Серия «Сутра Алмазного огранщика», часть 4 — Девять посланий: неожиданный финал Камалашилы к «Сутре Алмазного огранщика» (2017, Даймонд-Маунтин, Аризона), занятие 4

[Speaker 1]
Okay, let's start. Congratulations on passing the door test. You can bribe those guys you know, usually a coffee as you know.

Okay, we're gonna do a quick lion's dance. Okay, so please get ready for meditation. Turn off your phone, do all your coughing, clear your throat.

If you have a cold or a cough, you can sit in the lobby or in the kitchen, you can hear in the kitchen. Today we'll go kind of the speed you probably want to do at home, if you have a job, Washington DC. So, we'll start ...

in this meditation we don't go to our breath, although you can if you want, and just go to the sounds in the room, small sounds in the room. It's an early morning in the desert, so we didn't turn on the air conditioner yet. So, glue your mind to small noises in the room.

If you're compassionate, you will make some small noises. Compared to those noises, the heartbeat is a more quiet place. So, let's go to the heartbeat, then go inside the heartbeat, then put the heartbeat to a distance, and be a little bit disconnected from it, and watch it beating in a vacuum.

And now bring your mind into a grain of sugar, a single grain of sugar. Now picture your mind as a vast lake, and see a ripple going out infinitely to the sides. And then turn on a light in the middle of your mind, and see the clear light of consciousness expanding in a ball ever greater.

Turn off the mind. Block any thoughts. Block any memories.

Block any feelings. And now turn off the mind, but if thoughts come, just let them float by. Ignore them.

Now bring one of your teachers to mind, to sit with you, and choose one beautiful quality that you love about them. Track three long exhales, golden light coming out of your nose, and touching the people of this place, or the country you live in, and the whole world. With this kind of knowledge and wisdom, then you can gently open your eyes.

Take a good stretch. Drink something. Alright then, any questions about?

No? Oh boy.

[Speaker 2]
Thank you, Geshe-la. I'm enjoying this meditation. Thank you.

[Speaker 1]
I enjoy that you enjoy. I have a question. In this meditation, there is an analysis meditation, and a list meditation.

For example, when I returned to the past life, I saw that I was a teacher, and I was sharing with others. And when I was sharing, I thought, oh, there are three kinds of suffering in our world. And then I would recall those three kinds of suffering.

And then, my consciousness would drift past some negative things in the past. Then I would immediately do a private force. Zhenzhen, you can remember all that?

So she said that when I was having this meditation, when I went back to the past lives, I felt like my meditation becomes like a very comprehensive one. For example, it's including all kinds of skills, like the listing meditation, or analyzing meditation, or focusing meditation, etc. For example, I remember in my previous life, I was a teacher, and I was teaching my students.

For example, I was teaching them about three kinds of sufferings. So when I was teaching them three kinds of sufferings, it's kind of listing these three kinds of sufferings to my students. But then I also had all these things that I did wrong in my past life.

So I had to do four powers in my meditation. So is it correct or wrong if I'm doing this? Yeah, nice, nice.

Good question. So, in Buddhism we recognize three kinds of meditation, right? CHE DGOM.

SHAR DGOM, CHE DGOM, BYO DGOM. Say SHAR DGOM. CHE DGOM.

BYO DGOM. Okay, SHAR DGOM means ... I like to call it making a list, like it's going through a process, reviewing a process.

And then CHE DGOM is what? You can call it problem-solving meditation, you know, you take a question in your life and you resolve it during the meditation. And then BYO DGOM, yeah, single-pointed meditation.

So, what kind of meditations do you think the first eight are? While you're in each one. Yeah, it's BYO DGOM, it's single-pointed.

Okay, the eight, the eight meditations. And again, I was thinking to read you the warning from Khenrupje. There's a warning from Khenrupje about don't get off the elevator in the first eight meditations, keep going to the ninth.

Then ... so that's BYO DGOM. What about checking your past life?

What kind of meditation? Yeah, it's kind of ... I guess you could call it a list, but it's ...

for me it's kind of a problem-solving. I'm trying to figure out how did I plant those seeds, you see? So, I ask myself a question, that's a CHE DGOM, ask yourself a question and then go figure it out, you know, how did I get these seeds?

Why am I seeing my Lama like that? And then I go into my past life and check what I did. And what Vivien's saying is that during the past life meditation, I think mainly, she feels like she can be wandering around different kinds of meditation, sometimes focusing on something sweet she did, sometimes going through the different steps of purifying seeds or enhancing seeds, and then sometimes solving problems in past life maybe.

And I think that's great. The whole purpose of the eight meditations is called TZEL. TZEL means ...

it's a difficult word to translate, but it means ... it's the word that's ... it's used for gymnasts or circus performers who can jump backwards and flip over and ...

and they show off their TZEL. It's called showing off your TZEL, your flexibility. So, we're showing off our meditative flexibility, mental flexibility.

And when we do the last three parts of the lion's dance, which we'll do next time, which is called THOD RGYAL GYI'I DANG YIN ZIN, you practice TZEL. You're gonna go to level eight, then you're gonna go to the air-conditioner real fast, then you come back to seven, okay? Then you go back to the air-conditioner real fast, or come back to six, go to nine, come back to five, and like that, okay?

We'll practice that, okay? So, everything about this meditation is TZEL. It's meant to build up ...

it's like doing different yoga poses to stretch your body and make your mind more flexible, okay? So you can learn to control your mind, okay? The puppy-dog of your mind, okay?

So, I like it, I think it's cool, okay? If you have time, I mean, you might get fired from your job, but ... okay, other question?

Thank you, Geshe-la. During the meditation, we will imagine that there's some kind of the quality that our teacher has. So, I just wonder what is the difference between the seed that we can see somebody else have, such kind of qualities, versus we, our own, we have the quality ourselves.

What is the difference between that?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
And if possible, how to switch those seeds so I can see myself have that quality? Yeah, Edmond had a good question. So, we're focusing on the seeds.

Today I was focusing on the seeds. My Lama takes a lot of personal responsibility, so right now they're taking some personal responsibility. That's why they're not here.

And so, I can observe this personal responsibility, but I don't have it, you see, or it's not as strong. So, what Edmond's question is, it's almost like because they're our teacher, it kind of means we don't have their quality yet. Maybe if we had it, we would be their teacher.

So, I don't have it, but I have the seeds right? Or I couldn't see it in my teacher right? So, I have sleeping seeds, they're called bakla nyelwa, bakla nyelwa.

It means sleeping seeds. So, what Edmond's question is, how do I wake those seeds up, so I can see this quality in myself? And the best way is to picture them opening into your Lama, and go through your past life experiences.

So, the best way to wake up the sleeping seeds is to do this meditation. That's the secret meaning, goal of the meditation okay? So, by thinking about the seeds you already have, you will wake them up, and you'll see them open in yourself.

And the first part of getting the seeds that strong is to appreciate them, you know, think about them. Then slowly you'll see yourself start to become like that. In fact, you can't stop it.

If you keep doing this meditation, you will become a very sweet, responsible person, by accident. Okay, one more question. Then we have to go to the Diamond Cutter Sutra, we'll never finish.

[Speaker 2]
Thank you Geshe-la. I'm wondering about the crystal of sugar, and if that should be outside of ourselves, or can it be in our heart? Can it be in our heart Lama's heart?

Is it the same as the emptiness, or is it something different?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, good question. So, as I mentioned previously, if you find your mind is wandering too much, or you have trouble focusing, there's a tradition to focus on something tiny, like a grain of sand, or a grain of sugar. And there's a cool meditation, 16 levels of sugar grains.

It's a Kadampa meditation, it's called the Kadampa 16, and I got that transmission from a very very high Lama, and you can ... after a while in the grain of sugar, you go inside of grain of sugar, inside the grain of sugar, and there's a different Lama in each grain of sugar. So, personally, when I do the meditation, I see the heart as sort of a dark space, not a bad way, not in a bad way, but just like in your bedroom at night when all the lights are off.

Like, I feel comfortable and at home, I don't feel scared or something. It's not timur, timura, it's not that kind of cut-off scary darkness, it's a kind of a comfortable, I'm-in-my-bed darkness, under the blanket. And then I bring the sugar crystal inside that space.

So, for me the space is about this big. Of course there's no space size in your meditation, but it feels about this big to me, and then I put the sugar grain inside there. But if you wanted to use the principle of tiny means focus, yeah, you could like put the emptiness of the bubu Lama in your real Lama, in their heart, as big as a grain of sugar.

Yeah, you could play with that, and it helps you focus when you feel distracted. If you start to feel nervous, or tight in your chest or something, or like that, if you're a person who tends to get more nervous, there's two kind of personality right? Rajas and Tamas.

If you're more sleepy personality, which was me, you can do a lot of heart work in your heart, small crystal, but if you're more nervous personality, you might want to do it at your navel okay, or here. This is medium nervousness, this is highly nervous, and the navel is low nervous. So, if you're feeling kind of shaky, bring it down to the navel okay, and expand it a little bit, make it like a baseball, or an orange fruit okay?

If you feel sleepy, tighten it up into a single point, ekagra okay? Like that. Alright, let's go to ...

we'll do more questions tomorrow okay? And in the future. We reached ...

can you put the verse up you guys? We reached budbudam ... oh wait, I think Jasmine owes us something.

Oh, after the break? What did we do yesterday? After the break?

Okay, after the break. She's going to teach us the Chinese okay? Maybe tomorrow you have to recite the Chinese to get in the class.

Okay, the Chinese is very very old okay? Very very old. It was translated I think almost six seven hundred years before ...

well, call it a few hundred years before Tibet okay? Six, seven hundred years before Tsongkapa. It was translated into Chinese.

Kumara Jiva, and later by Xuanzang right? Dr. Wu took me to see Kumara Jiva's stupa. He was a great translator from India who lived in Xi'an, and when he passed away he said, if I ever translated something wrong, if I never translated something wrong, then after you burn my body my tongue should be intact, and it was, and it's still there.

Okay, budbuddha. Six meanings of the bubble okay? So, budbuddha means a bubble.

I used to teach people buddhudam, because I misread the combination of letters. This DB is extremely rare, but DDH is very common. So anyway, it's tiny in the printing.

What group are we on? We didn't say yesterday, I should have said. We're on the third group okay?

First group was, what's your world like? Star, cataract, and lamb okay? And then second group was, how do you taste it?

Oh, I always taste it wrong. I always think the husband yelling at me from the husband okay? That's how I taste my world, I blame other people, and I blame other circumstances okay?

That's how I taste my world, like a razor okay? With honey over it okay? Then third group?

Yeah, what's wrong with this world? And that I did, I should have mentioned yesterday, there are two big divisions to group number three, there are two big parts to group number three okay? The first one is the avasyaya, and it means the ...

eh? Yeah, the do. So, that represents impermanence okay?

So, the first problem of our life is that nothing lasts, especially good things, they don't last okay? The second problem is the pain of life, so the bubble always represents pain okay? And you would think it would represent impermanence, but it's pain okay?

So, the do represents the problem of life, that it goes too fast okay? And the bubble represents the suffering of life okay? Always.

So, by the way, I'd like to give you the explanation of the Sanskrit right? Especially the cognates, what English words come from that word, and ... this is simple anamatapiya okay?

It sounds, it sounds like what it is, bud bud bud bud, bud bud okay? That's ... in linguistics it's called anamatapiya, bud bud, okay?

Bubbles make this sound. There's some other famous examples in Sanskrit, I thought to give you some for fun okay? These are from a book called Sanskrit Grammar by Dwight Whitney, he was from Yale, he lived over a hundred years ago, and if you want to study Sanskrit, his book is the greatest, by far okay?

From Yale, 120 years ago, something like that, a little bit more, and then his student was Franklin Edgerton, who was also at Yale and Benares Hindu University, which is the greatest place in the world to study Sanskrit, and John's organization just bought a piece of land next to the university to build a school for Sanskrit, and I'd like to thank them, it's two weeks ago I think, three weeks ago, so you're ...

that's ... we give their ... DCI gives programs at that university once a year, and so now you can go study there if you want, it's in Varanasi okay?

And they'll be Sanskrit, Tibetan, Chinese if you guys want, and you can be immersed in the local language. There are more Sanskrit scholars there than anywhere in the world okay? When ...

first time I gave a talk there, they took me in a room with 30 of them and they made me recite Sanskrit, and luckily it was something I had already memorized, so ... from the Bhagavad Gita, so ... luckily we passed, and so anyway, Edgerton's student was named Samuel Atkins at Princeton, and that was my teacher, so you are of a very great lineage of Sanskrit also.

Alright, anyway, Whitney said, here's Samadhamapya's, you guess okay? Here's the Sanskrit, buk-buk ... buk-buk ...

this is from the Veda okay, from the Vedas, buk-buk ... come on, huh? Dog bark, buk-buk ...

okay how about shishka, shishka, shishka, arrow sound, shishka, shishka, okay? Shishka. How about ...

by the way JB, phet, it's Vedic, phet. I'll give you a clue, it's the same as a continent name, come on, four continents ... what's our continent called?

Jambu, say Jambu. So, the world we live in, in Buddhism, in Buddhist cosmology it's called Jambu, and that's the sound that a wishing tree fruit makes when it falls in the ocean. Jambu, Jambu, okay?

These are all Anamarpya, phet means Jambu, same, phet, okay? It's very important in Vajrayogini practice, okay? Ancient Anamarpya, okay, I'll stop.

How about kikiru, kikiru, kikiru, kikiru, that's your heart when you're scared, kikiru, kikiru, kikiru, kikiru, it means scared, kikiru, kikiru, okay, alright, why are we talking about that? Buddha, budd, budd, budd, budd, okay? Bubble, okay, alright, it's Anamarpya.

Alright, bubble has how many meanings? Oh, so the bubble is suffering, and the do is impermanence, okay good, six meanings for the bubble. Number one, Master Kamalashila, Master Vasubandhu, Jamyang Shepa, Choney Lama, they just emphasize, listen, the bubble means suffering, okay?

It means life is suffering, okay, and they ... they don't go a lot into it, okay, but they say the bubble means suffering. Okay, tendar sarambha, meaning number two, he says, please note, this is not uwa, uwa means a bubble also, but that means a bubble in the ocean, or in your green drink, okay?

A water, a bubble in the water is called uwa in Tibetan, but this is chubur, this is a different kind of bubble. He says, this bubble is a bubble caused by rainfall, or you spilled your coffee, and it ... this bubble is one on the dry land, okay?

It's important, this buddha is not a bubble in the lake, or in the ocean, or in the green drink, it's after you spill the green drink, and it's a bubble on the ground that comes very ... it's even faster than the normal bubble, right? A bubble on the ocean can last for a few seconds, a bubble when you spill your green drink, if you're lucky enough to spill your green drink, it will disappear quickly, okay?

It just lasts for a split second, okay? So, tendar sarambha, this is meaning number two, he says, oh this is a ... this is not a water bubble, this Sanskrit is a bubble on the ground, very fragile, okay?

And if you think about it, it comes from a combination of causes, there has to be a rain cloud above, there has to be an earth waiting for the rain below, and there has to be falling of the rain to the earth, or you can say green drink, okay? But something has to be above, something has to be below, and something has to move, okay? Causes, dependent origination, so for him this represents the causes of perception, okay?

Especially in the Wheel of Life, there's a John Brady over there, there's Geshe Michael's eye over here, and there's movement between the earth and the sky, okay? And that creates instance of consciousness that only lasts very instantaneously, okay? I can only see John for so many moments, and then something will separate us, karma will separate us, okay?

So, for tendar sarambha, he's the pessimist, right? Everything is suffering, okay? So, the bubble is like this causes that cause awareness of your family, and of your country, and of your body, and they ...

they come and go very quickly, you lose things, okay? Alright? Suffering, suffering of loss, okay?

Okay, meaning number three. This is Kamalashila and Kohenjo-Tenpe Drume, okay? Two of them, they talk about this third one, they say if you think about it, bubbles are made of water, okay?

There's water in the green drink, okay? By the way, can you bring up the picture of the meditation? There's water in the green drink, there's water in the bubble in a different form, right?

In a different format, and then there's water in the air after you pop the bubble, right? The water spreads into the air, and we have a picture here which Nick is carving ... there's a joke in Tibetan, they say don't carve it, just display it.

Yeah, okay? So, the left side of the bubble is water, the right side of the bubble is water, and the green drink that you spilled to form the bubble was water. So, for Kamalashila, the bubble represents three states of water, three states of water, as rain, as a bubble on the ground, and then as water in the air after you pop the bubble.

Three states of water, the middle one is a bubble, the first one is a raindrop, and the third one is the ... these little pieces of bubble as they fly off in the air, okay? So, the three states of the bubble, where the bubble came from, where the bubble's going, and where the bubble is, okay?

They're all water. And he says it relates to the three parts that we know, shanti, shanti, shanti, okay? Yoga teachers love to sing shanti ...

how they do that? Shanti, shanti, drives you crazy. That means peace, peace, peace, right?

It comes from the Upanishads, but it refers to the three kinds of suffering, three kinds of pain, okay? Three kinds of pain. Number one, you know, pain of pain, headache.

Number two, pain of change, a good dinner, and then the pain of life, which is getting older, yeah. Inevitable death, aging, okay? So, for him, the three states of the water are the three kinds of pain, okay?

The water in the raindrop or the green drink, the water in the bubble, and the water after the bubble breaks, okay? He also relates it to the three classical kinds of feeling, which is, feels good, feels bad, feels neutral. Now, you tell me how the three kinds of suffering we just talked about relate to the three divisions of suffering ...

sorry, feeling, good feeling, bad feeling, neutral feeling. Okay, first kind of pain, bad feeling, okay? Bad.

Second kind of pain, yeah, starts out feeling good, like a good dinner, okay? The classical example in scripture is a good dinner, go out for a good dinner, like Adam's gonna take Katie to a nice dinner on the way back to wherever, okay? What about neutral?

Yeah, neutral is the suffering that we have our whole life, you know? Right now it's going on, you can't feel it, your body's getting older during this class. There's a joke in the monastery, you meet your Lama, where have you been?

Oh, Lama, you should be happy. Why? I was in yoga class.

Oh, how long? Oh, today I did two hours, you know? They're like, huh, why'd you do that?

Well, I want to stay healthy. Oh, you are two hours closer to your death. You got older during the yoga class, you go to enough yoga classes you'll be too old to do yoga, okay?

It's one of the sad things, you see old yoga teachers who can't do yoga anymore, okay? And so, do your yoga, you should do your yoga, but don't go crazy, you know, don't say, oh look I can do a handstand, you know? Later you won't be able to get up out of the bed, okay?

So, have a good sense about your yoga, okay? I'm just doing this to keep myself going as long as possible, you know? It's really depressing when you're my age and people say, oh you look really good for 65, I'm like, thanks!

Okay, so, your body's getting older, okay? So anyway, that's all contained in the bubble for Master Kamalashila, Kwanja Tenpa Dronme, okay? The nature of the bubble is pain, okay?

Pain waiting to happen, pain that already happened, or pain disguised as happiness, okay? Then they quote the Buddha who said, any kind of feeling is pain. Okay, fourth one I think, am I right?

Okay, those same authors say, look, to an infant ... what's infant mean in Buddhism? Yeah, someone who hasn't seen emptiness is called a ...

in American English we say, he's acting like a two-year-old, and today Nick is acting like a two-year-old, it means immature or something, okay? That's exactly the word chiba, or bala, in Sanskrit, it means two-year-old baby. Two-year-old baby's understanding of physics describes the state of all humans who are not an ayah.

Seriously, okay? It's actually worse than that, but ... okay?

So, they say to infants, it seems like, you know, there's a difference between a coffee and a green drink. My green drink is purple today, okay? So, to an infant who hasn't seen emptiness okay, directly, this one looks worse, mm-hmm, this one looks better, this one looks like it giving me a bad feeling, and this one look like it's giving me a good feeling, but to an ayah they're exactly the same, okay?

To an ayah, all feeling is pain, you know, okay? In the time I took to drink, this is ... I'm one drink closer to my death, whether I'm drinking green drink or coffee, I'm still one drink closer to my death, okay?

Got it? That's the way an ayah thinks, okay? They use their time, every minute of their time, okay?

They need time. Don't waste an ayah's time. Alright, now, to prove that point number four, which is that all feeling is pain, they quote the Buddha, okay?

They quote the very famous, korwa kap gyi tse mo na, say korwa, kap gyi tse mo na, dewa, namyang, yomayin. Sitting on the tip of the needle of samsara, there is no happiness, there is no pleasure, okay? I always think of this thumbtack we put on my teacher's chair in the school, when I read this verse, did you do that in school?

Maybe that's an Arizona thing, we would put a thumbtack on the teacher's chair, and they would sit down and go, ah! And we'd be ... so anyway, when your butt's on the thumbtack of samsara, there's no happiness, okay?

What it means is you're always on the thumbtack, your butt's always on the thumbtack of samsara. I was curious, they always say the Buddha said that, and I went to find it, and I found it. It's a little bit different, it's korwa kap gyi tse tsam yang, dewa nyi ni chung me, and it comes from a sutra called the Sadharma Smṛtyu-pasthana, and you can check it out someday, okay?

Don't forget. But it does come from the Buddha, it really was from the Buddha, probably one of his students put a thumbtack on his seat. Okay, alright, A, B, C, D, we're on number five, okay?

Master Kamalashila goes a little bit further, he says, any object which starts and stops, any object which exhibits starting or stopping, will cause you pain, okay? The third kind of pain, khyapa duk che kyi dungyel, right? The pain of being alive, is communicated to you by any object which begins, at all.

Relationships, children, house, job, country, okay? They all have a beginning, they all have an end, okay? They're all talking to you, you know?

I'm a thumbtack up on your bottom, okay? Alright, Geshe Michael added number six, which is, duh, I mean the bubble is impermanent also, okay? It doesn't last very long.

So, although, although it's supposed to represent suffering in the classical texts, it also obviously represents impermanence, bubbles don't last very long. And bubbles can have a look of solidity, a little bit, okay? If you're a surfer, where's the surfer here?

Yeah, yeah, if you're a surfer you know, the foam on the water can look solid sometimes, okay? Then you hit it with your face and it's like a pillow, okay? Or in Hawaii it's a reef, okay?

But anyway, it gives a sense of solidity, but there's no solidity, so that's illusion also. Okay, we've finished the bubble, and maybe you'd like to make some bubbles. So, we'll take a break.

Okay, we have one hour, let's go. We're on the last three of the nine metaphors I think, right? So, we finished the group of what's wrong with this line, it had two parts, what's the two parts?

Avashyaya, the dew, and the ... the bubbles, okay? First one means impermanence, second one means pain, okay?

Okay, good. Now we reached the last group, the fourth group, it has three parts, three different metaphors. What's the last group?

Why you should try to escape, okay? Why you should try to escape, okay? Why you should try to get out, okay?

In ... in Tibetan language they call kyo e gyu, kyo e gyu means reasons you should be sad about this world, okay? Why you should try to get out, okay?

There's going to be three images. I have a ... I've been, you know, watching how fast we can go through these, and we still have a quarter of the sutra to cover.

So, I propose we do five Kamala Shilas instead of four, and so instead of starting Arya Nagarjuna in the spring, we'll do one more Kamala Shila class, and I'll try to ... I would like to translate the sutra, I mean his commentary. The notes are 550 pages, if I could get some time I think I could translate it, or a big piece of it, by the spring.

So, it's up to you guys to help me get time, okay? Then if I don't get time I can't do it. So, I'm very happy to help with, you know, business stuff, but you know, Jigme, Venerable Jigme learned to take stuff off my ...

she takes time away from me, she drives me everywhere. If I drive to the college it's 24 minutes, and she drives me, and I work in the back, you know, and so, you know, if you can save me time, then you can have Kamala Shila. If not, you won't, and I don't think anyone else can do it right now in the world, so up to you, okay?

Alright, I love talking with you, I love helping you with your challenges, but it's also good if you can use the four steps yourself, and you know, if you really need help, talk to me, but you know, every kid has to grow up, and at some time you have to learn to use the four steps, okay? On your own, but I'm happy to give advice, okay? Help.

But, I have to finish the other things also, okay? So, help me. Alright, mmm, Adriana saves me a lot of time, she cooks things for me, shopping saves me a lot of time.

After a tour, I wake up in my house and I go, Cappuccino! And it's very silent. Anyway, usually there's ten people waiting outside my room to give me a cappuccino, okay?

Okay, dream. Five meanings, okay? I like the Sanskrit, the Sanskrit is svapna.

Svapna comes from the root svap, svap means to sleep, S-V-A-P. It comes into the word som, somnya, like insomnia, in means not, somnya means sleepy. So, svapna became somna, okay?

So, insomnia means cannot sleep, okay? In Greek, the S-V changes to H-Y, and you get hypnosis, meaning to put someone into a sleep, okay? Hypnotist, okay?

So, hypno comes from svapna, okay? Alright, here we go, first one. There's a principle with Kamalashila, Vasubandhu, about these last three, okay?

They say they represent sanskritas. What's a sanskrita? Anything put together by causes, okay?

Anything caused really, okay? Anything produced. A good translation of sanskrita is produced, okay?

evam drashtavyam sanskritam, okay? Sanskrita means all the stuff around us which is not unchanging, okay? Sanskrita includes all things which are not unchanging.

Give me one unchanging thing. Emptiness and empty space, those are two cheap ones, okay? Some Buddhists say facts are unchanging.

The sky is blue, as long as the sky is blue, the fact is unchanging, okay? Like that. Alright, so, the great masters who explained the Diamond Cutter Sutra, they like to say of the last three, right?

What are the last three? Svapna, Vidyut, and Abram, right? Svapna, dream, Vidyut, lightning, and Abram, cloud.

They say these three represent past, present, and future changing things. Past, present, and future changing things. So, the dream represents sanskritams, sanskritas, which are past, in the past, okay?

And then the lightning, present, you know? It's not like something that happened yesterday or something happened tomorrow, it's just a ... and it's done, it's a present moment thing, okay?

Then clouds, we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow at Diamond Mountain, we don't know exactly the weather, okay? So, that's a future thing, okay? And here we go on their explanation, okay?

Dream, number one on the dream. Master Kamalashila says, okay, the dream represents changing things from your past, okay? And why is it a good example?

Because things from your past cannot do anything now, okay? Things from your past cannot do anything now. Your ex-wife or ex-husband is gone, okay?

They can't give you trouble anymore now, okay? Usually, alright? So, gone, okay?

And they cannot do anything now. And Kamalashila in the same breath says, like the second husband, okay? Very similar to the second husband.

Who's the second husband? Give me it like this, I didn't do anything, I didn't do anything, he just start yelling at me, okay? I didn't do anything, okay?

We can call it the, I didn't do anything husband, okay? I didn't do anything, I don't know, my boss yelled at me, I don't know why, I didn't do anything. Okay?

With the boss it's because you didn't do anything, okay? So, Master Kamalashila says, things of the past which cannot do anything to you, they cannot hurt you for example, that husband is gone, he lives in Nevada now, he's got ... he remarried, you know, it's over, okay?

Cannot affect you now. In a similar way, the husband who's not coming from you is a phantom, like a phantom from the past, cannot do anything to you, okay? Cannot hurt you.

If you decide to be hurt, that's your decision, but they don't have any power. By the way, the word in Tibetan here is which normally means blessing, but in philosophy it means, can do something, okay? Can change something, jinla means change, make a change, affect a change.

So, things of the past, sanskirtas, which are from 2013, they can't do anything now, okay? They are like a dream, after you wake up, okay? Last night I was in the dream, I was translating for some big Lama in a big auditorium, and I couldn't understand anything, and I was really upset, you know, I was like making excuses in the dream, you know, and then when I woke up I'm like, and also ...

nobody's there, okay? Dream, okay? Things of your past which hurt you, they're gone, okay?

They're like the second husband. Alright. BYAM YAM GZHAN PA.

Oh, by the way, in the first one Master Kamalashila says, don't forget, the husband represents the two kinds of emptiness. What are the two kinds of emptiness? Things and people, okay?

Don't get upset at the weather, don't get upset at traffic, those are things, okay? You also created things. Usually it's people who upset us, but things can also upset us, the weather, how hot it is, when the electricity breaks in your cottage, okay?

You have to remember the emptiness of things, okay? Alright. BYAM YAM GZHAN PA, meaning number two, meaning number two.

How you relate to the past, you should understand it's like a dream, okay? The husband who hurt you in 2013 didn't exist then either, okay? Doesn't exist now, gone.

But even in 2013 he didn't exist, okay? Which one? I didn't do anything, for no reason at all, he started yelling at me, okay?

Got it? That husband didn't exist in 2013, and of course doesn't exist now, okay? Meaning number three, DANDAR THAR BA'AM PA, he says if you think about it, most of the images you see in a dream relate to something in your past, okay?

He says there's an automatic connection between dreams and things that happened to you three years ago, four years ago, ten years ago, when you were a kid, oftentimes your dreams are repeating good or bad experiences you had as a child, or traumas in your life, like that, they keep coming back in the dreams. He says therefore, the dream is connected automatically to past things, okay? And you cannot keep them, okay?

And in that way it represents to present things, you see? So, even your family, your house, your job, your position, your own body, your intelligence, are already like the past, you cannot keep them, okay? They are like past things already, in the present, they are already like past things, you cannot keep them, even if you want to, right?

Even if you hold on to them, if you physically hold on to your partner, you cannot keep them in this world, okay? They will leave, okay? So, in a way, the things you have now are already passing, okay?

Unless, you learn how to plant, what do you call? Reinvest your seeds, reinvest your seeds, okay? You're supposed to be karmic reinvestors, right?

Every time something good come to you, share it with somebody else, then you get more. A Buddha who lives in a Buddha paradise forever, is just a great karmic reinvestor, okay? They learn how to do it, and that's why Buddha paradise lasts forever, they keep reinvesting, okay?

They make ten dollars from karma, they always give away five. Geshe-la, should I give away ten? It's okay, keep five, have some fun, okay?

Because five is going to become fifty, okay? It's okay, keep half, keep some for yourself, that's okay, have fun, go out to dinner, go see a movie, okay? You don't ...

Buddhism doesn't mean sacrifice, okay? It doesn't mean that. Those Buddhas in the Buddha paradise, do they look like they're sacrificing?

You know, they're okay. They spend five dollars, they go out for a nice pizza, and then they give five dollars to a homeless person on the way to the pizza parlor, okay? That's good, because the five is going to become fifty, you're still going to come out ahead, you're still going to make 500%, okay?

Don't worry about it, okay? So, have fun, have a fun life. Buddhism doesn't mean you're ...

you're always like, I can't eat pizza, it costs too much, it's okay, okay? Have a nice pizza, and then give half the pizza to somebody, okay? Alright, third ...

fourth one right? Okay. This is Koinjong Tenpa Drimle, and he wants to go to Master Chandrakirti, okay?

He says, let's go read Master Chandrakirti, whose most famous book is called, Entering the Middle Way, and the middle way here is Nagarjuna's book that we're going to do two classes from now, because we're going to do ... I think we should do like the fourth part of the Kamalashila, and then review the whole thing, next time we meet, okay? Then ...

then we remember everything, because I don't remember part one, or part two myself, okay? And by the way, the fourth part of the Diamond Cutter Sutra, the Buddha repeats himself a lot, he repeats things from the first part, the second part, and we have to study why. Like, did he forget he taught the first part?

Or, is there a deeper reason why he repeats himself, okay? You can guess. Alright, okay here, Chandrakirti.

This is difficult. Alright, he wants to talk about your reaction to things in a dream, okay? Chandrakirti says, look, things can be a dream, but you still have a reaction to them, okay?

Geshe Michael is still nervous when he wakes up about he couldn't translate, okay? Chandrakirti's example is for monks, who are dreaming about beautiful ladies in the dream, and of course you can have strong feelings during a dream, okay? So, things from the past, which are gone, which represent the second husband, okay?

Which doesn't exist, still those things which don't exist can give you strong feelings, okay? And in fact, all negative feelings come from things that don't exist, okay? All negative feelings come from misunderstanding, right?

Stars in the night, okay? So, things can make you feel something, although they're not real, okay? You can have a worry about the future, which is false, or you can worry about, I don't know, running around with somebody, and it's all false, but still it can make your hair fall out, okay?

And put a wrinkle on your face, right? So, okay. Then Chandrakirti likes to say, this wasn't my idea, it was Nagarjuna's idea, okay?

In his wisdom. And there's a great commentary called Lamp of Wisdom, written by Baba Viveka, okay? And if we have time someday we should read it, okay?

Lower Middle Way Mother Book, okay? Master Baba Viveka's Lamp on Wisdom, okay? They all relate to how past things are similar to empty things, okay?

So, when we talk about a dream, we're emphasizing past experiences, traumas of the past, happy events of the past, and those events, and those people in the dream are insubstantial, in the same way that the second husband is insubstantial, doesn't really exist, okay? It doesn't exist anymore. In the husband's case, he never existed, never will, never could.

In the past it was like it did exist, but now it's almost the same status as the husband, get it? Okay? A yelling husband in a dream is very similar to a yelling husband in the kitchen, they're both don't exist anymore, never did in the kitchen, okay?

Alright, that's a difficult one, and of course Geshe Michael added number five, what did Geshe Michael add? He always does the obvious one. A dream is impermanent, you wake up, okay?

And things in a dream are not real, okay? So, really the dream is representing both impermanence and emptiness, okay? Got it?

So, that one's so obvious that the great commentators didn't talk about it. Now we go to present changing things, okay? Now, we just did past, because dreams are mostly about the past, what's the example?

Yeah, vidyut, say vidyut. Vi means very much, vi means very much, in Sanskrit vi means very much, it's an abbreviation of DVI, DVI, which means double, okay? What's Sanchos's last name?

Santosh Dvivedi, okay? The director of our Sanskrit project in India, his last name is Dvivedi, which means double nor, it means he's a Brahmin, okay? Sometimes it means born-again, okay?

So, DVI means double, and the D drops out and becomes VI, so VI means very much, okay? VI. Dviyut you already had, but it was a long time ago.

Dviyut? It's the root for dipo, lamp, okay? So, so vidyut means double bright, double bright, lightning, okay?

Lightning. It's the modern Hindi word for electricity by the way, okay? The electricity company in India is called vidyut, okay?

Alright, mmm ... those of you who studied DCI level 9 and already forgot it ... level 8, I forgot which level, what is level 8?

Yeah, leadership, and we said in there, the fourth perfection causes duty. What's the fourth perfection? Yeah, like being happy when you work, you know, you Diamond Mountain director and you're sweating all day, and Michael Dunn's a pretty good at that, he doesn't get grumpy, that I know about, and he's cheerful, so it means cheerful.

If you're cheerful, the karmic result is you become a leader, okay? And Nagarjuna calls it vidyut, electric leader, you become an electric leader, okay? Okay.

Now, I was worrying about something, in history the nine examples came to be called the nine examples for illusion, and then the impermanent ones are only eight, and of course it disturbed me a lot, so I went fishing, and the reason the nine illusion examples became eight impermanent examples, you want to take a guess? Two of them got joined together, huh? Yeah, the lightning and the cloud, who said that?

I'll give you a pat on the back, okay? Yeah, so Milarepa used them, and the fifth Dalai Lama, who is a great scholar, he shortened them to eight, so you might see eight examples of impermanence, it's the nine just got shortened to eight, okay, you don't care, anyway, I do. Okay, number one, how many examples?

Four. Four meanings for lightning, okay? Four meanings to lightning.

Master Kamalashila, difficult, okay? Difficult. Lightning represents emptiness, because it is not one thing, and it is also not many parts either, okay?

Lightning is not a single thing, and lightning is not all of its parts put together either, okay? It's called, what's it called in Tibetan Nick? Cikdudra, okay, you have to say it low tone, Cikdudra, Adam, Cikdudra, okay?

The dru means duma, many, okay? Cikdudra, okay? So, this is an ancient proof of emptiness, things are not themselves, and things are also not all their parts put together, okay?

It's like a koan, it's like a confusing statement, okay? And Master Kamalashila says, you want to understand the lightning? Understand one or many.

The proof of emptiness called one or many, okay? And I'll repeat what, you know, what Buddhist scripture says, that people who are ... the people who see emptiness are the curious ones, they want to know more, okay?

And after the 500th proof of emptiness, when someone starts to whine about it, somebody like Nagarjuna will say, no, the more intelligent people, Dharma IQ, high Dharma IQ people, they want more proofs of emptiness, they don't want less, okay? Geshe-la, can you teach Nagarjuna, and after that can you teach Kedrup Je's meditation on emptiness in 800 pages? If I have time, we can do it, okay?

It's amazing, it's amazing, okay? But I need time, okay? So, if we have time we can do that one, okay?

So, good students, in Buddhist tradition, they want to know more. Show me another proof of emptiness Geshe-la. You didn't understand the last one?

I understood the last one, I want another one! You know, just because you ate vanilla ice cream doesn't mean you don't want chocolate ice cream, okay? Alright, mmmmmmm, so you have to chew on that, my Lama used to, he used to say sometimes, you chew on that one, okay?

Why is lightning not one thing, and also not many things put together, okay? That's your problem, okay? That's your assignment for next spring, maybe to get in the door you have to explain it.

There's an easy answer if you did DCI, don't tell everybody. Okay, number two, Tantra Sarambha, he seems to always like to cause trouble, he says, I think lightning should be the future, not the present, okay? I think lightning should be the future, not the present.

He contradicts Vasubandhu, he contradicts Kamalashila, I guess he thinks he's smarter, I don't know, or maybe he just wants to cause trouble. By the way, it's a method in the monastery for an older Geshe to say something wrong, to see if it stirs up somebody's brain, okay? So, they will come in, they will come in and say, the lightning relates to the future, to the younger monks, and the younger monks are all like, no, that's not what the book says, he says forget the book, prove it to me, prove me why it's not the future.

How many times did someone say to you, look Tim, there's a lightning over there, and Tim's like, where? And you say, but it already lightning just a moment ago, and then Tim looks at the cloud, and waits for the next one. Lightning is always future.

You can't tell Tim, wait, over there there was lightning, and then he goes like that, and it's over already, right? So, Tendar Phalamba, the troublemaker, he says, no, lightning is always future, keep your eye over to that direction, see that cloud? Just keep your eye there, it means it's gonna come, right?

It's future, that's his idea, okay? It still means something you cannot hold on to, okay? Future plans, future hopes, okay?

Oh, I'm gonna invest in the stock market and make a lot of money, or blah blah blah, okay? Without seeds, right? Okay?

Future hopes, are like trying to catch lightning. Okay, number three, KHO YONG CHOG BSTAN PA'I BRDUN MED, he says, you guys didn't really get it exactly, the point is, when you see a stroke of lightning, it's difficult to point out where did it start, you know? Which place in the cloud did it start, right?

And then where did it go afterwards, you see? So, the idea is that ... sometimes in Buddhism we say the path of the eagle, the path of the eagle in the sky, okay?

They don't leave footprints. Kota Mundis leave little poo-poos, they look like blessing pills. If someone from Diamond Mountain give you blessing pills, be careful, okay?

Same size, same color, okay? But lightning doesn't leave anything, okay? No track, no trace, where ...

you can see if a Kota Mundi was near your house, you can see all these blessing pills on the ground, but ... not the lightning, right? You can't see where it came from, and you can't see where it went to.

And he says ... you ready? We're gonna go deeper.

He says, the luminous images that come out of the seeds in your mind, okay? The holograms that come out of the silver seeds in your mind are the same as lightning. They are so quick, you can't really pinpoint when did they break out of the seed, and you can't really pinpoint when did they cover your Lama, right?

With equality, okay? It's like trying to pinpoint where lightning started, or where it stopped, okay? So, when we do the lion's dance, level nine, we slow things down by about 4,000 times, okay?

The speed that the seeds are opening is about 4,000 times more than that, okay? We slow it down. The memory of your past life is a reconstructed imagination, but so is the seed opening, okay?

It's just pretending, okay? You have to meditate for years before you can watch a seed open, okay? But you can, okay?

You can watch a single seed open if you meditate a lot, okay? And it should ... the idea, like we were talking about with the quality, right?

Edmond's question, if you keep pretending you see a seed open, one day it'll plant the seed to see the seed open, okay? So, we're just pretending. We're also pretending that we're doing the eight levels, okay?

To get to the first one is difficult, okay? Somebody asked me, Geshe-la there's nine stages in Kamalashila's presentation of meditation, right? The stages of meditation, bhavana karma, right?

The big chart with the monkey and the elephant, there are nine levels there also, are they the same? No, okay? No.

Well, how do they compare? The first level of the eight in the lion's dance is equal to the ninth level in Kamalashila, roughly, okay? You got to get to Kamalashila to get started on the eight, okay?

As far as the meditation side, concentration side, shamatha, okay? We'll talk about it, okay? People here did three years, three months, three day retreat, and they did a cool thing during their retreat, they used to get together and say, well which level did you get to, you know?

Like, I'm up to four, I think I'm on three, okay? If you get to nine firmly on the shamatha side, you can reach first form realm level. Good luck.

Okay, so we're just pretending that we're at those levels, because we're trying to plant the seed, okay? Alright, what happens if you get really good at it, and you don't know about level nine? What happens when you're reborn?

Come on, Wonder Woman, okay? Incredible Hope, what do you call this guy? I don't know, you know, Spider-Man, Iron Man, etc, okay?

Now, you want to go deeper? I just put this in here for those deeper guys, okay? The rest of you can have some coffee or something.

There's some guys who just want to go deeper all the time, Mr. Wu want to go deeper, and then he want to go deeper, and then he want to go deeper, he keeps me employed. Three Doors of Freedom, okay? In deep Buddhism, it's called the Three Doors of Freedom, okay?

NAM LTAR DGOS SUM, and it's a very deep idea, okay? NAM PAR THAR PA'I DGOS TSE MA MED PA, means the causes of a thing are empty, okay? The causes of a thing are empty, that's the First Door of Freedom, if you see the causes of a thing are empty, okay?

Gasoline, that makes a car go, okay? Is there any power in the gasoline? It's like an aspirin, yeah.

If you gave other people rides in your car in the past, your gasoline will get you to Tucson, and if not, there will be a problem between here and Tucson, okay? Will I run out of gas? Not necessarily, because vanilla ice cream karma can make chocolate ice cream.

Maybe your car will break down, maybe you will have a flat tire, okay? Who put the power in the petrol or the gas is you, okay? How?

You gave people rides. Well, Geshe-la, that means in the future I could ride a car without petrol. Yeah, it's called a solar car.

Seriously, you invented solar, okay? Alright? You gave a few people rides and you got gasoline, with pollution.

Then you gave more people rides, you get solar, okay? You give a lot of people rides, you could just fly by yourself, okay? Seriously, okay?

Got it? The emptiness of the cause is called the Door of Freedom, that there's nothing inside of anything, okay? Veronica told me to stop sticking my tongue out when I make a big point, okay?

Okay? The first Door of Freedom is called, nothing is inside of anything, TSE MA MED PA, okay? Nothing is inside of anything, okay?

Second one is called NAM PAR THAR PA'I DGOS STONG PA GNYIS, it's called the Door of Freedom called emptiness, and that refers to the thing which was caused, okay? Going to Tushar, okay? The cause was the gasoline, okay?

The gasoline is empty, but the car is also empty, okay? The car is also empty. And by the way, the car is created by the same karma, right?

You give people rides, alright? Probably with an umbrella or something, because the car keeps the rain off you, and the sun. That's called the Second Door of Freedom, the CAUSED thing in the present moment.

The emptiness of the present moment thing that was CAUSED is called the Second Door of Freedom, Second Door to Freedom, okay? Got it? You okay?

Guess what's the Third Door to Freedom? Huh? Yeah, the result, okay?

Getting to Tucson, standing in the Tucson Airport, that's also empty, okay? The name, the technical name for that is the Door of Freedom called No More Hopes, No More Wishes, No More Plans. You're already in Tucson, okay?

That's also empty, okay? The emptiness of the result. Why are we talking about this?

Because we were talking about the lightning that you can't say where it came from, you can't say where it's going, and you almost can't say where it is. The cause, the thing, and the aftermath, the result, are indefinable, okay? Got it?

So, they relate to the Three Doors of Freedom. I gave you those for free, those are from me, okay? You want to go deeper?

Classically, when you debate the Three Doors to Freedom, they can relate to a single thing, okay? The gasoline as a cause, the gasoline as a functioning thing now, and the gasoline as a result of the refining process, got it? Okay?

The gasoline can be a cause of the car going to Tucson, the gasoline can be a result of pipelines all over the world. We wanted to buy the land next door here, the guy is getting old, he offered to sell it to us, the guy who sold us this land offered us the land next door, behind here, and we squeezed our usual squeezing person, and he gave a donation, and then we decided well we better check the property, you know, carefully, and we found the oil pipes, three oil pipes underneath the ground, one of them is carrying military aviation fuel from Texas to Tucson, and there's dangerous stuff coming out of these pipes, you know, so we cancelled it, okay?

It means gasoline can be a result, gasoline can be a cause, or gasoline can function now, okay? One thing can be all three doors to freedom, okay? Why are you talking about Geshe-la, why you get so complicated?

Everything that is a cause is also a result, and everything that's a result is also a cause, okay? When you meditate on the seeds for your Lama's qualities, it's a result, right? But it also causes them, you to have them yourself.

In Buddhism, every cause is also a result, okay? That's why time has no beginning, okay? That's why the world has no beginning.

Every result is a cause, and every cause is also a result, okay? Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Yes, okay?

So that's just, that's the three doors of freedom. If you think about it, you will understand function better, you will understand why aspirin works, you will understand why gasoline works, okay? Better.

The lower three schools of Buddhism, mind only, logic school and Abhidharma school never got that far, they stopped. They think gasoline does something, they think there's something inside a gasoline that works, okay? They couldn't get it, okay?

That's why they're a lower school, okay? That's why they're a lower school. The three lower schools, Abhidharma, Sutras, and mind only, the reason they're a lower school, one of the reasons, is they believe there's something inside an aspirin that can take away your headache, and they believe there's something inside a gasoline that can make the car go.

They believe it. They can't understand that you put the power in the gas, or you put the power in the aspirin, okay? Got it?

It feels like there's something in the gas, it feels like there's something in the aspirin, okay? And the highest school says, yeah, you put the power in the gas, you put the power in the aspirin, that's why aspirins don't always work, and that's why cars don't always get to Tucson, okay? Got it?

Okay, so now you're highest school already. Buddhism had a huge split, the lower schools went south, Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, okay? Mind only and Middle Way never reached those countries, they don't have the whole scriptures, they don't have the Kangyur, they don't have the Tengyur.

Kangyur and Tengyur took 25 years to input, John Brady finished it, 4,600 books, 22 made it to Burma, Thailand, Sri Lanka, okay? All of them made it to China and Tibet, Nepal, Japan, Korea, okay? Mongolia.

Okay, mmm, alright clowns, you okay? Not tired? Stanley had a question that's important enough to interrupt the whole class.

He needs a microphone. Sorry for the interruption, it's just not so clear when you say the second door of freedom and the third one, you said the second one is the thing that is caused in the present moment, and you say the third one is the result, which is also the cost. All things are all, all changing things are also results, okay?

But, looking at the thing from the point, in Tibetan or in Sanskrit, the second one is called Ngo, okay? It means, what is the nature of the thing in the present, okay? What is the nature of the thing in the present?

It's emptiness, okay? The first door to freedom is, what is the nature of its cause, and the third door to freedom is, what is its nature of its result, okay? So, the second door of freedom is, what's the nature of the thing itself, now, okay?

And the first one is, what was the nature of its cause, and the third one is, what is the nature of its result, okay? By the way, the name of the third one did I give you? Yeah, no, no hopes, no wishes, okay?

Can you give the gasoline example, in terms of these three? Yeah, that's difficult, um ... the car running right now is the second one.

The gasoline that you put into it before you left Bui is the first one, and reaching Tucson is the third one, how's that? The car running on the highway is two. The car getting gas in Bui, if the gas station is open, and if they have any gas, good luck, is number one, cause, and then reaching Tucson is number three, how's that?

Okay, but actually all things are all three. Okay. Thank you.

Okay. Clouds, seven meanings, we got 15 minutes, you okay? You don't need budbudam?

Alright, you can make budbud where you are. Okay. Let's talk about the Sanskrit word abhram, okay?

Abhram. Up, up is an ancient word for water, AP in ancient Sanskrit is a word for water, okay? Still in Hindi you can say, up karna hai?

Yeah. Dhanyavaad. Oh, bahut acha.

It means thank you for the glass of water, up, okay? AP, up. That comes from a longer word, akva, akva, and the K dropped out, okay?

It became up. Guess what akva came? Agwa, in Spanish, aqua, filter, aqua, okay?

Water. Brahm, brahm means to carry something, okay? The word bear, a burden, the word burden comes from the ...

you want a bad word? Katie's like, yeah, I can use it on Adam on the way home. No.

Birtha in Sanskrit means wife, the wife, why? Because you have to ... the husband has to carry it, in ancient times, nowadays the husband is the birtha, and the wife has to carry the husband.

These are good times for men, all the women are working, okay? But anyway, that's birtha. So, brahm is to carry, so what's a brahm?

Water carrier, which is a? Cloud, okay got it? A brahm.

Cool? Okay, a brahm, cloud carrier, sorry, water carrier. Okay, this one's tough, this one's tough, you have to learn a new idea, okay?

Which is why you're here, and that's my job. After you see emptiness directly, is it still possible to get mad at your husband? Yeah.

That means, okay, never forget, for you to get mad at somebody, for you to get upset at somebody, requires that you misunderstand them, okay? You must feel that they are coming this way, okay? The moment you understand that your husband was created because you yelled at your kids last week, it's impossible to get upset at anybody except yourself, okay?

The moment you remember, okay? I cursed you, I cursed you like a week ago, or ten years ago, or twenty years ago, I cursed you, I taught you emptiness, you know? Sooner or later, all the fun in your life is going to be finished, okay?

You can't get mad at anybody anymore, you can't get angry at anybody, you can't blame anybody, you can't yell at any other driver on the street, I still do, okay? I give them special mudra signs and ... Veronica's like, don't do that, I'm like ...

anyway, okay? It's impossible to get upset if you remember emptiness, okay? It's coming from me, it's coming from me, okay?

So, does an Arya still have the seeds to see things coming from their own side after they come out of emptiness meditation? They do. In fact, you could compare them to ...

come on, give it to me. I will give you a star. Yeah, you can compare them to the magician, okay?

They know they're crazy, but they still see the tree, they still see the horse, they know where it's coming from, but they can't stop seeing the horse, okay? Now, what's the main difference between an Arya and an Arhat? Arhats stop the seeds, they are like the ...

person who came later, they're like the person who came out of their house after the powder was thrown, okay? They're like, why is everybody excited, I don't see anything, okay? That's an Arhat, okay?

So, when you reach Arhat, the difference between Arya and Arhat, in Bodhisattva level 8, the difference between Bodhisattva level 1, where you see emptiness directly, and Bodhisattva level number 8, is that you remove the seeds to see stuff coming from their own side, okay? And Arhat, who walks ... okay, so the lady who came home and saw the second husband in the kitchen, must have been ...

at best an Arya. She's ... the one who ran in the bathroom and yelled at the person in the mirror was an Arya, I would say that, okay?

The one who came home and got upset, didn't understand, that one is the ... child, infant, okay? And we're going to learn some ...

there's a teenager also, but that's in the fourth part of the Diamond Cutter, there's a thing called a teenager, you guys are teenagers, okay? And ... okay, so the Arhat supposed to have no more seeds, but what's the difference between an Arhat and a Buddha?

Yeah, Bodhisattva level 9, Bodhisattva level 10, you become a Buddha, and then you can see all things, okay? You can see all things. Now, there's a thing called trace, a thing called a trace, a trace.

After you reach lower Arhat, you remove all sanskaras, or vasana, seeds, to see things the wrong way, but ... I'll give you a new idea, okay? Between Arhat and Buddha, there's a thing called traces, traces.

It means traces of the bad seeds. They don't have bad seeds, but they have traces, okay? Especially lower Arhats.

They're called ne-ngen-len in Tibetan, say ne-ngen-len, ne-ngen-len. I don't know this Sanskrit, let me see if I can find it ... Daoistila, or something like that.

Yeah, dushtulya, okay, in Sanskrit. Dus means bad, in English it's DIS, in Greek it's DYS, like dysentery is a bad thing to get, dysfunctional, okay, disappointment, okay? Stul means station comes from that, standing comes from that, it means situation, situation comes from that, okay?

So, bad situation. Dushtulya, okay, in Sanskrit. It means a trace, subtle trace in a lower Arhat, okay?

And they can still do slightly naughty things in body, speech, and mind. You want to know what they are? This is like, probably gonna be in the gossip magazines next week, okay?

A lower Arhat can still do physical bad things, like jumping in a way that doesn't look nice for a monk to do. Skipping, okay? It's called a trace behavior, trace physical behavior, okay?

They're supposed to walk like Buddha, but they're like ... okay? So, subtle trace, it's not a bad thing right?

But it's not quite like Buddha, okay? That's physical. Verbal?

They can still say to other Arhats, you're a dork. Little bad word, okay? It's not like other four-letter words.

Dork is just like, you're silly. Geek? You're a geek, okay?

They can still say little tiny bad things to other Arhats, okay? I'm taking you deeper, okay? Okay.

And, in their cessation meditation, they can still have traces of disturbances, okay? What's a cessation meditation? It's the point in level nine when you remove the bubu lama.

In Buddhism that's called cessation meditation. That moment in level nine, when you remove the bubu lama, and there's just an empty space there, which is the real emptiness, the real clear light, okay? And you're supposed to try to commune with it, right?

In a lower Arhat's meditation, if they still have dushtulya, they will still have slight coming in and out of that feeling, okay? Very slight. Traces, okay?

Got it? Now you understand the idea of traces for lower Arhats. Physical, verbal, and mental.

By the way, in the Lion's Dance scriptures, which I can translate and give you if I have time, because I have the ... it's a hundred and fifty pages of notes just about the Lion's Dance, I just need time, okay? In the ...

in the nine levels, I told you level number one is called desire realm, right? Then concentration level one, concentration level two, concentration level three, concentration level four, what's the fifth one called? Endless space.

What's the sixth one called? Endless consciousness. What's the seventh one called?

Chiang Mek. Nothing at all. Nothing.

In English, nothing. It's a ... turn off your mind, nothing.

Then what's ... what's level eight called? Yeah, not nothing and not not nothing.

Not thinking and not not thinking, that's level eight. The name for level nine is cessation meditation, and it is named from the moment that you wipe out the bubu lama, okay? It's named, the ninth level is named from the moment that you wipe out the bubu lama, okay?

If you're good and you're really bored one day, I'll teach you the result names for the eight. Sangpa dun na dun, the Durkje's ... like various ...

there are 17 names. Okay, next time, okay? Now, why are we on the subject of calling number nine cessation meditation?

Because we were talking about durstulyas, we were talking about traces that lower arhats have, even in that meditation. Even during that meditation, they get little distractions, okay? Because they did little bubu things like they called Tiamat Doric or something.

It's not a real bad name, but it's not a great name, okay? Alright, why are we on this subject? Because we reached the ...

the clouds. For jamyang sherpa, the cloud represents those traces, future traces, okay? For jamyang sherpa, the cloud, in the verse, at the end of the Diamond Cutter Sutra, the last metaphor, the first meaning of the last metaphor, is cloud.

Future clouds in your mind, okay? Future clouds in the mind even of an arhat, okay? Slight disturbances during level nine, okay?

Slight disturbances during level nine, okay? Those are future clouds. Remember, the ninth metaphor is future stuff, future stuff.

You can't predict the weather, you don't know what's coming tomorrow. Clouds represent the future problems, future sanskritas, okay? Got it?

You okay? Was that too long? Alright, don't forget Michael Dune, Mrs. Dune, you got to teach it next time. Alright. Let's do one more and I'll ... we'll save the finale for tomorrow, okay?

By the way, you can start talking tomorrow morning when the sun comes up. There's a tradition in Buddhism that you break a fast or you break silence when the sun comes up. It has a definition.

If you can sit with your hand like this and you can see the lines on your hand, the sun just came up. So, when we go to Thailand, we're going to take the One Day Vow, Bodhisattva Vow. Alison's translating the text, she's going to teach it, and you're allowed ...

you're not supposed to eat ... you're supposed to finish your meal by 12 o'clock, okay? Which is what monks and nuns are supposed to do, okay?

You're supposed to finish your meal on that day in Thailand by 12 o'clock, okay? Then I like to tell the story of my friend, Dr. Taylor. I went to his room the next morning, before dawn, and he was sitting at the window, and he had his hand like this, and he had a box of chocolate chip cookies in his other hand.

I'm like, Dr. Taylor what are you doing? I'm waiting for the sun man! He was kind of chubby guy, still kind of chubby guy, okay?

He's 80? He's 85, he's still working on ACIP, okay? Cool.

Alright, so number two I'll give you ... I'll give you the next three ... four, right?

Five? Oh, six? How many are there?

Oh, seven total, okay? I owe you six more tomorrow, okay? I owe you six more tomorrow, okay?

Then we're done. If we have time, I'll take it to some of the other sutras where the Buddha taught the same verse, and to a tantra, Kalachakra tantra, where he gave three more, for dessert. That's your dessert, okay?

Then I ... we have to do the last part of the sutra next time, okay? Because this lightning was so slow.

We have a ... we want to do some songs for you tomorrow, so we're gonna practice after this class. So, if you can go eat breakfast for an hour and a half, okay?

And, you know, enjoy silence and we're gonna practice some songs. I like to play a song for Varanakas every, every time, it makes me happy, okay? So, Scott has a question.

Oh, I'm sorry, okay. Dvīvedi means knowledge of the two Vedas. Dvija means born again, okay?

Alright, he's the director of our Sanskrit program, and he's building the Sanskrit school where you're gonna study, in Varanasi, which is the mother of all Sanskrit knowledge in the world. It's right there. We were lucky, we got a chance.

Some guy had to marry his daughter, and he needed money really bad, and John Brady jumped on it.