500 образов для медитации на шагах пути к просветлению, занятие 62

[Speaker 1]
Okay, first one Nick. Anybody want to guess what is this idim about? See, that's what you have to learn.

[Speaker 2]
I show you a picture, you tell me what you think it's about.

[Speaker 1]
Say it again. Yeah, he's right, the name of this book was translated wrong.

[Speaker 2]
I hate it.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, they call it Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand. That's like this. That's not the title of the book.

The title of the book is, although. Give me your hand.

[Speaker 2]
Take it. Take it.

[Speaker 1]
Take it man. The name of the book is very cool, it's like, push, push Buddhahood into your hand. Take it.

Take it Aldo. Get it. Got it.

[Speaker 2]
It's not like ... nam dro lak jang su dupa. Dupa means push it in the guy's hand.

Hey man, I just came to Chalapa because it's a cool place to vacation. Yeah, well take this liberation too. Here, angel body.

[Speaker 1]
That's the name of the lam rim, okay? It's like, I don't know, pushing good drugs into somebody's hand.

[Speaker 2]
Take it. Take it man, take it.

[Speaker 1]
It's not like ... I know. Now I'm going to give you the whole name.

Okay, so you're supposed to tell me, when I show you this picture, you're going to say this is idim ... really it's the very first idim in the whole book. It's the title of the book.

If you come to this class regularly, and to Aldo's and Alejandro's classes regularly, they will push, push angel body into your hand.

[Speaker 2]
It's like, whoa, whoa, whoa.

[Speaker 1]
Now I'll give you the whole title, okay? nam dro lak jang su dupa means push freedom into a person's hand.

[Speaker 2]
men ngak sa mo, very, very deep teaching.

[Speaker 1]
sang la ma norwa, it's complete and there's nothing wrong in the whole book. tsung me chu kyi gyel po thuk chu, it's Tsongkapa's heart's essence. chang chu lang gi rimpa, this is the steps on the path to enlightenment.

nyam chi, say nyam chi. Nyam chi means ... the teacher didn't just read the words, the teacher tried to give you that experience in your heart.

If I did a good job today, you should ... when you leave this tent after this class, and you go home and sit in your room, you should be a little nervous about getting ... you know, you should be looking in the mirror and like, well he talked about ...

[Speaker 2]
yeah, and it's true.

[Speaker 1]
If you go home a little worried about getting older, then I successed. I succeed as a teacher. You see?

Okay, sinthi, that's more ... the title also says sinthi. This is a sinthi.

Sinthi means ... this is notes that were taken during a live teaching.

[Speaker 2]
This is a live teaching notes.

[Speaker 1]
It's like the Allman Brothers at the Fillmore East, Scott, tell me why that's relevant. It's a live album.

[Speaker 2]
Rolling Stones said it's number one guitar playing in history, and it's live, and it sounds like they sat in the studio for three years or something. This book is live. It was a live performance, and it's the greatest book of its kind, because of the person who recorded the band, and that was ...

[Speaker 1]
his name was Trijang Rinpoche. Trijang Rinpoche.

[Speaker 2]
He's my teacher's teacher, and he's the teacher of this Dalai Lama, and he recorded this live performance. You know, when you have to carve things, like this is 1920s, there's no electricity in Tibet. Okay, he's like ...

[Speaker 1]
and he did a perfect job.

[Speaker 2]
It's called a sinthi.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, GSUNGS RAB KUN GYI CHUD DU. This is the cream of the cream of all the teachings of the Dalai Lama. DAM NGAG.

DAM NGAG means ... it's not like some book. It's like the Lama's talking to you.

Then here comes the real name of the book.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, it's called ... DUD TSIS SNYING PO.

[Speaker 1]
DUD TSIS ... anybody? Yeah, the essence of nectar.

The Greek word nectar means nek-tar. Nek-tar. It means a sweet juice from a fruit.

Nectar. But in the ancient Greek, nek means death. Like necrophilia.

And tar means freedom, like tara.

[Speaker 2]
Tara.

[Speaker 1]
So, what's nek-tar?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, freedom from death. The name of the book is Nek-tar. Okay, in Sanskrit?

[Speaker 1]
Amrta.

[Speaker 2]
Amrta. A means not.

[Speaker 1]
Mert means to die, like murder.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, this book is Nek-tar. Tastes sweet. Almost better than chai.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, very sweet, and also make you not to die.

[Speaker 2]
Okay, that's the real name of the book. Nek-tar.

[Speaker 1]
ZHES BYA BA ZHUGS GSUNGS. This is the name of the book.

[Speaker 2]
So, I'll give you the ...

[Speaker 1]
Nick, you want to look it up in our catalog? What the whole English name is? Okay.

When you're ready, let me know. Okay, so this is the review.

[Speaker 2]
We just did the first one.

[Speaker 1]
We're going to do, I think, 47 of them. Okay, this is the first one.

[Speaker 2]
I'm going to show you a picture of somebody putting a gift in the other person's hand, and you're going to say, oh Geshe-la, that's the very first one, that's the name of the book.

[Speaker 1]
Read this book, and somebody put deathless nectar in your hand. Okay, cool? Not bad.

You don't even think you need it, but you do. You might need it tomorrow. Okay.

Okay, okay, give me the English name of the book. Okay, so just call it, Liberation Thrusted in the Palm of Your Hand.