<iframe src="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T_kIdfQEF3vTj0rFK5ZdSo37zeiOkm3T/preview" width="100%" height="80" allow="autoplay"></iframe> Peter. The volume is yours. Okay. It's probably pretty loud. All right. I shall stop my image. Продолжение следует... Продолжение следует... Продолжение следует... Продолжение следует... Продолжение следует... I was just signing in. Hi! Hi Nick and Aaron. Hello everyone. Hello everyone. Yay, Geschenko is going to do his screen share today and he will run everything from his own screen. Very exciting. We're not on camera. So I hope everybody had a great weekend. Thank you, Connie. I did too. There's one person out there that did awesome. And hi, Venerable Jigme. Hi. I just like, well, Geshe is not here yet to tell everybody. Venerable Jigme is our attendance keeper. Register, yeah. Oh, nice. Hey, Connie, is there a homework sheet? There he is. That's a question Jacqueline and I had for Geshe Michael to see if we could share. We did at the very beginning. We were sharing the homeworks, but then Geshe-la asked us not to share his flow document. And I was wondering, is he okay if we can still share the homework? If we can, I'll put it, as soon as I know, we'll get it into the WhatsApp. Okay, that'd be cool. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you for asking. It was a selfish reason, of course. No, everybody wants it. I'm sitting here thinking, I would want it. Because that's what you write your notes on, and it makes sense to me to have it. It is quite helpful, and then it helps me decide if I can do it, sign up for a presentation or not. True, okay. Right, and usually send it right after. Yeah. Jack says we usually send it right afterwards, but sometimes if you're in the middle of listening and you decide I'll take it, it's a really good thing. I'll take that question. That makes it sound like a game show. I'll take that question for, for third uh for the third desire realm um embodiment oh so i see anton you're here can i ask we're never sure anton if you want to be included in giving feedback Oh, maybe you're not here. Well, he's not even sure he wants to speak at all. Hi, Karin. Hello, Anton. Oh, Gish, Michael's here. Okay, I can see you afterwards if you want. You look like a pal. It's a little bit. Hi, Gish. Hi. Connie looks like a bandito. Gonna hold you up. Okay. No, I don't want to hold you up. The Mongolians, when they say pandit, they say pandito. Pandito. That's great. Rinpoche used to make fun of them. I have a quick question. Many people like to make notes on the homework, just on the homework itself. Not your flow document, but the homework. Can we put that in advance? Can you cut it out, you mean? like right now can i give it to people do you have it or do you need it i do you have it i guess that's okay yeah i'm afraid they'll read it and they won't listen that's what usually happens oh okay some people said it it also helps them to decide whether or not they want to take or they feel qualified to take a question i still like it afterwards because people don't listen i would say get a blank word document and type one and that's question number one and make your notes on it okay got it okay no it's just you know that's a teacher thing you should learn people when they have something in their hand people don't listen okay here we go is everybody here uh venerable jikme is now our attendance taker and so okay oh and venerable jikme uh jacqueline will have an attendance doc for you just that you can just mark it all in right can you send me the url for that Okay, looks like we've got 27 folks on the call. I'm going to stop my video and stop speaking. Thank you. Okay. Can you guys, if you can hear me okay, raise your thumb. Jacqueline. Can you see the screen okay? Raise your thumb. Okay, good. All right, here we go. so today is a is a pretty you know this is like the most important class in the yoga sutra probably and I think it's going to take a lot of skill to teach it well online and to teach it in a way that doesn't sound culty. So that's going to take some skill. Okay, here we go. The first topic here says after, and I'm just following the old homework master, after outlining the five powers, five extraordinary spiritual techniques that we can use to advance ourselves along our spiritual journey, Master Patanjali gives us what he calls, quote, another way to speed up the trip even faster, explain this way. And the answer is, and I guess I'll make it bold. Another way is to simply ask the master for their blessing. Isvara pranidhana va. Okay. The va is very fun in Sanskrit. It is at the end of the sentence, and it says, it's to indicate an alternate method and sometimes a better method and a faster method. And Patanjali, I think, uses it a few times. And he's just giving you almost a better option. So the wah. And Sanskrit doesn't have a real V. That's why the Tibetans had trouble. Well, they didn't have V either. But nowadays an Indian will say wah, or it'll sound between a W and a V. Ishvara, you know as the head of the devas, you know, head of the worldly gods, Ish means power. Vara means most of all. Vara is the E-S-T in English, like bestest and biggest. So it means wishest. Ish means wish. And it means the, it's traditionally explained as the, like the king who gets to choose the best dish at the banquet at the king's palace, you know. So Ishwara literally means the person who gets their wishes. And it can have to do with the God who sends rains down or something like that. But it just means a very powerful being. And here we translate it as a master. And pranidhana is to make a prayer, actually. In Tibetan you guys know the word munlam, which means a prayer, and wongchuk, which means powerfulest. So you could work your way through the five qualities that distinguish the second of the five spiritual paths which is jorlam the path of accumulation right no path of what do you call that preparation uh or you could you could work on those five qualities uh or who can give me the qualities, by the way, for $20. Shraddha. Samadhi and... Wait, wait, wait. What are they? Who's up? Shraddha. Shraddha. Shraddha. Shraddha. You got $4. Samadhi. I guess. Yeah. i can hear yoga sutras opening up all over the world oh giver smacks fear strength power faith wisdom oh i said it's prajna prajna who is that cocoa okay 20 bucks anyway you can work real hard oh Xiaoping you're here I don't know she's here yes I got it I'm glad my bankers here okay listen Xiaoping if we don't have enough money in my in my account with you just wait to pay until until you go back to China yeah yeah I'll blame it on you okay yeah and I don't know it's kind of like the it's almost like Patan is saying look you can save all the trouble just go find a teacher and ask them to teach you respectfully and and it's almost like a shortcut it's you know like a few days with your teacher is worth a few years of working on those five things okay so by the way I'm going to try to teach this and I put the images into the flow document to make it easier for you guys and to make it less irritating when you're when you're waiting for someone to put your image up so uh this is my master this is my uh master okay master chef and i was talking to veronica about it you know we're both interested in cooking she cooks i eat somebody turn off your mic uh and uh you know we were talking about how you you can't really become like a famous French cook unless you really submit to a great teacher, a great master teacher. You can't make classic French food unless you submit to a real master chef. And then we were talking about it, and I was thinking about this second image here, it's a special shuttle taking off. And we had an example before of having a teacher who helped you fix cars but I think your journey through the yoga path is more like a rocket ship it's more like a space shuttle and the reason they stopped using the space shuttles is because they kept blowing up because some technician didn't tighten a screw or didn't know how to fix it properly and in fact one of them blew up last week one of the prototypes the new prototypes blew up last week without flying it blew up on the ground so i i think your your yoga journey is kind of like taking off at a rocket ship and if someone messes around with it uh they could blow it up so i i would compare it to something very powerful it's a little more serious than learning french food but i would start with the french food and then i would go to the rocket ship and say you know this is a bigger thing than just learning how to cook. This is your soul in a way, or your inner and outer being is in someone else's hands. And if they don't know how to work on it well, that most important trip of your life could be blown up very easily. I would say also having a good teacher saves you a lot of trouble. I had a very pleasant time yesterday teaching with a Muslim master, a Sufi master from Uzbekistan. And we taught online. It was very cool. I think about 8,000 or 9,000 people watched it. And we had this approach. We wrote a book together and it was based on not making common mistakes that he and I had made in our spiritual life in our in our life in general and uh so i think if you have a a master teacher even in yoga you can save yourself so much trouble even just in asana you can save yourself so much trouble you like getting into a headstand i i worked really hard on it in my three-year retreat and you know my teachers david and sharon they made us uh hold the headstand for 50 breaths and uh sorry headstand for 100 no back shoulder stand for 100 breaths and headstand for 50 breath and i got hurt really bad and um then some teacher came along and showed me uh how to just step into it you know and uh you know i've been doing that ever since so you save so much trouble and then if you really have a master teacher and and maybe you guys who teach it whoever teaches this section you want to stick with a with a yoga teacher to start with a physical yoga teacher and you get such better results so you save trouble on the one hand and you get fast results and you get really powerful results if you have a really really good teacher and i i was thinking maybe whoever takes this one might want to get into the distinction between these four kinds of teachers you know uh you could say there's there's there's four kinds of teachers you could be talking about here because we don't know who's going to be in the audience some of them are just going to be interested in in asanas so that they lose weight and they look good and i would say you know you can use these guidelines that we're going to talk about today to just find a good physical yoga teacher for the asanas. Secondly, if you want to go a little further, you would find a good physical yoga teacher who's also a responsible and kind person to you. And I think all of us have been in yoga classes where the teacher was very physically strong, but they didn't seem very responsible. I remember teachers asking students to do things that I thought would hurt them, or the teacher was abusive to the student, although the teacher was very strong and physically quite fit. Thirdly, you know, those of you in the audience, so whoever takes this first question, they're going to have to say, maybe there's people among you who would like to go into the deeper meaning of yoga, and we're going to pretty much discuss the good qualities of a spiritual teacher that you should look for. Then I think on a fourth level, we can say, you can also take this whole section of our chapter one as talking about how you can be a good yoga teacher and a more responsible teacher who can also go deeper. So there's three qualities here. One is, you know, the physical asanas. So that makes you a good physical teacher. Secondly, you're responsible, which means you have some, know, you teach in a kindly way and a clean way and then deeper means you can go deeper into the deeper meaning of yoga, you're qualified to do that. So I think you can sell this whole section of the Yoga Sutra to the audience on these four different levels I think. And then that way we don't alienate anybody, maybe somebody is not interested in the spiritual side, they're just and mostly the physical side. But then there's going to be people who truly would like to find a heart teacher, and there's other people who would like to be a super qualified yoga teacher. And I kind of think of those people, number four here, as the people that we really would like to reach in the long run. Okay. There's the standard answer from the homework from, remember it's from 2003 or something like that. and here's the verse here's the relevant verse 23 and there's the sanskrit the devanagri and here's the technical pronunciation okay those of you want to learn sanskrit the bah i think is important as a alternate it means an alternate method and pranidhana is uh manlam in tibetan anyone wants to tell me the difference between between manlam and ngowa very famous one of them is something you want to happen wait till i offer the money 50 bucks one of them is dedicating uh your action to a particular good karma and one of them is praying for something you want to happen yeah which one is this one Pranidhana? Oh, praying for something you want to happen? No. What is Noah? I don't remember. That's dedication of your good karma too. I mean it's Jon's karma. Oh, Jon probably knows. Well, Pranidhana is a dedication but too but I don't know how they translate or what Noah is supposed to translate well here it is let's see yeah yeah yeah okay anyway famous difference for Nick I guess Yay, Amelie. 50, right? Now we can buy, yeah, 50, or three buckets of ice cream. She's eating the charger cable, so we've got to get her some food. Okay. So anyway, I think the key here for the people going to teach this one is the spaceship and these four options. I think it's important to emphasize these four options. This kind of gets us out of the guru accusation that we're teaching about gurus and stuff like that. And I would not mention guru or lama or anything like that. But if you kind of distract the audience with these four options, their mind won't go to the guru thing and the abusive gurus that there have been in the yoga tradition lately. Okay, question number two. When you say asking for a blessing, what's the Sanskrit word? And what is Master Patanjali trying to convey by choosing these words? I made the image of serving a dinner. It was hard to find a dinner that didn't have meat or wine in it. But anyway, this one looks like it could be vegetarian. and here's the word you know that you're going to focus on which means literally to make a prayer or to ask for a blessing uh pranidhana uh this n is uh said with a retroflex your tongue is is twisted back pranidhana you know with a dha dhana okay and this has three interesting parts to it it actually has four interesting parts but I only think it has three in the homework asking for a blessing can also mean make a prayer or supplication and we've had these before pra means forward ni means down and dha means to put it down or set it down and all of these elements together mean a prayer is something which you set down in front of your teacher. But if I was going to teach this, and by the way, this is a short question. I would emphasize that the prayer should be made respectfully and that you kind of walk up to your teacher, you put your hands out, pra, then you put your hands down, ni, and then dha means you set down this beautiful offering. So I think the request that someone be your teacher, even a physical yoga teacher, if all you're interested in is getting buff or something, still you should be respectful to your teacher. You should still speak to them kindly. It's still, I don't know any teacher who doesn't appreciate a student coming and asking respectfully, you know, please make me buff, you know, something like that. So if I was going to teach this second one, it's not very long. We've had some of the parts here. And that's where I would go. I would go to, you know, how do you establish? Maybe I would emphasize here, how do you approach a teacher? Teacher of any of the four kinds. and it comes in my mind John Camel and I love this word Upanishad right and I talked about it before is that right I think and what's this what's a Tibetan for Upanishad I don't know You gotta get used to using John this lokesh chandra that you input thank you. Hmm it can mean cause or nyewar nepa to sit close to okay to sit down at the feet of. So it became a word that meant a holy book, but the words, the pieces of this word mean you go down and you sit at the feet of someone. Sit at the feet, so upa means close to the teacher and ni means, ni sat means you sit down close to the teacher. So I think it has a very similar meaning feeling to pranidhana which means you come up to the teacher and you and you respectfully ask to make a connection with him so maybe here uh the person who takes this question could emphasize how do you how do you make a a respectful uh connection with the teacher and also there's a there's a big tradition in in asia of the importance of the crucial importance of the first meeting the request for teaching and you know there's many stories about people who who got that right and who didn't get that right when i first met the day i met rinpoche i offered my bank account and I made momos for him and he told me much later that he threw out the momos because they were so terrible and he refused the bank account he also refused the bank account but I think it was a good start you know just to be respectful and I think even if you're just going to learn asanas still it's important to make so I guess the person who takes number two you know it's a question about sanskrit but you turn it into a question about how do you make that first connection uh which is very important in asia to make it auspicious okay must be auspicious auspicious how do you say auspicious in a nice way in sanskrit i think that was who was that john i don't know anatole i think for john yay Anatole Anatole finally made some money damn now you can buy some more of those chocolate chips sorry how much 20 bucks I listened to that Cuban music over and over last night and I woke up with it and oh my gosh we heard some too good okay so here you go I guess this is going to turn into a very sexy question. Whoever's going to take that one. You can hide all this, you know, making an auspicious connection at the beginning. You know, you could twist this question that way. And when I say twist, I'm talking about twist it in a way that helps people. Okay. So to me, it's not just about respecting. it's also about that the initial connection should be made sweetly and that a lot depends on that first connection what's okay for 50 bucks what's the famous example of tendel chuk tendel chuk and 50 bucks for tendel chuk also what's the famous example in in the scriptures for someone who messed up the first connection um martha oh yeah milarepa and milarepa gave him an empty uh bowl or a pot or something yeah that's 25 bucks of it kendara's dependence wait no no even the bowl story has two stories two parts they didn't marpa give it something well he Marpa's wife gave him some grapes or something to put in it and then come on Marpa in order to have a good future for Milarepa so Marpa bring the how do you call it he he offered him a beer in the bowl as far as I remember I don't know and Milarepa was smart enough to drink it even though he was not supposed to drink alcohol he thought there must be some special reason for this and he drank it so anyway anatole got 25 bucks who's going to go for the tendal chuk the chuk is the difficult part because chuk can mean rich as in in wang chuk ishvara but it can mean something else also yeah your success relies on it no chuk means to screw it up okay okay he screwed up and tendal means uh tendal in about 0.5 percent of time tendal means uh that first connection with the teacher so i've heard translators on stage mess that one up I've heard them chuk the tendal chuk in big lectures for very big teachers. Anyway, here we go. Where are we going? Okay, now, question three is what are the five special qualities that we should look for in a spiritual guide? Oh, by the way, I wanted to say one other thing. If I'm going to teach that first one, I'm going to talk about the big difference between, you know, you can spend many years doing asana. You try to learn certain asanas and you can hurt yourself a lot. I did. I didn't because I was in two year retreat. I didn't have a teacher and I got hurt a lot. But the other thing is just how much more efficient it is to find a master and hang out with a master, even an asana master. You know, your life is going to be so much easier. Like it becomes rather than a three year struggle, it becomes a very sweet journey with a good friend. All right. By the way, can you guys show your cameras? That way I make sure that Nick's not, you know, picking his nose or something. All right. I learned this in the YSI yoga class. You know, when you teach yoga online, you got to watch the students. Otherwise, Keshe Michael's just sitting there on the mat and not following anything. Okay. Yeah, so, Frani Dhanai, you lay your prayer out like a nice dinner, set it down sweet like a nice dinner. Okay. Now, this question three is going to take us, I'm saying, maybe three episodes or something. It's a lot. there are five qualities that uh Patanjali lists in a good teacher and one of them has 10 parts so you're talking you know 14 different qualities 15 different qualities so at least two people have to teach this one together and maybe three people i don't know like this first part 3a could be done by two people together and then b c d the last four qualities could be done by another person but a has 10 parts so if you divide all the qualities of a good teacher into five uh the first one has 10 parts so that's going to definitely take two people and the last four go pretty fast okay so i would say one person's going to do The last four of the five qualities of a teacher, great teacher, and then somebody's got to go through the ten qualities that make a vishisha, a special teacher, okay, Purusha Vishisha. Okay, here we go. A master is an extraordinary person who is untouched by mental afflictions, by deeds, their ripening, and their storing. kleshakarma vipakashayar paramashta purusha vishesha isvara and by the way this verse helps address an objection you might get to the translation of the first verse what is it what's a what's an objection you could get to the translation of the first verse. It's translated as God in some translations. Yeah, good. Yeah, good. Did I offer you 20 bucks? Xiaoping. Send 20 bucks to Colorado. I don't think you offered any money. But sometimes the question's worth the money. Okay. Stop trying to get out of it. Yeah, here someone's gonna raise their hand and tell you when you teach this at some yoga studio they're gonna say, "Ishwara is the king of the gods," you know, blah blah blah. But here in the next verse he's defined as Purusha Vishesha, an extraordinary person, okay? So I would, if someone gave me that objection, that's where I would go. all right uh here's the pronunciation connected pronunciation so i'm gonna just i'm gonna start with purusha vishesha which actually comes last in the verse okay there are four qualities listed first and uh klesha karma vipaka ashaya ashaya aparamashta okay and then we get to the last one which I'm going to do first, which is Purusha Vishesha. The person should, they should be a special person. So I took the opportunity here to throw in the 10 qualities of a qualified teacher. Okay. And so they should be an extraordinary person, Purusha Vishesha. And by the way, any S after E has to change to, what do you call it, retroflex S. Anyway, 稀疏,稀疏. Okay, number one, and this is so important in the modern yoga world, right? And the images of a male teacher helping a female student, and they lead an ethical life. The teacher should have an ethical life. on the yoga mat, in the yoga class it's mainly no problems with money, sex, and power. And it's mostly male yoga teachers who have these three problems and but although we have seen it with female teachers so you know this is a good opportunity. Whether the person, now you got to remember you have two people in the audience. One is someone who just wants to be a yoga student And the other is someone who may want to be a yoga teacher. So if it were me and I was going to teach this one, I would emphasize find a teacher who's not concerned with money and sex and power. And if I want to be a teacher, I'd say try not to be affected by money, sex, and power. And you could give them a mini birds and the bees lecture here, which I think most of you have had that lecture. But your hormones take over, and the people don't understand that. And they take over for men and women. Men's hormones take over from, I guess, about 15 and a half years old to 90 years old. And women's hormones take over between 30 and 35 and make you do stupid and crazy things. So, you know, you might want to get into it. I don't know. But look for a teacher who doesn't have these three problems. And we all have them to some extent. We all have the seed inside of us to want to get things, to want to get sex, to want to get power out of a class. And I think it's important to say, look, everyone has these urges or we wouldn't be on this particular planet. how well does the teacher control those urges okay and and that's good okay number two they meditate well okay the second quality uh and i you know i just off the top of my head there's three things i would say about uh meditating well the most important being they meditate regularly and they can get up to an hour without a problem Secondly, they use a meaningful object, right? And thirdly, they avoid meditation traps, which is mainly just getting distracted by the sensation of meditation and then not using the meditation for some kind of meaningful goal, okay? So that's how I would describe a good meditator. Three, they understand reality in an intellectual way. And I would emphasize two things. They understand the pen, right? And I took the dog. I'm going to start reusing images so they get burned into people's heads. So instead of trying to look for a new image, if it's an important foundational image, I'm going to go start using the same one over and over again. Okay. So that happens to be my YSI dog, who's different from my DCI dog. Okay. my dog that I in the years that I knew him he didn't have teeth so I couldn't use him for the pen thing but I would also say it's important to understand to me the sign that a person understands the pen is they understand that once a student accepts the idea of the pen once they logically must accept that all things are the same. People they know, you know, the mountains around Sedona, the couch you're sitting on. Once you accept the idea of a pen, you have therefore accepted that you are responsible for everything around you. So I would go there, you know, try to find a teacher who understands the pen but also understands that you know and I keep thinking at the beginning of a of a debate in the in the monastery you uh you prove you have to be very careful when you accept an idea because then you can get in trouble two hours later you know it will what do you call it it'll impact what happens in the debate an hour later two hours later once agree to that once you nod your head when someone teaches you the pen then actually you're agreeing to all of Buddhism. You know but we don't want to you know I'm just saying if I'm looking for a teacher who understands the pen I'm interested to see do they understand the implication of the pen the consequences of agreeing that the pen is correct means you have to agree that everything's coming from you automatically okay all right traditional attribute number four of a good teacher they have a good background in the ancient in the ancient literature okay and I would just say three things it requires many years of effort as you mix nuts those of you who are mixed nuts you know it's not something you can pick up in a year or two it's going to take 10 to 20 years it requires a really good teacher I had a really great teacher Ken Rinpoche was was one of the best in the world maybe the one of the best two or three in the world at the time and also it requires a good motivation I don't think you can learn the classics if you don't have a good motivation if and and I like to say you know I started with 60 guys in my class and only three or four survived to the geshe, to the end of the geshe. So three or four out of sixty survived to the end of the geshe. And in the early years there were some really really smart guys, amazingly smart and amazingly good debaters. And I thought wow these guys are going to be the big geshes you know. And then there were other guys who were kind of modest and they weren't necessarily the sharpest guys in the class and but they were very kind and they they shared things with other people and they tried to make everyone successful and uh and then I watched these guys for for 20 years 25 years and and and the the arrogant ones dropped out and they failed one even murdered a person later. And then these kind of kindly guys who had a good heart, you know, they wanted to master the scriptures for good reason. They became the Geshe's. They survived. In fact, at the end, it was only them who survived. So I'd say they should have a good motivation for being a master. Mixed nuts. Mixed nut. To be a mixed nut. Okay. All right. They have gained actual realizations of ultimate reality, preferably directly. And there's not much you can say about that to your audience at this point. You know, they're not familiar with that, with what that is or what that involves. You can just say, you know, sometimes I, if the audience is really, it's really good enough. I'll say it's something like meeting God directly or something, but maybe that's too much to say on our online platform. But I would say it requires deep training and practice and strong meditation skills where you can sit for an hour a day. I would just say to get to this stage, you know, and then I kind of, you know, there's a big deal in the ancient books that an aria what we say in DCI you know an aria is as different from a non-aria as a Einstein is from an amoeba and that's not an exaggeration okay in fact it might be an understatement okay so I think you know and you have to be careful with the word aria because it has connotations of racial, you know, or religious, you know, violence, actually. So anyway, maybe you might say realized being. I like Nagarjuna. I know we're not supposed to get religious, but he's just such a cool aria that I almost can't stop him from. Sometimes, you know, DCI talk, I'll flash his image across the screen, like at MIT business school. and I'll just say this is Nagarjuna and then go on you know but I just want them in their life to see Nagarjuna's you know so it's up to you guys. Number six they should be better than their student for example in the yoga asanas or in their knowledge of the deeper meaning of yoga okay and here are my quick notes these are just quick notes you know your student will figure it out if you try to teach something that you are not a master of it sometimes they figure out in half an hour sometimes they figure it out in five years that you you weren't really a very nice person or something and maybe you were good at asana but you weren't a very nice person or so i i i gotta say students eventually always figure it out. I've met a lot of students who had more compassion, I felt who had more compassion than I had for example in some in some ways. So you know the student always figures it out eventually. They feel angry or I don't know they feel like they got cheated, like they wasted their time and they wasted their abilities. So you know the teacher should be better at, if it's asana, then asana, or they should be better at the philosophy or the philosophy, or they should have those high qualities that they're teaching about. If they're not, they're wasting the students' time. And potentially disastrous results if a kid teaches a parent how to drive, if Kairi teaches Anato and Aisha how to drive, it's very possible the car will get smashed up, right? So anyway, I could just imagine that being Kyrie. I don't know. I'm sorry. Teaching mom and dad how to drive. So you want to avoid a situation like that. Okay. Number seven, the teacher should be skilled at teaching to the level of the student. And I always think of the example of a master piano teacher who has not the love to teach. don't really like teaching and this guy is you know he's a great concert pianist and he's famous and parents tend to approach those kind of people and say oh my god i went to your concert you're amazing i want you to teach my kid and then it turns out that they uh they're too arrogant to teach the kids or they don't have the patience to teach the kids so you know I would I would contra post these two this guy he's younger he's not a concert pianist he's probably a grade school music teacher but he's truly interested in the student and he cares about the student and he's patient with the students so so that's another example you know they they're good teachers they may not be the best piano player in the in the universe okay but they love teaching and they love taking care of the student okay number eight the teachers should teach how to love for the students and not for lower motivations like money attention power stacks collecting students I love this photo. You know, I think it, this is the part of Geshe Michael's mind when I get in front of 1000 people or something, part of my mind wants to be a star and they want everyone to look at me. And, you know, this lady's face kind of says it to me, I don't know, this is the part of Geshe Michael's mind that just wants to get a lot of attention. And so you know, don't forget you're teaching what kind of teacher to look for but you're also teaching what kind of teacher later that we should be and and don't do it for the wrong reasons and and this kind of desire to be acknowledged by people we all have it i think it's important if you're going to teach this this whole section part i mean i think it's important when you teach it to admit that we all have these tendencies and and don't teach it from the point of view of someone who doesn't have these tendencies you know you can teach it from the point of view of someone who is temporarily successful in controlling these tendencies uh and then you know i think it's good to be honest about it we all like attention okay number nine uh they enjoy working for the sake of others and they have fun this is the definition of what in Sanskrit $20 yeah half of us who is that was Kendra Kendra got how much was that 20 bucks a million dollars yeah by the way what it means to be a real man in the yoga tradition is to have fun doing your yoga right so dharma mitra got it right you know dharma mitra is the real man what do you say no i would say so no fun no yoga no fun no yoga no yoga no fun no yoga no fun yeah okay so i mean i love this photo i mean this is uh you know around a good teacher this should be the feeling that people are having fun and you know they all look pretty they all look pretty healthy to me so they're actually succeeding physically and I would say it's because they're having fun you see I mean so anyway I would hit really hard on this I'm not just being cute when I say you should have fun in a class I'd say I believe what Dharva Mitra said, Sri Dharva Mitra, if you're not having fun, there's something wrong in the class, and you won't make the same progress. The students won't make the same progress. So, okay, cool. Then number 10, they never get tired of teaching others, even if they have to do, the scripture says, young dung young, right? Over and over. They have to teach the same things over and over and over and still they feel excited i imagining that when i when you teach this whoever teaches this you've got to say these parents came home from work and they were tired and you know they were hungry i hate to say she's eating pizza and drinking a coke but we can just kind of ignore that. But you know but they're still having fun with their kid like of course they're exhausted from work and but they they felt they still having they're still excited to teach their child okay so teachers have to be the same. Okay so either we are going to be a teacher like this or we are going going to look for a teacher like this and what are we going to do with that teacher serve them nicely in sanskrit we're going to do pani donna we're going to we're going to present them with a sincere request to teach us yeah good uh and i put in the homework answer long ago the most important of these qualities to direct realization of ultimate morality, of ultimate morality, and the four remaining qualities are all based on this. How they're based on that, maybe somebody brave could go into that, okay? Here's the second quality listed by Patanjali, okay? And you have to distribute the Aparamrta where is okay so we're gonna have the last four qualities are gonna be you have to connect the apara mrshta to the four okay a means not right para means very much and then a mrshta which is negative okay a mrshta means they should not be not clean. They should not be not clean okay it's very interesting. Murshta means that wiped clean. The Tibetan is chi which means to wipe something clean okay. So they should they should not be not wiped clean very much of negative emotions, the karma that negative emotions make you do, the ripening of negative emotions and the accumulation of the karma those are the last four qualities of an exceptional person purusha vishesha how many qualities for a purusha vishesha or ten dollars five ten i was gonna say 14 i guess let's say 14 let's say let's leave it i cancel that bet okay all right so you gotta get a part of my stay in your head okay what is that okay they are untouched by that's how I translated it okay they are untouched by this these four negative things okay all right here we go the by the way the very tricky thing is this long a which means we double up the negative okay they are not not clean okay okay okay they have been able to stop this is klesha aparamurta okay and if those of you care about the Tibetan it's noppa which means sullied by or dirty it's a rare word okay so they should have stopped their negative emotions who's they are per for commission yeah a good teacher yeah good each each mana okay this is what nirvana and the misderms that was for a buddhist audience so i don't know if you want to go there uh and And they can only reach this state by seeing ultimately or directly. And I couldn't find a better picture than the one we had before. And this guy just looks happy to me. He looks honestly happy. And that's kind of the goal of yoga right there. OK. All right. It doesn't seem to have questions going on at the moment. OK. All right. third quality of a great teacher beyond the reach of karma they understand enough about karma that they no longer undertake actions based on a misperceptionality and somehow i feel like a you know if this is a sign that you don't if this guy's picture is a sign that you that that that kind of clean happy face is a reflection of not having clay chest, then I would say not blaming people for your problems is kind of a sign that you understand about karma. If you really understand about karma, I think one of the outer signs is that you would stop blaming other people for your problems so i tried to find a photo in the image where the p you know actually they're blaming each other for each other's problems okay okay so you're looking for a teacher who doesn't do this and you're looking for a teacher who looks like this okay all right fourth quality uh yeah they've been able to freeze their seeds right like they've been able to freeze their seeds they made karma in the past, but they understand, they made negative C's in the past, but they understand negative C's and at least they're not letting them open. Which in the Wheel of Life, where do you do that? First link. No, where is it? Eight and nine. Yeah, Stanley gets 30 bucks, Shampi. yeah eight and nine meaning that your understanding of karma can freeze and you can't you may not get rid of the seed but you prevent it from opening okay so i found this image image i mean if you know if you live where these uh pine cones are the seeds are under each of these little guys right there's a seed there's about i don't know 50 seeds there but the pine cones in the snow and the seeds will never open as long as there's snow the seeds the seeds the pine cone will stay there till spring but the no no seeds will start to sprout during the winter okay so so the person has enough understanding that that their old seeds are being have been frozen okay what's that a quality of? A good teacher. Okay, good. Yeah. They understand karma. They also know how to freeze karma. Okay. And they know how to break the refrigerator. In other words, stop the seeds altogether okay they know how to destroy the seeds using the four powers so maybe i guess it's up to connie but the person the person who does this one could maybe go briefly into the four powers okay in other words the a good yoga teacher has to understand how to wipe those seeds out okay So they're good at seed management. They're good at seed storage. And I mean, and they're good at not making seeds in the first place. And I think there's one more. No, that's it. That's it. Okay. So that's all I have today. And I think we should not go on. There's a lot more here. There's three or four more. This is almost two homeworks. I think we should focus on, I think we should go on and do rough takes. for this, for the questions we have here. So there would be, let me see. One person could take, one person could talk about how a good relationship with a teacher is worth all that other effort. And they could talk about the danger of blowing up the space shuttle, which is your spiritual life. Okay. and they can talk about the difference between you know we have to deflect the idea that we're trying to collect people to follow a guru or something so these are ways to follow a good physical yoga teacher or someone who's not only can teach you the poses but who's also a good person and then someone who's not only teach you a pose poses and a good person but they actually have enough training that they could take you into the deeper meaning of yoga and then eventually you could become a teacher yourself like that who's good responsible good at asana responsible about how they teach it and they can take you deeper so that's a that's a very deep question i think Whoever takes the first question, that's a deep one. All right. The second question is, you know, based on pranidhana. But I think it's cool to go into the importance of the first connection, the request to teach, being respectful, and making an auspicious connection with a great teacher. Okay. started about Mangala, right? You might even talk about how, I'm going to put a note here. I might talk about, what's the thing before you make, before you decide to make a connection with teacher for 30 bucks, what do you do? I'm checking your lama. Yeah, check them. Xiaoping, 30 bucks for the guy. Yes. Yeah, I might talk about spending, you know about not not talk about not rushing spend the time and check them out carefully and you know the classic example is that it traditionally they would say 12 years to check to check the person out okay so i think this question number two which is supposed to be just a linguistic question it can turn out to be one of the most interesting questions i think hang on I gotta turn off the oven hang on what are you making I don't know If it's cookies, you have to share with all of us. It's called pot de creme. Oh, yes. Wow. Fancy, fancy. That's French and decadent. No, who can tell me the two reasons why pot de creme is the dessert of preference? because it's creamy number one number two you can make it in about 15 minutes and it looks just like cream brulee which takes two hours so you can impress your your what was the third call i don't remember it was french Oh, it's delicious also. I'm just going to, if you guys want a class about buttercream, let me know. Okay. We won. Three times a week even. Yeah. Okay. We'll do it. Yeah. But really it looks just like a, like a crumbling. It is 15 minutes. Right. Now question three. I think it requires three people to teach this. I think two of them, first two should be together. You know, they should be like a couple. And then someone can come in, someone else can come in and teach qualities number two to five. Okay? All right. So I know this is a huge subject. And this is, you know, good luck on that. And I think it's going to be a challenge for whoever teaches these 10, whichever couple teaches these 10. I think it's going to, or by the way, it doesn't have to be a couple. I thought Stephen and Word did a good job together remotely, right? It's going to be, you're going to have to keep repeating, look for a person like this, and then later be a person like this if you're going to teach, okay? All right. And by the way, I mean, I would be, you got to be very sensitive about this money, sex, and power thing, because I think it's important to say we all have those tendencies. A, I think when you get really righteous about it and you try to present yourself as someone who could never have those problems, somehow it attracts those problems. Okay. I'm just warning you. Okay. So I think it's good to be adult about it and say, look, we all have these tendencies and we can all fall into this. and not that our group is somehow immune from these tendencies. We all, all groups have to watch it. And somehow we're better than group B that got caught doing it. You know, I, I, there's kind of this vibe like that nowadays. And I think it's, I think arrogance in this way can, can make you the next victim of it. So I try to keep a, you know, keep a level head when you teach number one. For $100. I or someone like me may judge another, but no one else should, or they will fall. Damn. Cool. $100 for creamer. Oh, man. You beat it constantly through the Vinaya. Don't take the measure of another person. You will fail. Okay, so be careful. Let's teach this one humbly with prayers that we not fall into it. Okay. Yeah. Okay. I don't have to go through them again. Yeah. I think you got them all. So someone's going to teach those 10, a couple, and then in a very heartfelt way, without judgment. And then really the last four have to be taught by someone who's sensitive to the connection between them. right uh uh kleshas lead to karma lead to the ripening of karma lead to the storage of karma okay the continued storage of karma continued build up of karma okay so that's going to take some sensitivity to teach it that way okay and that's all i have today Connie can I take the rest of the day off looks looks like you can wow we thought we would have a longer meeting today because we wanted to talk a little bit as well afterwards about the um final takes the retakes on the final takes okay you want to do that now yeah we could do it now absolutely I always encourage us to end on time. So I think 3.30. Great. You got 21 minutes. Can you do it? That's plenty of time. Really, right now? And I'm going to stop my screen sharing, and I'm going to send you, Connie and Jacqueline, these images and this homework. Great. The homework and the workflow document, Keshla? Yeah. I mean, the homework, the flow document, and the images. Okay? Coming now. Thanks. Okay. so last week Lydia said something that might have been quite unpopular but it was a wonderful idea and I really want to get everybody else on board and excited about that idea and that is for every one of the parts that we have shot so far that we do the final takes again on an iPhone personally by ourselves. The reason for that is I think that the message that you've all put together and delivered already has been a wonderful effort, but because of the technology, we can't show how great that effort is. And people just aren't going to listen to something that doesn't sound good or doesn't look good or doesn't deliver the message as clearly because we weren't able to get like the Tibetan in there or the Sanskrit in there. So I'm just trying to sell you on that idea. And then I turn it over to Tim and Lydia and Earl, who if when they are ready, which will be this week, probably Wednesday or so, they'll set up meetings with each one of the people who are involved or actually the groups that were involved in each of the parts. That makes sense. They're going to set up a meeting and then they'll go over the flow so that there's a tighter delivery of the flow between each one of the episodes. With that core theme running throughout it. After that, you can go ahead and do a retake, but not before that. So just wait until you have a meeting with the whole group to discuss the flow. And Jacqueline has already created or recreated some of our protocol documents. And you can go and take a look at the PPT or the video that Scott kindly did for us on how to actually shoot a really good video on your iPhone. So that's all. It'll probably take altogether about two hours extra of your time for one. Well, two and a half hours if you've got two videos to do. And I know there are a few people who do have two videos or three if you're John Campbell. So I'm just selling you on that. It's something that I think will make the product that we want to deliver to an audience out there just that much more saleable. And that's my big thing, because otherwise, if we can't sell this thing, then I can't get you guys any money. And that's my biggest concern is being able to generate money for everybody. So I didn't make a little yes, no, because it's a mandatory thing. Everybody's going to have to do a retake. I just hope you feel excited and good about it. And it comes through in the little video that you can do on your phone. The other thing is that when you do it that way, we can take it afterwards and make it much more exciting and interactive. So it's not just the person sitting there and saying blah, blah, blah, but that image can come and go out and other images can come in. So it could be a much better way of doing things. It also means there's not so much work for Anatole. Can you make it 3D? That's what I'm looking for. What do you want to do? What's that, a VR thing? Yes, if you can, John Campbell, go for it. That would be awesome, especially if it was Asana. Yes? This is the English final tape we need to redo, but how about the final tape with Chinese translation? Should we redo or no? That's a big story, Allison, that I think you and I, it won't be any more work for all of this team right here but it is a big story that we need to talk about because of the fact just there's a few technical issues there definitely big technical technical issues there that if you and I could sit down and talk about it we can resolve that I think okay okay well oh Oh, awesome. Jack has already put the doc in the WhatsApp and apparently a link to it in the chat there. And anybody else have any questions? I think I just want to leave it at that. And then we can refine a little bit more afterwards. But the good thing about the final take, for instance, like Nick and Aaron, you guys can do it at a time when you know, little, you know, Amelie is sleeping and you can do a really good take on your own, that kind of thing. But we also do want you to take a look at the videos. You know, the last video on the final take with Geshe Michael where he gives you more information. Take a look at that and add that information in. But more details on all of this will really come from Tim and Lydia and Earl. Are you talking about a video where Geshe Michael taught the subject of each of us is teaching? Or are you talking about some specific video where Geshe-Allah not wanted to include on the final takes? Yeah, when everybody did their final take, Geshe Michael gave feedback. And oftentimes that feedback never got incorporated. Well, there was no place to incorporate it because it was given on your final take. So just take a look at those videos that should be available, I think, on YouTube. Tim did something really cool where he made a spreadsheet of videos during the mixed nuts term so that you could find each person by day. Maybe somehow we can put our heads together and and put the links in the spreadsheet so we can find our... It is I think it's up but Anatole can tell us more. You're muted Anatole. yeah I I did that mm-hmm okay thank you oh oh so Nick one of the big problems is the quality of what we're giving to other people just in case you missed that part it's really the quality it's not about what you guys delivered the quality is really not good so your image might be too small and then big PBT we do a little video on our iPhones and I think Jack in the doc you can see she's got it it says you should have an iPhone 6 or higher oh the video quality yeah yeah that's what I figured yeah expose them compresses the video pretty significantly yeah okay and i think if you're in if you're in sedona area and you don't have the necessary iphone i have an extra iphone that i could loan to someone who needs it okay okay thanks keshana then we did i did reach out to ben kramer and kendra rickert I don't know if I heard back from them about doing the introduction pieces to each just because Ben is such an exciting person and gets very excited about the whole of the Yoga Sutra and Kendra's got such a beautiful voice to sing. Are you guys? Yeah yeah yeah yeah let's talk more about what that will look like but we're of course we're super open to it. Awesome and then then it also anyway these are details we'll be going to afterwards. I think we are, I'm finished with everything I want to say and just whatever questions you have, please put them out there. Earl. Okay. Then I just want to blame it all on Earl. Sorry, Con, what did I miss? Not a thing. Not a thing. Okay. Okay. Okay. Thank you everyone. and thank you Geshe for great teaching today thank you Connie for all your hard work thank you Jacqueline yeah thank you don't forget to sign up for today's questions okay hi Amelie hi Amelie hi Amelie where's her brother hi Amelie Thanks, Ken. Good to see you. Awesome. Jacqueline and Connie, I have just a quick question for you guys. The new model is that there's an entirely separate video that will introduce each video. Each part. No, no, just the whole part. The whole part. Part, I think, means verse. Is that right? Yeah. Well, it's the homework. Part means... Oh, wow. So there's five, six, seven episodes for each part. So we'll do an introductory video to introduce the whole part so that the episodes are more tied to the... so that the part is more tied to those verses. We found there was too much of a disconnect when people are talking about episodes. of a part it's not connected enough to the text so we're going to give an overview of that whole part tying the episodes to the to the text a little more yeah does that make sense it does i'm trying to remember if there is ever more than than one sutra with or one sorry one verse within a single homework and there is right yeah often there are often uh multiple verses within a homework but there are also often multiple questions per a verse and i think that that is a little confusing for people to keep track of what you know where is this rounded in the the text that learning. That's why I get exactly why I asked, but there may be some, what's the right word, like in terms of presentation, if it's all, all of the episodes are going to be grouped within a homework, then, and that's sort of typographically, yeah, I'm thinking in terms of text, but like hyperlink, you know, if that's all together, then that would make sense for there to be a single Ben and Kendra intro that would cover those, well, could chant those verses. That makes sense to me. Is that what you had in mind? Is that what you were thinking? All right. That's cool. Thanks for clarifying that. That's fine. Thanks, Sean. okay any other questions okay then we are finished nine minutes early yay all right again it'll be earl and tim and lydia reaching out to you okay bye guys thank you thanks everyone Bye, everybody. Bye, guys. Bye-bye. Thank you. Hasta pronto. Oh, Mr. U joined. 我也想着要乐老师 要乐乐