Нагарджуна, курс 2 — Мудрость Арьи Нагарджуны, курс 2: Исследование величайшей мудрости древнего мудреца (2019, Аризона), занятие 1

[Speaker 1]
Okay, here we go. So, we're studying Nagarjuna. His name is Arya Nagarjuna.

Sometimes he's called just the Arya. So, he's the most famous Arya in Buddhist history, okay? He lived 200 AD, we think, about 1800 years ago.

I think Patanjali lived at the same time, the Yoga Sutra author, because a lot of the, a lot of the issues that Patanjali talks about are found in Nagarjuna's time, okay? So, just after the Christian era started, maybe 200 years after that, and I think there may have been some connection with Christianity. Thomas, disciple Thomas, which is a student of Jesus, came to India, to a place called Taxila, and worked for a king named, the Greeks call him Gondofores, and the Romans call him Gaspar, and he was one of the three kings who came to Bethlehem.

And Thomas worked for him, and that was part of India at that time, now it's part of Afghanistan. And so, I think there was some connection. Thomas ended up in South India, in Madras, which is now called Chennai, and he spent many years there.

His church is still there. He was, he was murdered there, he was killed there, and all of South India now is Christian. Kerala state, those states are Christian, and Nagarjuna comes from those states.

Nagarjuna comes from the South. Bede Yul is his home place, and if you go to the monastery, Seramay, the greatest monastery, from the airport in Bangalore, you pass through Nagarjuna's hometown. That's where you buy coconuts, okay?

So, if you see coconuts, just stop. And so, he was from South India, and the greatest teacher about emptiness, okay? And this is his greatest book on emptiness, called Wisdom.

He wrote, I don't know, we have about 10 or 15 books by him. I'm teaching some of them in Guangzhou, two of his great letters for King's government, running government, running big companies, and we're learning that in Wangtao, Wangtao, in Guangzhou. Vivian's program, if you're interested, talk to her.

And it's a very, very cool program, called the Way of Kings. And so, we're going to be studying his Wisdom, which is his greatest book, and it became the basis of all the later explanations of emptiness. So, any country, China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, India, Tibet, any place you study emptiness, you are studying Nagarjuna, you are studying his works, okay?

So, I just thought it would be nice, I tried to spread it out for five years, so we'll do it once a year, for ten days, and we'll go through Wisdom, okay? There are three commentaries that I would like to use. One is by Je Tsongkapa, and it's probably the greatest commentary on Nagarjuna, and it's called the Ocean of Emptiness.

Rigpa Gyatso, say Rigpa Gyatso. Yeah, that Rigpa means Proofs of Emptiness, okay? Proofs of Emptiness.

So, I like to call the book, short name, we can call it the Ocean of Emptiness. So, that was written by Je Tsongkapa. If we translate it, it will take 15,000, sorry, 25,000, sorry, 2,500 pages, okay?

It'll be a big book if we translate Tsongkapa, and he's quite difficult. And another teacher named Choney Lama, and his dates are 1675 to 1748. He wrote a very digestible commentary.

So, it's difficult, but it's not indigestion, or diarrhea, it's just difficult, but it's not impossible. So, if you read Choney Lama first, which is about 200 folios, it'll be about a thousand pages, the translation will be about a thousand pages, which is pretty doable for our team, our Mixed Nuts team. We do about three, four thousand pages a year, so we can do it if we have time.

If we don't have to spend time on fun raising, or other...if someone else raises the money to finish the roads at Diamond Mountain, I can finish Choney Lama. So, it's up to you. I can't do both.

I can't do, I really can't do both. Either I raise money, which I'm happy to do, because we need roads, or I can translate, which nobody else can do. You understand?

So, help me out, okay? Don't make me ask, okay? Just do it.

Seven thousand dollars. Talk to Rob Messinger, okay? We spent about four hundred thousand already.

They're not finished, okay? Even the new ones have holes in them. So, it's a difficult job, it's a big job, but this place would be so cool if we have finished the roads.

If we don't finish the roads, I'm worried about the high road, it's dangerous, it's very dangerous, and it's not covered yet, so the rain is making the dangerous roads smaller and smaller. I'm afraid somebody will fly down the mountain in a car. So, help me out, let's figure it out, let's figure it out.

If you decide to do something, you can do it. Especially with many people, many countries, we all paid some, we can do it, it's not impossible. Don't think, I can't do it.

We did this building, we did the other building, that was two million dollars, that's nothing, it was seven hundred, it's nothing. Okay, we can do it, okay? But we all have to try, okay?

All right, so you kind of need a ship to go on the ocean of Tsongkhapa. Tsongkhapa's book is difficult, so you kind of need a boat to go on that ocean of emptiness. So, Tsongkhapa's book is called the Ocean of Emptiness.

And then Tony Lama wrote a book called, A Ship That You Can Use on the Ocean of Emptiness. And it's a joke, he's talking about Tsongkhapa's book. He said, I will be your ship captain, I have a nice boat, just get in my boat, we can cross this Tsongkhapa, no problem.

Okay, so we're going to finish Tony Lama's commentary. He also wrote a second commentary called, GAN NAS, Difficult Points in Wisdom, and we'll be using that also. The greatest commentary of all time on the Garjuna is Chandrakirti, about 650.

He wrote a book called, what? Entering the Middle Way, okay? If you're going to translate it, you better know the title.

He wrote two commentaries, one is called Entering the Middle Way, Madhyamaka Avatara, and the other book is called Prasannapada, which means clarifying the words. The Prasannapada commentary explains the words of wisdom, this book you are studying. And then Entering the Middle Way explains the meaning.

And those books are the basis of all emptiness teachings in our country, you know, in the countries you come from, Vietnam, China, Korea. The books came to, during the Tang Dynasty, came to Xi'an, translated by the other Mixed Nuts team, Xuanzang. His student was Yensei, whose real name is Wenchuk, he's from Korea, and he went home and he spread it there, and then the Japanese took the Tang Dynasty teachings directly into Japan, and they kept them very strong, and they are still there.

So, this is how this book came. What's the name of Nagarjuna's book? Just call wisdom, okay?

People have these long names, forget it, okay? What's the Sanskrit? Prajna, say Prajna.

So, the Russians are correct pronunciation, okay? Ya znayo, da? Yes, tochno.

Ochen atlichnaya. Okay? The Russian pronunciation of these words is very pure, okay?

Closer to Sanskrit, okay? So, znayo, zna means to know, prajna means super knowledge, wisdom, okay? So, Nagarjuna's book is called, just called wisdom, okay?

And that's what we're studying, okay? So, if the first homework question says, what is the ship on the Sea of Emptiness? You're gonna say, oh, the Sea of Emptiness is Tsongkhapa's commentary, and then we need a ship on that sea, and that's Choney Lama's commentary, and we are riding in that ship, okay?

And we'll be giving you a notebook, every day we'll be giving you more stuff to put in the notebook. There's a long, 55 pages on the Lion's Dance, okay? We keep improving it, we keep updating it, and it's based on Maitreya's teaching, okay?

Called the Jewel of Realizations, Abhisamadhankara. DE NAS ZEN GYI RNAMS KYI PA'I PHYIN GYI MDZIN NA MYONG ZHUGS NAS, BRTEN CHEN BRGYAL GYUR MI THUN NA LUS MI KHYUN NA THOB PA BYED Very famous lions. SINGHA VIJIN BRTA, what's that?

Lion's Dance, okay? SINGHA is like Singapur, Singapore comes from that, and lion. City of lions, right?

Right? You Singaporeans are lions. Okay, alright, so anyway, that's the Sea of Emptiness, that's what we're going to be studying, alright?

Ship on the Sea of Emptiness. So, I called the second course, the ship, just to remind you, okay? How many courses we're going to have on Nagarjuna?

Five, okay? Try to come to all of them, it's very frustrating for me when I have to repeat, or I have to remind, you know, it's difficult for me to teach 50-50 people who came and didn't come, then I have to waste time repeating things, okay? Alright?

Deal? Alright. So, if you don't build the roads, you're going to fall off the roof, in three years from now.

Okay, we studied two chapters already. In the first course, last year, at this time, we studied the first two chapters. How many chapters total in wisdom?

27, okay? Very famous, 27 chapters, okay? And we studied the names of the chapters, we studied the structure of the chapters, and how did Nagarjuna choose to teach emptiness?

His nickname is the Arya, the Arya. Like, New York people call New York, The City. Mexico people, Mexico City people call Mexico City, Mexico.

It's like, Guangzhou people call Guangzhou, China. So, the Arya, the big Arya is Nagarjuna, okay? So, we just, sometimes we call him just the Arya, okay?

You Mexico City people, I know. I say, where are you from? Mexico.

Yeah, which city? Mexico. Yeah, yeah, okay.

Okay, so we finished two chapters. The first chapter was... Oh, by the way, I had a cool new idea yesterday, the day before.

I want you to learn some Sanskrit while we are learning wisdom, okay? So, you should learn some important words. So, every homework, I'm going to give you three Sanskrit words.

That way, you will learn 30 or 40 Sanskrit words, and that's almost enough to speak Pasha when you get to Surabaya, right Sugaya? Indonesian language is very, very tightly based on Sanskrit. So, we're going to learn some Sanskrit words while we go, okay?

You should know some, some words, okay? So, we're going to learn three Sanskrit words every class, okay? Say, pariksha.

Pariksha. Okay, and I'm going to tell you, there's two things on your homework, okay? Number one, by the way, I put the words on your homework, and it has the meaning of the word, and it has the roots of the word that came into English, okay?

That's called cognate, okay? Cognate means the word came from Sanskrit almost directly into English. So, it's useful to know the cognates, okay?

What's the cognate for prajna? Prajna, prajna, prajna. What's the cognate in English?

Prajna. I know, I know, okay? That's why English has that irritating K, okay?

It should be kanau, right? So, the reason English has a K on I know, it comes from prajna, prajna, okay? It's the J came from Sanskrit, came into K.

That's why this strange spelling in English, I know, I know, K-N-O-W, that's the jna, okay? So, if you know these cognates, you can remember the Sanskrit, okay? I told you yesterday what's important about Sanskrit.

All Buddhas speak Sanskrit, all Buddhas speak Sanskrit, okay? All Buddhas speak Sanskrit, alright? When you become a Buddha, you're going to have to speak Sanskrit, you might as well start now, okay?

Then, secondly, you can impress your friends. If you're at a cocktail party, and you want to impress somebody, you say, do you know why that kanau, why they have the K in English? I can tell you about that, okay?

Non-alcoholic cocktails, right? Okay, so we finish the first, each chapter is called pariksha, say pariksha, pariksha. So, that's on your homework.

Actually, I gave it to you on your homework. One of the three Sanskrit words will be on your quiz, okay? One of the three Sanskrit words.

I give you for free on your homework. I put it on your homework, with the explanation. The meaning and the cognates, okay?

And then you just have to memorize those three, and one of them is going to be on your quiz. If you want to know which one, pay me $10, okay? Maybe pariksha, okay?

Pariksha means to examine a question, analyze a question. I like the word investigation, investigation, okay? Each chapter of wisdom is an investigation.

We are checking something, we are checking some question, okay? And that's the structure, which is a homework question, that's the structure of wisdom, okay? It's a pariksha.

Each chapter is called pariksha. Investigation, we are checking, like police investigation, who killed this guy, okay? Then, the structure of wisdom, each chapter is a pariksha, okay?

Pariksha means investigate. So, the structure of each chapter is the same. The first thing, okay?

This is on your homework. The first thing, someone will come with a stupid idea, okay? Someone will come with a stupid idea.

Like, my husband is yelling at me in the kitchen because he's tired, and he didn't eat yet, and there was a bad traffic, okay? That's, according to Buddhism, super, pra-stupid, pra-stupid, okay? Idea.

Oh, why your husband is yelling at you tonight? Oh, he's tired, and I didn't fix dinner yet, and he had a lot of traffic, okay? Like that, okay?

So, if you're going to write a chapter called, if you're going to write the 28th chapter of wisdom, you can call it the husband in the kitchen, okay? And the first sentences will be, somebody will come and give a stupid idea. It's always this structure, okay?

Oh, why your husband yelled at you? Oh, he's tired, and he didn't have dinner yet, and his boss yelled at him, and he had bad traffic, okay? So, somebody will come and make a stupid idea, okay?

Then, Nagarjuna will fight it, okay? Nagarjuna will fight it, okay? His style, and I want to see that on your homework, okay?

His style is simplicity and elegance, okay? His style is simplicity, elegance, and practical. He always uses short words, short poetry, and he uses the ideas of the normal world, okay?

He uses the ideas of the normal world. Like, on your homework, the last assignment on each homework is called real application. Say, real application.

It means, not rap, okay? Real application, okay? And Nagarjuna was very, very good at it.

He was the greatest philosopher of ancient India, and what made him great was, he took it to the kitchen, okay? He always takes it to the kitchen. He doesn't just blah blah philosophy, okay?

He always takes it to the kitchen. So, your homework assignment, each day, is a real application. You make up a real application.

If you're not sure how to do it, talk to Hasso. Where are you? Where is he?

He can teach you party pills, right? And maybe Tim will organize a little competition for the best real app, okay? How did real app happen?

You see, ACI is the Geshe course. The ACI courses that you're learning in the evening. These are the Geshe course, okay?

Then people started inviting me to teach business courses, or relationship courses, or how not to fight with your husband courses. And I have to use the Geshe course to find out how to use it in business, how to use it in the kitchen, okay? Then DCI is the real app of ACI, okay?

DCI comes from ACI. DCI is the Geshe course made for fighting families and people who want to have a business, okay? So, why I get paid so much money to give away the money is because I know how to make a real app, that's all.

I know how to take ACI and make it into DCI. And then I... I'm booked till three years from now.

Every day is booked, okay? And people are throwing money, and I'm like, ahh... So, I want to teach you, okay?

You take the ACI and you make the DCI, and that's called real app, okay? And the best example is in Shenzhen, China. Coolest city in the world right now, I think.

And they have this China soft power program, my kids. And when I went there, it was very similar to today. So, I have to go there directly from Diamond Mountain to teach the China soft power.

These are business executives, right? Mr. Moose, one of them. We have some China soft power guys here.

Welcome. Thank you for coming. And just like now, the first time we had China soft power, I'm not ready to teach.

I'm too busy. I have to do Diamond Mountain. I have the DCI manual.

I had an 860 page manual for DCI teacher training. My head exploding. My last hair is falling out.

John Brady knows, two things happen when you get old. Number one, the hair falls out. Then some of it comes to your ears.

I don't know why. So, anyway, I'm stressed out. I'm not ready for China soft power.

So, I think what to do, you know? Then I said, ah, I have idea. I told Stanley and Allison, we will make the student to write the course.

And that will be the course. So, we told them, you have to take the material, and you have to make the real app. So, they come to the Yenses translation.

We are translating one of the greatest books of all time, from Tang Dynasty. It will be, I think, 8,000 pages, the translation. So, they come to the translation class, and then they have to make their own applications, okay?

And that's the whole idea, right? You invent the next husband in the kitchen, okay? You invent the next husband in the kitchen, alright?

It's an exercise for you. The first ones you do, after five years you can look back, they are totally stupid, okay? And wrong, okay?

But that's okay, you learn how, okay? You will learn how. And Juan Hassel made a great one.

That's a great one. That's so cool. So, talk to him if you're not sure.

So, each homework, you need to take these emptiness ideas, and you have to make a real app, okay? How to use it in real life, okay? People are going to ask you why you went to Arizona.

You say, oh, I learned the 2,000 year old business strategist, you know? I'm going to be rich, you know? I'm not just sitting in the desert, okay?

Alright, okay. So, who did that before? The guy's name is Nagarjuna, and he made real apps, okay?

And his style, let the guy come and make a stupid idea, each pariksha, what's a pariksha? Each investigation, each chapter, stupid guy comes, Nagarjuna beats him with normal real apps, okay? With normal real apps, okay?

And then Choney Lama comes, and he says, this wasn't made up by Nagarjuna, this comes from the ancient Buddha's talk, and he identifies each sutra for each pariksha, okay? So, three things going on in each chapter, this is on your homework. Number one, somebody comes and says something stupid, like my husband was tired, that's why he's yelling.

Why is the husband really yelling? Because you yelled at your kids last week. So, Nagarjuna comes and says that, that's his real app.

First there's a real stupid, then there's a real app, okay? Then we get the real scripture. Choney Lama steps in and says, by the way, don't think Nagarjuna made up this real, this comes directly from the Heart Sutra.

So, Choney Lama, in the structure, Choney Lama will step in, he will say, oh look, this comes from the real script, this comes from the Buddha, okay? Nagarjuna is just quoting the Buddha, alright? Okay.

What time do I have to stop, Tim? Oh my gosh, anyway, stop talking for me. Alright, so we finished the first two chapters.

The first chapter was called Examination of Conditions, Factors, Factors, okay? How does one thing make another thing happen? We finished that, that was the first chapter, okay?

Then the second chapter, for $10. Yes, Sugeng, Mr. Greedy. Yeah, coming and going, okay.

Coming and going. Shopping, $10 for the gentleman from Sumavaya. I mean, Singapore, and his wife from Sumavaya, okay?

So, yeah, the second chapter, how do you come, how do you go, what happens when you come, what happens when you go? When I walk through the door, what's really happening? What is really happening?

Pictures coming out of my mind, small door, bigger door, bigger door, bigger door, bigger door, bigger door, then I get through the door, smaller door, smaller door, smaller door, smaller door. I don't walk, I don't go through the door, okay? Picture, picture, then we call it walking.

Geshe-la doesn't walk through the door. Geshe-la never walks through any door, okay? Picture, small door, big door, bigger door, bigger door, smaller door, smaller door, smaller door, we call it walking.

Would Nagarjuna say it's not real? Question, would Nagarjuna say it's not real? Never, he will never say that.

That's real walking through the door. Well, what's my old walking through the door? That's not real.

The way you always thought, how you got to, how did you get to Diamond Mountain? Tell me how you got to Diamond Mountain. Okay, give me a Nagarjuna answer.

How did you get to Diamond Mountain? You gave rides to other people in the past, that's all, that's all. You didn't come here in a car, you didn't come here in a highway, you didn't fly the airplane, forget that.

You helped other people to go through more. Nagarjuna says, that's real. That's real.

Just flying in a plane, that's not real. That's not what's happening. That's like the husband who's mad because he didn't eat, okay?

It's not real, okay, got it? So, that's the second chapter. Now, we're on the third chapter.

We're going to study six chapters, okay, this time. We're going to study six chapters. Three of them are short, okay?

Chapter three, chapter four, chapter five are short. Well, how many did I say? Yeah, we're going to study six chapters.

Three, four, five, six, seven, and eight, okay? So, on your homework, the longest question, which is not on your quiz, don't even study it. It's too long for a quiz.

Give me the names of those parikshas, okay? What are those chapters' names, okay? By the way, the pieces of pariksha is, say, pari?

Iksha. Pari? Iksha.

Pari means all around. Now, listen, when you want to find an English card name, an easy way is to change all the A's to E. Generally speaking, the A in Sanskrit will often change to E in English.

So, what's pari become? Pari, like periscope, or perimeter, or perihelion, I don't know, pari means all around. Like periscope on a submarine means you can see all around.

Perimeter means the border around the place, okay? So, peri means all around. Iksha means to look, okay?

Iksha means to look, okay? And that came into German, which is the root of English, as an augen, auga, and then that became ocular, and words for eye, words for the eye, okay? Ocular, optometrist, optometry, okay?

These are words, okay? Many English I words come from, I comes from augen, E-Y-E, okay? So, I comes from Iksha, okay?

So, pari Iksha means check it out, all around, okay? Examine, investigate, okay? Investigate what?

Who's being investigated for $20? Who's, not you, you're what, a word gave you the initiation? For $20, who's being investigated, Jenny?

Yeah, in this book, who's being investigated? He's the investigator, who's being investigated? Shintian.

Huh? No, Shintian, last chance, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, No, he's the investigator, okay? Now, the money is canceled, the money is canceled, we can spend all day, he's investigating these other stupid guys, okay?

Oh, my husband is upset, he yell at me all the time. Why? Oh, maybe he's hungry, or he's tired, or he had a bad day.

Let's investigate that. We're gonna investigate what you said, okay? Got it?

It's the first guy who comes in each chapter, is being investigated. Why you say such a stupid thing? Let's check, okay?

Let's check, okay? Let's check why you are wrong, okay? So, each chapter is called a parīkṣa, parīkṣa, okay?

By the way, when I means I, it gets long I, but I didn't put it on your homework, I made it simple for you, okay? It's really parīkṣa, because it's parīkṣa, the two, i, i, i, i means i, and it gets longer, parīkṣa, okay? It means, I'm gonna check, I'm gonna investigate, let's investigate, okay?

All right? Okay, now, chapter three, investigation of the powers, sense powers, okay? Eye, ear, nose, tongue, heart sutra, right?

SA BU'I KHONG KHONG PA'I SEMS, SAD CIGS KHO MTHUNG, SHOG SHANG ZHING PHYING YID PHUNG NUS SHES, We're gonna check each eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind. And always we go down the body, heart sutra goes down the body, eyes, eyes, ears, nose, mouth, body, mind, okay? We're gonna investigate the sense powers, okay?

And I put it on your Sanskrit homework. Say, indriya, indriya, okay? It means power, sense power, your eyes, your ears, your nose, okay?

So, you only have three Sanskrit words, okay? Don't explode your head, okay? Say, indriya, okay?

And that means, in ancient Asian books, Indra means power, and there's a god, Hindu god named Indra, and he's a very powerful person, okay? The English word, I win, I win the game, I win the football match, it comes from Indra, okay? So, Indra means doer, okay?

So, Indra means super powerful. It means your eye is powerful, your ears are powerful, your nose is powerful, your tongue has the power. And this, we go to Sugeng's text, has a deep relationship to these chapters.

Fifth link of the Wheel of Life, kye che, ngapa kye che, your sense powers, your equipment to experience the world, okay? Without this equipment you cannot touch things, you cannot do anything, okay? So, we're going to check out where did these powers come from, indriya, okay?

Where did this, what's the card name? Win, I win the game, power, or Indra, the Hindu god, okay? Powerful god, okay?

Indra. So, we're going to investigate the powers. Why?

Two reasons, okay? Two reasons. This is on your homework.

Everything's on your homework. What you had for lunch is on your homework. Just kidding.

First of all, the Buddha taught for, I don't know, 51 years or something. We have 990 books by Lord Buddha in our scriptures. He gave hundreds and hundreds of lectures, okay?

Those lectures are divided into three turnings of the wheel, three periods of his life, okay? The first period of his life, teaching is called the boring period, okay? There's five heaves, there's 12 ayadhanas, there's 18 D categories, there's a four noble truths, there's a six bodhisattva perfection, it's like a bunch of lists, he's like an accountant.

It's the accountant period, okay? Just making long lists, and all the guys in the first period of the Buddhist teaching were nerds, they're all like, oh, what's number 17? I don't know the number 17, you know?

So, that's called Abhidharma. Stanley's not here, right? Oh, you give the Abhidharma translation to the nerds, you know?

So, that was the first teaching in the world, okay? Then in the second period of his life, Buddha said, oh, people are just making lists, let's teach them reality, which is emptiness, okay? Xinjing, Jinggangjing, Heart Sutra, Diamond Cutter Sutra, these come from the second period of his teaching, okay?

What happened in the third period? The nerds met the emptiness guys, and they had a disagreement, okay? So, Buddha said, after his second period, he said, how do you like what I taught?

And the nerd said, it's very good, it's all lists, we like it. Then the emptiness guy said, no, no, no, he just taught emptiness for ten more years, Xinjing, Jinggangjing, everything's empty, forget the list, you know? Then they had a big fight.

Then they came to, just like DCI people, ACI people, let's go ask Geshe La. Let's make an appointment with Geshe La. He will tell us which one is correct.

Waste Geshe La's time. Then Geshe La gets to be the referee. Yes, the Buddha made lists.

Yes, everything is empty. They go together, okay? That's called the third turning of the wheel.

And the mind-only school came out of that, okay? Buddha said, they go together, come on, cooperate with each other, don't make me referee between you guys, okay? Why am I talking about that?

Chapter 3, chapter 4, chapter 5 are for the nerds. Chapter 3, chapter 4, chapter 5 are for the nerds. Therefore the guys who like the old lists by Buddha.

Five heaps, twelve doors of sands, eighteen categories, four higher truths, four ways of taking birth, twelve links of dependent origination, okay? So, chapter 3, chapter 4, chapter 5, those nerds, the Abhidharma nerds, who took control of Buddhism for 700 years, okay? They took control of Buddhism.

The nerds were the big Buddhists for 700 years after the Buddha died, okay? I don't know what happened. The emptiness guys were probably meditating.

Then the nerds took over for 700 years, okay? And everybody loved Abhidharma for 700. They're just making ...

Buddhism became nerd religion, okay? And they translate into Pali, and a lot of nerdy stuff, okay? And frankly, it's a little dry.

Abhidharma is very ... it's drier than Dandenong, okay? I translated it for 12 years, okay?

I memorized a lot of it, okay? CHEN NAMS SA BYAS SA GOMS DANG, LAM MA DONG BA'I DUS GYI RNAMS SA BYAS GANG ZHUGS DE DANG, LAM SA LA DONG BA'I DUS GYI RNAMS, LAM MA DONG BA'I DUS GYI RNAMS SA BYAS DANG, LAM MA DONG BA'I DUS GYI RNAMS SA BYAS DANG, LAM MI DONG BA'I DUS GYI RNAMS, DUS PA'I CHEN NAM TSUL YIN PA, LENG KA DANG NI DGOS PA NI, DE LA LENG KA BA'I DE BA'U, like that. So, I respect it, but it's boring, okay?

So, the first ... chapter 3, chapter 4, chapter 5, the nerds are coming, and we have to do what to them? Pariksha!

We have to investigate them. They're going to come and say stupid things, and then we're going to investigate. It's like police investigation.

What do you think? Oh, here's chapter 3, okay? Buddha taught the sense powers.

How many? Five? Six?

Depends on how you count them. Well, then how do you know you have sense powers? Oh, you got contact.

Between what? In the case of the eye, contact between what? Yeah, blue color, the eyeball that detects the blue color, and then the mind which is aware of the eyeball and the color, okay?

These are called the powers. In Buddhism, this is called the powers. Sometimes divided into twelve.

Six senses, six objects, okay? Visible things, hearable things, smellable things, tasteable things, feelable things, thinkable things, okay? And then the six awarenesses of them.

This is one of the fundamental teachings of the first turning of the wheel, it's called the powers. Or the set powers of ... doors of sense, okay?

Indriya, you can call, or ayatana. These are the sense men, okay? Now, what do you think the nerd comes and says, okay?

For a hundred dollars. What do you think he says? What do you think he says?

Hundred dollars. Ten? Nine?

Eight? Seven? Raise your hand.

Six? Five? It doesn't cost anything to guess.

Four? Okay, what was my question? What do you think, what's the stupid thing that the nerd comes in the beginning of chapter three and he says?

Just guess, it's a hundred dollars. Yeah, they are saying that those are coming from itself, so it is appearing to the sense.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, I like it.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, a hundred dollars for cigarette. He says, come on! Those are real!

Those are real! Your eye? Are you looking at me, Nagarjuna?

Can you see me? You have an eye! It works!

It works from its own side. Don't give me this crap about emptiness. Come on!

Buddha taught the powers, it's in the ... go check the first turning of the wheel. I'm not saying anything.

This stupid stuff about emptiness, Nagarjuna. What do you mean the eye is not real? Okay, poke out your eye and see what happens.

You still going to see stuff? You know, so they're like upset. The guy comes, come on, the eye is real, the eye really sees things.

You need an eye. The eye works, the eye works. Okay, don't tell me it's empty.

Don't tell me it's not real. What are you talking about? Are you looking at me, Nagarjuna?

How are you looking at me? Are you using your eyeball? Oh, but it's not real.

Everything's empty, you know. So, you can't see me, right? Like, they're very irritated with Nagarjuna.

Okay, you second turning of the wheel, dude. Come on, why did Buddha spend so much time during the first turning of the wheel to teach the six senses? And this is how we communicate with the world.

They're not empty, they're not unreal, they're super real. You can't even listen to my stupid statements, except you have to use your ears, which have their own power. If they don't have their ...

why you call them power? They have their own power, they're not empty. Okay, got it?

This is how you communicate with the world. That's chapter three. Okay, we're gonna talk more about it.

Each class we will do one chapter. I designed the classes to spread over the chapters. So, you're gonna get like a lot of chapter three, and then you get a taste of chapter four, and then you go home and meditate.

So, I want you to feel the bridges between the chapters, okay? So, each assignment, each class is gonna be kind of mainly one chapter, and then you get a taste of the next chapter to get your mind ready for the next thing. Got it?

Okay. Alright, chapter four. Let's investigate the parts of a person.

Let's investigate the parts of a person, okay? Five heaps, okay? Five heaps.

Nowadays I just say body and mind, okay? In English, it's body and mind, okay? In Buddhism, we say five heaps.

It's the same thing. It's the same thing, okay? You can call it body and mind.

You can call it the five heaps. Why are they called the five? The five parts of a person are called the five heaps.

Why? For $20. This is a cheap question.

Pung dang kye go re kye dun, pung po kye je kham nam yin. First chapter, Abhidharmakosha. Come on, Stanley, where are you?

Why are they called heaps? Why are the parts ... why didn't Buddha say parts of a person?

Because that's all they are. They're just the five parts of a person. How so?

Yeah, use the microphone.

[Speaker 2]
They are called heaps because you have to put them all together in order to work.

[Speaker 1]
Good guess, but no money. It's a $10 guess. You're close, you're close.

Come on, answer it today. We have to keep going. I was waiting for the microphone.

Some of them are not physical. There's the emotional ... Okay, listen, it's very simple.

Abhidharmakosha says, pung dang kye go re kye dun, pung po kye je kham nam yin. We call them heaps because they're piles of lots of stuff. Each one has lots of stuff piled up.

That's why they're called heaps. So just think of them as groups, okay? A person is made of five groups of things.

Your body, your feelings, your discriminations, your mind. Why did I do this? Your mind and everything else.

Okay, number four is called everything else. DBYUNG BYED PUNG PO ZHIG LAS BZHIN, definition. Oh, you got your body, many parts.

You got your feelings, many kinds of feelings. You discriminate between things, this is good, this is bad, this is ... many kinds of discriminations.

You have many kinds of awareness, okay? Look, it's not the bad finger, it's the third finger, okay? And you got everything else, okay?

This is called everything else. Got it? So, chapter four, we're going to investigate the five parts of a person.

Now, we're especially going to investigate the first heap, okay? The whole chapter four is about the first heap. What is the first heap?

Yeah, your body. Because the guy comes, Mr. Stupid Head, first turning real guy, in the first three chapters, it's mainly first turn, these accountants. The accountant comes and says, no, but five heaps, man.

What's the first heap? Physical body. Physical body?

You telling me, empty, unreal, you want me to punch you with my unreal hand? You okay, Nagarjuna, can I punch you? It's not real, it's all emptiness, okay?

Got it? They're like, come on, this is super real, you know? You feed it every day, Nagarjuna, don't tell me it's emptiness.

Got it? That's chapter four. We are partitioning the parts of the person, but we focus on the body, the first one.

Okay, chapter... what's the next chapter? Five.

According to Buddhism and according to quantum physics, the physical body is made of energies, different energies, okay? Gravitational, electric, close force, weak force, charm, electrons, neutrons, protons, quarks, and other delightful things, okay? Chemicals, elements, molecules.

So, science and Buddhism, they both say there's elements, chemicals in the body, elemental forces, gravitation, electrical force, momentum. These create the physical body, okay? So, Buddha taught those elements, okay?

Sometimes he called it 18, and sometimes he called it five. SA CHU ME RUNG NAM KA. Say, SA CHU ME RUNG NAM KA.

Earth, water, fire, wind, and space, okay? These are called the five elements in Buddhism. Don't think they are some kind of stupid, before people knew about cell phones, don't think that.

These are gravitational force, weak force, strong force, bonding, electric, they are very sophisticated, extremely sophisticated. Don't think the ancient Buddhists were stupid, okay? They have 60 levels of electrons, 60.

The sizes are written in the third chapter, that will be done in the second part, okay? All of them, you know, light years. Don't think they're stupid.

The five elements are not some kind of medieval science thing, you know, where you bleed people, or you burn them, okay? It's not that. They are very sophisticated about energy sources of the body, okay?

So, they go from the body to the elements, the chemicals in the body. How do they work? How do they work?

Now, what's the sexiest of the five? I'll give them to you again, earth, fire, such, earth, water, fire, such, wind, and which is sexiest one? Got to be space.

So, Nagarjuna focuses on the last one. That's more sexy, okay? Five heaps?

Let's talk about the first one, physical, in the last chapter. Now, this chapter, five chemicals that make your body, forces, let's talk about the last one, because it's most interesting. Space, what is space, okay?

What's it mean to say space is empty, okay? Alright, chapter, what chapter are we on? Five or six, good.

Six. Okay, three was about the powers, four was about the heaps, five is about the elements, now we reach chapter six, okay? We are going to investigate desire and attachment.

We are going to investigate desire and attachment. The accountants are halfway out the door, okay? Nagarjuna, by the way, chapter three, chapter four, chapter five are short, because I think Nagarjuna is bored of accountants, okay?

They're short, he says, stupid, stupid, and stupid. Now, can we get to something more interesting, like desire that keeps you in this world, okay? That created your body and the element, let's talk about desire, okay?

Let's talk about the emptiness of desire and attachment, okay? I'll give you a clue, okay? When I first heard the chapter name, I thought, oh, he's going to talk about, you know, first you, first Geshe-la, I was there when Kairi had his first donut, do you remember?

I think it was his first donut. So, being Anatole Naisha's son, Kairi doesn't get to eat anything interesting. It's all green drinks, you know.

We were in Chalapa, and you know, the waiter brought a bunch of donuts, churros, and I said, Kairi, here, try this, you know, it's not green. And Kairi's like, oh! And that's desire, okay?

Then, a second one came, and he's like, I won, I won! I said, boy, you look just like me. And then became what?

Attachment, you see? First desire, like he never tasted it, I don't think his parents ever did. It took Uncle Mike to give him a churro.

And then he's like, hmm. And then, now he starts to cry, because he can't get the other ones, okay? That's desire and attachment, okay?

But it's not, okay? That's not the chapter, it's not about that. It smells like that, but it's wrong, okay?

And I'll teach you the correct one later, okay? He's going to investigate, right? PA'I PARIGSHA, what is desire, and what is attachment?

So, remind me to tell you when we get there. Okay, chapter 7, very long, very long, it's the second longest chapter. The only longer chapter comes later is the Four Truths, okay?

That's the longest chapter. Not by much, but this chapter is the super chapter, chapter 7. Let's investigate how things start, how things stay, and how things stop.

Let's investigate how things start, how things stay, and how things stop. And in the Abhidharma, they never teach it in that order, in that order, for $300. Guess how they teach it in the Abhidharma, and tell me why.

And you don't get partial credit. 10, 9, 8, 7, wait, 6, and 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, okay, cancel the bet. In the Abhidharma, they always teach it starting, stopping, and staying.

They never say starting, staying, and stopping. They always say starting, stopping, and staying. They go like that, listen, starting, stopping, and staying, and staying.

Why? Why Buddha taught it this way? He doesn't want you attached to the staying.

You were born, you're gonna die. Forget the 70 years. The staying is like that, forget that.

Let's focus on why you were born, and how you're gonna die. Starting, stopping, and staying. Because staying is too short.

Staying is so short, it's not worth talking about, okay? Got it? Cool.

Okay, chapter 7. By the way, chapter 7 is going to talk a lot about, oh, the starting of starting, and the staying of starting, and the stopping of starting, which is an Abhidharma idea, okay? The accountant's got in there somehow.

Oh, it's not just starting, staying, and stopping. Starting also has its own starting, and staying, and stopping. In fact, if starting doesn't have a starting, how can starting start?

Because what would start starting? Okay? They want the front end of the starting, that's gonna start the starting to stay for a while, then they want to talk about how does the starting stop before the staying starts.

Got it? Okay, this is a very Abhidharma thing. Then people ask them, well, does the starting of the starting have a starting?

Of course. Does the starting of the starting of the starting of the starting have a starting? No.

Don't ask me, they just got tired after a while. Some, the gardener's like, come on, where's the starting of the starting of the starting? Okay, got it?

Alright, chapter 8. We are gonna investigate who does things, and what do they do? Who does things, and what do they do?

Agents and actions. Who does things, and what do they do? Okay?

If things are empty, how can people do things? Okay? If things are empty, how can you eat breakfast?

Which is my main focus. I try to look beyond the yoga class, to the important things. Right?

Okay. We did it in Tucson, right? Yeah, me and Brian.

Okay, short yoga class followed by a long lunch. Guilt-free lunch. Okay, alright, so how do we start things?

And we're gonna especially talk about making pots. How does a potter make a pot? How does a potter make a pot?

Because until they make the pot, you can't call them a potter. So, you got to change the sentence, right? How does the, make the pot, potter?

Hear me? You can't say the potter made a pot, because the potter is not a potter until the pot is made. So, you got to say made pot, potter.

Like, it doesn't make sense, okay? Some things, by the way, in the study of emptiness, in Nagarjuna's specialty, okay? His specialty, when he starts his pariksha, he says something's messed up, something's wrong with that picture, okay?

That's his style, okay? Somebody comes and says, oh my husband's upset, he yelled at me because he was tired and hungry, and Nagarjuna goes, something's bugging me about that, something doesn't seem right about that. Okay, that's his style, okay?

When you say the, I don't know, when you say the cook made the meal, Nagarjuna's like, it just bugs me, it just bugs me, you know? You can't say the cook made the meal, the cook's not a cook till they make a meal, because cooks make meals. So, until you have a meal, you can't call the guy a cook.

How can you have a sentence that starts with cook, before you hit the word meal? Because the cook is not a cook unless there's a meal. It just bugs me, okay?

That's Nagarjuna's style. Every pariksha, he starts out, like you, we say something, he goes, it just bugs me, you know? Something about that bugs me, okay?

The whole world is strange to me, everything seems wrong, it's because something else is going on, you know? You feed your husband, you get him enough sleep, there's no traffic, and he still yells at you, he's like, it just bugs me, something else is going on, this Nagarjuna is seeing this, he should make a rap song, something else is going on, something else is going on, it's not the traffic, it's not the dinner, he yelled at me anyway, there's something else going on, it bugs me, that's Nagarjuna's style, okay? This thing about people who do things, it bugs me, okay? Got it?

That's the roots of pariksha. First you have to bug you, then you have to check what is really going on, and you come up with the yelling at the kids. You come up with yelling at the kids, okay?

Got it? That's his style. Alright, you just finished an introduction to the six chapters that we're going to study these ten days, okay?

We're going to get through those six chapters, OM MANI PADME HUM, okay? In the monastery, OM MANI PADME HUM means, inshallah, yeah, I hope so. OM MANI PADME HUM, okay.

I got 15 minutes, right Tim? Okay, I'm going to make it. Alright, what common theme ties together the first three of the six chapters?

These are all subjects that were taught early by the Buddha. They are fundamental to Buddhism, okay? We have 18 books we are translating in the translator classes.

We had 60 classes in a row in Sedona in 10 days, 12 days. So, many of the books that we're translating, Sugeng is also our theme, we have to go to Stanley's boring book for information, for fundamental information, okay? So, everybody's book, everybody complains about Stanley's book, everybody wants to translate Seiji's book because it's sexy, and it has tantra in it, the only book that has tantra in it, and then everybody's bored of the accountant's book, Stanley Bandu, Vasu Bandu, Vasu Stanley Bandu, but we all have to go to his book.

Many of the translators are stealing pieces out of his book for their book, because it's fundamental. This is fundamental Buddhism. The accountants were right, okay?

You need them, okay? This fundamental Buddhism, you have to know the five heaps, you have to know the 18 categories, you have to know the twelve doors of sense, you must know the twelve links of dependent origination, you must know the four truths, these are just fundamental Buddhism, okay? So, why is it significant, these three chapters, three, four, and five, right?

Fundamental Buddhism. What happened after 700 years of takeover by the accountants, Abhidharmas, 700 year account, what happened? Nagarjuna happened, okay?

Got it? Okay? That's, you gotta feel this, okay?

What happened to those accountants? Who kicked out the accountants from Buddhism? Nagarjuna, okay?

He said, let's take it back to something sexy, let's get something cool going on, emptiness, emptiness, emptiness. Buddha taught emptiness. They're like, really?

So, after 700 years, he came, and he changed Buddhism completely. The Buddhism you know is not what went on for 700 years. Just monks, and the boring monks, okay?

Just monks repeating lists, you know? And after that time, then came Nagarjuna, okay? He's called Shingdze Sogye, he's called Se Shingdze Sogye, the inventor of the wheel, you know?

Mr. Steve Jobs of Buddhism, okay? He shook it up, you know? He said, I got it, let's do it, let's do it.

By the way, he didn't say, let's do it a new way, he said, let's get back to the real Buddhism. Let's get back to what Buddha really wanted, which is emptiness, emptiness, and emptiness, and bodhichitta, love, okay? You accountants, are you aware that the world is on fire?

Are you aware that every person is going to fall apart and die? Are you aware that there's hundreds and thousands of people dying every day, and wars, hunger? Why are you making lists, you know?

Do something that will help people, creatures, pain, you know? Nagarjuna woke him up, he said, stop this accounting, you know? Let's get back to love, let's get back to love.

Dhanadbhoga, if you give you will get rich. What's the next one? Silat, Sukham Silat, if you follow your morality you will always be happy.

What's the next one? Kshat, if you're patient, you'll be beautiful, if you have fun in your work, you will be a leader. If you meditate, your mind will be peaceful.

If you learn wisdom, you will be liberated. But, same way, dung kun shek, love accomplishes them all. Just focus on love, okay?

Who said that? That's Nagarjuna, okay? So, it's significant that he's teaching the first two, he breaks out, he breaks out after the first two chapters, okay?

You are witnessing the breakout from the accounts, okay? In this course, you are witnessing the change in Buddhism from Hinayana to Mahayana, okay? The greater way.

Love, compassion, care about people, okay? And use emptiness to save people, use emptiness to save people. In this book, in these chapters, you are witnessing the breakout, okay?

He suddenly switches between chapters five and six, I guess, he's breaking out, okay? You got to be aware, okay? It's a whole new kind of music, okay?

Lo-fi? I was thinking to do a whole yoga class on lo-fi, but I'm not sure how it's going to work out. I'm going to try.

Okay. And by the way, Nick's text, Nick can't come here because of mooncake. I told him his daughter was born during the mooncake festival.

She should be called mooncake, but his wife was like, I don't know. She didn't, I mean, she said unofficial mooncake, okay? Official is Amalie, and she's very beautiful.

Veronica and me went to see her on the day she was born, and she has all her fingers, everything. And she's super beautiful, okay? We were thinking Nick's genes didn't get into there or something.

Okay. She's super beautiful. Okay, anyway, must be all mom.

Anyway, Nick's text, now I'm in trouble with both of them. Nick's text is, is Nagarjuna using the Hinayana to teach emptiness to the Hinayana. Nick's text, 60 verses, is Nagarjuna using the sutras of the Hinayana to teach the Hinayana emptiness, okay?

It's very chill. Chill? Sit.

Okay, you know what I mean. Okay, all right, how much time I got? Seven minutes, I can do it, I can do it.

Okay, all of the classes that we'll be doing in the second session relate to no self-nature, okay? No self-nature. Aspirants don't have anything inside of aspirants that can take away your headache, nothing.

Okay, aspirants don't have anything inside of aspirants that can take away your headache, nothing. That's just like thinking the husband is upset because he didn't get dinner, okay? It's the same mistake, okay?

There's nothing inside an aspirant that can take away your headache. What's the proof of that? It doesn't work all the time, okay?

Don't get on a plane, if it doesn't work half the time, you're gonna fall down and die, okay? Don't get on a plane that doesn't work all the time. Don't keep taking aspirant when it doesn't work half the time.

Try to figure out how to get it to work, okay? Got it? All right, so, this is called emptiness, okay?

No self-nature. Here's your third Sanskrit word, you ready? Atman.

Atman. A-T-M-A-N. Atman, okay?

Very famous, self-nature, okay? What's the Atman of an aspirant? Describe to me an Atman brand aspirant.

It has a chemical inside of it that works. They call it active ingredient, okay? That's Atman.

Atman means something inside that makes the thing work, okay? Self-nature, self-nature. Aspirant has something inside that makes it work, okay?

That fake thing that doesn't work is called Atman, in Sanskrit, in Buddhist Sanskrit, in Buddhist Sanskrit. Now, for Hindu people, Atman can be a word for God, okay? So, don't go up to your Indian friends and say, there's no Atman, okay?

Atman is bad aspirant. They're like, huh? Okay, so, just respect the word Atman, in their religion it means God, okay?

Now, when we say Atman, we mean the thing inside the aspirant that makes it work, right? Which don't exist, there's no chemical inside an aspirant that makes it work. Now, you're gonna have to give me the roots of the word Atman.

Say, ah? Taman. Ah?

Taman. Ah means not, in Sanskrit. It's a long A this time, I don't know, don't ask me why.

Ah means not. We have it in English, he's an atheist, means he doesn't believe in God. The whole population of the United States is apathetic about criminal actions by certain people.

Apathetic means not interested, not passionate. Atheist means, okay, not religious, okay? So, it's A, it came into Greek, initial A, it means not, okay?

Then Taman, Taman means to split or to divide, okay? So, what's an atom? That thing which cannot be Taman.

Ah? Taman. You cannot split it, then that become atom, okay?

So, Atman is related to atom, okay? The word temple, we're in a temple right now, comes from the same root, Tam, because in the old times, the temple had to be separated from the village. So, they don't put it in the middle of the village, because the village is dirty.

The temple should be separate, Tama, from the village, so we call Tampu, okay? Separated place, templates, okay? Got it?

So, that's on your, one of them is on your quiz, okay? Atom, Indriya, and Pariksha. Okay, Pariksha.

Okay, good. How much time I got? Two minutes?

Oh my god. We might have to cut the yoga class short. Who's teaching?

Who's that? Oh, forget that. I'll keep going.

She's gonna make us do splits, right? Where are you? Just admit it.

You're gonna make us do splits, right? Boys can't do splits, try to understand. We have the first of the five heaps.

Okay, now, emptiness divided into two parts, emptiness of people and the emptiness of things, and it's a big theme in Nagarjuna. Nagarjuna loves this, two kinds of emptiness, people and things. For $50, where's the two emptiness in the kitchen?

For $50, where's the two emptiness in the kitchen? You ready Afir? You ready?

Okay, try. You can't lose anything. Oh, did I tell you you have to give me $25 if you don't get it right?

Okay, no problem. Where's the two emptinesses in the kitchen? So, of people, it's the wife and the husband, the wife, the husband, and the thing is like the yelling or the criticizing.

Nice, beautiful, $50. $60, $60. Afir, he gave a $60 question to a $50 answer.

That's what I like, like a perfect answer. Don't get a big head, okay? In Israel, big head means responsible, right?

So anyway, okay, perfect answer. In the kitchen, the emptiness of the person is the, I didn't do anything husband, okay? That don't exist, okay?

That emptiness of the person. Now, but Geshe-la, there's proof that he's angry. Red face, loud noise, you know?

It's definitely proof. His face color, the sound of his voice, the wrinkles, these are all real, okay? So, sometimes we can say, okay, this husband, I didn't do anything husband, I admit he's not real.

But look, Geshe-la, the red face, the noise, the wrinkles, those are real, the parts are real. The guy is not real, I understand. I didn't do anything husband, don't exist.

But come on, who made his face red? I didn't make his face red, he made his face red, he made his face wrinkle, he made the noise. And the bodhichitta.

Something smells wrong about that. Something's wrong. Something's wrong about that, okay?

By the way, that's called the emptiness of things. Red face, loud noise, okay? Wrinkles, those are called emptiness of things.

Where did the red face come from specifically? In this case, in the kitchen. For zero dollars.

Who made the red face? How? You had a red face when you yelled at your kids, check it out, okay?

You had a red face when you yelled at your kids, okay, got it? The pieces were made by you, and the whole was made by you. The whole is the husband.

The pieces are red face, loud noise, okay, got it? Alright, now you know the connection. The whole structure of wisdom is around those two kinds of emptiness.

People and things. And by, which one are we going to be in this whole session, this whole course? We're going to be in the emptiness of, do you want to guess?

For zero dollars. Things. Anyway, you got a 50% chance.

Yeah, the parts of your body, the sense powers, you know, okay, got it? Mainly. Okay, last question and nod.

I finished that one. In discussing the eyeball, okay, we're going to go to the first chapter, third chapter, right? The first of our chapters, in discussing the eye.

So, each time he goes to a pariksha, he takes the most important thing. Like, when he teaches the five hits, he takes your body. When he teaches the five elements, he focuses on space, sexy, something sexy.

And when he takes the powers, the Abhidharma says, 90% of human experience is visual. 90% of human experience is visual, okay? You most often judge people, not by how they smell, unless it's really strong, but how do they look, okay?

You judge everything with your eyes, okay? Now, if the eye is seeing things self-existently, from its own side, then it should always see everything. If the eye sees, if the aspen heals, it should heal all the time, okay?

When an aspen doesn't work, sometimes there's somebody in the background saying, that bugs me, you know? It's got the active ingredient, it really has the active ingredient, it doesn't work. Something bugs me about that, okay?

Now, Nagarjuna is like, if an aspen has an atman, if an aspen has something inside of it that takes away your headache, it should work every time. If your eye has something inside of it that sees, it should see all the time, and it should see... $100, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

The eye should see the eye. If the eye has atman, if the eye has seeing inside of it, then when you look at the beautiful sky at Diamond Mountain, you should also see your eyeball, okay? And if there's something you don't see with your eye, then the eye is not seeing, okay?

It's like aspen, got it? You okay? If an aspen doesn't work 40% of the time, 30% of the time, then it doesn't work the way you think.

And if the eye, if there's something the eye cannot see that's right next to the eye, then the eye is not working the way you think, okay? The eye isn't seeing things, get used to it, okay? Your eye is not doing anything, okay?

You helped blind people. My mom, I'm so proud of her, she's 92, she's losing her eyesight, macular degeneration, right? So, I said, well what are you doing about it?

She says, I'm signed up to help blind people. I'm working once a week, she spends one day a week at the blind, teaching them to read with their fingers. I said, mom, you're so cool.

And her eyes getting much better, okay? So, understand? Why does the eye see?

Yeah, it's because you helped other people see things, okay? It doesn't have anything to do with chemicals and shape of the cornea and rods and cones, forget all that, okay? You see, because you have given sight to others, okay?

Got it? You have taken care of other people's eyes, okay? All right.

Okay, I know I'm out of time Tim, but just remember where I'm taking it from. One more, one more homework question. They're gonna kill me if I don't cover it.

Arya Nagarjuna's accountant comes back. Chapter 3, right? The accountant comes back.

He says, I would like to make a suggestion. The eye is like a fire. The eye is like a fire.

Fires only burn other things. Fires don't burn fires. If the fire burned the fire, then the fire would go out right away, because the fire would burn the fire.

So, Nagarjuna, just because something does something, doesn't mean it has to do it for itself. Otherwise, fires would burn up fires, and they would disappear in one second, okay? Like that, all right?

How does Nagarjuna deal with that? I'm not gonna tell you, all right? But you're so lucky.

Oh wait, it's not in English yet. Yeah, okay. I want your homework answer to talk about walking, going to the door.

I want your homework answer to talk about going to the door. That's all. You have a clue, okay?

The homework question is, what's the counterexample that the accountant gives? It's fire. Tired to the door, okay?

In your answer, tired to walking to the door. Good luck. I'm not helping you.

And that's all I gave you this week. Okay, don't forget your real ass. Okay, let's go.

Choose a single poem.