Вступление на срединный путь (текущий курс, Аризона), занятие 59

[Speaker 1]
I got 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 people sending tempting translations. And what I thought I'd do is do it right here in class, okay? So, you know, it's supposed to be secret, but here you are.

Handwriting should be key, okay? And, uh, as you translate more and more from the database, from the data that has been sent in over the last 20 years, right? Uh, you should know something.

I mean, we instruct the input operators to type up a C. Uh, in this case, the text is obviously wrong. Uh, you could never have a soft software with a Ka after it, with a Gi after it.

It's not allowed to type forever. Um, so why don't we just tell them to change it? Because there's only three people in this library, for example, who can proofread anything.

Most of them disagree enough to proofread anything. And I'm thinking, 400 people can debate philosophy, uh, unbelievably. But people who can spell can't proofread, okay?

And they just don't learn it, they don't think it's important. It's always been that way. And, uh, the input operators are the least trained people in the monastery.

So, uh, that's why they're input operators. So, um, to have them correct the text as they go, they disaster. So their instructions are, you just type up a C.

And, uh, and that's all you're... They're just like, uh, human OCR machines. They just put what's there.

And they don't worry about what it says, or if it's misspelled, or anything. And then, um, we need to have a major effort. And we haven't figured out a way to induce the three people who spell to work on our stuff yet.

Uh, I'm thinking we just offer them a crazy amount of money or something. Uh, and frankly, the monastery has asked if we could help recover some of the commemorative food fund that they lost. And, uh, I'm thinking to blackmail them and say, if you put three geshes on correcting our texts, uh, we'll overpay them.

The old system that we had was, for every dollar in commemorative, we paid three dollars. Four dollars for the monastery, for the food fund. So I think we'll just go back to that.

Maybe like ten dollars for every dollar. Maybe... So that's, that's why I'm saying these things.

Okay. Uh, it's good. And I, I have an incentive for you guys to do this, uh, to translate the paragraphs we get out.

Uh, if it's good, we'll put it in the translation. And then it will be a good translation. And you'll get your finger in the carving pie of translating the two greatest things on emptiness that I, that I remember.

Okay? So, if it's good, I'll just stick it in. And, uh, I like it.

Uh, the other thing I, is this account. How about this account? What is this account?

Is it a body or is it a, an awesome? Animal. Uh, I, you know, I stuck the word even in there, for whatever reason.

Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. Probably not a place, but it's there.

Where's the even? It's on the first line. Oh, oh, oh.

[Speaker 2]
It's not even the first one.

[Speaker 1]
This is true too. Okay? Uh.

Meaning, they also outshine, but it doesn't say how it's heading, so, okay. Mmm. You gotta learn to do the end dashes, which I very, I very much love.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Oh, it's not doing it. Okay. Why?

I'll do it on a, on a... Is it the one I did? What happens if now it's time to give you a name, but it's on the second and the second and the last?

Is it down in the next piece? No. Oh, okay.

Uh, that's cool, so we'll have to supply that from somebody else. Okay? So, I like it.

I really like it. And, uh, as Kristi Larkin told you, uh, that's very rare. Okay.

No, I, I don't, uh, I'm not a nice guy when it comes to translation. It's not great. I don't think it's worth putting down.

But it's good. Okay. So, uh...

Wait, then you want to change a couple things, if you're, if you're putting it in the translation. I'm sorry. Yeah, I'm about to put it in the translation.

Thank you. I just did put it in the translation. You'll want to make some changes.

[Speaker 2]
You want to make some changes? Uh, well, I use, I use my own thing, spiritual hero instead of warrior, and I use the reporters instead of listener.

[Speaker 1]
Oh, oh, oh, I see.

[Speaker 2]
It's inconsistent with the rest of it. Uh... Yeah, right.

[Speaker 1]
It's not too late. Everybody's told you. Okay, no more talking.

Sorry? In the same way? This is also true?

Sorry? In the same way? This is also true, of a plural, plural to the spiritual, instead of true to the...

I think I'll go for that, yeah. I think I'll go. Let me see.

Okay. Uh, that was last sentence. Let's see if anybody else did it.

Um... How about Jesse? He's gone down already.

Yeah, you did, we're dealing with Ram Sanye, uh, you narrated Sambhaceta, and I'm Sakyamuni. So the only part that Evam didn't do is, you narrated Sambhaceta, right? Uh...

What's Samchit? Do you guys know Samchit? Who is that?

Samchit? Yeah. Sorry?

What's Samchit? I didn't hear you. Toilet.

Oh, that's Samchit. In scripture, it's Samchit. Anybody?

Sambhaceta? It means celibacy. It means brahmacharya, right?

Brahmacharya. Uh... To act purely.

To act in a pure way. And it usually means celibacy. Uh...

But it can also mean, uh... It obviously doesn't mean celibacy here. Okay?

It means, they have been on the path of purity. Okay? For a long time.

They've been trying to purify themselves for a long time. Okay? It's a verb made from the noun celibacy.

And that's very rare. It's extremely rare. So...

Uh... How do you want to say that? How do you want to explain it?

[Speaker 2]
Who has been on the path of purity for a long time? For a couple of years?

[Speaker 1]
Uh, yeah. It's something like that. Yeah.

For an extremely long time. Okay? How's that reflected in the metaphor of the king?

[Speaker 2]
The... The counsellors who have been working for him for a really long time.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. He... The Bodhisattva outshines even the elder ministers of the people.

Okay? By virtue of his... Family.

Yeah. Don't take it as family. Alright.

Let's look at the next one. And... I'm going to take another person.

How about... Who's R.H.? Let's see. Oh, I'll have him.

Alright. Alright. No, that's okay.

And everyone starts this way. And... And I...

I very much admire people who send in something. He's doing the work better. And that's fine.

And... And I very much admire people who send it in that way. So...

If that's what you can do, do it. Okay? If you don't do anything, I don't know.

Okay. Let the family ride. He...

He's done. He's done. So, Rikiburi mean what?

Do you know the answer, Kira? Rikiburi what? A child in the home family.

Okay? Now you know what the home family. Okay?

Dita, it's like. Karna, for example. Namkha means what?

Sky. And then, Din means the sun. What's a namkha, Din?

A gorilla bird. So, it's just someone I'll give you an example. Sky Sorcerer is a Gurudwara, I think, not Kandin.

Ki Wombo Kandin what? Power. Lord.

Yeah, Lord. Who said that? Yeah, right.

Here it is Lord. The king of Gurudwara. Okay, one more.

Chandra, the great powerful lord of the Gurudwara. Two is correct. And Tuk is used for children of anything.

So, what's a Batuk? A cow, because a ba is a cow. What's a Luktuk?

Yeah, a baby, an ewe, right? A baby sheep. What's a Getuk?

Getuk. Yeah, I remember where I learned words with Kandin. I remember saying, okay?

I remember. That was my dictionary. I always remember.

He said, go to... What was his name? Chittilamma.

He was an Ilam Mongolian who lived at the other temple. He was a great physician. He was a great doctor.

His name was Chittilamma. And he said, tell him you're my disciple and that we need some medicine or something. So I said, how do you say disciple?

He said, Getuk. So, in colloquial, it's not donja. It's Getuk.

If you say, I'm a student of such and such, I'm their Getuk. What is Kandin? Yeah, a child of virtue.

I'm a child of this virtue. It's a beautiful word. Here we're talking about a baby guru.

Kandin, once they have been born. Yeah, okay. Rinpo Ma Lungpa means what?

Read it all together. Rinpo Ma Lungpa. Lungpa means to take time.

You and Rinpo, Lungpa means to take a long time. You and Rinpo, Ma Lungpa means what? Not a long time.

Yeah, so not long after their birth. Like within minutes after their birth. Rinpo Ma Lungpa.

Shokpa. Do you know Shokpa? Wings, yeah.

Shokpa. Lungpa Shuk. What do you call it on a jet?

The air that comes out of the turbine. The turbine power of their wings. Lungpa Shuk here just means the push to the air power of their wings.

Okay. Lungpa Shuk Taru. It's already soaking over.

Overgrowth. Okay. So, not long after a good overgrowth is born, they can already push more air with their wings than a robin.

Okay. Carol says thrust. Ganai.

Yeah, cool. Who? Carol Dean.

Oh, cool. Okay. Thank you.

Mik means eyes. Yongsu Dakpa means, Yongsu means completely. And Dakpa means, here it means, I don't know how to say it.

Good eyes kind. Pure eyes, right? Clear.

Clear eyes, yeah. Totally clear. Yinten.

They have that quality. They have those qualities. Kanyeba.

Dini. Those qualities that they have as soon as they're born. Denle.

Shembe. They should be together, right? Geshe means other.

Other. Cha. Good, bird.

Yeah, birds. Tso means here, what? The flocks.

Yeah, big crowds. All the other birds there are. Okay.

The whole bunch of other birds there are. Offering, tso means a bunch of offerings.

[Speaker 2]
I should say flock too much.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah.

[Speaker 2]
They didn't know what was going on before the birth.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. Yeah. Malupa.

All of them. Meaning not leaving anybody. Malupa is a idiom that means don't leave anybody out.

Okay. All of them. Gepa.

Gepa tamje. Gepa is correct. Even the elders.

Birds. Okay. Tamje la.

Gepa mayena. They don't have those qualities. Of what?

Two qualities. What? That a guru does.

[Speaker 2]
Wing thrust power.

[Speaker 1]
I was there. There's this thing in Tibet where gurus are super crows. And how a crow or a falcon is flying, I don't know, a thousand feet or something, can see a mouse move.

I don't think even scientists have figured it out yet. But they can spot a mouse moving a thousand feet below. Tiny movement of the mouse.

And then they dive down and catch the mouse. So they're known for their good eyes. All right.

So I like it. You did a good job. I like it.

Yay. Yeah. Let's see.

She's out in the air. Let's see. She did a...

Oh, you're here? Yeah. Oh, back of the bag.

That's sneaky. Okay. She did a word for word.

It's very good. Thank you for doing it. It's nice.

The word for word is fun. Okay. Uh...

Let's try. Who's to you? Kevin!

Uh... I'm looking for a translation of this one. Nice.

Yeah. I'm done. Keep it.

I like it. It reads well. It flows well.

Uh... Everything's correct. Uh...

The Yong Sun. You took as wider area. And it's a...

It's a VI in Sanskrit. It's a... It's a...

Ultra. Uh... So Yong Sun Dapa means ultra pure.

Very pure eyes. Okay. Mmm...

That's all. Okay. Let's go see who else did it.

I think this is... Alistair Dapa? Oh, I screwed this paragraph up.

Then we'll have to look at it. Stop the camera. Okay.

Uh... That was fun. But thank you for doing it.

And, uh... Well, my suggestion for next week is, uh... Everyone who submitted this week gets their own paragraph for next week.

And it will just keep going like that. So if you're down, you'll keep getting less and less to do. Okay?

So... Uh... Meaning, you don't...

Well, I think everybody else gets the same paragraph to do for next week. Those who submitted anything get their own paragraph to do. Which means they get more fingers into the karma of translating the greatest book on emptiness.

Okay? So, uh... Be there or be square.

Alright. Who's this? Oh, Venable Chu.

Don't get personal about it. Don't just end it there. Okay.

You can't see me.

[Speaker 2]
Okay. You can't see me.

[Speaker 1]
Uh... The translation is perfect. Okay?

Of the first paragraph. It's beautiful. Okay?

And I don't say that lightly. Chris and I, um... What was it?

Remember what, uh... I wouldn't let it into my translation if it wasn't really good. Some of the women aren't called honest, right?

For, uh... Try some help.

[Speaker 2]
Oh, yeah.

[Speaker 1]
And they quoted something we did. And, uh... They wanted to cut it.

They called us and said, can you cut out these three words? I said, no. And they said, well, uh...

If you put in those three words, it's gonna run onto another page for the whole issue and it's gonna cost like $1,500. I said, I'll pay you the $1,500. You know?

So I don't take it lightly. Anything you put into a translation is very, uh... important.

Okay. I think we got a couple more people.

[Speaker 2]
I just did the first one.

[Speaker 1]
Let's check the first one. Yeah, capitalism. And I don't blame you for that.

It's, uh... It's what it says, literally. Okay?

I like who are now children of the British, right? That's something you did differently. They have been born into that.

Yeah, I like that. That's cool. Okay, one more.

Oh, Nimrod. He hypertexted both of them. That's good, it's good, it's good.

You're gonna regret it later that you didn't hypertext all of them. And if you would like to keep hypertexting the old stuff, please do. He put newly hatched, which is nice.

It's more powerful, right? And he said the entire fucker which is nice.

[Speaker 2]
That's nice.

[Speaker 1]
Oh, this was a brave one. Oh, let's see. Let's do the brave one.

That's not that one. Oh, we gotta fix this one. Let me see.

I think I repeat Berudas, okay? Is that right? Of the mythical Berudas or just Berudas?

Mythical Berudas. Have you seen them? No.

That's true.

[Speaker 2]
Would you say a child of a birth? Is that old child of a family then that child? Or twice?

In the same sentence and maybe using something else?

[Speaker 1]
What do you want to try? A chick? I don't know.

I just wondered about both the child birth. I like offspring. Oh, offspring.

And should there be something about the time of his birth? About the what? About the time of his birth.

Oh, right, right. Okay, cool. Cool, I like it.

Okay, so you're in the... You guys are all in the... Yesho, are we missing a preposition in there somewhere?

Where? The offspring of the great lord of the Berudas possesses the fine qualities. It's okay.

[Speaker 2]
It's okay?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. Yeah, it's okay. Okay.

Okay. This is a great one. Let's see what...

Ms. Chu did here. Did you get to Ms. Chu? I tried it, but...

No, the other Ms. Chu. Yeah. This is the first alpha.

And that's my beta. That's beta. This boundary is Cang.

This is Cang. Cang, you know, right? So Cang means the boundary.

Like I put up my Cang thing means I put up my boundary marker. And Cang means... Rick Cang means by no more than their family.

It means not by their intelligence, not by anything else. Because later we're going to get people outside the other people by virtue of other reasons. So Rick Cang means just by virtue of their family.

Good. So good. Good.

So now it gets all good. Yeah, you got it all. Kappa Chang means by virtue of their family.

Alright, nice. So we'll come back to you guys. We'll define...

How many people? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8... Yeah, 10 people will get paragraphs for the next week.

Then all the rest of you get stuck with one paragraph. Alright? Sorry?

Oh. Well... Okay, you can have a paragraph.

But thank you for doing it and this is how it'll work now. And you'll get better at it.

[Speaker 2]
On the paragraph about the eagle, would you put their birth rather than his birth?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, nowadays I'm doing that. You're right. I looked at my old...

I'm trying to clean up my old Sanda translation and saw his. So that's how old I was. Okay.

By the way, what foundation do, okay? Use other options and similarly. And I'll give you a couple.

Okay? Are we saying spiritual warrior? Are we?

Answer me. I also told you everybody's not familiar with the Oxford dictionary. Right?

Who told you that? Oh, sorry. One English training.

One English training.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
I bought his stuff on... What did I work on? Who has just reached is the same.

And then you start in the sentence. You see? I'm giving you a they should do option.

They have been born and have taken their and put their into their family line. What's line in Tibetan? Gyu.

Yeah. Which is sometimes similar to words of Tantra. Meaning a line.

The method is to the family line of the great lord of the universe. The ones from the of these children in this hospital of the what is it called? Skydivers.

Because number one thing is a what do you call it? Yeah. Let's see if I can figure it out.

I'm sorry. I'll figure it out. Can we do it?

[Speaker 2]
Not capitalized at all.

[Speaker 1]
Above?

[Speaker 2]
Above. It's not capitalized.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. Here it's not a name. You see?

Oh, yeah. Okay? Got it?

Okay. Another thing. I'll tell you what.

Let's do one of these. Yeah. That's good.

Oh. I'm kind of making it up tomorrow. Because it's a day.

All right. Let's see. It's becoming a mission.

And by this power they outshine all others. And then we'll stick this down. Read this one with me.

Ready? One, two, three. One, two, three.

Excellent. And the quality of their perfect vision. Of their perfect vision.

They are Chakrasamvara.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah. Chakrasamvara.

[Speaker 1]
Here it's Romeo. Chakrasamvara. And the quality of their perfect vision meaning their willingness to take personal responsibility for others.

This power and the quality of their perfect vision meaning their willingness to keep something which is not disaster. Even by those listeners who have self-made buddhas. Oops.

You know a couple of them? No. Buddhas who have Kalpakaatom.

[Speaker 2]
Kalpakaatom.

[Speaker 1]
No. That would be Bhoom. And then the Vedas have a separate word for Bhoom for a hundred thousand as in Hindi which is lakh.

For a hundred thousand. So they give separate names to numbers. So when it says Kalpakaatom it means hundreds or even thousands.

Got it? Kal means hundred. Tom means thousand.

When you say Kalpakaatom hundred, thousand in Tibetan it means hundreds, comma or even thousands. You see? And it doesn't mean a hundred thousand.

Because there's a separate word for that. Got it? Okay.

It's just an idiom. Chukyaatom well you know what I'm saying. Ten, hundred, thousand, whatever.

Okay? It's something which is not the West Indian language which means you have practiced Nyan, Nyan Tamsua enunciation for hundreds or even thousands of eons. So they're elder, right?

They're senior in the sense of what? Nyan Tamsua enunciation And that's sort of a put down in this text. That's sort of a put down in this text.

Someone who would go into a cave and just practice for themselves is considered in this text like lightweight. It's like saying a spiritual lightweight. Okay?

Someone who would step out into the world and serve the world as a bodhisattva or even better step out into the stop and shop world and see the ice cream lady as a deity on the temple ground. They are just totally beyond these people who are just sort of retreating off into a cave and trying to control their anger or something by not meeting anybody. Okay?

Got it? It's sort of a put down. Okay.

Now we come to the thing that says se jawa sopa suma shino se sum se jawa sopa suma shino se sum So stated, so stated. What are we going to do with that? The last so stated, the se sum de chir is the ending quotation mark for everything that comes before.

So the sumba shin before that means that the person speaking is quoting someone else. And this is very difficult in translation. You have to be very sensitive.

There's two summas right after each other. So, he told me I'm not going. Right?

If you quote me, Geshe Michael said he told me he's not going. He told me I'm not going. There'll be a quotation within a quotation.

That's what you have here. When you reach that in a text, what do you have to do? You go back to the beginning and make it somebody said.

Okay? Where does it start? I'm going to cut this part right out.

Yeah, right there, okay? That's the last part of my translation. That's it.

And then all this stuff you have to how do you do that? I have a macro, but I'm not sure it works. Let's take a chance.

No? Hold on, this way. Yeah.

Okay? And this and what I've covered is the song down at the end. Not song, shenshu, shenshu.

Okay, so it's like one of those examples that I didn't tell, right? There's the sound that came in. Okay?

You go like that. You go back and you fix it. Then you put the whole thing in.

Sorry?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, I was noticing in McGraw that it was well done.

[Speaker 1]
McGraw? Yeah, yeah, down there starting. It's the person who did it really wrong.

But anyway, yeah. We achieved the first by indenting. We achieved the second by saying it's what people talk about.

And then you assume the rest is what they say. So you avoid having double quotation marks, which are kind of confusing. Okay?

Ooh, this girl. She has the music on. I'm used to it.

Okay. Here we go. Let's read together.

One, two, three. One, two, three. One.

Okay, let's go these. Yeah. This is very, So he's asking this, and he's in debate, right?

He says, when we say that a bodhisattva outshines these other practitioners by virtue of their class or their family, is that all we mean? He says, no, when we say he outshines them by virtue of his class, what it really means is he outshines them by virtue of the amount of karma he's committed. So when you say outshine by virtue of this new family, it's not just because he now has joined a new buddha family by becoming a bodhisattva, that's not all.

It's the karma involved with seeing every living being on every planet and wanting to help them. That's what we're talking about. That's what it means to join that family, got it?

It's not that, oh, you got a new name, you got a bodhisattva name, you belong to the buddhas now, you're special. It's not that. It's that the karma they collected in that few instants when the heart chakra opened.

The heart chakra opens. You're going to get that in like an hour from now. The heart chakra opens briefly, very briefly, when you get bodhicitta.

And then for that few moments you can see all beings on all planets. And the karma, imagine the karma of that. It's a certain kind of karma to meet one person who has a cold and get up and get them a pill or something.

That's one, to want to help one person is a kind of karma. But to see all living beings there are in the universe and have even a few moments wish that they be happy, what's the karma of that? How does that compare to the karma we've done in our whole lives?

It's infinite. Then immediately they're in a new family by virtue of their karma. Immediately their lives inevitably change forever.

It's just such a massive amount of karma. The karma is incalculable, what they've just collected. On a tantric level, on a Dzogchen level, yoga helps that.

Any yoga that tries to expand and open the heart chakra is contributing to that moment. It's a very powerful thing to do. To do physical yoga, to try to open that, we released our channel from the knock, even briefly.

So they go together, yoga which is a tantric practice, and then meditating and trying to be kind to other people. Okay? Go ahead.

Ready? One. We're going up with that one, their karma.

Why?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
He said, because they collected a lot of karma. And then it's understood that the other guy said, Dharma karma. He said, because he collected a lot of karma.

The other guy said, no. We don't write that in a relaxed intention. Why?

It just saves a lot of space. Okay? Then you see, their path.

Their path. It is so. We know he said it ain't so, just before that.

Okay? You don't have to keep writing it ain't so. So we just stopped after a certain century.

We just stopped writing. He said, it's not. And we say, it is too.

Okay? Got it? Alright, let's go.

Everyone's going to go up, right? One, two, three. Vītsaṃ daṃ suḍaṇaṃ jīva Sotsaṃ nirvāṇḍa yānti This is called a two-headed reason.

Meaning, you can give two reasons for something you said. Why do you really like this person? Well, he's a schmuck and he's a deadhead.

You know what I mean? And that's a dual reason. It's called a dual reason.

You can do that. So, there's two reasons here. There's two cheers here.

And those of you who are learning to use a dictionary like Rob and Patty, I was going to write a program. Maybe someone could do it. But, it would go...

It would be... I don't know how to say it. I would block out...

I would put the cursor here. And I would hit a macro key. And the program would go to the first space.

And look up ke. You see what I mean? And then it would find ke.

It means you. Okay? And then, before it shows the result to the user, this is not about a translation program.

It would go on to the next syllable and add it and see if there's a ke-bar in the dictionary. You see? So, it would go to ke-bar.

And it would look up ke-bar in the dictionary. And it would say... A special lea is an adverb.

So, ke... It would look up ke and stop. And look that up.

And that would say you. But then it would say, well, maybe there's a ke-bar. It goes to the next space.

And looks up ke-bar. Which happens to be a word. You see?

Which means a special lea. But then that program would be smart enough to look up the next syllable also. Ke-bar-chen.

Say ke-bar-chen. Ke-bar-chen. Chen means extraordinary, as an adjective.

And a lot of people get stuck here. Because they look up ke, they see you. And they stop.

Then they look up bar, and it means photograph. And then they look up chen, and it means possessed. So they say, oh, I have your photograph.

And then... But... You could easily...

DNA 7P is really a transcription system. You could easily make a program to automate the translation. Automated only is as far as telling you the words.

Tibetan philosophy is a little bit like physics. You know? I mean, you can have all the words in French for physics.

But then you wouldn't understand it in that degree. Anyway. You see what I mean?

They'll never be able to automate this particular thing. Completely. It's not like, where's the bathroom or something.

That you can speak into something, and it spits out French. It has to be a foundation that you get only from 7 or 8 years of sitting in a translator class. Okay.

Anyway, that's an idea. So ke-bar-chen is a... Those of you who know Tibetan, ken means you, ke-bar means what?

Really? I think ke-bar-chen means extraordinary. Okay?

Mmm. Ke-bar-chen da. Sunam dis.

Oh, I want to draw your attention to this. How do Tibetan speakers do their syllables? Sound and hearing.

Sound and hearing. Say, sound and hearing. Sound and hearing.

Words we're not hearing. Okay, so the prenasal on the next. And it's what we call a...

The first syllable is what we call a... Open vowel. Open vowel.

There's no sound to that. When you have an open vowel followed by a prenasal, it gives you a heavy end sound or an end sound. Okay?

Sound and hearing. Where does a vowel come from? All those vowels?

Gan-den, right? Because it's an open ah, and it's a nn-den. Gan-den.

Okay, got it? Just wow. Okay.

Okay. Okay. So, so does the Bodhisattva Ajay lower arhats even by virtue of their family?

Yeah. So, even arhats among listeners and somebody who don't have a don't have a family. They do have a family.

They do have a family. They still have a family. Get it?

And do they have a collection of merit? Yes. Do they have a collection of merit to have a Chen?

No. No. Okay.

Is it true that if you have all the outshined somebody, therefore by virtue of their family? No. What other way can you outshine people?

Collection of merit, I guess. No. On the seventh Bodhisattva vow, you can outshine him by his family.

You see, I think that's all. He's going that way. So, he's he's anticipating somebody saying, Oh, there's only two ways.

Just merit and family. No, no. On the seventh Bodhisattva vow, you can outshine him by virtue of his state of mind.

Got it? That's extremely important. The whole thing between the seventh and eighth Bodhisattva vow is extremely important.

This is the point at which you are losing the tendency to see things as self-existent. The whole thing about what's going on between the seventh and eighth Bodhisattva vow, at which a Bodhisattva is attending Nirvana, okay, is very important. And he's going to take the time now to drop off into that statute.

Okay? And he's saying, look, even just by, even if you, even if you clarify that he outshines others by family because he belongs to the family of the Maya, right? That's not, that's not even, in and of itself, something that started with him at this point, that he saw, by virtue of his first Bodhisattva vow, right?

Let's put it, let's do it today, okay? Does somebody who just reached their first Bodhisattva vow outshine others by virtue of his new family, their new family? So, is that new family the family of the greater way?

So, when you reach the first Bodhisattva vow, you now outshine others by virtue of your new family, because you are, for the first time now, in the family of the greater way. Right. And I say, Chi Chi, why not?

He already outshines others by virtue of now belonging to the family of the greater way. Chi Chi, why? Yeah, because, because even on the paths of preparation, and accumulation of higher track, he's already outshined others by virtue of his family.

So, there must be some implication here of his further outshining. Yes. Say, duh.

Duh. What would that be? The collection of karma.

Yeah, the collection of karma that the person has amassed just in a few moments of seeing all the good beings and wishing them well. Okay?

[Speaker 2]
Alright? That's all.

[Speaker 1]
That's all I'm saying. Okay. Yeah.

Does it take more karma to experience Bodhicitta than to see a lower track? Yeah. It does.

Yeah. There's fewer people who have... I don't want to say that.

Uh... It's more difficult to achieve Bodhicitta than to see and do this directly on a lower track. Yeah.

Okay. Uh... Now how do we translate?

Let's do it that way. Just yell out the word. What should we do?

I want a diamond face. A diamond face. How is it?

It's like this. It's like this. But...

For example. For example. How is it?

Uh... Yeah. The jewel...

which is a diamond, a diamond jewel, meaning that is a higher level. This... this is...

[Speaker 2]
Even if it's broken?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, busted. Even if it's chipped or broken. Right?

Kyabu? Yeah, very nice. Ser?

Gold. Gen? Gen-ryu means gen-chan.

Like Muto-gen. You know what I mean? Kyabu de pappa.

Kyabu de pappa. Here's a use of pappa in a non-Arya sense. Valued, prized?

Yeah, or infinitely superior. Kyabu de pappa. Much superior.

Vastly superior. Kyabu de pappa. Kyabu de pappa.

Kan-chen. All of them, so even. Yeah, so I'll also translate that sentence.

Awesome.

[Speaker 2]
Take for example, even a broken piece of diamond jewelry outclasses every most prized piece of gold jewelry.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, good. So I'd rather have a broken diamond than your gold earring. Like that.

Okay, that's all. Then, gen. Let's do the next one together.

Dorje? Dorje. Emojie.

Emojie. Here's a use in its original sense. A gem.

A gemstone. Ming. Ming, yeah.

Ming, kind of Ming. Fei-chan Ming. It's the same in Chinese.

Very beautiful. Ming dor. Dor?

You know dor? No. Not good enough?

Arya Deva is famous because he sentient dor. That's the Arya Deva that we talked about two seconds. He's famous because he's sentient dor.

He gave up the wish? Yeah, he gave up the wish. It took just a moment, but he gave it up.

He lost the wish for... He said it's impossible. It's impossible.

If people are schmucks like this, it's impossible. You know? And then he...

Why? Why do you say that? Yeah, somebody asked for his eyeball.

He licked it and he smashed it. He said, oh God. People are schmucks.

I can't... I mean, it's impossible. Ming dor.

So dor... So Ming dor means what? He gave up the wish?

Yeah, it doesn't lose its name. It's still a diamond. It's just a broken diamond.

They also call it by a different name now. Okay? So it still keeps its name.

Ming, Ming, dor, yeah. Unwa... I don't think you know unwa.

Do you know this? Because... Empty pockets.

Yeah, they need to pour it. Unwa. It's a pretty rare word.

How do you know that? Okay. Time chain is all forms of poverty.

Number dor. Dor. What's the devil mean, dor?

Ming dor pa? Unwa. You know Ming dor pa.

Yeah. Reverse. It here just means to stop.

Why?

[Speaker 2]
You had a diamond. You can cash it in. Yeah, take a broken diamond.

It has a chip in it.

[Speaker 1]
And you can still get money from it. A couple hundred bucks for it. Okay?

So it's still... And in India, I mean, we're talking the diamonds... India doesn't have timber-like pipes.

Those are located in South Africa. India only has the diamonds that came out of the pipes millions upon millions of years ago and fell into the rivers and were washed down into the plain. And then what happened?

Africa split from India and floated over the other way. It's very interesting. So all the diamonds...

India is the original source of all diamonds. The great diamonds of the world like the Hope Diamond and Koh-i-Noor these all come from India. And they were blasted out of pipes in South Africa when South Africa was connected to the part of India.

So what I mean to say is that diamonds are really rare in India. And India was the only source for a long time. So if a diamond now, one carat diamond, is worth a couple thousand dollars, in the old days it was priceless.

Totally priceless. There'd be only a few in the world. That were existing in India.

So anyway, that makes them better than any other thing. Who's the star here? Yeah.

They're gold. The lower halves are gold. They're special.

They're special. They're beautiful. But the bodhisattva is a diamond.

Now it's introduced a new idea. The diamond is fallen, broken. What does that imply?

Yeah. We have to go look for what that means. Okay?

We'll get to that. It's... I'll translate this and then we'll take a break.

I plan to take a break in this class. Because it's going to be a two hour class. So here we go.

What do you want to be, sir? I need Christ. And?

I need God. Should this be a black book? Sorry?

Is this a black book? Yeah, it is. You're right.

Oh, sorry. Okay. How are you going to...

Just tell me if you want your cookies. Tell me what... how I should do the number.

Uh, yeah. But... Is there a...

Is there a... There's this thing where they are translating Sanskrit. Now this is quotation from Sanskrit text.

And it's the VI in Sanskrit. You know? It's like number, dol, par.

And... I want to encourage you to do something. When you see number, dol, par instead of dol, par try to find a single English word which is more powerful.

And don't... Because when you put fully or totally or completely it actually lessens the power. It actually lessens the impact.

Find a word for dol, par which is stronger than remove. Correct. Correct.

I love a blurry spell.

[Speaker 2]
I like it.

[Speaker 1]
Who said a blurry? Literary. Yeah, yeah.

It's perfect. It's perfect. Okay, so I'm just giving you a translating rule number even though...

When you get to Sanskrit or Tibetan prefixes for very much or anything like that find a new English verb a single English verb which is just more powerful. Okay? It's very nice.

It's right. It's a lot... Well, blurry makes it a lot stronger than completely remove.

Right? Yeah. As a translator just stick to that.

Okay? Are you ready? Are you ready?

Okay, so talk to Ernie. He's got his snack. We did a big effort to make high quality snacks to keep people impressed.

So... It's like some kind of vegan no-wheat-free honey-free chocolate-free still better than chocolate still better than cookies. I'm waiting to see.

And then we have a... And then we have an hour until I'm making fresh Jesus bread. So...

We'll take a 15-minute break. We'll start back at 7.30 for... I need to see...

Who is that? Chen Tzung. Yeah.

And... Alistair. I've got no idea about this class.

Okay? So we'll sit down here. We're going to try to accomplish what we're invited to come and gossip about.

[Speaker 2]
It's not a good seat to plan for. And I have this fear that it will happen when I come to the room.

[Speaker 1]
Because I don't know what I would do. We're starting to cross. Okay, let's read it together.

I'm sorry I was out of form. I spoke to Geshe Vakar and... the guy who backs him up at the temple is in India.

He won't be back until... too late. So he'll come in the spring.

I don't know if he'll be here in the spring. I think there is an estate in the spring. But he is.

So he'll come in the spring. And I think he'll come... two and a half years later.

So we'll see. Okay. Sorry.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Read together. One, two, three. I don't know if you can hear me.

I am not listening. That's not a mind game.

[Speaker 2]
Don't follow that.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, we're going to go to this point here. This is the personal word here. Say, Nengden.

Nengden. Nengden. It's a little unusual to know.

Nengden means to emphasize or to... stress. Underline.

Underline. But here it means... How do you say it?

I don't know. You find me a word. They're not making like big time efforts in their bodhisattva life.

They're bodhisattva, but they're not Nengden-ing it. Well, it has to be they lack Nengden. Diligence is pretty good.

Losing passion. That's pretty good. It's a little tricky, but we'll try it.

Lacks passion in their practice. How do you say that? That's pretty close.

That's pretty close.

[Speaker 2]
I like that. I'm going to stick with passion in the practice. Okay, here we go.

[Speaker 1]
Even if this person lacks practice in the practice, still I'll share to you the goal of the how do you call this? I'm good, right? Yeah, okay.

Okay, so who's the diamond? What's the subject that we're talking about right now? A first elevation.

Right? Already beyond what other kinds of bodhisattvas?

[Speaker 2]
Who haven't seen their dreams.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, so presumably on the if you're on the Mohammed track, if you're on the paths that connect to your community. Sorry. Okay.

Keep this in preparation. So does diamond hair refer to the bodhisattva on the first elevation or does it refer to some other kind of bodhisattva? All bodhisattvas in the world.

[Speaker 2]
I like that.

[Speaker 1]
Chicky said if you lack passion the diamond hair probably doesn't refer to a diamond bodhisattva. Okay? All right.

I like that. That's going to come up later. But even a bodhisattva who lacks passion and even a bodhisattva who hasn't seen their dreams directly even they outshine listeners and self-made gurus which usually means arhats, okay?

Okay, lower arts. And even though they're sort of a slacker bodhisattva they're still a bodhisattva. They're still called a bodhisattva.

Okay? And so too every action they undertake removes the poverty of samsara meaning samsara. Okay?

[Speaker 2]
I'm just wondering what is a bodhisattva without passion?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, that's a good question. Okay. Can I quickly ask a technical question?

[Speaker 2]
Was that strictly qualifying the Doje Rinpoche? Yeah, technically there was no person mentioned here. So we just extract that.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, yeah. Because diamonds don't add. Yeah.

I've added that. Let's read it together. Speak badly.

[Speaker 2]
Give me a sentence. Speak badly. Disparaging.

[Speaker 1]
Disparaging. Yeah, that's right. There's no such thing as what?

Nienten dan chan wa saa chan ke chan saa. Saa chan ke chan saa. Use badly.

Sātoa means to take anybody's self-love. There is no such thing as a Chārjī-samā, who is Nyenten-gyel, who loves passion. It's what Chökyi said, it's what Chökyi predicted, There is no such thing as a bodhisattva, who has reached any bodhisattva level, at all, and still could lack passion.

That's a code for Arya, that's true. Yeah, for the activities of a bodhisattva. We said that non-Arya bodhisattvas still outshine listeners.

Yeah, so even if they lack passion, they still outshine others.

[Speaker 2]
So even if they're not Arya's?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, even if they're not Arya's. That's what I meant when I said Mahayana's. Oh, okay.

That being a Mahayana's, they outshine. Yeah, right. They outshine.

Now why do we mention all this? He's trying to do something else, let's go back. He was trying to say, you outshine others, just by being in the greater way.

Even if you haven't seen emptiness yet. And then he used that quotation. So that was a good quotation to pull out.

Because it proved what Michael was saying. That's all. And he brought that up because he said there's other kinds of outshining.

Okay. The bodhisattva who has seen emptiness, the bodhisattva who has reached the Arya level, now outshines others by virtue of their family. And in a sense of their huge karma.

The huge karma of the karma. Got it? Do you outshine others if you belong to the Arya family?

Yes. That is when a bodhisattva who has reached the first bodhisattva level outshines others by virtue of their family. But now family implies huge extra karma.

That's all. When we talk about a person on the first bodhisattva level outshining even very elder, other practitioners. What we mean is by virtue of the karma they collected in those few instances that they have love for all beings directly.

Okay? That's all. That's all.

Got it? Then we're going to go on to how you outshine other people at the seventh bodhisattva level. And what I like is here.

And I want to go right here. And then we'll stop the class. Read this part where the cursor is going to be.

One, two, three. Okay? After two years, we've reached what I wanted you to learn.

Okay? Okay. This is the monastic debate approach.

That's what these texts are known for. Now for the first time on this page, we get what these texts are known for. It says, This is the contribution that the monastic texts have made to the wisdom teachings of the world.

What is it? This is a, what do you call it? What's that fancy word for a way of teaching?

Pedagogical? It's an extraordinary pedagogical method. And it's a big contribution by Buddhism to the wisdom of the world.

To how to educate people. This is a huge contribution. Massive contribution.

These little three things. Okay? So what are they?

Chenu Garba means, the opponent gets to come and say something which is suddenly mistaken. Okay? Alright?

And then Ramayana Shastra means, then we come back and say, no, this is what it is. We defeat that. And we say, no, this is the way it is.

And then there's this beautiful third step, which is what? So the opponent, he gets to come back and attack us. So it's not like this false fight where he puts in a little punch and then we knock him out.

It's not like that. He gives us a good slap. Then we knock him down.

He gets back up and he hits us again. You know what I mean? So, it's a drama.

It's always a drama. The other guy comes up with a damn good idea. It's slightly wrong.

And Rinpoche used to go through the first part and just quit. Stop the class. So you figure out what's wrong with what he said.

And then we say, no, no. It's like this. And that section, you can take out and like, in the case of Nirvana, in the second Islamic chorus or something like that, you can take that out by itself, isolated, and it's the best teaching on Nirvana you ever saw.

So, for example, in the Shenmue Gapa of Nirvana, somebody comes up and says, oh, Nirvana is where you can remove all your mental afflictions. You know? And then we say, but he lacked out a few things.

Like, because he saw into us directly or for Atmar. You know? And not just temporarily.

And we defeat him. And then he comes back. And he comes back with some really good argument.

Like, I don't know. Well, what about Arhats in the lower path? You know, have they removed their mental afflictions?

Yeah. Well, have they removed the deep-seated ignorance? Well, I guess so.

Well, then aren't they omniscient? Well, maybe. Well, they better raise up us.

You know, like that. So he gets to come back and attack us. And then you, in the process of these three steps, you learn a lot.

You learn much more. Why? Because they anticipate all the wrong ideas you'll ever have about Nirvana.

Okay? The other guy's arguments all contain all the bad ideas you'll ever have about Nirvana. And you get to see them beat down one by one.

You say, I mean, it's a beautiful, beautiful system. So we'll be getting to that in the next class. I have seven more minutes.

I'm going to split up the paragraphs. Devan. Jasmin.

Oops. I said no hackers in Nirvana Hall, okay? You got one.

Okay. The hacking Nirvana story was pretty cool. Is that good?

[Speaker 2]
Boo.

[Speaker 1]
Sorry. And it's just the way the cookie crumbles. I mean, Devan, don't get upset.

You just got a little one, okay? You can translate it backwards or something. And then I'll put 29 seconds.

Oh, that's... Oh, sorry. Josh and Michael at Yahoo.com.

That's not right. Don't try to send me anything else. I won't answer.

Okay, then there's two paragraphs for everybody, which is dictionary. Sorry. No, that's not really true, but I don't have much time.

Okay. It is true. Everybody.

Brain. I'll give you two brain ones this time, since you did so well last time. Okay?

You can see where this is going. Where is this going? I'm just speeding up.

I'm just speeding up again. No, like a year from now or six months from now, I'll have... For every page I can go, I'll have ten pages that you've done for me.

And we'll be able to finish this thing. And if you don't have that, I don't think we can finish. So we'll just keep adding more paragraphs each time.

And then we'll get to a point where you're doing ten pages to my one page. And then we'll be able to finish these two texts before two retreats. So that's my hope.

So everyone has to work hard. Everyone has to really try to submit a paragraph. And my goal is that together we can finish these two...

If we can go into a retreat with the karma of finishing two brain books that I've seen other people do this, it might be a rather interesting retreat. Okay? All right?

So there's your job cut off for you. Okay? And thank you for doing it.

It's time. The time has arrived. Now you're ready to do it.

And now we can just sort of shift into a thousand-hour mode. Right? Okay.

So thank you for that. And thank you for coming. And thank you, Ernie.

And thank you, Andrew. And...

[Speaker 2]
Sashi.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, thanks. Oh, two comments. This last one I have to finish it.

Here. I'm going to give you a clue on the translation. Four car cheeks come first.

This is unusual. Usually if the wrong car cheek comes, one other guy comes, and then you defeat him, and then the next guy comes. What's happening here is four car cheeks come in a row.

I split them up. And then the answers, they're one by one. So to make sense, you'll have to go back and look at them.

If you got the answers in the first car cheek, you're going to have to go back and look at the first car cheek. I'm just warning you. Okay?

So when it says, look down low, like here, look so what we did, the third system is wrong, because he's responding to the third car cheek. So you just count car cheeks. There'll be four.

If you want to translate this paragraph, you're probably going to have to know what the car cheek said, the third car cheek said, which happens to be... It has to be a better one than the first car cheek. You see what I mean?

So like that. That's just to help you out, because otherwise it's very confusing.