Сяопин Джоу / Элисон — Книга 2: Самоцвет истинного намерения (Панчен Лодро Лексанг о «Виная-сутре»), занятие 10

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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 10 (14.09.2024)
Ведёт: Геше Майкл Роуч, Элисон Сяопин Джоу (перевод на китайский)
Дата и место: 14.09.2024, Diamond Mountain Retreat Center, Аризона (первый день Innovation Retreat)
Источник: YouTube, канал Diamond Cutter Classics, плейлист PL1KVm5jgTljRBpdDsc-GnPM-ab-9EEPLy; расшифровка TurboScribe
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[Speaker 2]
Good morning everybody.

[Speaker 1]
Thank you for joining Xuanzang's tower. This is the Diamond Cutter Classics translation team. I believe Geshe Michael and Xiaoping are still getting set up.

Are you guys ready? I think they'll be broadcasting live from Diamond Mountain today. So very exciting.

All right. Pei Ling is ready. Good to hear that.

We're ready for you too. Oh, I see them. They are at Diamond Mountain.

And it looks like they're just about ready. Sorry, I was trying to have a conversation with my daughter. Lucia Pichardo is ready.

Who else is ready? I'm almost ready. Clearly, I'm still fixing my tie.

Everybody got your swimsuits on?

[Speaker 2]
I mean, no, of course not.

[Speaker 1]
Exactly.

[Speaker 2]
Oh, thank you.

[Speaker 1]
Let's see. Hey, Ben. Hi.

Good morning.

[Speaker 2]
Good morning and evening. We have an overcast day. What are you called?

Sea effects? Marine layer. Marine layer.

That's it. That's what they call it.

[Speaker 1]
It's always the marine layer here in the morning before about 10 a.m. It's pretty cool, actually. And it burns off. You know what we should do?

We should have a mixed nuts retreat here in sunny San Diego.

[Speaker 2]
At your house. At my house.

[Speaker 1]
I don't know if that's a good idea. Depends on the size of the retreat. If we get enough people, we'll do it at my house.

So we can make it look like Geshe Michael's house the other day. So I can't quite tell Geshe Michael and Xiaoping. Are you guys having class without us?

What's going on? I see some paper shuffling. Maybe they're doing the news.

[Speaker 2]
There's noise. It's a development. They can see us.

[Speaker 1]
We can see you seeing us. You can see us seeing you seeing us.

[Speaker 2]
It's getting more and more together. They're starting a dance song.

[Speaker 1]
Oh, they have those cool microphones. I like that.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
That sounded like shopping. That was good. She's starting warming up her voice.

Me? Now? Yes.

Good.

[Speaker 2]
It's good. Oh, finally.

[Speaker 1]
Good. Okay. Go.

Okay, so here's the first class of ... Now, let me introduce. Okay.

So, hi everybody, and we are at Diamond Mountain Retreat Center. This is the first day of the first Innovation Retreat Program. And we have a room full of guests, many from China, and many other places.

Da shang hao. Good morning. And we're going to ...

it just happens to be that the first day of our program, there is an already scheduled translation class. So, I have a custom. I give three translation classes every week, all year.

And I don't change the dates or the times, even for Xiaoping. So, by coincidence, the first IR morning happens to be a translation class. And it happens to be Xiaoping's class.

So, for about eight years, we have had twelve translators. Each one is translating a different great book from a different great period in the last two and a half thousand years. Because each of those great classics is written in a different language, a different kind of language.

So, if we want to preserve the 300,000 great books of Asia, we need to train twelve different people in twelve different dialects. So, we have one class this morning. Monday evenings in Arizona time, we usually have two more classes.

And those will be with Stanley Chen, and he's working on a book from 2,000 years ago. Zhou Xiaoping's book is probably the oldest book we are studying. And the language is the oldest language.

So, two and a half thousand years old. I like to say, my friends know, I like to say, one Dutch apparel where they shot a sultan at work, their marriage had perished, and they wrote a vow that everybody would be in and wish the good. And we've been through engenderies of war.

What language? English. Five hundred years ago.

Okay, so imagine five times older than that. So, languages change in every generation. And her book is a hundred generations ago.

So, the language is very difficult. So, we chose the best translator for the most difficult language. By the way, this is the beginning of the Innovation Retreats.

I've been teaching for about 50 years. I like to teach many different topics that I think are necessary in the world. So, we have nice classes about business.

And we'd like to welcome Seiji Arao Takahashi, the head of DCI. We do yoga programs. We do meditation programs.

We do children's programs. We have 42 organizations. But I felt like we don't have a good organization that emphasizes deep retreat.

And we spent 25 years to build a great retreat center with 30 retreat cabins. 25 years, 30 cabins. Okay.

And this is the largest retreat center in the United States, and maybe one of the largest in the world. And a lot of the ideas for my successful jewelry company, which became number one in the world, many, many innovations started in the United States. And that's how we became so large and sold the company to Warren Buffett.

So, these Innovation Retreats are like secret weapons. But I never really taught it to people. So, today's an important day.

We have students from the Innovation Retreat group who have been doing activities for several months now. And they have come to Diamond Mountain from around the world. To start learning how to do these retreats specifically to get innovative ideas.

And this afternoon we'll have our first IR class in the retreat center. It starts at Arizona time, four o'clock. And we open that class to the whole world.

Anyone's welcome to come. And we're going to catch the fish to learn more. Okay, so we always start our translation classes with a homework.

And the translator will give us a homework from her last class. And then we'll start the new translation. And we're especially grateful to IR for bringing the snow mountains to the desert.

Okay, and let's start. There's some technical issue. I can hear the sound from Geshe-la's computer, so I'm hearing both sounds.

One from Mike, one from the computer. Can I cut my sound? I can cut my sound.

Okay, thank you. I will speak in English first and then translate into Chinese by myself. I can do the Chinese.

Of course, please. I think at the same time we are translating into Vietnamese, right? So first, I only prepared two homework questions this time because in last class we basically repeated.

The previous class content. So first question, what does this word, ni, mean?

[Speaker 2]
Day.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, thank you. Or it could refer to day, or it could mean daylight, or it could mean 24 hours. You can click on this one.

[Speaker 2]
It's okay.

[Speaker 1]
Can you see it? I'm sorry. I changed to a new computer, so I can't change it to black.

Can you see it? Okay. Second question, please explain how riksunepa is used generally and we mentioned in last class.

It means... And what's the meaning of it?

[Speaker 2]
It means of that general type and it can cover you in a debate.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, wonderful. Lindsay, right? Yeah.

Lindsay, I can recognize her voice.

[Speaker 2]
Awesome.

[Speaker 1]
So it's usually used by debaters to protect themselves from words, from weird exceptions. Okay. Three words.

What's the first one?

[Speaker 2]
Tough one. Particular.

[Speaker 1]
Personal, particular.

[Speaker 2]
Nice, nice.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. A word came in a Chinese body today called Gibson. Second one?

[Speaker 2]
Attain, take, get the vows.

[Speaker 1]
You have two bodies. There's Gibson in a weird body. Second one.

So what did you say?

[Speaker 2]
It really, it means to get like the vows in particular. It's an old word for like to take the vows or something. Get them.

[Speaker 1]
To promise, to swear. Yeah, to promise, to swear is a very Asian word.

[Speaker 2]
It should be an asterisk, yeah. Very rough, yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. Third one?

[Speaker 2]
Edge. The extreme or the edge of something.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. Yeah. Last one means the edge or extreme.

Edge. The edge of something. The edge of the vow usually means how long you keep the vow.

Okay. Okay. Okay.

Do I need to read or somebody else read? Yeah, you want to read the first paragraph. Okay.

Okay. So, we would all like to put good seeds in our mind. And many years ago, I'd say 40 years ago, I decided to become vegetarian.

And I was living with an old Mongolian Geshe. He was blind. Great, great Geshe.

Hi Geshe. Then he said, oh, you decide to give up meat, right? Then he said, you're so stupid.

I'm like, why? He said, if you take a vow to give up meat, you make much bigger seeds. So, Xiaoping's book is two and a half thousand years old topic.

How to make promise to keep morality. And then that karma or that seeds is much, much more powerful. So, you can do the same thing with or without vows, but if you have a vow, the seeds are much, much more powerful.

It's like free extra seeds, because it only takes like an hour to take the vow. And there are eight categories of vows. And Xiaoping already translated one book about them.

And you guys are lucky, because you are here, we are just starting to describe those in this book. And he's giving the technical definition. So, they are very precise, but they are difficult to read.

Okay, here we go. What's du mean? Xiaoping, first word.

Oh, for the time? Yeah, time. Hang on, let me get a bigger cursor here.

Accessibility. Okay, good. GC Tso, this Tso, anybody know?

Tso, with an L, spelled with a... Lifetime? Yeah, GC Tso means for the length of your life.

Some vows you take for one day. But this vow that they're talking about, you take it for your whole life. Some vows, like bodhisattva vows, you take for all your lives.

But these morality vows, normally they are taken for until the day you die. When you die, you lose the vow. Okay, bardu.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, bardu.

[Speaker 1]
Bardu means up until. Up until. RGYAL GYI SPANG BYA SPANG BYA means...

Give up? The thing you are giving up. Like you give up killing.

And RGYAL GYI SPANG BYA means the particular thing you give up. Tso means... Like lam tsok nam sum.

Mainly. Primarily. Wu.

Five. Wu. Five.

Okay. SPONG BA means give up. We had it in your vocabulary.

Promise. Commit? Promise?

Yeah. Sorry, I need to translate. Can you continue?

Okay. RAB TU CHE BA means distinguished by. And this first set of vows is possessed by khimpas.

Khimpa. Yeah. Yeah, you don't have to enter a monastery to take the first set of vows.

This ten is a very important special usage of the word ten, and I think Tim was going to tell us what it meant. He disappeared, I think. Body and mind?

Yeah. Thank you, Tim. So usually ten means a support, like this table is a ten for my computer.

But when you study vows, you have to take the ten. But when you study vows, ten means what kind of body and mind can support this kind of vows. RIGS SU GNAS PA means of that general type.

It means there must be some exception, which I'm not sure what he's talking about. Sokaki dompa. In Sanskrit.

Yeah, pratimoksha. All of these vows together are called pratimoksha. Prati means individual.

Moksha means? Moksha, freedom? Why are these vows called individual freedom?

Venerable Karin?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Anybody can help me with the individual?

[Speaker 2]
The individual who takes them, you yourself go to freedom?

[Speaker 1]
No. If you keep them, you will freedom. If you don't keep them, you will not freedom.

You will get to freedom. If those who keep them individually will go to freedom. Those who don't keep them individually will not go to freedom.

It depends on the individual. So when you die and you meet the Lord of Death, and you say, no, no, I have freedom vows. I don't belong here in the hell.

Then he will say, pratimoksha. Those who keep them are free from me, but those who keep them... And there will be a day like that, okay?

And we don't know when. Better to take care of it now. It's good to pay your taxes ahead of time.

Then the whole country is going crazy on tax due date, and you're not crazy. So take care of your morality now. Then when you die, it's just like relaxed changing into a new pair of jeans.

Okay, dompar mikpa means it exists as a dompa. And that's the definition of a genyin. That's the definition of a genyin, a layperson vow.

It's not my tree. What's a genyin you guys? A layperson with lifetime vows.

Yeah, that's what we call no-brainer. Why not? Just take them.

Anyway, you're not going to kill a human being. Anyway, you're not going to steal things from people. So why not make a vow and you get more credit?

You get more karma, more seeds. All right, who would you like to read the next paragraph? I couldn't see online person.

I'm guessing, okay. You could bother one of the people in this one. Do you want in person or online?

Either one. You're the boss. Stanley, do you want to read this first one?

You can squeeze with us.

[Speaker 2]
Thanks. This one?

[Speaker 1]
Maybe I can do this better. Correct him. I know you don't usually do it.

Thank you. We can save some time, because most of the definition is the same. Okay, so the only difference here is chu.

Which means, before it was na. Now it's chu. Now it's chen.

So if you are still a lay person, you can commit to five vows for your lifetime. And by the way, they are coming up. They are coming.

But the second kind of vow you can take is ten. Ten vows. And here it says rab chung.

Instead of kimpa. What's a kimpa? Yeah, householder.

So rab chung means ... Oh no, rab chung means left the home life. Rab chung means really came out.

And generally it means someone who decided not to live the family life. And so they will have more time to focus, and usually they will stay in a monastery. So that's the only difference here.

It's ten vows. And to save time, they made a commitment not to have a family. And to save time, they decided to leave the home life.

At the same time, we should say that the highest vows, the bodhisattva vows and the diamond way vows, you don't have to be rab chung to take these vows. Family people or monastery people, same. Sometimes I think the family people, it's easier to keep them.

So this is only for monk vows. But for the higher vows, bodhisattva vow or diamond way vow, the family life is very, very useful, can be very useful. Maybe your young son is a Buddha, came to your house.

Right, Seiji? I spent some time with the Buddha yesterday. All right, who's going to read the third kind of vow?

By the way, at nine o'clock, Yalisana time, we will stop the class, and we have a 15-minute special discussion. Because we felt that people were wondering, how can I use this ancient book in my real life, my modern life? So we made a tradition, a 15-minute discussion, after one hour of translation class.

Grandpa will go sit down, and Xiaoping will lead a discussion. How can you use this information in the modern world? So you guys should start thinking about that now.

Okay, du ji si tsoy bar ... Oh, sorry, who's going to read this one, Xiaoping? Rob, you want to read?

Uh-oh, trouble. Here? du ji si tsoy war du ...

No? The lower one. What?

Oh, here? Yeah, tsoy war. du ji si tsoy war ...

Tsoy war. par du lu nak gi ... Oh, it's a hard one.

cha ta dak ong war? Yup, ong war. nupay rap tu chu wa?

Che we. Rap tu chu we. Che we.

Che we. So tar yong dzok gi don bar mik ba de, ge lang gi de tsen ni yin te. Nice.

Thank you. Thank you. I'm going to save time, and we can cover more material.

The first set of vows had how many vows? Five. The second set of vows had how many?

And that was gesu. Gesu means novice monk or nun. So baby monk, baby nun, they start with ten vows.

Then later they can ... by the way, even to be a baby monk or nun, you have to take two sets of vows. Three.

Yeah, number one, you should take those layperson vows, the five. Then you take a second vow, rap tu chung, you agree to leave the home life. And then thirdly, you agree to keep the baby monk or baby nun's vows, ten.

So what's the second, the same? Second one, you just promise to leave the home life. Nowadays they often mix together the two ceremonies for leaving the home life and taking the baby monk or baby nun.

And sometimes you can't tell the difference, but really it's two ceremonies. By the way, this book will take about twenty-five years to finish. And you are very lucky to be here at the beginning.

Later they will be arguing about small, small details of the book. So, how many vows did the layperson agree to? Five.

And the baby monk, baby nun? Ten. And now, full monk, full nun, they agreed to give up hadak, say hadak.

Hadak means all of them. It's not very clear. Why he said hadak?

Anybody can guess? Why didn't he give the number? Because all the other ones are from the full one.

[Speaker 2]
Because there are different numbers of vows for monks versus nuns.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, the male full monk and the female full nun, they keep a different number of vows. Hundred dollars, except word. How many the full monk keeps?

[Speaker 2]
Two hundred and fifty-three?

[Speaker 1]
Two fifty-three. Was that Nick? Yeah.

Okay, collect your money when I see you next month. Okay, female, how many? Three sixty-four?

[Speaker 2]
It's in the chat.

[Speaker 1]
Three sixty-four. Now, I would make a joke right now, but Venerable Ellie always gives me a hard time if I make this joke. So, I am not going to make a joke about why the ladies need more vows.

All right, who's next? Oh, by the way, everything else is the same. Yeah, except he says those vows are yong dzok.

Yong dzok means complete. That's the most complete form of Atimoksha. Okay, cool.

In a debate, you can win in two different ways. What's the two different ways? In my Geshe debates, I prefer logic.

You can quote an ancient book. Or you can prove it logically. In my Geshe debates, I prefer logic.

Why? It's hard to memorize a lot of scriptures. Monks in the monastery, they start memorizing books when they are five years old.

And I got there when I was 35. So, logic is easier. I didn't have 30 years of memorizing books.

But our author is going to quote an ancient book to prove what he just said logically. And when you're reading a book, this is an indication that the author was a Geshe, probably. Probably a Geshe.

By the way, we have a database now for 37 years. Thank you. Okay, good.

And we have input. We have captured 12 million pages. And it's free, and it's online.

It took about 10 or 15 million dollars. But it's online for free. And we are 7% finished.

So, you guys have to continue. It's going to take about ... it will take about 10 generations.

Okay, so he's quoting the Abhidharmakosha. Yeah, Abhidharmakosha. One of the great, great early books 2,000 years ago.

Who's going to read Xiaoping? Tim, would you like to read? Yeah, you want to come up?

Ah, watch out.

[Speaker 2]
Oh, it fell.

[Speaker 1]
Oh, maybe you'll read both. Cool. All right.

,GZOD LAS, ,PHANG BYANG NGAN GYI ,LAM GYI CHUD DANG NI ,LAM GYI CHUD DANG NI ,THAMS CAD PHONG BAR NUS PAR LAS ,SKYE NGAN DANG NI ,NAN NAS DANG ,SKYE GZO CHE DANG GYI LONG NI Nice. Chepa Dang. You want to stay here and answer questions?

I will do my best. Okay, what's GZOD? The Abhidharmakosha.

Yeah, Kosha, the treasure house, right? And it refers to... There's a famous debate that it can refer to the treasures in the king's treasure house, or it can refer to the building of the king's treasure house.

Okay, so treasure house means either one. It can refer to... And you say, Kosha can refer to the place, like a safe.

Or it can refer to the money in the safe. Oh, okay. I need to translate.

Which one? Kosha. Kosha.

Abhidharmakosha. Abhidharmakosha. It can also refer to the scabbard of a sword.

Scabbard means the place where you put the sword. That you put on your belt, and it holds the sword. Yeah, so so far we had how many vows for the lay person?

Five. Baby monk or nun? Ten.

Then full monk or nun, two hundred, three hundred, like that. Now, Tim, there's a problem here. There's a math problem.

It says pang ja, to give up. Something to give up. So it means a vow.

Five. There's the five. Here's the chu.

Here's the ten. Here's the tam che. All of them.

All of them, because we don't want to say two fifty-three or three sixty-four. But now there's a new number here, gye. What's that all about?

One hundred. No, eight. Eight.

Eight, just eight. Okay, it's the eight types of lay person vows. No?

Gibson's got it. Oh, the one-day vow. Yeah, the one-day vow.

So the Abhidharmakosha says, yeah, you can give up five. You can make five promises. You can make ten.

You can make hundreds. But don't forget the eight. Why didn't our author talk about the eight?

We talked about it in a previous class. Maybe. Yeah, previous.

Okay, but mainly it's not lifetime. It's just one day. Why didn't we talk about the eight in detail?

The main reason is because the eight vows to give up in the one-day world, that's not lifetime. Yeah, okay. And by the way, it says pang ja, something to give up.

That's specific to the lowest of the three types of vows. Because the bodhisattva vows and the secret vows are mostly positive. Positive.

Being nice. Yeah, the higher vows are often positive. Although not necessarily.

Okay, so five, eight, ten, and all of them is the four kinds of pratimoksha vows, which is Tim, ge nyen. Lay person, right? Yeah, lay person.

Or nyen ne. Is that the one person? Yeah, one day vow.

Or ge zu. Novice monk. Or ge bu.

Now if you're ... we're getting close to when we have to stop for our conversation. But there's an extra word here.

It's called che. And these great, great Buddhist writers, they don't put an extra word there for nothing. So if you're a really good student, like Gibson, you should be wondering, I wonder what's that che?

I was curious myself. And then I spent a long time figuring it out. Then I found out on the next page our author did the same thing.

So we don't have to go ... we don't have to talk about it yet. Now in the Mixed Nuts Translation team, when there's a quotation from an ancient book, we find it in the database and we check it.

So there's ... there are 4,600 books survived from India. So the first priority of our database project which started at Princeton in 1987 with the help of Hewlett-Packard Corporation.

Our first goal was to save the ancient books. 4,600 books. And it took us 17 years.

And we finished in 2004. So we have ... 310,000 pages.

And it's all in the database and it's free. So we checked this quotation from Vasubandhu. Because that's the rule of our project.

It's correct. Yeah, even the weird extra word che is correct. Now because there was an invasion of India about a thousand years ago, partly by Muslim people from the Middle East, they thought the monasteries were military forts.

So very carefully they destroyed all of them. That was a physical destruction of these books. Then there was a cultural destruction of these books, which is 300 years of British mafia in India, who later went to China.

And they destroyed the Sanskrit as a culture. So we only have 4,600 books survived, but in Sanskrit only a very few. But this book survived in Sanskrit.

So if you're interested, here's the Sanskrit. Tim, what's pancha? Five.

Five, yes. And that word pancha became finger. Because you have five fingers.

Then the German is funf. And the English became finger. Finger.

Ashta. Eight. Dasha.

Ten. That became the root of decimal. And decade.

Okay, and then so if you want to have fun you can read the Sanskrit. Okay, but that helped me to study that strange extra word. The Sanskrit is uddesha.

So we'll talk about that next time. And then after I worked on it very hard, I found out he also did the same thing. And we'll talk about it next time.

Xiaoping's going to lead a 15-minute conversation about how can you use this thing in modern life. I mentioned we have 42 organizations around the world. Many charities, for example.

Many study organizations. Study? Yeah.

Exercise. Healthy eating. And so we started a little news show.

And we'll have a 15-minute news show after the 15-minute conversation. Okay, see you later, please.

[Speaker 2]
Hello.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, so anyone would like to share how you need anything from today touch you, you want to apply in your life? 讲英文或中文都没关系,我可以帮你翻。 Kat?

I always love the example that Geshe Michael uses about how to put together a lawnmower that you just bought at the store. Sorry, how to put together what? A lawnmower.

A lawnmower. A grass cutter. Oh, okay.

Do you want to? You need the directions to know how to put that machine together. Okay, 你需要有说明书才能知道怎么把那个割草机组装起来。

And the same goes with our capacity to learn how to be a kind person. We need directions. And so this is what the vows are.

You know, I did not know there are 82,000 ways to hurt another person. And here are directions on how to be a kind person. So this is why I took all the vows.

I want to know all the directions how to be kind. It's just an incredible gift to have these directions. Thank you so much.

Any other person in the room?

[Speaker 2]
Thank you so much. I was wondering about how people can apply the vows. For example, everybody wants to have more money.

So what kind of vows we can keep it and share with people to keep it every day in order to get happy money?

[Speaker 1]
哪些戒律是跟赚取财富有关系的? 你守这个戒律可以赚取财富。 I think there are quite a lot.

For example, in the five vows, we talk about... 我先用中文,英文回答,然后我翻译。 In the five vows, one of the five vows of layperson, it is that first one is no kidding, right?

Basically, no kidding people. And second is no stealing. That's one of the examples.

比如说居士五戒当中第二条就是第一条不杀生,不杀任何胚胎,第二条就是不偷盗。 So actually, I think... And also in the...

So I'm just giving the example of the layperson vow in the Pratyekabodhisattva vows. 我刚举的是别解脱戒律的居士戒律一个例子, just one example. So I think if you keep that vow, I think you will help us to not planting the seeds, the negative seeds of financial freedom.

And you will help us to achieve financial success easier. 所以如果你守那个戒的话,会有助于我们避免种下财务自由方面的负面的种子,会更好地有助于我们实现财富自由。

[Speaker 2]
And may I ask you if you can explain a little bit logically how the vows works in our mind or heart or something for layperson?

[Speaker 1]
Sorry. How the heart works in our mind? The vows work in our mind?

[Speaker 2]
In our mind or heart? Or how it works? Because laypeople didn't understand about the vows.

So how can we get it and take it and keep it? It's a whole class.

[Speaker 1]
How do we take it? Okay, I think I will just try to answer briefly. 她是问说,那对人家不了解戒律的人来讲,你怎么守,他怎么运作,那怎么弄?

但是我说这个要至少一节课才能讲得完嘛,所以我长话短说。 For those people, for example, who already go very deep, they understand the content of the vow and one day they decide to make the commitment. If they can take the vow ceremony, I think it will help them.

Just like Geshe said that when you take the vow ceremony, the same act of not stealing, when you have the vow, you are planting much powerful seeds. 所以如果对那些已经有所了解深入学习的人,从不偷盗而言,你本来就不偷盗了,那同样一个行为你不如直接受戒。 因为这样不偷盗的行为,你就可以积累更加强大的种子。

For those people who are not going so deep yet, they just want to achieve financial success, they don't even know about Buddhism, they don't even have spiritual pursuit, for example. 对那些没有想对佛教或没有对这些精神上有更多追求,只是想追求精神上的, at the beginning to bring them to go deeper to this system, 为了让他们更深入跟种子体系链接上, I think we can share with them in a way that the power of the vow actually is coming from our commitment. 就是这个戒律的力量是真正是来自于我们这个承诺的。

The power actually resides in our commitment not to steal. So as long as you can convey in a way that if you in your heart you have this commitment to yourself, or you could commit to your loved one, your teacher, your mentor, that someone who you trust, and then this commitment will have a power to make the seeds of not stealing powerful. 所以同样的行为如果你能够真正的力量来源, 我认为I think, also it's taught by Geshe before, 是来自于你想承诺不要偷盗,你可以对自己承诺, 以及对你爱的人,你尊重的老师承诺, I think you will create more powerful seeds.

Thank you so much. Anyone want to share? 你们自己决定。

Okay, Xiaoping. 好,小平老师好。 我个人觉得就是有了这个戒律的话, 因为老师花了那么长时间,25年来, 翻译这本书一定有它特殊的意义。

比如说今天早晨5点钟从那个闭关中心走出来的时候, 它就像一个导航一样。 我从深圳大道,然后他们跟我说走到了中道, 然后在那里集合。 尤其今天早上我们坐那个车的时候, 那个电波车前面只有三个位置, 所以我们就坐在后面,它是没有安全带的。

我感觉有了这个戒律之后, 有了安全带坐在那个前面的位置会很优雅很从容。 比如说这一次我来到美国, 我要来将近马上不是还要上京大吗? 那就26天的左右, 那如果说我没有提前安排好自己的生活的话, 那就会一坛糟。

所以我觉得这个有美的, 它是生活的一种指导方式, 不跟感觉。 谢谢。 赵萍来自中国, 她认为像今天她坐的那辆公交车, 因为那里没有足够的座位, 所以她坐在后面, 没有座帘, 所以她感觉坐在后面的座帘 就像我们有指示, 我们有座帘, 它就像保护, 今天她来到教室, 她感觉她可以跟随座帘, 这次她要留在美国26天, 之后会是DSU课, 所以她感觉如果她安排好, 那她的生活就会很优雅, 很荣幸。

基本上, 她说座帘就像我们有指示。 谢谢。 现在是几点了?

还有一个人吗? 14点。 好,第三位。

我今天感受关于别解脱界, 在这里面收获比较大, 就是说你持守它, 你就会获得自由, 否则的话, 你就没有办法解脱, 尤其是给我们一个方向, 就相当于临终时候, 换上一条牛仔裤的一个选择, 尤其对我们现代人来说, 你能够把它运用到家庭, 我觉得那个高级界, 就是很美好, 很向往。 我突然想起来, 我曾经有一位南方的同事, 当他结婚的时候, 他妈妈跟他说, 其实结婚就是一纸合同, 你如果持好它, 你就可以获得幸福, 如果你持守好它, 你也可以获得一个非常持续的, 长期的婚姻的生活, 有一个幸福的家庭, 这个其实就是跟戒是一样的, 所以这种古老的戒律, 就已经给我们有一些依据, 有一些来源, 那指导我们现代的生活, 是依然能够带向我们要去的方向, 谢谢。 谢谢。

Thank you very much. So Lisa Li from China, she said that today she learned a lot about how the vows, the individual vows of freedom, vows of individual freedom, if you yourself keep the vow, then you are going to reach freedom. And she recalled that once she had a colleague from the southern part of China, and then when that colleague got married, then her mom told her that marriage is just like a contract.

Once you signed, if you keep your commitment in this contract, then you will give your happy marriage, a happy life. So the Asian vows actually provide, it just provides the foundation for us, we can get inspired from the Asian vows. Yeah, basically that's her idea.

Okay, I think that's all the sharing for today. And this afternoon we are going to have, we are going to broadcast the first IER class happening in Diamond Mountain. So you are welcome to come and invite your friends and families and share with anyone if you feel it could help them.

So this afternoon at four o'clock, there will be a public class. It is also the first class of the IER project in Diamond Mountain. So everyone is welcome to share with your friends or anyone you think can help them.

Okay, thank you. Huan, are you there?

[Speaker 2]
Hello Xiaobin, yes, I am here.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, bye.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Now you take the plane. Okay.

[Speaker 2]
Hello everyone, happy to see you there at Diamond Mountain. The Sky Harvest Week also just happened there and I hope you can all see the wonderful changes that are happening in the environment. So glad to see you all there.

Today we have a busy schedule because we have actually three projects that are going to be presenting. And the first one of them is, of course, the innovation retreats that are happening right now live from Diamond Mountain. For today, we have a special talk with Alan.

And so if tech table could help me to spotlight Diamond Mountain stage, please.

[Speaker 1]
Hello, I don't see you yet. Oh yes, now I see you. Hey David, how are you?

Good to see you. Nice to see you. Alan, good to see you.

Tell us, what are you doing? So we're here at Diamond Mountain for the first time ever, the IR international courses. As you know, Huan, we just finished up our innovation retreat in Dunhuang.

I would like to introduce you to the amazing things that are going to happen in a couple of days. During the Xuanzang Towers class, Geshe Michael already explained for us. I heard a couple of key words.

The first thing is the secret weapon for about 30 years of business success. And the systematic teaching structure teaching that have ever been taught in the past. We know secret is not open for the public.

But a lot of secret about doing Circle Day Innovation Retreat will be published in the next coming few days. Systematic refers to a comprehensive connection between each single object combined together, have a joint effect together. In the next couple of days, Geshe Michael will give a systematic teaching on the ideas and the method to do Innovation Retreat.

[Speaker 2]
We have a poster for that. Should we show the poster?

[Speaker 1]
Okay, please. Please show the poster. So this afternoon...

[Speaker 2]
Next one, please.

[Speaker 1]
So in the afternoon, the open class, open teaching is very important. Welcome you all to join with your friends and family. We will have a brief taste of the joy of the systematic teaching of the Circle Day.

But I think if you want to learn a systematic way holistically, you would like to join our online courses that's happening in the couple of days. And you will learn lots of secrets. So, Huan, are you excited?

[Speaker 2]
Very excited. Yes. Today, there is going to be an event at 4 p.m. Arizona time. Yes. And tomorrow, 7 in the morning. So you can follow the QR code and then we can get access immediately.

[Speaker 1]
Thank you very much. Thank you, everyone. I think I already explained the fascinating and surprising journey in the future to you.

[Speaker 2]
Amazing. Thank you so much. And best wishes during your first Innovation Retreat.

[Speaker 1]
Thank you.

[Speaker 2]
So our next guest, we are trying to move quickly, is no other than Tim Lawenhaupt that is also in Diamond Mountain. I would like to request the tech table to just show one more poster that we have. The next one, just to get into team event, but could I ask the tech table to share the poster, please?

[Speaker 1]
No. No, you're on. I'm on.

Okay.

[Speaker 2]
Okay. There we go. So, yeah, there we go.

Tim Lawenhaupt. You're doing a great project. Following this tradition of the Xuanzang Tower style, you have created a very cool course.

Could you tell us how it's going?

[Speaker 1]
Well, Juan, it's going very well, actually. We're going through this very similar to what we do in these classes. We're going through and translating steps on the path.

And we're going very deep into each of those steps and translating them one by one. And it's a lot of fun to one. Okay.

So this Wednesday, next session. So this Wednesday is our next session. And what does people need to sign up?

How much? Well, Juan, it's free, of course.

[Speaker 2]
So what's the payment? You just have to learn? Do homework?

Be kind? What is it? What's the trick?

[Speaker 1]
I think the trick is just to learn it, like learn how to become a translator. And the language of the steps on the path is very different than the class we just did with Xiaoping. There's very different vocabulary and from different time periods.

So this is a particularly unique language. So that's the trick, Juan. Just come and learn.

Wonderful. So thank you very much, Tim, for what you're doing. And you all know now, every Wednesday morning time, Arizona time, Tim Loewen will be guiding people through the steps on the path book.

[Speaker 2]
Just follow the QR code. And may fun begin. OK, thank you, Tim.

Thank you, Tim. Thank you, David, as well.

[Speaker 1]
Thank you, Juan.

[Speaker 2]
And now, finally, our last guest of today, is Rachel Webb. As far as I understand, she's also at Diamond Mountain.

[Speaker 1]
Hello, everyone.

[Speaker 2]
Ni hao. That's all I know. Only I know ni hao and wo ai ni.

[Speaker 1]
Hello, and I love you. So, Rachel, how are you? It's good to see you.

It's good to see you, too. It's very beautiful to be at Diamond Mountain and to see the international community in person. You should help us to bring more three-year-old people to Diamond Mountain.

You have to convince them it's a good spot to be. I'll try to do that. OK.

[Speaker 2]
But I know you're having this, by now, super-famous program. I think it's one of the most famous programs that Three Yules has during the year. And it's getting more and more popular and more and more people taking it.

It's the meditation teacher training.

[Speaker 1]
I know you're running New York's most famous and most successful program right now. It's the meditation teacher training.

[Speaker 2]
Could you tell us a little bit of what's going to happen in a few days? And whenever you want us to show the poster, we have it ready.

[Speaker 1]
Could you tell us what you're going to do in the next few days? We've already put up the poster.

[Speaker 2]
Oh, that's from... Oh, that's me.

[Speaker 1]
Oh, that's me.

[Speaker 2]
Thank you.

[Speaker 1]
Thank you. The meditation teacher training I want to share with you. So, Three Yules is based in New York City.

Three Yules is one of the first places, I think, that Geshe Michael taught about meditation and philosophy and many other things. My teacher is Hector Marcel. He is the president of Three Yules.

He's a student of Geshe Michael. He designed this training for many reasons, and I want to tell you about them. The first one I'll tell you, because you're going to see it in a few minutes, is that you're very smart.

And probably you're also planning how to plant the seeds that you need. The first reason that this training exists is to help other people. It trains you to teach meditation so that you can help other people learn how to meditate and become more kind and more intelligent.

For that reason, I think it's very important for anyone to learn how to teach meditation. Another reason is because when you want to dedicate your life to taking care of other people, sometimes it's very difficult to find other people like you in the world. Another reason is that when you make up your mind to dedicate your life to serving other people, sometimes it's very difficult to find other people like you in the world.

This training is an international training. Where you meet people from many other countries, many different ages and backgrounds, all who want to help other people. The final reason this training is so important is because of my teacher, Hector Marcel.

Just like Geshe Michael, but a little bit different than Geshe Michael.

[Speaker 2]
He's very funny. He makes learning very easy and fun.

[Speaker 1]
So my invitation to you, there's two days left to apply to this training. So my invitation to you, there's two days left to apply to this training. This is an online training.

So you can participate anywhere in the world. And it's on the weekends. So if you're working, you can participate on the weekends.

Also, we want to offer a special discount to the people who are watching Peachtree right now. So when you scan the QR code and you apply for the training, you can get 50% off if you use the code SEEDS. SEEDS.

If you use the code SEEDS, you can get 50% off. you can get 50% off. Yeah, 50%.

Half off. Because we like you. Because we like you.

Juan, can I say? Yes, he's giving it to me. Thank you.

I have one more thing to say. I have one more thing to say. Each year, Three Jewels gives away scholarships to people who can't afford the training.

This year, almost 100 people requested a full scholarship. That's 310,000 U.S. dollars. 310,000.

330,000 U.S. dollars. Thank you.

[Speaker 2]
I know that number. One third million.

[Speaker 1]
So if you have extra money from the discount, then you can sponsor a future teacher and scan this QR code. You can sponsor a future teacher and scan this QR code. Thank you very much.

[Speaker 2]
Thank you very much. Thank you so much to all the people who are making this possible. We want to wish you also best best wishes there at the Innovation Retreat.

Looks very very cool. And just finally, last news that I think is good to remind people just before you leave. On the 26th and the 27th there are going to be open sessions for DSEU.

We have a poster we would like to show to you. Poster on DSEU. I'm hearing the Chinese channel open I think but just to finish to show you the DSEU poster.

Thank you so much. There you go. September 26th, 27th, 28th depends on your time zone.

There is going to be open sessions. You can log in and get from first experience first hand a little taste of the wonderful classes DSEU is doing. And that's it for today.

Hope you have a great rest of the weekend and enjoy next week. And best best wishes again to everyone there at the Innovation Retreat. See you on Monday or Tuesday if you are in Asia.

Bye.