500 образов для медитации на шагах пути к просветлению, занятие 51

[Speaker 1]
8.51. This is a tough one. Anybody solve this one, I will make a cappuccino for them.

[Speaker 2]
What? What did she say? Oh, okay, I'll buy you one on the way home.

Okay. She's my chauffeur. The car needs gas, the driver needs cappuccino.

Yeah, that's exactly right, okay? Three grade teachers, okay?

[Speaker 1]
And if you're going to be a Lamrim teacher, you should know, you know, I don't have time during this review to tell you the life story of Nagarjuna or Chandrakirti or Jetsun Kampa, but you should learn them. If you want to know Nagarjuna's life, there's a beautiful introduction and very rare. My teacher wrote a history of Nagarjuna, which is difficult.

There are not many histories of Nagarjuna. Xuanzang went to Nagarjuna's library in South India. Nagarjuna had an ACIP project going on, and this Chinese master went and visited in South India, not far from Sera, in a place called Badalya.

And anyway, my teacher wrote a nice history of Nagarjuna. If you'd like to read it, it's in his introduction to Letter to a Friend. Okay?

So, you can buy it online, Letter to a Friend, translated by Geshe Losantarchan, written by Nagarjuna, commentary by Rendawa, Tsongkapa's teacher. Okay? Very rare commentary.

He translated it from a handwritten manuscript. I was there. Okay?

Still difficult to find. Okay? Chandrakirti.

Hmm. For that, I think you should just study Tsongkapa's Illumination of the True Thought, which is the greatest commentary ever on Chandrakirti. You can either meet a person by studying their birth date, etc., or you can meet a person by reading the books they wrote. Guess which one I prefer. Okay? So, Tsongkapa, probably Tsongkapa's greatest book is called Illumination of the True Thought.

What did Chandrakirti really mean? What did Nagarjuna really mean? Okay?

We're translating that with the translation team, I think we're about, I don't know, three, four hundred pages into it. You can talk to Nick. Okay.

Alright.

[Speaker 2]
But if you're going to teach Lamrim, you should know something about where did the emptiness teachings come from. Okay? And I'll tell you something, these three people understood it.

Okay? And thousands of others did not, and do not. Okay?

[Speaker 1]
So, you can trust these three, especially Nagarjuna. Okay? They understood.

They saw it. They really saw it. Okay?

You can trust it. What's Nagarjuna's nickname? The Arya.

Okay? In ancient times they'd say Arya. They'd say, oh Nagarjuna, yeah.

Okay?