейлиста)
Ведёт: Геше Майкл Роуч, Элисон Сяопин Джоу (перевод и ведение класса)
Дата и место: 25.05.2024, не указаны (по названию ролика в плейлисте)
Источник: YouTube, канал Diamond Cutter Classics, плейлист PL1KVm5jgTljRBpdDsc-GnPM-ab-9EEPLy; расшифровка TurboScribe
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[Speaker 1]
Maybe grilling up something for the rest of us? Not a problem. And I'm, can you fabricate me one of those fancy backgrounds like they have over there in Sepulveda?

Sure, I'm sure I could achieve that for you. Torch the world, light the wisdom. I like your background just as much.

I like to imagine we're all having a barbecue in your backyard, learning profound ideas.

[Speaker 2]
We would all come. We're just waiting for the invitation, Nick.

[Speaker 1]
Everybody's welcome, but not all at once. Not my place. Hey, can you hear me?

Oh, we hear them. Hey, we hear you guys. Doesn't mean they can hear us, but we're not important.

Hello. We're talking from West Sedona. It's a little more difficult.

Aha. The West Sedona language. Well, it's kind of halfway between.

Okay, here comes the homework from Madame President. Okay. Who's also going to translate simultaneously, Nicholas.

Okay. Good to see you. Hope you get here soon.

Good to see you too. Yes. Day after tomorrow.

All right. We'll rock and roll. Thank you.

Rock and roll.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, so first we'll start a simple quizzes. Yes. Daniel is supposed to translate for me this part.

I think I'll translate myself. Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. Okay. So can something be more righty and not be Vinaya?

It's okay. Okay. Yes.

Okay. Yes. Why?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, somebody in the chat. Oh, princess. said that if they are not Buddhists, if it's not in Buddhism.

Yes, if a person is not a Buddhist, but he is very moral, and he is very moral, we would not say that he is a Pinnaya. Yeah. Second question.

Please list a deep qualification for Vinaya, and where is Je Tsongkhapa's input on this? Mr. Chen, you're on the line.

[Speaker 1]
It's only physical and verbal. Hey, Xiaoping, did he take a shower? Well, he can sit here.

It's been good. It's good, it's good, it's good. Okay.

The question is, what is the deep quality for Vinaya according to Je Tsongkhapa's view?

[Speaker 2]
No, I mean, usually, how can we calculate the Vinaya? Okay, any idea? Thank you.

[Speaker 1]
I think Wan Hsiao-tung has the right answer in the chat. Wan Hsiao-tung? We thought he would sing.

[Speaker 2]
Somebody said it should be motivated by renunciation. I can only see this answer.

[Speaker 1]
The flower hand said that he should be inspired by renunciation.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, but no, because the answer should be related to that Je Tsongkhapa also had input on this in the last class.

[Speaker 1]
This point is right, but it's wrong, right? It only covers physical and verbal.

[Speaker 2]
Oh, yes, yes.

[Speaker 1]
But Je Tsongkhapa adds intention also as part of it. Ah, okay. Tuan said that the Vinaya should be related to physical and verbal, but Master Tsongkhapa said that it also includes consciousness.

[Speaker 2]
Yes. Great, thank you.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, very good, thank you. Tuan is taking notes. It's a very interesting idea.

This is a very interesting thing. Yeah. Somebody's computer is on, on the Zoom.

There's some feedback. Okay, hello.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, it's okay. Okay, so Je Tsongkhapa particularly said that Vinaya, that's what he says, that Vinaya is all physical and seed. He said, and seed, which means that your motivation.

So that would include the last three of the ten bad seeds. Okay, third question. What is the meaning of rikshu nepa, and how is it used usually?

[Speaker 1]
When we meditate, people are noisy. When we do homework, everyone is silent.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, I see somebody in the chat said it implies exceptions. It's usually how it's used.

[Speaker 1]
Implies what? Exceptions.

[Speaker 2]
The meaning is of that type. Yeah, it's usually used to imply exceptions. Usually it is used in debate.

So Geshe-la said, if in debate you hear your opponent say this word, you need to be careful.

[Speaker 1]
Of that general type. Geshe-la, are you telling the truth? Of that general type.

It means maybe sometimes I'm not. Okay. So we learned a trick to do debate.

Yeah, it's very important in debate. Is what you said true? Of that type.

[Speaker 2]
So I just want to say that after this class, usually there is a 15-minute discussion about how you can apply what you learned in this class in your real life, like your business or your life.

[Speaker 1]
Or your family life.

[Speaker 2]
Or your family life. Of that type.

[Speaker 1]
Of that type, okay.

[Speaker 2]
So you can think about anything you can bring back home to use in your life. The words. Three words.

[Speaker 1]
Included into that group. Nick said included into that group. It's pretty good.

[Speaker 2]
Oh, okay.

[Speaker 1]
It implies exceptions also.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, okay.

[Speaker 1]
Included into that group.

[Speaker 2]
Second one. Definition. Yeah, definition.

We talked a lot about the definition of Vinaya in last class.

[Speaker 1]
And this class will be continuing with the definition of Vinaya. It means how do you define Buddhist morality? Third word.

Third word. Trust. Unusual.

Yeah, bad morality. Good. Yeah.

Yeah, all misbehavior. It's nice. Who said that?

Nick? Yeah. How come he knows that one?

I'm not going to answer that. There we go. Xiaoping had some translation assignment, I think.

Yeah, yeah. Can you read the Tibetan, please? Okay.

[Speaker 2]
Nice.

[Speaker 1]
He's still quoting pieces from the opening lines of the Vinaya Sutra. And the Vinaya Sutra is interesting because it's not a ... Sutra.

Sutra, okay? It was written later, much later. It's similar ...

similar to the ... Yoga Sutra. Yeah, which is not a real sutra.

Sutra technically means spoken by an enlightened being. And this explanation of Buddhist morality was not spoken by an enlightened being. It was spoken by a human being.

And the first page of this kind of long sutra is the definition of Vinaya. And he says here, Vinaya should involve NGES SBYUNG. Yeah.

Do you want to read your translation?

[Speaker 2]
Okay. Then comes to the renunciation, it has to disqualify the morality of praying for the good and the morality of protection from the fear.

[Speaker 1]
Nice. Okay. So ...

Yeah. So, what it means is Buddhist morality should be followed because you are tired of suffering in this world. And it's not because you want to be a good person.

And it's also not because you're afraid of being punished. You are moral because you want to get out of sansara. You want to get out of suffering.

And that's an interesting definition of morality. Somebody says, is that a good thing to do? And what's the answer?

What's the answer you should give? Yes, because it helps you get out of suffering. That's a moral thing to do because it helps the person who's doing it.

It's a very interesting definition. Then he said, it's not morality that you follow because you want something nice to happen to you. And it's not morality that you follow because you're afraid of punishment.

Then those are two technical terms. In the study of Vinaya, which is the most ancient topic we are translating in our translation team, 2,500 years old, the language is extremely ancient. I told you many times.

One doctor Prahlad with a shorter sota that drugs the mind, he tears it to the root, and bothers everything in his lakur. A weed bed grew, and gendut is the floor. What language?

English. 500 years. Shakespeare, before Shakespeare.

Okay, so imagine 500% older than that. That language is very difficult. Her book is actually the most difficult book we are translating for language.

So we need to go to other books to find out the explanation of some of these words. And that's only possible because we have John Brady AI. For your guys' information, we went to Lama Quicksilver's book.

We had Quicksilver in our last class. Why? MU CHU It's called Silver Water.

For cleaning gems? Yeah, for cleaning gemstones. Why were we cleaning gemstones?

It was a metaphor. It's an example for the three turnings of the wheel. So, here's the definition from Quicksilver Lama of those two kinds of morality, which Buddhist morality is not.

So, do you want to read this one? Sure. Is it not on your ...

I sent it to you.

[Speaker 2]
Oh, this is my homework.

[Speaker 1]
Do you want me ...

[Speaker 2]
It's very easy to project.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. I don't have this one. You have, you have, yes.

Alright, am I on? Do I have to do anything? Let's wait.

[Speaker 2]
Yes, you are on.

[Speaker 1]
Alright, here's the definition of those two kinds of morality from an author who lived, I don't know, three, four hundred years ago.

[Speaker 2]
Instead of two thousand.

[Speaker 1]
So, I'm going to ask Xiaoping to read. Let me get it a little bit bigger. Okay, go.

Nick is checking.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, thank you.

[Speaker 1]
Grandpa's relaxing. Nice. So, this is the definition of Lekmun Ksodrom.

Lekmun means you're praying for something good to happen. Mun means to pray. Lek means good, like Lekson, Lekson.

And here's the definition of that morality. First of all, it could be for Zen D. What's that?

[Speaker 2]
This life.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, for this life. You want dewa. Happiness.

NYE'I KHUR are typical troublemakers for teachers. And NYE means you get lots of red envelopes. And KHUR means people bow down to you.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
SDUN DU NYER BA means that's your motivation. That's what you're looking for. Or maybe your focus is on TSAD PHYI MA.

say chingwa. Next life. Yes, future life.

ngun to means what, you guys? Higher realm. Higher rebirth.

Human or deva? pelngjor is a very common Tibetan monk's name, but it means, pelngjor means mula. Gold.

Money. And you want to tobpa. Obtain?

Yeah, in your next life you want to be rich and famous. If you sungwa your morality for these reasons, sungwa means what? Keep.

Keep your morality. Yeah, keep or protect. What's a kusung?

It's a bodyguard. Like famous person's bodyguard, because he's called kusung. Okay, so if you sung your morality, if you bodyguard your morality because you want money or fame, that's the definition of the first morality we started with today.

It's hoping for something good. And you can see this in politics, for example. People keep their morality because they want to get more support from their voters or something.

Some politicians are too stupid to even do that. Alright, we don't talk about politics. Now we have the second kind of morality that we're not talking about.

fear of being punished. You keep your morality because you're afraid of going to jail or something. So here's the technical definition of the second kind of morality, which is not what?

Vinaya. It's not Buddhist morality. Why do you keep Buddhist morality?

I'm tired of being reborn in this place. Okay, so please choose someone to read, and I think Ben Kramer wanted to check them. That's what I heard.

I couldn't see who is online actually.

[Speaker 2]
From the gallery view so I can see.

[Speaker 1]
You can always pick Hasso. There you go. He's a little sick today, I heard.

[Speaker 2]
Oh yeah, I heard. Sorry, I hope you get better. Tracy, what do you have to read?

Yes, thank you.

[Speaker 1]
Very nice. Nice, thank you. You must be one of those word students.

I don't know the name. Sendir. Sendir.

Shabu. Sendir. This what?

This life. In this life. Chepa is found in the name of the sutra Dorje Chepa.

Chepa. Yeah, in Sanskrit, chedaka, which means to cut. But it's also an ancient word for punishment of the king.

Maybe they used to cut you, I don't know. So it means you keep your morality because ...

[Speaker 2]
You're afraid of punishment?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, you don't want to go to jail, for example. Yeah, and by the way, that's a lower motivation, right? jik means you're afraid.

What's jik je? You guys ... Yeah, Bhairava, which is the ...

the tendri ... Okay. B-H Bhairava.

B-H changes to F in English. Fear. So this means you're afraid of the king's punishment.

Or chel ... third line chel means lose. This chel means you lose.

Okay, and lose means you lose a bet. Or you lose your salary. It means a fine.

Someone's going to fine you. In Arizona, many people drink alcohol and drive their car. So the government found out if they charge a lot of money as a punishment, people will drive better.

They also put you in jail. That's the two things here. You're afraid of the punishment of the government.

Or you're afraid you'll lose a lot of money. And that's ... what kind of motivation for keeping your morality?

Second type. Yeah, lower. Lower.

It doesn't qualify as Buddhist morality. Okay. The motivation is too low.

Okay, gupa dang. Also, these people are also worried about se chima. Next life?

Yeah, next life. Maybe I'll go to the three ngen dro.

[Speaker 2]
Lower realms?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, three lower realms. What's those three? I think they're hell.

[Speaker 2]
Keep it up.

[Speaker 1]
Keep it up. Keep it up. Animal.

What else could you do?

[Speaker 2]
Hungry ghost.

[Speaker 1]
Did you do normal squats?

[Speaker 2]
Yes. You did? Please mute yourself.

Thank you.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. Alright, those three lower realms. I will be a good person because I don't want to be a dog in my next life.

Is it Buddhist morality? No. We say no.

You have to have the hope that you won't even be a human. Because this ... just one more time suffering, I want to be a Buddha.

Okay? So, because you're jikpa, you're afraid of that dungyel, of the three lower realms, sungwa means you protect or you keep. How do you say bodyguard?

kusung. kusung. Yeah, kusung.

Bodyguard. So, you guard your morality. Because you don't want to go to the hell or something like that.

That level of morality is called scared morality. And that does not apply as Buddhist morality. Okay.

He finished one word from the definition of Buddhist morality. What's the word?

[Speaker 2]
Renunciation?

[Speaker 1]
ngen drum. You have to keep Buddhist morality because you are tired of all kinds of suffering. Now he says all kinds of Buddhist morality involve bongwa.

What's bongwa? Giving up? Yeah, to give up something.

Avoid doing something. So, all first level Buddhist morality is avoiding something. Three levels of Buddhist morality.

Vinaya. Give up doing bad things. Bodhisattva morality.

Try to help everybody. Diamond Way morality. Help them so you can get out of this suffering before you die, in this life.

I don't have 64,000 lives to wait. I want the result before I die. That's Diamond Way morality.

Okay, so here we're on the lowest level of Buddhist morality. Vinaya. Bodhisattva morality.

You try to do good things. Vinaya, you try to stop doing bad things. Okay, so here it says stop doing it.

And this is denpa. This is indicating ngo-wo of pratimoksha vows. Ngo-wo means?

Nature? Yeah, nature or essence. The Vinaya vows have their own name.

Pratimoksha. Say pratimoksha. Say pratimoksha.

Pratimoksha. Pratim means one by one. Moksha means?

Freedom? Freedom. Why do they call it one by one freedom?

[Speaker 2]
Hundred dollars.

[Speaker 1]
Hundred dollars. Raise your hand. Not you.

Who's online? Online or in person, both are fine. Pratimoksha.

One by one freedom.

[Speaker 2]
Why?

[Speaker 1]
There's somebody online. I heard somebody. Word doesn't count.

[Speaker 2]
I couldn't see the answer.

[Speaker 1]
Is it because only you as an individual can do it? It's kind of like the $20 answer. Someone raised her hand here.

Chloe has it. Chloe, try. They got the individual part, you got the free part.

If you guys got together, you could have an answer.

[Speaker 2]
Free from each suffering one by one.

[Speaker 1]
Nice guess though. Tina or Max? Max.

Oh, he's the big money guy. He cleaned $3,000 from me in one question. He's like a vacuum cleaner.

What? Too long. No.

Some people, they talk a long time, then maybe they will get the right answer.

[Speaker 2]
I think compared with the Bodhisattva morality, Bodhisattva morality lasts forever, and this morality is only for this life.

[Speaker 1]
Nice guess, but wrong. He said Bodhisattva morality lasts forever, but the liberation is only once. Let's get an Irishman to answer.

Irish answer. If you keep the morality yourself, and you yourself will reach freedom. Okay.

Can you translate? That's what I say, bro. Those who keep it, get free.

Those who don't keep it, don't get free. Therefore, it's individual freedom value. And the essence of that kind of morality, which is synonymous with Vinaya, the essence is BON BA Give up.

Giving up? Yeah, you give up something. Stop doing something.

That makes it different from what kind of vows?

[Speaker 2]
Bodhisattva vows.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, Bodhisattva, you agree to do something. You know, you know those, right? Dimalan knows those.

Don't say blah blah blah, he said blah blah blah. Okay. So, that's SO THAR GYI STONG PA STE He says Pratimoksha vow is divided into two types.

BYAS PA and RANG BZHIN GYI GANG NA MA THOR BYAS PA GANG NA MA THOR Okay, I'll show you GANG NA MA THOR. Are you ready? Watch me, okay?

GANG NA MA THOR Like, you pretend you're lying to somebody. Just pretend. Pretend to lie.

Just pretend. Can I tell a lie right now?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Just, no, like, talk like that. You don't have to say a specific lie.

[Speaker 2]
Oh, okay. Stanley was saying ...

[Speaker 1]
That's GANG NA MA THOR. Your teacher, when they hear you do it, they're like, ah! Okay, that's GANG NA MA THOR.

Say, GANG NA MA THOR. It means, ah! My student lied again.

Okay, that's the literal meaning of GANG NA MA THOR. Very unusual word. Wise people will groan and grab their head.

Ah, I messed up again. It's like when your dog poops in the house again. Okay, GANG NA MA THOR.

So there's two kinds of GANG NA MA THOR. One is BYAS PA, and one is RANG BZHIN GYIS. Here it's abbreviated.

Hundred dollars. Each one. Two kinds.

BYAS PA, RANG BZHIN GYIS. Hundred dollars each. But you can't have both, okay word?

One by one. First one is BYAS PA. It's not prohibited by the Buddha.

Yeah, prohibited by the Buddha. It means it's not a natural bad deed. What's the famous example?

[Speaker 2]
Drinking alcohol.

[Speaker 1]
In the beginning of the Buddha's career, it was okay for the monks to drink alcohol. Then there was a problem. And then he said, okay, no more alcohol.

That's called BYAS PA. It's not a natural bad deed. It's a Buddha prohibited.

So that's a hundred dollars for ... who gave the answer? Gibson, I think.

Gibson? Aiya! And what's RANG BZHIN GYIS GANG NA MA THOR?

Somebody else than Gibson. You want to try? Natural.

Now, if you want the money, you have to give me an example.

[Speaker 2]
Like killing life?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, killing. Taking life. Everybody in the world, no matter what country they come from, no matter what culture, they all know that taking life is a bad deed.

[Speaker 2]
Hopefully.

[Speaker 1]
So, whether it's alcohol, or whether it's killing, there's a common thread, there's a common theme. What is that? It's the opposite.

We need to give up those. Yeah, DBONG BA, give it up. Don't do that.

That's the essence of Vinaya. Whether it's a natural mistake, or whether it was a mistake that Buddha had to make a rule about. Mistake by rule, you give them up.

That's Vinaya. LAS LOGS PA means you turn away from it. You decide not to do those things.

LAS LOGS PA means you turn away from it. You decide not to do them. Okay, Xiaoping, who's going to read the next one?

By the way, if Venerable Utpala is there, Microsoft Word has done this thing that Adobe did, that the search box shows up wherever you happen to be, which is super irritating to me, and I'll give you a hundred bucks if you can figure out how to keep it up here out of the way. Okay, who's going to read, Xiaoping?

[Speaker 2]
Stanley, you're right to read.

[Speaker 1]
Oh, can you want me to ... you want to turn this? Yeah, thank you Geshe-la.

Nice. Thank you. The definition of Vinaya in the Vinaya Sutra includes the word suk chenpa.

Which means that this level of morality should have suk. It's physical, okay? It must be physical.

Then the last word in this sentence is chun. Like dorje chupa. It means?

Cut? Yeah, and it means this definition is meant to eliminate a certain possibility. shi tungpa means one thing which is both.

shi tungpa means one thing which is both. Here, it's one thing which is both shepa and sotakyi dongpa. We just had sotakyi dongpa.

Individual freedom. Yeah, that's emotion. What's shepa?

Mental thing? Yeah. There's no such thing as a Vinaya vow which is also shepa.

State of mind. So, I'll ask you a question. Is anger is stopping your anger pratimoksha?

If you get angry, did you break your pratimoksha vows? No. No.

Okay. You got to think of pratimoksha, you got to think of Vinaya as being primitive morality. Primitive morality.

Low level. Lowest level. Look, I don't care if you hate the guy.

Just don't kill him. That's Buddha on the first day. Okay?

Later, Buddha says, if you don't think he's a Buddha, you broke your morality. But first day morality. Look, please don't stab each other, okay?

That's Vinaya. It's very, very, very beginner's morality. And all higher morality is built on it.

You don't ever get too advanced for Vinaya. You just build on it. But technically, beginner Buddhist morality is only physical or verbal.

Which are both considered physical. Okay. Now, there's another qualifier, there's another adjective here.

In the original Vinaya Sutra. Who's going to read? Utta, would you like to read?

By the way, this text will take 20 to 30 years. You are lucky to be here at the beginning. A year from now, nobody will understand any of the classes.

So, please enjoy the beginning. Alright, here we go. Who's going to read?

Utta?

[Speaker 2]
Yes, thank you. Thank you, Allison, but I don't see the text.

[Speaker 1]
Who can ... We have to project my screen, grandpa's screen. We just see Nick and Ben, it's like a terrible thing.

Can somebody put ... share screen? Yeah, yeah, she's working on it.

Okay. Alright. How about Stanley read then?

[Speaker 2]
Maybe Stanley first?

[Speaker 1]
shik-pa-pay tse-tung-pay shik-pa-pay tse-tung-pay tse-tung-pay tse-tung-pay tungway tungway she-so-kyi she-so-kyi chang-sen-kyi chang-sen-kyi suk-chrim suk-chrim nam-de-yin-pa nam-de-yin-pa chud-do Yeah, chud-do. Each word of the definition, or many of the words of the definition, are meant to chud. To eliminate.

Yeah, they eliminate other possibilities. So, what's the chang chub sempa suk-chrim? What's chang chub sempa?

Bodhisattva. Bodhisattva morality. 64 bodhisattva vows.

Okay? That's second level morality. Okay.

That Vinaya is lower than that. Our book is Vinaya. We're going to be doing it for 20 years.

And at the very beginning, he says, when you shiwa, you lose this vow. Means what? Die.

When you die. Okay? When you die, when you die, you lose your Vinaya vow at that moment.

But if you have bodhisattva vows, they survive death. They survive forever. Diamond way vows also stay forever.

Vinaya vows, you have to keep taking over every time you're born. So, this dong ... This is the dong in dong len.

What's the dong in dong len? Giving. Giving.

Yeah. What's it mean here? When you shiwa, you dong.

Give them back. Yeah, when you die, you lose the Vinaya vow. By the way, there's an interesting pronunciation thing here.

The first word here is high-tone sha. Shiwa. Shiwa.

Shiwa. Okay? Now, if it's Z-H-I, Shiwa.

Shiwa. Shiwa. Shiwa.

Shiwa. Shiwa. Shiwa.

Shiwa. Shiwa. We use Z only because ...

It's like the Chinese Z they use. Or X, like Xiaoping. It's just because it's a different sound.

Sha. It's not that you're supposed to say Z. Poor Lama Zopa.

His whole life, people mispronounce his name. There's no Z in Tibetan language. They just use it to show low tone.

So, shiwa means to die. Shiwa means peaceful. Big difference.

If the king says shiwa, you're okay. If the king says shiwa, you're okay. If the king says shiwa, you're in trouble.

Okay, that's something you have to remember. When you pronounce in the class, you know, I don't want you to die. I want you to be peaceful.

Shiwa. Not shiwa. Okay, all right, good.

But this one is shiwa. Why? Yeah, when you die, you die.

Why do you lose your pratimoksha life? He didn't say only die. He said po-wa.

Die and move to your next life. Then that word po-wa became very famous. Because there is a secret practice where you can po-wa purposely.

Like, I'm planning to po-wa into Brad Pitt's body. Because he has hair. Okay, understand?

That's called po-wa. Shi-pa means to die and move on to your next life. Say here means when.

When you die and move, yu tongwa, the vinaya. You lose your prelude. That's another part of the definition of vinaya vow.

Okay, we have ... By the way, in five minutes, grandpa will sit down with my beautiful wife and relax and drink coffee. And Xiaoping will lead a 15-minute discussion.

English or Chinese, doesn't matter. How can you use today's class in your real life? So, start thinking about it now.

Okay, because you guys have to look very smart for the whole world audience. You have to prove Sedona people are smarter. Oh, Sedona people.

[Speaker 2]
Oh, sorry, sorry.

[Speaker 1]
Not all Sedona people. Okay.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, okay.

[Speaker 1]
Sedona-ren. Okay, last summary of what we said. Here's the summary.

[Speaker 2]
Who's going to read it?

[Speaker 1]
Maybe we make Xiaoping suffer one more time. Stanley checking. It's the opposite of their home life.

[Speaker 2]
Okay. Shung-kyu-da-na.

[Speaker 1]
Thank you. See, I told you. I told you.

[Speaker 2]
No, I asked him to focus on checking.

[Speaker 1]
I told you, I told you. I also told you. Okay.

[Speaker 2]
Shung-kyu-da-na. Good. Nice.

[Speaker 1]
Good. There's two ways to read. You can read it perfectly, or you can read it fast and the person doesn't have time to correct.

Okay. Sung-gyun means flow of the speech. And it means oral tradition.

Dharna, in the oral tradition, here's a short definition of Vinaya. Just a convenient definition of Vinaya, not technical. First of all, it should exist in the du-kham.

Kamadhatu. In the desire realm. It means those heaven deities, they don't have Vinaya.

Those beings living in temporary heaven don't have Vinaya. Why? They don't have suffering.

Yeah, they don't have ... they're having too much fun. Very rich, handsome, beautiful human beings can't focus on morality to get out of life.

So, Vinaya is a kind of And the morality is motivated by ngen dru. Annihilation? Yeah, they want to get out.

And it is not parma morality. Parma is similar to bardo. bardo In between?

Yeah, you guys know the word bardo. The person between death and rebirth. So, par means between.

And they said it's better than parme sutra. Halfway morality. And we had some examples of it, and they were very kind of strange.

Very kind of ...

[Speaker 2]
Strange.

[Speaker 1]
What's half-ass morality? We had an example. Anybody remember?

If the person who was, for example, was a butcher, and he was thinking, you know, this is a terrible life. Someday I have to give this up. That thought is renunciation.

It's a kind of morality. Excuse my wife, but it's half-ass. It's not firm enough to be really moral.

He said someday. Someday. So, he said, by the way, there's a debate in Buddhism about whether a person who was castrated could keep vinaya.

Cut their male organs. Like those people who serve the king. Because they say, if you don't have testosterone or something similar, you can't make a firm decision.

So, there's this idea in vinaya also. You've got to have all your ... your hormones have to be in balance to be firm in your decision-making.

So, the idea is that vinaya morality has to be decisive. It's not like a diet. Oh, now I'm going to start a diet.

Did someone offer you a cinnamon roll from Peach Tree Cafe? Then you're like, well, maybe I'll start tomorrow. So, it's very ...

I think it's interesting in Buddhism, morality has to be decisive. You have to be clear. You can't say, I think I'll be honest.

It can't be diet morality. It has to be decisive. And that's why ...

that's why this short definition said we don't count halfway morality. And that's kind of a colloquial definition of vinaya. He's going to ...

his whole ... our twenty-year course is going to have ten parts. We just finished the first part.

Okay, and that was the definition of vinaya. Next class, we will do the yewa. The different divisions of vinaya.

Full monk, beginner monk, one day vow, layperson vow, like that. We're going to go ... Now, that's the next topic.

All right, Grandpa's going to go relax with my boss. And Xiaoping's going to lead a discussion. Yes.

Thank you, Geshe-la.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, so ... I think ... so, anybody would like to share?

Particularly the DSU student here?

[Speaker 1]
Anybody?

[Speaker 2]
How you apply in your life? Maybe focus on one thing. Patience.

Thank you. Thank you.

[Speaker 1]
So, I feel like this pratimoksa vows is about my individual practice. It's not about others. It's my practice.

So, I stop getting angry at others.

[Speaker 2]
Very good. Any other person? Anything ...

Tim?

[Speaker 1]
First of all, it's really great to see all of you here on this side of the world. You know, oftentimes, I like to think of myself as a great practitioner. You know, I'm the higher middle way.

I'm so good. But if I'm really honest with myself, I can barely even do this level. Because I know what happens inside when I have my internal dialogue, the inner jerk, or something like that.

Sure. But I really liked today when you said, well, you know, you're not angry if you are just angry inside, in Vinaya. The thing is to stop the anger outside.

You know, when I get upset, or whatever's going on inside, if I could at least not get angry with other people visibly. Or control myself. When I am upset with someone, to talk with them in a way that's productive versus yelling at them, for example.

And that's usually as far as I can go in the two husbands in the kitchen, is just not to yell at the person. At least I can do that, and I feel like I'm at least holding some kind of morality. So I can rejoice in that while my inner jerk is still, you know, working it so loud.

[Speaker 2]
Thank you so much, Tim. Anyone else? Anyone?

Rob?

[Speaker 1]
Rob? Thank you. I was thinking about how the definition of morality is will it bring you happiness or will it bring you being unhappy.

And we were driving here this morning. And Geshe Michael always drives the speed limit. And so I was leading his car.

I was in front of him, he was behind me. And I thought, oh, the flow of traffic. There's a law in California called flow of traffic.

Flow of traffic. It means? That if everyone's doing 90, you should be doing 90.

Oh, I see. So the speed limit is 75 and he was doing 65. And I thought, oh, we should be doing the flow of traffic right now.

But I wasn't thinking in terms of like, is it will protect people on the highway? Will it plant a seed for me to be happy in the future? I wasn't thinking that.

But when we hit the next section of the road, I started to think this. And it made me think of the class today that I should be doing this because it doesn't harm other people. Doing the speed limit.

And I'm not allowing the sort of, is it morale, the morality of the local government to dictate whether I should be good or bad, meaning like everyone's driving around doing 60 miles per hour on the local road. You should not be. And I should not be doing that because even though everyone's doing it around, I should be doing it for two reasons.

One, the result it will bring me and it doesn't harm others. Right, so today I realized that I shouldn't be driving super fast because of how fast I am. So that's just how I thought today's class could apply to my life.

Thanks.

[Speaker 2]
Thank you. Yeah, I noticed that Geshe, when we are in the same car with him, he will always remind us to follow the speed limit.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, one last person for this section. Today, I have an important discovery. Usually, I focus more on helping other people.

But today, I realized Geshe was talking about this kind of morality is kind of a lower requirement. Actually, I find out inside my mind, I also have this kind of judgment where I think, this thing is lower. It's not really deserve my attention.

And today, I have come to the realization that this kind of so-called lower morality is the foundation of happiness, success, and the foundation of our higher practice. So, I will try to stop driving wildly in the future. Yeah, because just a couple of days ago, I was driving some friend from Shanghai, and then she or he saw me crossing the line like this.

And then she said, Oh, in Xi'an, you guys can do that. I said, No problem. Freedom.

[Speaker 2]
Thank you so much. I think now is the time for the P3 World News, right?

[Speaker 1]
Yes, thank you so much. Thank you. I think Nick wanted to say something, no?

Oh, no, no, that's it. I was just giving you time to get set up. Okay, okay.

Well, thank you very much. Juan, so I'm going to be translating. Can you pause?

And then I'll translate. Very well. We'll work together.

Good morning, everyone. So, first of all, I want to congratulate you a lot because of your first BSEU session in the United States. Okay, so let's start sharing some of the news that we have.

Yes, this is first, as I said, to congratulate you. Diamond Seal Interpreter University has been doing a great job for more than one year, and it's working very hard for the second year. Yes, and having said that, we're going to go to the upcoming events closer to the forest during this year.

Okay, so for those of you who may know not yet, great teacher John Brady is about to have a great music fundraising concert. And we want to share that video with you and invite you to participate. They are doing a celebration and fundraising event happening 31st of May.

So here's the QR code. You can register for free. They're going to be explaining and talking about all the work ALL is doing.

You can join us for this great celebration. And just to let you know as well that John Brady is having a lot of content to share in their Patreon website. The next slide, please.

They have meditations, Patreon, all the support is going through ALL. And then in June, GSP4 is happening. Next slide, please.

That's going to be wonderful in Asia. Wonderful what? Wonderful in Asia.

In Asia, okay. Next, please. We're going to move quickly.

I'm going to basically just show you pictures now. Yeah. Then next GSCU session in Japan is happening in June as well.

Next one, please. And John Brady is teaching in Japan around those dates also. Next, please.

YSI is teaching also in Japan, a very cool yoga retreat. And Tim Lowenhaupt, next one, please, is teaching also in Japan, June 4th to the 8th. So big Dharma party in Japan.

And at the end of June, YSI is having Inner Kingdom series. Now in July. Next one, please.

Innovation retreat is going to start. This is a very, very cool project. Then it's going to take people to Diamond Mountain.

We will be talking more about this soon. And next one, please, also to mention the Dunhuang Caves Project. It's cooking.

We'll be ready very, very soon. Next one, in July, 26th to 28th. Geshe Michael is coming to Mexico City.

Yes. And next one, please. Just to let you know, in September, Diamond Mountain is having a special reforestation event.

We will be having a talk to them soon. But for now, we have a very special guest interview with us today. Can you guess who is the guest?

Can you guess who is the guest? Xiaoping. Yeah, special guest.

Congratulations, Xiaoping. Thank you very much for everything you're doing. It's very exciting that you are having this very first session in United States.

And I want to welcome also to in our location, special agent. Peter Parker. Juan, I thought you were sick.

Where's your pajamas? Why aren't you wearing your pajamas? If I stand up, you will see.

You don't dress like this when you go to bed. Thank you, Juan. If I stand up, you will see.

All right, everybody, welcome to Peachtree World New Sedona Edition. This is where you get breaking news for around the world. And today, we have Madam President as our guest.

Wait, what did you say? Nothing, nothing. Just family stuff.

All right. These are my neighbors also, by the way. So they gave me a script on what questions to ask today.

The headquarters. But I will not be asking any of those questions. Today, we want to know the real Xiaoping.

So just first question. How many years has DSEU been sort of happening now?

[Speaker 2]
I think four years since we had the first thought.

[Speaker 1]
Four years? OK, four years? Similar to the time Geshe had the idea to build a cafe.

We started almost at the same time. And what's the importance of having this college, or really having these students here in Sedona right now, as opposed to in Asia?

[Speaker 2]
Strategically, we choose to incorporate our university in US.

[Speaker 1]
So will the students be required to come to US and Asia every year?

[Speaker 2]
So far, our plan is we plan to offer class in Asia and US because we want our students to have access to the essence of the East and West.

[Speaker 1]
Will they get to eat cinnamon rolls when they're here? Yes, so here's the breaking news. You heard it here first.

Yeah, we have already arranged a visit to Peachy Cafe.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, we are going to have lunch there. And we are hoping the owners will come.

[Speaker 1]
And what kind of other activities do you have planned? Maybe three activities this week that you have planned for the students while they're here.

[Speaker 2]
First, amazing unique teachings you cannot get anywhere in the world. For example, a unique perspective about succession planning. Second, touring around Sedona.

To enjoy the beauty of Sedona where we are having our future campus. For example, we are having pink jeep tour this afternoon.

[Speaker 1]
Stanley will be driving.

[Speaker 2]
Third one, I think to visit some important places like Peachy Cafe or our university office, our land, for example.

[Speaker 1]
And if students have any complaints, they complain to Stanley?

[Speaker 2]
Yes.

[Speaker 1]
You heard it here first, breaking news. And another question, actually. So I heard a few times you spoke about a bachelor program.

Yes. And any idea maybe when a program like that might become available?

[Speaker 2]
That depends on how hard every one of us here work. But we have, well, we have news I'm going to review a little bit today. So anybody will be the first group of person to hear today.

[Speaker 1]
Wait, is this exclusive news? Are you going to tell us now?

[Speaker 2]
Well, I'm hesitating. I was planning to do it next week. Yeah, but I will say it now.

No details. Yeah, we are about to launch college age program. We are about to launch a program which the student will be the college student.

[Speaker 1]
Wait, what did she say? Same in Chinese. We are about to launch a program which is designed for the young generation.

Really, the reason I ask is a little selfish because my nephew is 10 right now. He's 10 years old. And I think it would be amazing if when he reached his undergraduate studies that he could come study here.

You know, never before, you know, where I attended university, you know, I didn't find somebody like Geshe Michael at my school. And Xiaoping, Stanley, Tim, Seiji, you know, all the amazing Wang Xia, Tina, all the amazing students and future teachers is what I'm guessing is happening here. And I think all of us are the same that we want our, our, what is it like your lineage called of your family?

Your next generation? Yeah, what do you call that? The people who follow behind.

Kind of like your succession, I guess, of your young family members to maybe follow in your footsteps. So we think it's amazing what you guys are doing for the future, really. You're like the innovators.

And it's really, we're really happy for you all to come and visit Sedona. And if there's anything that we can do for you at all, anything at all, just ask Stanley. Okay, before we go, what are the plans?

We hear we have some things coming up in Japan coming up. Anything you'd like to say about that?

[Speaker 2]
Uh, we will continue to offer classes in Kyoto in June.

[Speaker 1]
And for example, we have very all kinds of exciting events besides the amazing teaching.

[Speaker 2]
For example, we are about, we will have, we have invited the, we could say the grandfather of the tea ceremony in whole Japan.

[Speaker 1]
They are going to give us special lectures. Yeah, in December. And of all the Peachtree World News correspondents, why am I your favorite?

All right, I think we got to wrap up here. Juan, anything you want to ask?

[Speaker 2]
Well, I have a lot of things I would like to ask, but One thing I would like to take this chance to say, may I?

[Speaker 1]
When I did the opening, and there are one thing I have not shared yet. When I was driving on the way here, I feel a deep sense, deep feeling of joy and happiness. And gratitude.

Yeah, I feel that we are very lucky. I'm very lucky to be a part of a mission which could serve the world deeply and for many generations. And DSU won't be here today without the support of every one of us.

[Speaker 2]
DSU students, our local friends, our friends online from different parts of the world. So I just want to use this chance to show gratitude.

[Speaker 1]
Thank you. And Juan, sorry, we were going to have questions for you, but we've run out of time. Tune in to Peachtree World News every Monday and every Saturday.

And then once a month, we usually have a program of Peachtree World News, exclusive news about things that are going on around the world. So stay tuned. Thanks, Juan.

[Speaker 2]
Very well. Thank you.

[Speaker 1]
Thank you very much. And maybe see you Monday. Let's go back to Ward Smith for the Tibetan language class.

I think that's it, right, Nick?

[Speaker 2]
Thank you.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, we go with Ward now for those who are online and want to learn more. Hi, Ward. Thank you.

Hi, Rob.

[Speaker 2]
Hi, everybody.

[Speaker 1]
Thank you so much, Juan and everyone else. Um, this class is to deepen your knowledge of the main language and to learn how to translate.

[Speaker 2]
So if you want to do that, you're in the right place. We're a little over halfway through this book called The Golden Key.