<iframe src="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eybDpVCvVctI3hcDYdeJXzkJ1BgoPRUw/preview" width="100%" height="80" allow="autoplay"></iframe> Now we're recording. Okay, we're recording great. Okay, cool. This is a good online dance party. All right. Let me share my screen. Good? Very good. Can you guys see? We can. Can. Yes, yes, we can see. Okay, cool. All right. Here we go. This is basically a presentation of the, here it's called the infinite four. What's the other name we call this usually? The four measurables. Yeah, so I guess we better get it straight which one we're going to use, because I predict people will go between the two. I say the infinite four okay and I was trying to at the time I was trying to distinguish them from the long rim four and we'll talk about the infinite. So first question is name what Master Patanjali calls the one and only crucial practice for stopping the various spiritual obstacles he lists in the first chapter of the yoga sutra so if you're gonna do this question what's the first thing you should probably have in your mind the list of obstacles yeah nice i'm glad i didn't offer any money uh and i you know i brought them up myself can you see the obstacles now i i can't quite tell how no i've only seen the picture of your of the ship oh that's too bad all right well in that case I think I would if I were you guys I would have it ready at hand so I'll put it here okay you might want to review the obstacles that we listed okay and out here they are and you can mind that mind is distracted was not really considered an obstacle is considered common to all obstacles so we got one illness fogginess having doubts carelessness, laziness, mistaken views of the world which are left uncorrected, failing to reach specific levels, and not being established in them. Okay cool, and okay all right so if you do this question you might want to go over the different obstacles which are physical illness foggy mind having what kind of doubt lazy doubts good perfect words uh carelessness is just like not being uh not not uh not watching not watching mine right uh laziness mistaken you know all these other ones okay and the image is of breaking an obstacle okay smashing an obstacle I couldn't I've seen pictures of I've seen pictures of a better pictures of the bow of the ship smashing into the ice and breaking the ice so you might want to look around whoever takes it did you hear about the recent episode I think it was in Venezuela. The government attacked a tourist ship because they thought maybe someone was attacking them and the patrol boat rammed the tourist ship but they didn't know the tourist ship was an icebreaker ship. And ice breakerships have a huge metal piece under the front of the boat that breaks the ice. And when the government ship crashed into the tourist boat, the tourist boat smashed the government ship and 50 soldiers fell out and the tourist ship rescued them. So anyway, and they had a nice picture in the news, but I couldn't find it, but it should show smashing your obstacles. Okay. I think that would be a good example. If you guys can think of a better way to show smashing your obstacles, that's fine. So you could pick a different image if you have one in mind. Okay. Please repeat. Tat Pratishedha Artham Eka Tattva Abhyasa. Okay, if you want to stop these obstacles, there's one and only one crucial practice for doing so. So eka means one and tattva means only one. Abhyasa means, you know, daily practice that we already had. Pratishedha, in those of you who know Tibetan, it's kakpakkyur, raptukakkyur, which means super block or super destroy something. crucial practice for stopping. Tat means those obstacles that we mentioned up here. Which word is the obstacles up here, by the way? Anuttara, that's combined? Yeah, antaraya. Okay, antaraya. Antaraya, okay? Which means interference, right? Inter, antaraya. All right, good. Dr. Wern, I miss giving you money. I miss it too, Gesheva. Your income is probably dropping since you're not in Sedona. To answer the questions. Okay, let's get this done here. All right. Okay, yeah and you know this is not a great, I mean this is really just a list, it doesn't even list them, it just says there's one crucial practice for doing so. So it's gonna take some imagination to get through this one I think. You could spend some time, I guess we're going to call this episode one, right? And that would be, I don't know, I mean, it would be, I don't know what you want to call it, but it's a, equals a, It's a review of the obstacles, quick review of the obstacles, and talking up how special, okay, talking up how special this antidote is to the obstacles, okay, and why it's one and only one, okay. Why it's the one, you know. All right. Artha is by the way like Siddhartha which means to reach a goal right? But sometimes it can mean for the purpose of, okay? Like Dundu in Tibetan, Artha. that's kind of easy. This first person's job is more or less just to review the obstacles and to say that there's gonna be one special antidote for blocking them, okay, for smashing them. Yeah, okay. Second question: why are those these four called infinite? And give also the Sanskrit for the name of this group, the infinite four, and some English cognates and I would have an image of infinity or the planets I think and this I mean this is the most important thing that we could talk about and if you we just were filming the alarm room for Mexico which is supposed to be next month and we're just about finished filming it it'll be online of course nobody will go to Mexico and we had the topic of that whole Lam Rim retreat is is this is this four really and bodhicitta so I think well let's let's not let's not talk about it here yet. We can do it below. Okay so you have to get the idea of infinity or no end of things and in Asia in ancient times the universe wasn't pictured as an envelope it was pictured as infinite truly infinite so if you you got in a spaceship and you kept going then it would just be infinite and the number of living creatures in the universe is infinite there's no end you would never come to an end you could keep going from planet to planet and planets covered with people beings and you would never come to the end so that gives us a clue of why these four attitudes are infinite and it's because by the way here they are and we're going to talk about that but they're called infinite because they are the thoughts that we feel towards an infinite number of beings okay so the reason they're called infinite is that there's no limit to the number of beings according to buddhism there's no limit to the number of beings and you you know what's a popular place to go here by the way what's a popular contradiction to bring up here apparent contradiction come on yeah how can you save infinite number of beings if you save them one by one how can you save all the you see what I mean because there'll always be one more to save after you save one you know so there's a very very popular question here that there's a there's an apparent contradiction in Buddhism because these are said to be infinite living beings are said to be infinite there's another contradiction there worth then Nick, there's an infinite here about, there's an infinite that comes up here about seeing emptiness directly. Do you know? Infinite. Infinite proofs? That's pretty good, but I already asked you that last week. A couple weeks ago. Oh, Aaron says that you see infinite beings appear in the mind. That's true. And that experience comes to an end. You see them one by one when you get bodhicitta directly, but experience comes to an end. But there's another contradiction. What's that? It has to do with the proof of mothers. Oh, that everyone has been your mother at some point? Yeah, why? Everyone has been everything to you? And you've already done everything, but how could you have done everything and you've not seen emptiness directly yet? Yeah, exactly. So there's a little bit of a question there. I don't know if you want to get into it. I think we'll lose the audience. Have we talked about the direct perception of emptiness yet? We have not, not that I know of. And by the way, this is what I call going to the dollar store with $100. So I believe that to be a good DCI teacher or YSI teacher, the more information you have in your mind, the more information you have in the background of your mind. So you can prepare for a class like this, you can prepare to teach it online, and you can review this argument about infinite, you know, I'll put it here, review the question about infinite. How can you, and in DCI we do frequently asked questions. Do we do them here? I don't remember. How can you have not had an experience, direct perception of emptiness, if you have had infinite chances to do so, right? How can you come to the last person in the direct experience of bodhicitta, right? If those people are infinite, right? And if not to those two, how can we say every being has been everything to you? Maybe, Connie, we could do a separate episode, you know. Maybe have an episode about, FAQ episode. Nice. Maybe have an FAQ episode. Somewhere in here, okay? Because it would be interesting anyway to bring this up during frequently asked questions. So during frequently asked questions, the audience is expecting weird questions. So it's a funny thing. If you're going to bring those questions up during the episode, during the first episode, people are going to complain. But if you bring up these questions at the end of the whole part, then they like it. People like it. Oh, they're going deeper, you know. So these questions about infinite could come at the end, okay? How can you have not had the one experience, direct perception of emptiness? if you have had infinite chances to do so. How can you come to the last person to direct experience about chinnah if those people are infinite? How can that experience end in like 30 minutes? Okay and and then how can you say how can you say all beings have been your mom okay all right let's go back up to the so anyway those are questions that we got to talk about as far as infinity and the number of planets is a good is the normal image in ancient india for infinity i thought about having a big infinity sign but it doesn't mean anything to a yoga practitioner in ancient india and the number of planets is is infinite and that journey to the end this has no end if you if you got in a spaceship you would never come to the end of the trip all right here's and this person is gonna have to deal with uh uh um let's see yeah this infinite four called infinite because the thoughts we feel are towards an infinite number of beings and they produce a result which is infinite or never ending and there's a big theme here when you do your meditate when you do your meditations on love it doesn't it doesn't cost more to do them for all beings and the result is countless times more okay so you could do a tonglen for one person and you will get a certain result from that but if you if you get used to imagining that the number beings in the universe is infinite and you get used to I would say get used to get used to doing a prayer aimed at countless beings okay if you can get used to that idea and doing a prayer for all the beings in the universe which requires imagining the universe okay learning to imagine the universe okay and and I would encourage people maybe Connie we could do a meditation here or something or by the end there should be a meditation okay and it's good to get your students to try to imagine countless planets, countless worlds. It's a good seed to plant in a person's mind to help them experience bodhicitta. Did anybody watch the Laramim filming yesterday? Seiji was there. Maybe Connie was there. Oh, Jacqueline was there. The author made a kind of a... He made a rather controversial statement. Do you remember what it was? about bodhicitta? Oh, yeah. There is. He was talking about the self-made Buddhas or lower, lower arhat, sorry. And he was saying that it's, it's better if to, if you were about to become a lower arhat, it's better to develop, that you would go through the process of going to hell, work your way up, get bodhicitta than to go to arhat directly, right? Yeah, that was one controversial thing. He said it would take less time to get a teaching about bodhicitta, to disrespect it, to go to the hell realms, to spend hundreds of millions of years. And then because of the seed planted in your mind when you heard about bodhicitta, you come back to this realm and you achieve Buddhahood. That would take less time than becoming a lower arhat, reaching a lower nirvana and sitting there for millions of years. That was pretty controversial. But that's not the controversy I was talking about. He was talking about, it was like the difference between the headliner and the opening act. Yeah, exactly. And he said that the headliner is actually direct perception of bodhicitta and everything up into that, including the six perfections or just the opening act. Yeah, well, the way he said it was, he said, he divided it into three parts. And in the long rim, the levels for people of lesser capacity and medium capacity are like the warm up, the opening act. And then getting bodhicitta is the main event. Is the headliner band, the Rolling Stones? And then the six perfections is like dessert. you know so that's kind of uh kind of a outrageous statement that seeing emptiness directly is just deserved compared to getting bodhicitta directly okay that was pretty radical okay uh by the way he probably said that for a fact okay he probably just said that i don't believe he meant it actually but it makes for, it sounds good, doesn't it? I don't believe he meant it. What's a precedent, Seiji, for $300? What's what? A precedent for me saying he said it, but he didn't really mean it. What did the Buddha really meant? Figures. Yeah, I mean, come on. now you have to have seen the lamrim yesterday okay cancel the bet sorry noor he disappointed you again uh there was a famous uh there was a famous uh statement yesterday in the lamrim that wasn't true do you remember it concerned the heart sutra if i may say so at least i was listening to me talk she was yeah he was talking about who's the hero of the heart sutra yeah oh actually i got it wrong no i think i got it wrong yesterday you guys i think you yeah no sorry chariputra yeah chariputra and malgalia yana well it had to do something with the the lower that his disciples being in the as lower arhats being woken up and and they said you should go talk to someone else and not talk to us right yeah the buddha no the buddha offered to teach right about bodhicitta to two of his main disciples and they said you're wasting your time and he's like what and they said we're already it's too late we're already our hearts on a lower path we are like antinolo no yeah a burnt piece of wood but we are like already destroyed by this lower nirvana so don't don't waste your time teaching us about bodhicitta okay they said that but but that's not true because they can still get bodhicitta and become buddhas no well you didn't hear the lamrimas because we were just filming it but in shariputra's case he's faking it He's not really a lower arhat. So that's a confusing thing, right? Everyone says he was a lower arhat, but he wasn't really. He was just faking it. Why? For you, can I? Yeah. No, because he has to say, don't teach us about Mahayana, because we're already lost. It's too late for us. He has to say that to the Buddha. It's not true. but it's to help the other students not to try to reach a lower nirvana got it they don't want the other students to reach a lower nirvana they don't want them to try to reach a lower nirvana so shari buddha don't teach me about love but don't teach me these four infinite thoughts because i'm already like a dead piece of wood you know i already reached nirvana go teach somebody who can hear it okay and then the hope was that the other students there wouldn't try to reach a lower nirvana understand nod your head if you understand okay anyway uh okay here's the here's the infinite four or it really is immeasurable it really is immeasurable okay chatur means chatus the root is chatus i should put it here root chatus okay chatus means four and we see it in the chatu becomes cuatro in spanish for example or quarter or square okay so it becomes four now as far as the infinite part or the immeasurable part we got ah which means not pra which means very much mana which means to measure like pramana right and ultimately mind so ah it's a chapter of pramana so this pramana doesn't mean correct perception uh this this pramana means measurable okay very measurable so pramana chatur say chatur i don't see your mouth moving chatur uh pramana okay the four so it doesn't mean bad perception or something it means cannot be measured because correct perception implies a correct measuring by the mind okay the use of pramana for correct perception comes from measuring things properly measuring things correctly okay here you can't measure immeasurable okay okay noor what time is it there 11 12 30 oh my gosh okay you're still having it's the donut time Yes, for me it's noon. It's like Greenwich time. All right. Okay, so anyway, there's the meaning of the four. And we were just talking about why they were called A-pramana. Okay. Where is that? Yeah, okay. All right. Anyway, I think the verse shouldn't be here, but we won't worry about that. Okay. All right. Third question. So, Connie, that's episode, how many episodes we got? Here's episode two. And we had an episode one up here. Okay. And now we got episode three. Okay. Just now we go through the four, the infinite four. It's the next three, it's the next four episodes. We are using the order of Patanjali, but the traditional order be two different ways and we'll talk about it okay so give the first of the four according to master patanjali not according to the usual list and give the sanskrit word it's rude and some cognates okay uh why the picture of giving a kid candy because uh because maitri has to do with uh wanting to wanting for everyone to have what they want good yeah perfect yeah we want to make them happy first okay and then we want to koruna take away their suffering yeah and why is there frequently an argument to the opposite the order you mean yeah because how can you give them happiness if you haven't yet taken away their suffering. Yeah, what's the classic example in a modern photograph? A toothache? Yeah, I like to show a kid that fell off their bike and their leg is hurt and mom, first mom will kiss the leg, right, and kiss the cut on their leg, take away the pain, and then they say, oh here, have a candy to distract them. I forget. What's the argument for the opposite order? Can you guys think of it? Why do some people say you should do love first? Because if you don't care about them, why would you try to take their pain away anyway? And what's the famous example? Seven-step cause and effect method for bodhicitta. What's the measure of the love example? Oh, the fire? Wanting to take someone out of a fire? No. like someone's only son yeah like an only child okay the love for an only child sometimes they say that has to come first if you don't care about them you're not going to want to help them when they fall off the bike so we can say that you can discuss the order here if you want discuss the person who takes this can talk about discuss two opinions on the order of Maitri and Karuna okay Maitri Maitri equals give candy Karuna equals kiss the banged knee when the bicycle fell down okay and other opinion other opinion if you don't love people as if they were your only child, why would you care to take away their pain? Okay, got it? Two arguments about the order, okay? All right. and here's the roots for my my tree they're very interesting okay the Sanskrit is my tree long eye at the end okay so saying my tree my tree my tree okay and that comes from the word the root mih mih which means to mix and mix and mingle both come from that mink sometimes it has a prenasal mink okay some cognates are mixed and match and the name Maitreya also comes from this root so the idea is when you have love you want to mix with other people you want to be around other people okay there's a there's a heavy tantric word here which is uh if you say it in India you can actually get in trouble it happened to me what is it do you guys know my tuna yeah my tuna which means a ritual sex ritual getting together okay so be careful not to talk about that one all right and that's part of the four m's which are an old uh an old uh possibly corrupt tactic practice okay uh All right. So it's described as the wish and the decision to see that all beings and all worlds achieve happiness. We talked a lot about this in the Larm Rim filming that me and Seiji and Tim have been doing this week. We've been doing this filming most days for a couple hours. We're filming, I think 15 half-hour segments with maybe five extras. So, and we're talking about the virus. And we're talking about, could you destroy the virus? And we're talking about the concept of overkill, okay? So you could take this to overkill. The idea of overkill. What was the image, Seiji? I tried to find an image. It wasn't very successful. Sending it to the sun, right? The virus into the sun. Catch it. Catch it. Yeah. I tried to make an image to try to give the example, but it didn't work. Nobody in the room thought it was good. Killing a fly with a sledgehammer. We didn't say that. It's like killing a fly with a sledgehammer. A fly with a sledgehammer. But I didn't want to say it because it's a negative example. It's like killing two deer with one bullet or killing two birds with one stone. So anyway, we had an image of you go to a 4th of July picnic, you spill, you eat a hamburger, veggie burger, right? We have to be politically correct. And you get some red spot on your shirt. And to clean it, you give it to a space shuttle. and if they throw it off near the sun and it goes to the middle of the sun which is 25 million degrees fahrenheit okay and you know you get do you get rid of the stain or not yeah yes you over get rid of this thing yeah what happens to the shirt it's a beer yeah it totally disappears like long before it reaches the middle of the sun but you gotta think that the four immeasurables it's a similar concept okay and in the in the long room we're talking about removing the virus from this planet by simply removing the viruses from all planets okay if you want to remove one coronavirus from one planet then a nice way to do it is just to remove all the viruses on a billions of billions of planets and then you cover this virus by by accident okay so you don't have to worry about it and and you can and it's a valid method okay it's not an exaggeration and it's not an illustration it's a valid method okay it is possible to love every being in the universe directly and and speak to them directly it is possible to have love times infinite beings it is possible and that would kill this virus like a zillion times okay this virus would go easily okay uh rat don't think of the virus as billions of cells carried on the breath of millions of people don't think of it that way this virus is tiny compared to all the people in the universe okay if you loved all of them the virus would go away within a few minutes okay all right so you can take this to the idea of overkill and we'll talk more about it okay we're ready for this by the way we're going to the verse the verse is up here my three my three say my three my three by the way what are you not gonna say for tr tree good yeah you're not gonna say my tree okay you're not going to talk like an Indian my tree my tree okay good my tree good and this is actually equals mudita plus infection say mudita yeah mudita and I don't know if the mudita is a long a how do I find out Brady's gopher program yay here let's do here Okay. So we use, uh, I'll show you how I, how I do it. You're going to share. Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah. I better share, right? You need to share your screen as opposed to just word. If you just click desktop, it will show everything that is in your desktop. Oh, let's do that. Does that work? Do you see gopher? Yes. Do you see? Yeah, okay. Now, Word, when you're using this, I'll give you a suggestion. And John Campbell is responsible for this dictionary. Extraordinary job. Every time I think of you, I think of this dictionary. In fact, I don't think of you, I think of your dictionary. It's an unbelievably important piece of work. Extraordinary. and it starts with this mark, this vertical slash, okay? So if you want a definitive occurrence in the dictionary word or nick, you use the slash, okay, vertical slash first. Here we go. And then you'll hit murita by itself, you see? And it means raptagawa, which means great love, which happens to be the name of the first Bodhisattva level. Okay. So what do we see here about the last A? It's short. Yeah, it's short. Okay. By the way, I can't expand that. We got to get Ted to work on that. I can't expand the screen. I'm sorry about it. It'll go in the list. Yeah. why were we concerned about that because mudita pekshanam is a combination of some a and some u we don't know if they were long before they weren't long before so you have to go look it up okay so mudita and not mudita which means joy and then upeksa which means equanimity we're going to get to it later. Let's go to the second of the four infinite thoughts. I told you guys to turn on your screen. I'm not sure it was wise, but actually I like it. I like it. Then I can see who's falling asleep, who's gone to the refrigerator, like Norah is doing right now. Okay, just kidding. Okay, now describe the second of the infinite four, the Sanskrit root for it, the root, and the second of the infinite four is infinite compassion this means the wish and decision to see that all beings in all worlds attain freedom from pain so whoever does this one can talk about the difference between giving something giving happiness to people and taking away their suffering right you have to make that clear distinction when you break things down this is a buddhist thing when you break things down you think about them more okay so if you discuss the difference between this and love then people are more likely to get both okay so the the geshe theory the lord buddha theory is you know talk about the details until somebody finally figures out that they should be nice to other people okay it's just a trick all those divisions all those numbers just a trick to get people to finally have the emotion okay so here we go the Sanskrit word is karuna you've probably heard of it don't forget the n is retroflex okay karuna the reason the n is retroflex is that an R came before it in the same word without a lot of other letters. So if there's an R near another consonant, that consonant after an R will often turn to a retroflex. So it's because when you say the R, Karu, Karu, Indian way, your tongue is already touching the top of your mouth. And then they say, just keep your tongue there. They say your tongue won't have time to get back to your front teeth. It will stay up near the palate, near the top of the mouth. Okay. That's why it's retroflex. Okay. It wasn't always retroflex. It's retroflex because the R came before it, and your tongue is still up in the top of your mouth. Karuna. Karuna. Okay. Karuna. In English, R is spoken with the front teeth on the lower lip, which is unusual. Most countries don't do that. Okay. All right. And this comes from a very ancient root called kir okay somebody give me some famous kr's crypt yeah krishna which is really krishna okay it's k-i-r okay krishna is like it's like calling noor nar or it's like calling word wood or it's weird that's also weird right word it's like word weird okay if you miss out the vowel you get some strange things okay i don't know uh i could think of some bad words but i'm not gonna do it okay it's like mispronouncing bed sheet okay all right i i mean in in sanskrit it's important okay you don't want to say bed shit okay you want to say bed sheet okay that's a long i by the way bed sheet double a in english is a long i okay you don't want to say bed shit uh so so if you mispronounce sanskrit it sounds like that to a person who knows Sanskrit. It sounds like you're saying bed shit all the time. Okay. It sounds really weird. Okay. Anyway, this is a very unusual but possible double ur sound. Okay. Double ur sound like Krishna or what's the famous one from the first two lines of the Yoga Sutra? - Yeah, verti, verti. So this is, keep it going, okay? What's it look like is, it's funny. Let me see, let me get a pen. So here's a ka sound, k. And this little mark down here is a ur, okay? So that's ker, okay? Without this mark, it's just ka. That's ka. And this is ker, okay? By the way, it's not Krishna, okay? Don't pronounce it that way. Now, how do you make a long, how do you make a double er? Two of them. Turn the squiggle around. No, you had two of them, I think. Oh, yeah. You had two of them. Okay, so this is kerrr. Okay, kerrr. And it's extremely rare, you know. You will never see it in a manuscript. Extremely rare. There's a double L also, coal. We had one recently. Anyway, so it means to cover, to cover something, ker. Yeah, cognates are crypt and grotto, okay. There's a Russian cognate, a kresh, which means the roof, okay, of a house, a kresh, and the roof of a car, the bonnet of a car, the hood of a car. Krishna, Krishna. Okay, anyway, it means, and it's a beautiful image, and if you teach this one, since you don't have much else to talk about, maybe, Connie, maybe you want to combine it with another one, okay? Maybe combine. Okay. This is episode four. Maybe three and four in one episode. Yeah, I think that's a good idea. That might be a good idea and it might take two people. Okay. Next two together. Okay. Maybe a couple. Okay. Yes, Allah. Yeah. her as in to protect like with a tent or awning to protect the peddler like a crumb is a kramer from whence we get the name kramer of like a peddler wow cool a covered person out on the to sell to sell i was in morocco and they they sell prickly pear fruit uh anyway yeah so if you teach this episode it would be nice to i don't know i could bring my teddy bear but i'm not gonna but you you you could you could cup something in your hands and say this is karuna you see it means to to put a roof over something okay to protect it so you could do this one with your hands to show this is karuna this is protecting you could use a dog or a baby or something like that okay he's too big to cook to to cover okay he's so cute you gotta loan him to me sometimes all right that finishes karuna okay and karuna is pretty popular name for example in sri lanka for example okay all right number five describe the third of the infinite for the sanskrit and its root this is little bit longer it's called mudita stay mudita and it means joy okay if you're interested we could put in this Tibetan which is let's see what's the Tibetan from Maitri? Yeah, Jampa, which is a popular name, which is also the name for what? Maitreya. Maitreya, okay, the Buddha Maitreya. Okay. And what's the Tibetan for Karuna? Inge. Inge. Who said that? That's great. Who's that? Kendra. Oh, who is that? My wife. Kendra. Oh, my wife. Okay, Ning-Jae. Okay. What's it mean, literally? Lord of the hearts. Yeah, Lord of the hearts. Lord of hearts. Okay. All right. We can say Ning-Jae. what's another famous jay yeah or or jay or jay doc okay good okay good uh the wish and decision to see that all beings in all worlds of 10 freedom from me. By the way, we repeat in every homework question, wish and decision. Here, see here, wish and decision. For number two, wish and decision. Because at the person who gets to do the last episode before the frequently asked questions is gonna get to do the famous four infinite thoughts, prayer. Okay. This is the whole Tibetan Four Infinite Thoughts and it's awesome. It's totally awesome. We make a good meditation. It's a practical implementation of these four. So whoever gets that episode, I wrote it out for you. And it's going to be awesome. Okay. Yay. Number five. Describe the third of the four infinite thoughts, the Sanskrit is rude and the karmic. The third is called mudita. And it's not what the name joy might normally suggest. Rather, it consists of the wish and decision, right? To see that all beings attain ultimate happiness. And that would make me really happy, you know, joy. So it's not normal joy, okay? Mudita. And the freedom from all forms of negative emotions and transformation into an angel of light. I don't know how we're going to treat that. That's up to Connie, I guess. He, he, he. Okay. The Sanskrit here is Mudita, which comes from mud. This is not mad, okay? Don't say mad. If you say mad, I will get mad. Okay? This is mud. okay and it means to be happy to be exhilarated it is found in the english word mad and mead which is it which is a drink made from meal right right uh seiji how do you say it in french it's also same thing yeah it's IE yeah so in most European languages it's some kind of med or meal in Russian it's so it's closer to the root so mead means mead means a beer that's made from honey and until the slave trade was created in Latin America, honey was unknown in the world mostly, except for some parts of Africa. And honey was the only sweetener that was used. So sugar was unknown, right? Yeah, sugar. Sorry. Sugar was unknown. Yeah. And then when they discovered it, it was very labor intensive. So they had to take the slaves along with the sugar plants. And they brought them to the Caribbean. And that's how it all started. That's how slavery began in the Americas. For sugar. For English people to have sugar in their tea. Okay. So anyway. Mad, mead, and mead. Okay. Or mead in Russian. Okay. And I like amethyst because I'm a gemstone dealer. and amethyst is a is an initial negative a this a means not okay like uh what's the famous one in the wheel of life in the middle what's the famous negative a oh no he means ignorance what's the pig good ignorance and by the way the I in ignorance is an A it's an old A okay so agnosis okay agnosis anyway amethyst means not drunk the word means not drunk because methyl came from this mead beer that made you drunk. And the word for alcohol is methyl, which comes from mudita. Okay. Got it? So amethyst in Rome, it was believed that if you went to a drinking party, and you put a small piece of amethyst under your tongue, you wouldn't get drunk, it would absorb all the alcohol from the from the cocktails. And then you could out drink everybody else. So amethysts were expensive and popular in ancient Rome. And that's how they got their name. Okay. Anyway, if you really want to put your audience to sleep, you can go into that. I'm doing it right now. Okay. Describe finally the last of the infinite four along with the Sanskrit word, its root and cognizance. The last of the infinite four is equanimity, which is the wish and decision to see that all living beings reach a state where they no longer, and by the way, this is the definition in Tibetan Buddhism, okay? Nyerin cha dandan jaui dang yon. Nyerin cha dandan jaui. It means you no longer feel that some people are closer to you and some people are further from you. And that's called upeksa. This is called equanimity. You treat everyone as if they were your wife or your husband or your own child. You don't have any favorites. I know some bad people who treat everybody badly. So they kind of have upeksa. Okay. They treat everybody lousy. Okay. But we want to do the opposite. Okay. All right. So you wouldn't ignore anybody. If you heard there was a problem in Africa, if someone was hungry, you would definitely send them food on the same day. You wouldn't make a difference between your wife or your child or your dog or people in Africa. Okay. All right. Okay. I like this because it's upa iksha. Upa means over. And iksha literally means look. So what's the English word here? Occult. Huh? I mean together yeah overlook the differences overlook the differences okay so if you're going to teach people about what is I think it's really cool to say it means to over look means over means to look okay and came into English which means to grab okay and the old idea was that your eyeball your eye's sense power grabs the object okay when you open your eyes something in your eye grabs blue or grabs round or grabs a shape or a color it's aksh which is related to up which means to attain okay okay and we see it in ocular and eye because they come from the german auga Okay. All right. And I think if I was going to do this, I wouldn't talk about the root that much. Just enough to get people to feel it means to overlook the differences. It means upa iksha means to overlook the apparent differences between people. Okay. This is my relative. This is not my relative. All right. Master Patanjali describes equanimity in a separate verse. he does not describe the other three in a separate verse, okay? He gives equanimity as a separate verse, and this actually half of a verse, which is half of the 33rd verse, okay? Then the question is interesting here, right? Comment on two things that Upeksha doesn't mean. So this is a negative question, okay? Comment on two things that Upeksha doesn't mean, okay? And this is episode six, I think, and this was episode five, okay, and this was episode three, and this was episode okay all right so here's his description of equanimity and the benefits of equanimity so this is a long one whoever takes this one it's a lot to say the verse is long the other three are shorter but to reach them is harder. So please repeat after me. Sukha Dukha Dukha Dukha Punya Punya Vishayanam Bhavanathasca Bhavanathas Chitta Kasadanam Sukha Dukha very good okay learn to keep your feelings in balance whether something feels good or whether it hurts which is sukha duka whether it's enjoyable or distasteful which is the original meaning of puña apuña and uh vishayana means feelings or experiences bhavanata citta and if you do then the mind will the citta will become this is not bodhicitta by the way this is just uh the mind after you get to equanimity the general mental state is prasadhana prasadhana okay pure yeah pure and the the name for offering in India, right? You go to the temple, yeah, they give you leftover offerings. I used to love to go after the services in Varanasi and collect the sweets and stuff. That's called prasad, okay? But it means pure, like water, clear like water. Prasada. Prasadana means clear like water, okay? In Tibetan, by the way, for master word, it's uh raptid dhamma okay raptid dhamma perfectly clear like a crystal okay for sat so if you can reach equanimity your mind becomes as clear as crystal if you could really treat everybody equally then your mind would be as clear as crystal it's a beautiful idea and you wouldn't you know if you're out to help somebody you wouldn't care if it's 100 degrees outside or 70 degrees outside and whether it hurt you to be there or it helped you to be there you wouldn't care that's equanimity okay okay uh then when we talk about equanimity there are two wrong ideas that we have to fight against okay there are two wrong ideas about equanimity number one I don't care about anything, okay? So, you know, I have equanimity. I don't care if sage is happy or unhappy. It doesn't matter to me, okay? I have equanimity, okay? So that's not equanimity, okay? Just don't care about anybody is not Yoga Sutra equanimity, okay? That's the first misunderstanding, okay? and by the way it doesn't mean there's no good deeds and there's no bad deeds and it doesn't mean there's no cause of them which is pleasure and sorry result of them which is pleasure and pain it doesn't mean that the goal of a yogi is to reach a place where you don't feel pleasure or pain and that's a common misunderstanding of equanimity okay so we are not trying to reach a place i've had yoga teachers tell me oh just have upeksha if the pose hurts just go into upeksha you know and then i got some terrible injuries from those people so if your body hurts it's trying to tell you something you know and you should back off you know so upeksha doesn't mean uh you should be a tough guy and you should keep going into pose even if it hurts it doesn't mean that okay and it also doesn't mean you don't care about anybody all right it doesn't mean that it means it's like these french cooks like Connie what were we having the other day Veronica made me some meal it was her grandmother's recipe for enchiladas okay I'm sorry Seiji it's better than the brown Guadalajara enchiladas this is New Mexico Catalonian probably and extremely hot and then you have to take sour cream to cleanse the palate, right? Or some lemon or something. So this idea of you have to bring the palate back to upeksha. You have to bring it back to neutral. So upeksha can mean neutral, okay? So to really have love, to really have compassion, you have to bring the heart to neutral towards all people, okay? You have to not hate anybody and not prefer anybody. You have to treat people equally. It's like cleansing your palate in a good French dinner. Okay. I think you can always cleanse your palate with pound cake. But we're having a debate at my house about it. Okay. All right. Some people have said that you shouldn't care about feeling good or feeling bad, but that would be connected to thinking there's no good deeds or bad deeds because there's no cause for feeling good or feeling bad so that kind of equanimity is a is a disaster you know to think that it doesn't matter whether you drink alcohol or have sex with somebody else's partner uh that you are having equanimity if you have sex with all your students that's not equanimity okay so I mean that's a common you hear that sometimes you hear ideas like that okay by the way this one is one of my favorite things to hate you know I hate this one in a healthy hate hatred for this one okay this is a big misunderstanding of the Hindu scriptures. It's very common in the Bhagavad Gita, which you're going to teach in about eight years from now. And the idea that just do good things and don't worry if they make good karma results or not. Just do good things for other people. And you're a bad person if you wanted to make something good. okay so if you do good deeds and you think if you even think a little bit that something good is going to happen to you then you are a corrupt person okay and you know this is a big misunderstanding of of the idea of pala of a karmic fruit okay so this is one of my favorite things to hate you know the idea that uh you're a bad person if you maintain any awareness that being kind to others is being kind to yourself okay i think that's a very holy thing and uh i i don't i don't think there's any benefit to hoping that you don't get anything you know all right good good good dates do produce pleasure happiness and bad dates do produce pain my screen is frozen that's bad what do i do oh just click do you want to i want to move my screen but i can't yeah that on top it says that you want to save changes just click cancel uh i'm sorry there you go okay you're right by the way knowing how good and bad results come from good and bad days which is we're going to cover punya punya Hetudvat in the first chapter we're going to cover the fact that good deeds make good results and bad deeds make we're going to cover it so don't think it's uh that's not the idea of equanimity okay uh all right by the way you can best keep equanimity if you understand good karma and bad karma because then you know why some people don't like you and why some people do like you okay So it actually helps your equanimity if you understand that you can get good things from being good and you can get bad things from being bad. Proper equanimity comes from understanding karma. Krishna Krishna, what is it Earl Kramer fourth chapter? Krishna Ashukla Ashukla Tri Vidim Yogi Nis Understand black and white deeds okay? Fourth chapter somewhere. Okay describe the four stages and the progression of our feelings. Now, this is a very long episode, okay? And we're going to finish here. So don't worry, we're going to finish. Okay, here's episode seven. And it's definitely going to take two people, okay? Two people for sure. And you might want to go back and forth four times. okay and this is the this is the tibetan the the progression through the four okay this is the classical progression through the four and then we're finished i think uh oops well maybe there's one more question after that how are we doing on time Connie I still have 15 minutes right okay I'll try to talk faster okay okay so you guys know Lama Chapa first pension Lama very very cool offering to Lama by the way the first pension which is in your three treasures prayer book the whole english is in there so uh they the name of that lama chapa is the indivisible bliss and voidness okay the name of the offering to the lamas is called the book the poem on the poem on the poem on bliss and emptiness indivisible okay they don't hear me ma this ma makes it uh the title of a book like okay all right uh and by the way this is uh i took this from a commentary on how to die properly it's called poa right and qi shak it's a confession for death actually uh all right yay okay and and I'm going to read it to you as a loom okay what's a loom transmission oral transmission it's going to create seeds in your mind that last for the next million lifetimes okay here we go please listen carefully Thank you. We gotta do it four times, three times, I'm sorry. One more time. Yay! hey okay now it's stuck in your brain uh by the way we're not going to get to the last one because we'll get to number nine next time okay let's do this this is the progression of the four sometimes it's called the four by four okay there are four steps for each of the four infinite thoughts okay uh and they're very beautiful and it's a formula it's repeated four times. So I will not go late. I will finish by 3:30. Okay, don't worry. You know, if people could stop feeling closer to their family and their country and they could feel the same for other countries people and other people in their city, Wouldn't that be nice? You know, chimarung. Okay. So the first of the four steps is to say, wouldn't that be nice? Okay. Chimarung means why not? That would be fun. That would be cool. If everyone treated everybody like they treat their own wife and their own child and their own dog, then wouldn't that be nice? Okay. Then second one, nepar gyur chik. let's do it okay let's all do it okay let's all try to think of people equally all the people in my town or all all the people in my in the americas for example okay then the third step okay so the first step was what how nice it would be it's like a prayer and then number two is a commitment decision sorry it it should be that way okay so here's the first one wouldn't it be nice if everybody treated everybody else equally number two that's the way it should be number three daki chao what's that mr word i'll i'll make it be so yeah i take responsibility Tony. I'll make it happen. Okay. So here's the three, how nice it would be. It should be that way. I'll make it happen. Okay. And by the way, what's the addition there? What's always the addition there? Ask your teacher for help. No. About the third one. I'll make it happen. If nobody else helps me. And by the way, it usually happens. A, nobody helps you. Okay. listen like when you're washing the dishes right nobody helps you and then finally something fun comes in the kitchen and connie what happens they make a new dirty dish and they leave this is how it goes in the world okay like you're doing a you're doing a huge project to help a lot of people and then people will call you up and say you know can you come over and clean my porch for me and then you're like okay I'm kind of trying to help 10,000 people but I'll come over and clean your porch for you you know and then you get over there you clean it and then before you finish they mess it up again okay so that's called they don't help you and they even get in your way and then what's the final level of that? Ask my teacher for help. Yeah, they criticize you for washing the dishes. I don't know why you don't come out and meet the people who are here for dinner. Why do you always disappear into the kitchen and wash the dishes, you know? Why are you ignoring all the guests? You're like, oh man, I was just trying to help out. By the way, that doesn't happen at my house. I always wash the dishes, so it doesn't matter. Okay, number four. you ask your teacher for help to do all that yeah nice it's a very beautiful wording here i wish i don't have the capacity to be sweet to everybody equally i actually don't have the capacity i i wish my lama would come and give me a blessing and change my capacity and by the way that's the definition of changing a student's capacity changing their iq blessing yeah turning the wheel no who said that it is the definition of a blessing that was anatole yeah it is the definition of a blessing of course your uh changes your brain capacity okay all right so here it is by the way it says lama tha for 50 now let's make it a hundred dollars my angel mama okay nick got it you have to tell jig me okay who's my banker chintzong are you there sure yes i'm here hundred dollars for Nick from you gotta tell uh Jigme okay okay will do yeah what's a mistake you could have made here Nick? Lama La uh to my Lama or like Lama I should start taking away ten dollars each for each of that guests Lama La La L-A-G-S no I mean how could it be misinterpreted Oh, to my Lama and the angels. Yeah, good, good, good. That's a famous misinterpretation. Oh, I asked my Lama and all the Buddhists for help. And then, you know, that's a good way to get hit in the monastery. No, no, it's not Lama and all the angels. It's your Lama who is an angel. Okay, got it? Who is an enlightened being. Okay. Now he does the same thing for happiness which is my tree. He does the same thing for suffering which is karuna. And he does the same thing for helping people get to ultimate goals which is mudita. But he did upeksha first. In the traditional Tibetan presentation of these four, we go to Upeksha first. So, Connie, I'm not going to finish this one. Okay. I'm not going to, purposely, I'm not going to finish the last two. We're going to do the last two next time, next Monday. Okay. Now, your homework is to figure out why do the Tibetans do equanimity first? And is it wrong when Patanjali does it last? Okay, what's the two parts of the homework? Who can tell me? For zero dollars. Why do the Tibetans do it first? Is it wrong? Dr. Patanjali does it last. Good, yeah. Why do the Tibetans do equanimity first? And I'll give you a clue about cleaning the palate. And then why does Patanjali do it last? Okay, so that's your homework. Someone's going to tell me. I will give a substantial monetary reward next week good answer okay uh and last thing next week is bodhicitta okay we're going to talk about the direct perception of bodhicitta which is what then the new lam rim is all about and that's a huge topic it's it's like two pages it's too much to do today so rather than keeping you late i am releasing you two minutes early because i'm such a nice person connie oh no i am not i have a few announcements, Keshele. Okay, let's go. First one is, Keshele, you haven't had a chance to give a talk in a little while. I know you're with the Lam Rim. Did you want to take any of these particular episodes? I have book number nine. I have book question nine. Okay. I think it's episode, it's going to be episode eight, I think. I'm booking the last one. All right. And then I'm a little but consider where you would like the meditation to go uh i think our meditations should go in the middle because it breaks up the monotony you know and you know people who go to yoga studios are are the people who were athletes in high school and they drive me crazy because they're always good at yoga uh so they're not in they're not intellectual type of people they're not interested in the theory that much but they are they do have some interest in meditation so i think every part every homework should have a meditation somewhere in them oh just in the middle so okay All right. So then the other question is we've never presented a meditation like on one of our gauntlets. Do we want that? I think it'd be fun. Okay. That's awesome. I know the Venerable Chun-Zum has done at least one for us. So who wants to pull it up this time? Then I have a really beautiful, this is an announcement. I'm just going to put a little link in the chat there. And it's to a program that the Three Jewels has started. And it is a wonderful program that Sarah Blackburn, you guys may know her. She runs kids programs. So if you want to get that out there to everybody, this is a beautiful program, online program for kids. It's like a kid's camp. And Earl has a lot more information about it. You can ask him. But the website is beautiful. I know that Sarah's created a number of fabulous modules, basically, videos and all kinds of things for activities for kids. And it's on the Six Perfections, I think, right, Ara? Yep, Six Perfections. It's geared for six to nine-year-olds. It's very seed-based. It's super beautiful. It's designed to get them a virtual camp that the kids can do independently to get them off the computers. So it's very arts and craft-based. and it can be anywhere in the world people can you know access it from wherever and it's it's really cool there's so many amazing activities and if you know anyone that's got kids that are driving them crazy it'll entertain them you know an hour or two a day I think there is 12 lessons so there's a ton of material and it's really well thought out it's based on guess those teachings and the six perfections and it you know I really encourage it I've been looking at it. It's awesome. Okay. What if they're older than nine and they're driving you crazy? Sign them up. Oh, and it's cheap. It's a hundred bucks. So it's very cheap. Send them to Earl's house. That'll cost you 200 bucks. All right. Great. And I understand that everybody's videos will be completed by the 10th. Episodes 1 to 5. Okay, that's super. Parts 1 through 5. All the episodes in those parts. All those episodes in those parts. And another brief announcement on the 9th at 4 p.m. Geshe Michael will be leading the yoga class. It's the launch of the Russia YSI group. So we have a whole subsidiary organization, Russia YSI. So they're launching that on Thursday, the 9th of July, 4 p.m. with Geshe Michael leading the yoga class. Yay. Oh, man. I got it for the COVID to me. You're so firing. Yes, sorry. Sorry, Tuna, but Connie, I think you told me it was going to be the 8 a.m. class. Are you sure it's the 4 p.m. class? Which one's for China? Which one's for Russia? It's 8 a.m. Thank you. 8 a.m. Oh, sorry. I'm sorry. I was trying to help you out. No, it's 8 a.m. So if everybody wants to join, 8 a.m. Thank you, Lydia. Okay. Oh, wait. Can you invite everybody to? Yes. Wednesday morning. I think, Seiji, the announcement went out from Lydia this morning to everybody in our group for Wednesday morning. the web with DCI and all of the organizations with Bob and Nikita leading a sort of a, basically it's leading them through our website, but it's kind of linking all of our groups together because there's some amazing things happening on the DCI platforms. Those guys are building their own platform. And then there's some amazing things happening on the ACIP platform where they're actually building the structure that could hold all of our platforms. They're working at the level of blockchain construction, so it's pretty amazing. So there's a lot of cool stuff, I think, that is going on. And please join us. It's 7 a.m. on Wednesday morning. And Seiji will send out that email if he hasn't already. Maybe he's missing something from me. I sent it to a list you sent me. Did someone not get that link? I can put it right now. I didn't-- I did not get it. That would be great. Oh, OK. Anyone else? Adriana? Can we put it in the WhatsApp as well? Yeah. Sure. Okay, that's it. And because it's five minutes over time, very sorry to hold you. Anton, thank you for the email. I'll get back to you on that. Okay. Thank you, everyone. Have a good rest of your day. Thank you, Geshele. Bye.