Серия «Сутра Алмазного огранщика» — Введение в комментарий Мастера Камалашилы к «Сутре Алмазного огранщика» (2015), занятие 1

[Speaker 1]
Okay, we'll just go for one hour. So, in India there are only two commentaries that I know about to the Diamond Cutter Sutra. They survive, they survive.

One is by Vasubandhu.

[Speaker 2]
And it's here.

[Speaker 1]
So, John is in charge of a project.

[Speaker 2]
He's in charge for 28 years. And we typed in all these sutras.

[Speaker 1]
And put them on the internet. Free. So, yesterday I took this one out.

So, in the beginning they will put the... This is the Tibetan translation. Gyalwa kye du arya prajnaparamita vajrayacchedika.

[Speaker 2]
So, they always put the Sanskrit name.

[Speaker 1]
Arya is like someone who saw emptiness directly. Prajnaparamita is bolobolomido. Vajra means diamond.

[Speaker 2]
Chirika means cutter.

[Speaker 1]
Chika means commentary. So, I thought you would enjoy Kamalashiva's commentary. But, we also have...

Next time we can do Vasubandhu.

[Speaker 2]
Next time we can do Vasubandhu. This one's about 200 pages.

[Speaker 1]
Jampo shinra gyupa la chak sa.

[Speaker 2]
In the beginning he bowed down to Manjushri.

[Speaker 1]
In this, khala khewa kungwa tra lu du na sewa nangwa hung du nyera kungwa dang dak So, in the beginning he also bowed down to all the Buddhas.

[Speaker 2]
That even if they stand in front of you, even if all the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas stand in front of you, they will still teach you the same thing.

[Speaker 1]
That nothing is itself. And they teach you how to reach the ultimate goal, which never changes. And then he bowed down to them.

So, khala chun dzin gong che ching kye chik. There is one thing that if you meditate on it for one instant, it's the deepest good karma.

[Speaker 2]
There is one thing that if you meditate on it for one instant, it's the deepest good karma. It also kills all bad karmas immediately.

[Speaker 1]
So, you can meditate on it. lama nanti tenpa yin lam la'i dakpe I will teach it to you according to the ancient lineage. dakpa jigar chok dak gi As much as my mind can do.

So that means humility. He has to show humility. He said, I'm not very good, but I will try.

[Speaker 2]
He said, I'm not very good, but I will try. He has a mode of expression of humility.

[Speaker 1]
de la dora chepar dupe nyenpa tang men kye nyenpa la sokpa la sukpa chen tong buy kupa dupe chok So first I will explain what's the goal of this book. gupa ma tokpa nyi tokpa dang denpa da khala yang drup pa mi gyur Because intelligent people will not read a book unless it has a goal. So that's my first subject.

[Speaker 2]
What is the goal of the King Kong Sutra?

[Speaker 1]
denpo dupe dupe tak tenpa chen chepa Then I will tell you what are the subjects of this book.

[Speaker 2]
Of Diamond Cutter? Yes.

[Speaker 1]
gyupa chakpa dangpay du nyi si chu chik chakpa la sokpa si shin du kappa dupe dupe mi gyur Because if there's no good subjects, it is like the ten seeds of pomegranate fruit. This is one fruit. Siu?

Siu, we call siu. One red fruit.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
One red fruit with many small seeds. Yeah?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Pomegranate. They call it pomegranate.

[Speaker 2]
Can you repeat the whole sentence?

[Speaker 1]
If there's no good subject matter, it's mixed up like the seeds in the pomegranate.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
It's a famous expression from Buddhism in India.

[Speaker 2]
Don't be like a pomegranate.

[Speaker 1]
So it shouldn't be mixed up like inside the pomegranate. It should have subjects everywhere. So it's called kepan.

Then I went to a... We have in the book, we have 20,000 books.

[Speaker 2]
In the computer I have 20,000 books.

[Speaker 1]
Then I can search them in two seconds. I took out the explanation of the pomegranate. And it's very beautiful.

But I don't think we have time. But there are nine kinds of stupid books.

[Speaker 2]
What's stupid?

[Speaker 1]
Like there's a book called Charo Sotokido, The Gene for Checking the Teeth of the Crow. Or a black book. And that's a useless book because they don't have teeth.

[Speaker 2]
But there's a book like that.

[Speaker 1]
After that I'll give you a summary of the whole King Kong Sutra. After that I'll explain each word in the book.

[Speaker 2]
The whole book.

[Speaker 1]
After that I'll show you why is the order correct in the book. The order is correct. Then that's five subjects.

[Speaker 2]
The sixth one is... I will explain how other people criticize King Kong Sutra.

[Speaker 1]
And then we'll go. Okay, now he's going to talk about the name. I will explain to you why it's important to call this book Dandukara.

There are two reasons. Here's the first one. There are obstacles in our mind.

There are two kinds.

[Speaker 2]
One is bad thought.

[Speaker 1]
One is stop us from knowing all things. From become Buddha. Second kind, stop us from become Buddha.

[Speaker 2]
What's stop us?

[Speaker 1]
Stop.

[Speaker 2]
These are very famous in India.

[Speaker 1]
Everybody's mind has two problems.

[Speaker 2]
First one is negative emotion.

[Speaker 1]
Second one, it blocks to see all things in all times and all places. Then he said those two parts of our mind, they are very small and they are very hard.

[Speaker 2]
Then this book will cut, cut them. It cuts the diamond. So in that way the diamond is a negative thing.

And this book cuts it.

[Speaker 1]
hlan chik chik ten yin tu mik po ngun go pa ten And so the purpose of the book is to teach us how to get rid of those two obstacles.

[Speaker 2]
Then he said a very interesting thing.

[Speaker 1]
Or, second explanation of the name. This sutra, which is the cutter, the sutra is the cutter. It's shaped like a diamond.

[Speaker 2]
The book. So the book is the cutter.

[Speaker 1]
In India, the diamond's name is Vajra. Then he said the diamond has two... The two ends are bigger.

The two ends are fatter. Like this. These two sides are bigger.

[Speaker 2]
The natural diamond.

[Speaker 1]
And in the middle there's a little bit skinny. So I got you a picture. Because I used to do diamond business.

This is a diamond crystal.

[Speaker 2]
That's a natural diamond crystal.

[Speaker 1]
But many times they will grow two together.

[Speaker 2]
I'll show you.

[Speaker 1]
This is a natural.

[Speaker 2]
They grow together. It's called twin diamond crystal. And it's very common.

[Speaker 1]
Now compare them. It's a diamond-shaped body. It comes from diamond.

[Speaker 2]
It comes from this natural diamond. This is how they grow. It's a real picture.

Then he said, this book is like that.

[Speaker 1]
So the first part of our study, it takes a long time. You know the five paths, right? What are they?

So long. Door long. Home long.

Path of collecting. Path of connection. Path of connection.

Second one. Path of connection. Third one.

Path of seeing. Fourth one. Meditation.

And the fifth one is no more learning. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Speaker 2]
So, the first two paths take a long time. Many lifetimes. Many, many, many lifetimes.

[Speaker 1]
So they are like the fat side. Path of seeing takes 20 minutes. You can finish in 20 minutes.

[Speaker 2]
And that's the middle.

[Speaker 1]
This is here. And then path of meditation takes again many lifetimes. Seventh one?

Yeah. So it's like that.

[Speaker 2]
So he said this shape is our career, spiritual career. And that's why they're called Diamond Cutter.

[Speaker 1]
Long lesson. If you care that those of you, the first, the fat first levels are called nopa chapay sa. It means the first two together are called see emptiness in your imagination.

[Speaker 2]
See emptiness. You ready?

[Speaker 1]
First two. The teacher explains the pen to you logically.

[Speaker 2]
And you just have some idea. And then you put it in. And then this 20 minutes in the middle, that's called the haksam.

It means you take responsibility to help all people. But also you see emptiness there.

[Speaker 1]
And then the Buddha level, sorry. Flat side. Second flat side.

[Speaker 2]
What do you mean by Buddha level?

[Speaker 1]
You are a Buddha. You're becoming a Buddha. So in Tibet, even if you guys care, they're called nopa chapay sa.

It means the levels where you are working on imagining what is emptiness. It's not a, something is not there yet. And the middle one is haksam langpa.

You take responsibility to help all people. It means, I don't care if nobody helps me, I will do.

[Speaker 2]
Like this one. And then the flat second half is becoming a Buddha. So that's why, that's the two reasons why this book is called Leng Duan Jing Dang.

Now he's going to summarize the whole book in five parts.

[Speaker 1]
I will go until 7.30 in the beginning of this book. Until 7.30. And then you finish?

[Speaker 2]
No, then I will change to him. We'll go through the book from the beginning.

[Speaker 1]
But if we do that way, we will not reach the meaning of the book.

[Speaker 2]
This means you have to.

[Speaker 1]
So then I will skip to the middle.

[Speaker 2]
At 7.30, I will skip to the middle.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, nice. Otherwise it would take one month. Okay, dupe du ni dor du ni namo nante.

So the whole book has five parts. Vasubandhu says seven parts.

[Speaker 2]
Kamalashila says five parts.

[Speaker 1]
Number one is called Lengshin. Lengshin means how was this book created? Number two is Leng Larwa means how did those people get together for this teaching?

Number three is explain why this lineage will never break. Number four is then we talk about the meaning of practice of this book. And the fifth one is where do you practice this book?

[Speaker 2]
Maybe you.

[Speaker 1]
This writer lived 100 years after Xuanzang.

[Speaker 2]
And he's also from Nalanda.

[Speaker 1]
de la lengshin ni do de jungway gyi te So how did we get this sutra? di kye dak gi thupa du jing na How do you say? In Sanskrit.

maya shuktam evam In Sanskrit, evam maya shuktam evam means like this. maya means by me.

[Speaker 2]
And shuktam means I heard this. That's at the beginning of every sutra. Because they didn't write the sutra down when the Buddha spoke it.

[Speaker 1]
But they have a very good mind, and they can memorize.

[Speaker 2]
While he's talking about it. Then after, they didn't expect he will pass away. Then suddenly he left this world.

Then everybody, we have to write this down.

[Speaker 1]
And Xuanzang, he visited the place where they wrote it down.

[Speaker 2]
And he visited the place.

[Speaker 1]
de ne seren denpa rang du shing jangwa di tenpo Up to, so beginning of the sutra, up to where Subuddhi starts to talk. The person explained how this book started, how the Buddha taught this book, like that. yang dakpar dukpa chepe So people believe this book was authentic, not fake.

dukpa chepe do de tam chen rang yang chok tu We did the same before all sutras. I heard this sutra one time. That's the beginning.

evam maya srutam yang rang ni So the second subject, dukpa chepe do de tam chen rang yang chok tu dukpa chepe do de tam chen rang yang chok tu It sets the scene, like what was happening, and who came, and it starts the order of the teaching.

[Speaker 2]
Subuddhi stood up.

[Speaker 1]
Up to there, we are understanding how did the teaching begin. Then the third one is we show this lineage is not breaking. Then he said this book doesn't start with Buddha talking.

[Speaker 2]
You mean the Diamond Cutter book?

[Speaker 1]
No, Buddha is not the first one to talk in this book. He is not the first one to say something.

[Speaker 2]
Who? Who is the first one?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, Subuddhi asked a question. How should we act? How should we move?

He asked this.

[Speaker 2]
Then they say the reason he comes first, Subuddhi, is to show there's already a starting lineage up to now.

[Speaker 1]
Then the fourth part is what's the goal of our practice? And the fifth one is where should we practice? How do we practice?

How do we think? And that's called the place. All of this is called the place of presence.

So that last part, de nang drub di la chak chik sem pa'i tenpo na yang rab pa shuk pa nyo gyi dak pa shi ching From the moment Subuddhi starts to talk up to the mantra. There's a mantra. karma rabri mani dang gyi nyi si dun chik tu yin la la tu tu mo du du du du du du du du du That's the last four lines.

Compare the dharma to skadar and all that.

[Speaker 2]
And our karma is a little bit... So that fifth subject is all the way through to the final poem.

[Speaker 1]
So that's my summary of the whole book. Now I tell you every single one.

[Speaker 2]
I like that.

[Speaker 1]
gyurwa chak de dang de chuk tu de la di kye chik changway drang ni kye na ma la subu dun ma mo shuk du nangwa When you say I heard this once. That's the opening, first word. Who said that?

No, it's the person who went to the Arhat meeting, the 500 Arhats. We don't know who it was. Who said, I heard this?

[Speaker 2]
Who wrote it down? We don't know. Who memorized it and after the Buddha died, 500 students, each one said, I heard this once.

So the first words eva maya shritam We don't know who's talking.

[Speaker 1]
Xuanzang Xuanzang in what's that book called? Datang Xi Yu Ji Datang Xi Yu Ji In there, he said the three main people who wrote it down. I don't remember who wrote down the Borobudur Someone was in charge of that.

So the first word here is I heard this one time. So what is this? The whole Diamond Cutter Sutra.

[Speaker 2]
So this means the whole Diamond Cutter Sutra.

[Speaker 1]
dak kyi she jangwa ni shen lam par chupa chupa ching du ngun tsun tu tukpa tendrel Then it's I heard it, maya. I heard it. It means, I didn't hear this from somebody else.

[Speaker 2]
I heard directly. So you can trust me. I'm telling you what I heard directly.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, not through the other person.

[Speaker 2]
Directly.

[Speaker 1]
Then shrutam. Shrutam in Sanskrit, in the opening first line means heard.

[Speaker 2]
I heard this one time.

[Speaker 1]
Then Kamalashila said something funny. The person who wrote it down didn't say I understood this one time. He just heard it.

Then Kamalashila said only Buddha can really understand this book. So the guy who wrote it down is being very honest.

[Speaker 2]
Here's what I heard. But maybe I don't understand. Then other people will believe him more.

[Speaker 1]
Kamalashila says other people will believe him more.

[Speaker 2]
If you say I understood everything and then people say, alright, I mean... Then he said once.

[Speaker 1]
One time. I heard this once. Kamalashila gives three meanings to that word.

First one. du tam jir gu chukwa njur di tabu na thab karwa tenpa du tam jir gu chukwa njur di tabu na thab karwa tenpa It means it's very rare to hear this.

[Speaker 2]
So, he's with the Buddha for many years but he's only heard it once.

[Speaker 1]
yang na, or you can say dang ni mang du thab pa tenpo du chik na di kye di tu gyi shen na ni shen dak kyang shi du so Maybe he wants to say I heard a lot of sutras.

[Speaker 2]
But once I heard this one.

[Speaker 1]
So when he says once he's implying that he heard many many times. yang na du chik na chung du de shuk so shi okpa dang chok te du nga phak tu me kha te dang na kyang dak pa tenpo shen na ni shen sok so shi shak mi Or you can say you can only hear this once meaning in the time in history when the Buddha is in this world.

[Speaker 2]
du nga phak tu me kha te And you can hear it once.

[Speaker 1]
Then the next word in the sutra in Sanskrit is bhagavan, bhagavan the Buddha, the Buddha.

[Speaker 2]
Bhagavan.

[Speaker 1]
It's a Buddhist name. Buddha has many names. Many nicknames.

And in Tibet they translate as the one who beat the other side. He won the war. He's called the world conqueror.

Then why call him that? Because he defeated the four demons. Buddha is called the winner because he beat the four demons.

[Speaker 2]
Very famous four demons.

[Speaker 1]
So one definition of a Buddha is somebody who beat the four demons. First demon is negative thoughts. All negative thoughts.

[Speaker 2]
Not just anger.

[Speaker 1]
Second one.

[Speaker 2]
Second one beat this mortal body.

[Speaker 1]
Third one beat the lord of death.

[Speaker 2]
Like in the Wheel of Life. He's already gone. He's gone away.

[Speaker 1]
Buddha's fourth one is very strange. It's called the son of the Deva. Deva means angel.

But here it's a bad one. Like powerful. Son of the powerful bad spirit.

That's the fourth demon.

[Speaker 2]
His name.

[Speaker 1]
And his responsibility is that if you start to meditate he will bother you.

[Speaker 2]
He will make you think about dinner and stuff like that. So Buddha beat him.

[Speaker 1]
So because he beat those four, which is the name of Buddha, it's called Bhagavan.

[Speaker 2]
Bodhichitta.

[Speaker 1]
Very famous. You can also call him Bhagavan. Because he has goodness.

He possess goodness. And bhaga, first half, bhagavan, bhaga means if you take this and you give everybody one piece, it's called bhaga. You share.

Then van means possess. So we have a good share. Buddha's name means he has a good share of this thing.

He has a good thing came to him. He possess goodness. Then what kind of goodness?

Six kinds. Then bhagavan. Six kinds of bhaga.

Number one, power. Number two, beautiful body. Number three, glory.

Number four, famous. Number five, wisdom. And number six is works hard.

Then he possess this thing. So he's called bhagavan.

[Speaker 2]
That's a Sanskrit name for Buddha. He has many names, but that's the one which is...

[Speaker 1]
It's also come in the title of the Heart Sutra. It's called bhagavad-gita.

[Speaker 2]
The Sanskrit name of it is shin-jin.

[Speaker 1]
bhagavad-gita. That one means the woman who is a Buddha. The real name of Heart Sutra is the woman who is a Buddha.

[Speaker 2]
The real name of Heart Sutra is the woman who is a Buddha. bhagavad-gita. In Sanskrit.

[Speaker 1]
The next word in the Jinkanjin is the place where it was taught. And it was taught in a... near a city.

It was taught in an area called Shravasti, India. Shravasti. And Kamalashila says that place name comes from the name of a saint who used to live there.

[Speaker 2]
So his name is Shravasti.

[Speaker 1]
And that's the name of the general place, like Xi'an. Inside that is a place that became like a stupa. Then he says a funny thing.

The guy who wrote the book down, he's like a person in a court.

[Speaker 2]
Court case.

[Speaker 1]
Even now in America, if there's a car accident, the police will say five-oh-four. Five o'clock. Four minutes after five o'clock.

[Speaker 2]
At this street, on this corner, the front left side of the car hit the other car. If the court record says somebody hit somebody, then it's hard to believe. But if you say it was four minutes after five o'clock, I was on this street, I hit the corner, that corner, then people will believe it.

[Speaker 1]
So he said, in this book also, they don't say Buddha was in Shravasti.

[Speaker 2]
They don't say.

[Speaker 1]
They say exactly where he was. So then he says, in the garden of Prince Jeta, there was a prince called Jeta. He's the son of the king.

In the garden. His name was Jeta.

[Speaker 2]
It means victorious. His name means he's very powerful, he's very victorious. Can I borrow your book?

[Speaker 1]
We don't have time. Then if you don't know this place, you can also say it was in the park of Anathapindada. Anathapindada.

What's the name? It's a park. Name.

And the person's name is Anathapindada. Pindada. I went there.

It's still there.

[Speaker 2]
I'm here. In 2000 years, when they're at twelve o'clock, I sat there where Buddha taught.

[Speaker 1]
Because some people say the world will end. Then I thought, I want to be here. So that garden is still there.

Then that person's name is very interesting. Anatha... What's Nataraj?

[Speaker 2]
Yes.

[Speaker 1]
But what's it mean?

[Speaker 2]
Nata.

[Speaker 1]
Protector. Nata means protector. Anatha means what?

Of police. No protector.

[Speaker 2]
So, helpless people.

[Speaker 1]
Then pinda means food. What's the Sanskrit word for giving? The first perfection.

So, pindada means person who gives you food. But he didn't give to anybody. He gave to anatha.

[Speaker 2]
No one.

[Speaker 1]
To the people who have nobody to talk. Those who have no hope.

[Speaker 2]
No hope.

[Speaker 1]
So his name is Anathapindada. Then I'm going to skip a little bit, okay? Then he was sitting with 2,500 bodhisattvas.

Yeah. And they say that's symbolic. It has meaning.

It means he wants to help other people. So he's sitting with 2,500 people. So one way, Buddha likes to help other people.

But the other way, he likes to meditate like this place, a quiet place.

[Speaker 2]
So he taught in the garden.

[Speaker 1]
He didn't teach in the house.

[Speaker 2]
Purposely taught in the garden. To show that we need to meditate retreat like this.

[Speaker 1]
And after the retreat, we have to go help many people. Then I'll do one more part from the beginning, then I want to skip.

[Speaker 2]
We have about 20 minutes.

[Speaker 1]
This was very interesting for me.

[Speaker 2]
Those people together with him are monks.

[Speaker 1]
Then... What's the Sanskrit name for full monk? Full...

[Speaker 2]
You know...

[Speaker 1]
Bishu. Bishu? Yeah, Bishu.

[Speaker 2]
Bishu.

[Speaker 1]
Bishu. Bishu. I have to turn it up.

Bishu. Bishu.

[Speaker 2]
Bishu.

[Speaker 1]
Full monk.

[Speaker 2]
His full name is Bishu. And all those people are Bishu.

[Speaker 1]
Then he says, they are called Bishu because they separate from the negative emotions. Bishu can mean the root. It can mean to ask for food.

[Speaker 2]
Please give me food.

[Speaker 1]
Then if you ask people why they call full monk Bishu, it's because they have to ask for that.

[Speaker 2]
They're not allowed to keep food.

[Speaker 1]
But he said that's not correct.

[Speaker 2]
It's very nice.

[Speaker 1]
He said it comes from the same bhaga as bhagavan. So bhaga means you split and you give to different people. And the desiderative form, one verb is bitch.

[Speaker 2]
Bitch.

[Speaker 1]
Of bhaga.

[Speaker 2]
Bhaga turns into bitch. Separate.

[Speaker 1]
Separate. This is the bad dog. This is the monk.

[Speaker 2]
This is the monk. This is the desiderative form.

[Speaker 1]
He's Bishu. He's separated from the negative thoughts. There's a...

I told me this. There's a... The word vagina comes from that.

Ladies' sexual organ. In English, it comes from the same root. Because it's split open, like this.

[Speaker 2]
If you say it in English, that's what it's saying.

[Speaker 1]
Then I'll tell you another interesting thing. Then he said, you want to know why we call them sangha?

[Speaker 2]
Namo buddhamaya namo buddhaya.

[Speaker 1]
What do you think?

[Speaker 2]
Why do they call sangha, sangha?

[Speaker 1]
Sangha means to come together. Sangha is C-O-M in English.

[Speaker 2]
Ga.

[Speaker 1]
What's ga?

[Speaker 2]
Gati gati?

[Speaker 1]
Oh, to go. So, sangha, G-A.

[Speaker 2]
Sangha.

[Speaker 1]
And the Jewish people call their churches synagogue.

[Speaker 2]
It's a Greek word. It means it comes from Sanskrit.

[Speaker 1]
This is a problem.

[Speaker 2]
There's a problem.

[Speaker 1]
There's a problem.

[Speaker 2]
What problem?

[Speaker 1]
Can you guess? Sangha?

[Speaker 2]
Can you guess?

[Speaker 1]
How do you spell sangha? Yeah, it's not ga. It's not gati gati.

It's not go. It doesn't mean go. And I always wondered about it.

It's G-H-A. That's a verb form of hung, which means to ahimsa, to kill.

[Speaker 2]
Okay. It's a... Sangha.

Sangha means to kill together.

[Speaker 1]
So, sangha means to kill together.

[Speaker 2]
Kill what?

[Speaker 1]
Together. Kill together.

[Speaker 2]
It's sangha.

[Speaker 1]
Didn't he say, when the monks stay together, the demon cannot kill them. Sangha.

[Speaker 2]
Okay. Sangha.

[Speaker 1]
Sangha protects from ga. Sangha protects the monk from ga.

[Speaker 2]
If the monks stay together.

[Speaker 1]
If one monk stay here, he will have a problem. But if the monks stay together, they check each other. So, one monk is called bhikshu.

[Speaker 2]
But five monks or more called sangha.

[Speaker 1]
Then they can make decisions and they... Less than five cannot make a new monk. So their name is sangha.

[Speaker 2]
Less than five monks, they cannot what?

[Speaker 1]
Less than five cannot make a new monk.

[Speaker 2]
How many for nun? Twenty. Because nuns are naughty.

Oh!

[Speaker 1]
Oh, Margarita.

[Speaker 2]
She's not even getting upset about it. Margarita.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, I want to skip to the hard part.

[Speaker 2]
We only have fifteen minutes.

[Speaker 1]
There's one interesting part in the Diamond Cutter Sutra. Can you say...

[Speaker 2]
Can you Buddha say?

[Speaker 1]
Buddha said... He said several times. He said, this table is impossible.

And he said it like seven or eight times. He said, this is impossible, this is impossible.

[Speaker 2]
And I like that. And I always wanted to know what does Kamalashila say about what is the meaning of possible? So I thought you would enjoy that.

[Speaker 1]
So let's go to that.

[Speaker 2]
So we're skipping now.

[Speaker 1]
Uh... DE BA SHES PA SHES BYA BA NI PA PA BDAG MED PA NYID KYI RNAM NAS YANG DRAG PA SHES PA So another name for Buddha is Sugata.

[Speaker 2]
Sugata. Sugata.

[Speaker 1]
Su means good. Gata means went. Went.

Past tense of go.

[Speaker 2]
Shanshi. Shanshi.

[Speaker 1]
So that's another name for Buddha. Then why we call... Why we call Sugata went well?

It means on the path of two kinds of kohe. Two kinds of... He went on the path of two kinds of kohe.

There are two kinds of emptiness. Yeah. And he traveled those two paths.

To the finish. He's happy. Then he got rid of those two obstacles.

[Speaker 2]
One is the...

[Speaker 1]
What's the definition of nirvana? Nirvana is... Nindut.

Nindut. Malubar. Susatanga.

Nindut malubar is susatanga. The definition of nirvana. Nindut means optical of negative emotions.

[Speaker 2]
All of them, malupa means all of them, tango means destroy them.

[Speaker 1]
Why?

[Speaker 2]
Because you are self-conscious.

[Speaker 1]
A Buddhist person, we say that the only way to stop anger permanently, you must see emptiness.

[Speaker 2]
You must see emptiness.

[Speaker 1]
For example, if I come home, if I come here, and the other person calls me, oh, you are so stupid.

[Speaker 2]
If I come here?

[Speaker 1]
If I just walk in here, you are so stupid.

[Speaker 2]
My friend says to me, you are so stupid.

[Speaker 1]
Then, if you don't understand emptiness, you believe those words coming from your friend. But if you study emptiness, you know there is a seed in your mind.

[Speaker 2]
And it creates this It creates your friend.

[Speaker 1]
And that seed was put in your mind when you got angry last week. So, you get angry, you say you are stupid.

[Speaker 2]
Who hears it? Yeah, it was like you are stupid.

[Speaker 1]
You say it to the other person, but you hear yourself.

[Speaker 2]
And that sound makes an impression on the mind.

[Speaker 1]
And that becomes a seed. And then, when it opens, a small picture comes out and comes out in your mind. Creates this person who is not paying attention.

[Speaker 2]
Creates the person.

[Speaker 1]
So, who created the person who called you stupid?

[Speaker 2]
You did. Yeah, you created this person.

[Speaker 1]
And where is the person that you did not create? No such thing. Yeah, no such thing.

That's空性. Where is the person who called you stupid that you did not create?

[Speaker 2]
There is no person who called you stupid There is only the person who is coming from my seed.

[Speaker 1]
So, if you understand that meaning of空性, then will you get angry at this person? If you understand it a little bit? No, I mean...

[Speaker 2]
So, if you understand it well, you get angry at yourself. But not at them.

[Speaker 1]
Then, stopping your anger is Nirvana.

[Speaker 2]
Because you understood空性.

[Speaker 1]
And the Buddhist people say nobody in the world can stop anger without that understanding. So, that's that's the meaning of... That's the first one I wanted to talk about.

[Speaker 2]
We'll do one more. We have eight minutes.

[Speaker 1]
This is very nice. This one means Buddha said two things are impossible.

[Speaker 2]
He said to Subodhi, two things are impossible.

[Speaker 1]
Subodhi said, what? And the Buddha said, number one, the Buddha. The Buddha is impossible.

Then Subodhi is like, what's the second one? Buddha told Subodhi, two things are impossible. Subodhi said, what's the first one?

And the Buddha answered, the Buddha is impossible.

[Speaker 2]
Then Subodhi said, what's the second one?

[Speaker 1]
And he said, Brahma. Because if the Buddha is impossible, there's no teacher.

[Speaker 2]
There's no teacher.

[Speaker 1]
How can there be teaching without a teacher?

[Speaker 2]
So, if Buddha is impossible, then the teaching is impossible.

[Speaker 1]
Then why is the teaching impossible? Then it's a very, very beautiful explanation. When you hear a good teacher teach, it's the same as the angry person.

[Speaker 2]
They're also coming from your good seeds.

[Speaker 1]
Because last week, when your friends start to get upset, you try to teach them about the seeds. What's the second law of karma?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah. Every 12 hours, double.

[Speaker 1]
So, if you share with your friend in the shinpa class, please don't get mad at your husband. He's coming from you.

[Speaker 2]
You teach for one minute.

[Speaker 1]
Then that seed, every 24 hours, that seed doubles. And it creates a teacher.

[Speaker 2]
So, then from your mind, coming teacher. And from your mind, coming from you.

[Speaker 1]
So, where is the teacher that's not coming from you? Nowhere.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, it doesn't exist. And we're not teaching their giving. That's not coming from you.

[Speaker 1]
So, that's why Buddha said teaching is impossible, and teaching is impossible. It means the teacher which is not coming from you. Is impossible.

[Speaker 2]
And what they say is impossible. Which is not coming from you.

[Speaker 1]
Then he has many more impossibles. I think it would be interesting to... It would be interesting to write a little book called The Impossibles in the Diamond Cutter Sutra.

Yeah, yeah. There are about ten of them. There's about ten.

[Speaker 2]
You could call them the ten impossibles. But it would be... It would be interesting.

[Speaker 1]
I'll give you one more. What's the person called who reached nirvana in Sanskrit? Arhat.

Yeah, Arhat.

[Speaker 2]
Arhat.

[Speaker 1]
Then, Kamalashila explained that He says Arhat is called Arhat because chöpa röpa chöpa röpa means because he's worthy to offer something to him or her. yin gong. Yeah, so what's the Sanskrit?

Then, it's called Pujam Arhati. Pujam Arhati. Pujam means offering.

[Speaker 2]
When you offer an incense or a banana, the Sanskrit name is Pujam.

[Speaker 1]
Pujam means make the teacher happy. Arhati means worthy to make Pujam.

[Speaker 2]
To accept Pujam?

[Speaker 1]
No, worthy to give to them.

[Speaker 2]
That person is so nice, he's here. So that's called Arhati.

[Speaker 1]
But the Kamalashila also said you can say Arh... Arhati. Arhati means worthy to offer.

Pujam Arhati.

[Speaker 2]
Or, you can split the word a different way.

[Speaker 1]
It either becomes Arhan. And Han is to send Ahimsa to strike.

[Speaker 2]
And Ar means enemy.

[Speaker 1]
So you can translate the person who reached Nirvana, you can call them, in Sanskrit they call Arhat.

[Speaker 2]
It could be Pujam Arhati, or it could be Arhati, Arhan, striking the enemy. You can...

[Speaker 1]
So that's the person. Then he says they are also impossible. That's a good place to start.

They are also impossible.

[Speaker 2]
There are ten.

[Speaker 1]
There are ten.

[Speaker 2]
You should write a book called Ten Impossible People.

[Speaker 1]
In Tang Dynasty, 23rd year, Master Xuanzang, on the other side of this mountain, he translated the Ashoka there. Master Xuanzang there.

[Speaker 2]
Kimura Jiva. Kimura Jiva translated Diamond Cutter Sutra down there, at the foot of the mountain. So you see in the middle.

[Speaker 1]
In the middle way.

[Speaker 2]
Cutter.

[Speaker 1]
In the middle.

[Speaker 2]
Cutter.

[Speaker 1]
Master Xuanzang translated Diamond Cutter Sutra. Diamond Cutter Sutra.

[Speaker 2]
Master Xuanzang, he translated the Heart Sutra of Diamond Cutter. Very holy. Very holy teaching.

Is there a longer name for Diamond Cutter Sutra? No, no. The abbot said that it didn't teach and they didn't listen.

[Speaker 1]
Very fine. Is there a longer name for Diamond Cutter Sutra? Like Diamond Cutter Sutra?

No, there's a longer name. In the translation?

[Speaker 2]
Yes, yes. Long name.

[Speaker 1]
Long name.

[Speaker 2]
Correct. Long name. Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. That's good. Because in English, some lazy people call Diamond Cutter.

[Speaker 2]
No, no. In Chinese.

[Speaker 1]
In Chinese. Heart Sutra.

[Speaker 2]
Heart Sutra. Heart Sutra is translated there.

[Speaker 1]
Diamond Cutter, down.

[Speaker 2]
In the middle.

[Speaker 1]
That's a good place. Yeah, very good place. Yeah, very nice.

That's why I want to come here.

[Speaker 2]
Usually I don't like to see tourism. But this place is amazing. This place is amazing.

There is diamond here.

[Speaker 1]
Diamond Cutter.

[Speaker 2]
It's Diamond Cutter.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, beautiful. Let's go? Let's go before it gets dark.