<iframe src="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1viJ-Fa0ZhtlmUGikhC5CUoY2l1W5tfgM/preview" width="100%" height="80" allow="autoplay"></iframe> Thank you. Hi, Geshe. Hello, Geshe. Congratulations. Yay, Geshe, Michael, and Vy. My purpose is finished now. It's kind of everything. Yeah, not quite. You have to teach all of us still. Please. It's downhill from here. I'll just start. Okay. No, we're doing good. So far, we haven't had any marital squabbles, but I guess we could start. Connie I got your emails I didn't have time to to study it yet okay well not everybody's here yet there was just one quick question and I'll tell everybody at the end of the class what the plan is but I know if next Monday next Monday's the last party line but did you do you feel like there's enough time for you to be able to to do gauntlets and yeah i can throughout the week but i i think after next monday we'll stop party line and then the other stuff will slowly stop right right but it'll it takes it's going to take us a whole month to finish that so what you said connie like let's finish after i thought it was after next monday's party line but if you want we can go to that's the third or we can go to the eighth let's see how we do but uh what i'd like to do is for myself is after the last party line is finished i'd like to stop party lines for probably a month until i finish i have uh 800 pages of medicine buddha translate I have the 850 page manual for SCIM and I have a 200 page manual for China Subcar. Right. So I guess my thing is, Geshla, we still have, we would have a month worth of gauntlets and dress commercials to do. And should we just stop those for a month? Give everybody a break for a month? I think you should finish them and get, and then release the, the, the website you know oh we can release um our first course with just parts one two three and four that's okay all right that's fine then it's up to you guys i think it's good to take a break i think everybody would be fresher you know at some point you should take a break everybody yeah oh but my thing is keshla if you still have to be available to us not not to create something but at least just to watch us yeah on let's and party lines is godliness and dress rehearsals is that too much for you no i i think i can do that we'll see because it'll still take us i think until the end of august to complete everything yeah i think i can do that you can okay yeah if i can't i'll let you know but i think it'll be okay okay then because our dear lydia has probably a schedule for everything. Okay. I just do everything. Okay. You guys ready? Yeah. Okay, Connie, what question did we finish last time? Wasn't there, but Jacqueline or Lydia will be able to tell me right away. Maybe I marked it. Hang on. I think you did. Oh, I did mark it. Okay. Okay. Here we go. yeah I stopped last time because it's weird and the same homework we have the direct experience emptiness and the direct experience of bodhicitta and I thought it's it's giving you guys indigestion if we did them both at the same time so today we're going to pick up on the direct experience of bodhicitta. And it says that a person with proper training has another extremely important spiritual realization in the hours just after the direct perception of ultimate reality. Name and describe this realization, remembering to mention the relation of this realization to the inner body. Add as well, and add as well, please, a note about how the direct perception and the ultimate reality itself relates to our inner body and what this has to do with the practice of yoga as we normally think of it. So I think since we're emphasizing Sanskrit so much in our platform, I don't think it's inappropriate to call this bodhicitta. I think that wouldn't be appropriate, for example, in DCI, right? But for YSI, I think you can call it bodhicitta. you can call it the wish for perfection. Somebody was using perfection. I think it was Aaron the other day, and it sounds pretty good for this platform for enlightenment, but you guys can think about it. Yeah, and you've heard me talk about it before. I don't like to talk about it too much because I think it cheapens it in a way, But after you see emptiness directly, after your sushumna is open completely, then for about until you go to bed, you have some extraordinary abilities because your prana is running freely. And then that stops when you go to bed and sleep. And then when you wake up, you can't do all those things again. So that period of your life is called jetop. So jetop means the period in yoga terms, the period after you see ultimate reality directly, and you come down, but you're still staying in the same room and you're still having, I don't know, for an hour, you have other experiences. And one of them is to see your future enlightenment directly. you see you as a buddha in the future which is nice kind of sitting over a world and taking care of it like you get assigned a world and then you see your future lives which are going to be no more than seven and you're aware of that you will have teachers from the time you're born your whole life you will have really good teachers spiritual teachers even as a kid in your next life you will be brought up by good teachers you also see your death directly which is sort of a something that most people don't see and things like that but one of the experiences is bodhicitta and you know you and I've mentioned it before and we talk about it in the new Lomb Room, the Mexico Lomb Room. I don't know when that comes out. Tim, is Tim is here? I think it comes out in. It starts on Saturday, August 1st. Oh, wow. August 1st, Saturday. Yeah. So if you're interested about this, we talk a lot about it during that course, during that Lomb Room course. And but basically, to put it simply, you're still seated in meditation, although you may have moved in the room. So you may be sitting in a different part of the room. But with your eyes closed, you begin to see the faces of people one by one. And I like to say it's like a slot machine or something. The faces come up as if they were on a slot machine, but just one face comes up. So a face comes up in front of you, and then like the first face might be your mother. And you see her alive, you see her fresh, and she's looking at you, and she's very disturbed, or she's hurt. She's hurting. And then you're like, you see her, and then she's alive. She's not a mental image. She's a real person. But your eyes are closed. And you say, don't worry, Mama. I'll take care of things, you know. I like this expression, I got you covered, you know. And I told Tim a long story about it. It's in the Long Rim videos. But when I went to Princeton, I was on a scholarship, but I had to work 20 hours a week, which wasn't really fair because I didn't have as much time to study. But I ended up working in a truck warehouse, driving heavy trucks, you know, and delivering supplies and stuff. And the foreman of the warehouse was this big Polish guy from Trenton, and a very rough guy, and like about seven feet tall Polish guy. His name was Big John and Kowalski or something. And he always was covering us because we would always do naughty things. And he was always covering for us. We got in trouble one day. Well, I won't talk about that. But one day we split a truck in half. We drove the truck across a football field. And the top of the truck hit a tree. and the truck broke in half. And so we'd like run back to the warehouse, and Big John's like, don't worry, I got you covered. I got you covered. Don't worry about it. I got it. I got you guys covered. And so then we always knew it was all right, and we actually got away with it. And so when you see your mom come up in the vision, then you say, don't worry, mom, I got you covered. I got everything figured out. I'll take care of anything. I personally will take care of you. You don't have to worry about anything. And then that image goes away. And then the image of your father comes up. And it's the same story. And your father's worried. And you say, don't worry, I got everything covered. I personally got to take care of everything. And then you start seeing other relatives. In my case, it was my three brothers. And even though one, he wasn't dead yet, but people, even dead people come up. And you say hi. You said, then you assure them that everything's all right. And that you make a personal commitment to each one. And it's kind of like you're doing a contract or something with them. And it's a covenant. right with each one and i will take care of you and uh so then you start going to all your people you ever met in your life one by one and then you start seeing people you don't know but it's the same experience and then you start seeing animals which is really weird so uh and you start seeing them individually like uh this cat that cat this dog that dog this horse that horse horses you never met and then it keeps going to all the birds in this world and then the insects you start the insect and they come up one by one and the grasshoppers look worried and you're like don't worry i got it covered and and it keeps coming up one by one and then you are aware when you finish this world when you finish everybody in this world you are aware of it and and then you're like well i guess this is going to stop now and then another world starts the people on another world start and then you the whole thing gets repeated for everyone in that world in the one by one and then and then every world there is which is no number there is no number of the worlds and uh you meet them one by one and you make this uh you you make a i like to say covenant i don't know you make a contract with them that i i will take care of you and then finally it finishes it shouldn't finish right because it's infinite there are infinite worlds, but somehow you finish and you come out and it's only half an hour. It's only been half an hour. And that's one of the proofs of that time is empty and space is empty. And after that, by the way, you do believe that there are people on other worlds and that they are infinite, you know? And then I like to say after that experience, and you come out, you open your eyes and everything's normal. You're in the same room again. And I'd like to say that's a, I mean, you could say there are two direct realizations that are important to reach in this life. And that's the second one. And in fact, Pabanko Rinpoche argues that it's more important than the direct perception emptiness. But it's, how can we say? Well, I like to say to people that I know, okay, I don't talk about this with normal people. You guys are unnormal people. But I like to say, imagine what your life is like after that. Imagine what your priorities are. Imagine what happens when things don't go well or there's small problems in your life or disasters. Like nothing really matters much compared to that. And you're pretty clear what you need to do in your life. And you have a deep sense of happiness about doing the best thing. So you also become fanatic about saving books. because all those books are correct jb is on the right track uh all those books are are correct and not just one or two there are maybe 300 000 books which are completely correct and accurate and about those strange things that they talk about and so you get kind of obsessive about saving those books, translating them, make sure they survive. Okay. Okay. So that's, you know, chronically, we can say crystal light is pouring out of your heart. And it feels like Like a fire hydrant got broke open at your heart chakra. And then like crystal light is gushing out towards these beings. Okay. So pranically, that's what it feels like. And that's when the central channel opens. Okay. During the direct perception of emptiness, maybe 20 minutes. And then again, during bodhicitta. Okay. Real bodhicitta. Okay. okay there's a question from somebody can you see the faces of air being before dpe uh i don't think so i don't think it's possible uh there's an argument about it you know they're traditionally in the lower middle way they say you can reach bodhicitta before you reach the direct perception emptiness you everyone agrees you could see emptiness directly on a lower path and see and have bodhicitta when you enter the higher when the mahayana track but uh whether whether you can see have bodhicitta this experience of bodhicitta before you see emptiness directly i doubt it technically it's possible technically in the scriptures it's it's uh it's possible uh but i i i'm not sure i think if you study really deeply the scriptures um i'm not sure it is possible um but it's worth trying right it's supposed to be how you reach the first of the five paths of the mahayana track okay but that in itself is tied up with the teaching of the lower middle way so i think we have to leave it as uh you know i think technically it's possible in the scriptures it's possible i i don't quite know how uh it would be okay all right uh here's i keep i'm going back to the homework question the direct perception of ultimate reality. Did I share my screen? No. That was dumb. Okay. Maybe I shouldn't show you the screen, then you don't listen, you just look at it. Right, Connie? Okay, anyway. The direct perception of ultimate reality is itself opening of the central channel of the body. The goal of yoga as we normally think of it as being mainly the physical asanas or exercises has always been to aid through external means or banging on the pipes the process of this opening so that ultimate reality can be seen i like the expression banging on the pipes as uh instead of saying asana practice uh i kind of like it maybe we could make a maybe we could call that section of the of the platform banging on the pipe. I don't know. That'd be interesting. We might, somebody might misunderstand it. I don't know. Then we continue to practice inner and outer methods. Inner methods are mainly meditation. Outer methods are asana, okay, and practice with a partner in that sense. And we try to open this channel permanently. Then when it permanently opens, you become an all-knowing, infinitely compassionate being of light who can travel to countless worlds to help countless beings all at the same time. So that's, I don't know. I mean, it's like the whole purpose of the platform is already finished by the time we get to this homework, but I guess we'll keep going. Episode six is called Getting to the Point Where We Cannot Be Fooled. I think I should teach episode five, okay? Connie? I think I should do that. Okay. Episode six, getting to the point where we cannot be fooled. Ta eva sabija samadhi. And this is still what we call deep meditation where we still have the seeds. and in this section of the yoga sutra they are talking about seas in a negative way and the last verses of the first chapter are talking about the destruction of negative seas okay so we're talking here about seas in the sense of the second link in the 12 links of the wheel of life which is uh sanskara or uh bad seeds which are planted karma seeds stained karma seeds okay still done by twisting the mind around okay by the mind twisting things around okay and there are many words for seeds uh here it's called bija which is popular in the yoga tradition because these are the names of sacred sounds at the different parts of the body. And the sacred shapes of letters are called bija, like bija mantra or things like that. In Tibetan it's saban. Sankara is the word for the second link of the wheel of life, which is fresh karma, just planted, not ready to open yet. And then number 10, link number 10 is called bhava, which is ripe karma, ripe seeds. Okay. So there are different words for seeds. Vasana is another one for link number 10. Okay. All right. So, samadhi, where you still have seeds, is, we're on to the fourth of the five paths, okay? Deep of, called the path of habituation. And then you spend years and even lifetime, seven years is very typical. By the way, there's a word in Tibetan, and I found it afterwards. It's in the Abhidharma. They call Lendunbhava. which means a seven timer. Okay I wonder if there's a Sanskrit let me check I doubt it but can you see the search screen nope you cannot right that's weird no oh there is it there is one wow because it comes in not be done i guess okay here's the sanskrit septa varta septa varta okay seven timer okay all right all right and that's how long it takes to process what happened to do you see emptiness again yes but but it could be decades between times. Okay, and you habituate yourself to the experience that you had and you are able in time to eliminate all of your negative emotions. During this time though you are still sabija, which means you still have seeds, which cause you to see things the wrong way and which continued. So during the fourth path your mind is still twisting things around. And I put the husband again with the phone because if you saw emptiness directly and you came home and your husband had that silly look on his face it would still be possible briefly to be irritated with him because you still have seeds to believe that he's coming from his own side but then you you're able to fight them you're able to say wait wait wait I remember this is coming from me I saw it directly and then that's the real meaning of what illusion between knowing that he comes from me and that the him who doesn't come from me was never there. The discrepancy and still occasionally forgetting and doubting him is one of the two, I would say it's one of the two real meanings of illusion in ancient India okay okay the other illusion is you know thinking he comes from his own side when he doesn't you know that that we have all the time but there's a special meaning of illusion called guma tabu this this this this illusory this illusory the feeling the feeling during this illusion is called guma tabu like an illusion and maybe there's a sense good for that let me check what's that oh you cannot okay oh it's called the hmm yeah I hear this my my oh my Okay, myopama equals myopama. Okay, which equals maya plus upama, similar to, okay. Maybe that's where myopic comes from. just kidding okay that finishes homework nine that finishes the party line on homework nine I mean that homework we could spend six months on that but uh but that's all for now I'm gonna take you to flow number 10, okay, Connie? Okay. I'm going to switch my screen. Let's see. Yeah, here it is. Okay. Now, I started something new in homework number 10, which is I started to insert, I always insert the Sanskrit Devanagari. I insert the proper pronunciation. I insert the popular pronunciation, the easy one. And I'm going to start to insert the commentary from the Central Yoga Sutra, which will help you as a presenter, I think. and I may not read through the whole thing, but so here's what it looks like. The first question, by the way, the class 10 is called the path of no more learning, which is the fifth of the five paths of spiritual experience. And isn't it appropriate that the first chapter of the Yoga Sutra, you know, the whole latter part of the chapter, Starting from where, you guys, is about the five paths. Where did we jump into the five paths? Do you remember? I think it's the definition of vairagya. Yeah, you could say that. That's true. Yeah. And then we, so we've been on this quite a long time. So you can almost argue that the first cornerstone or the first chapter is devoted to the five paths, although it's called the chapter on meditation. Okay. By the way, the names are a little suspicious. I don't know. Okay. I don't know. They don't always make sense. but he's a by the way I'm going to take you to the end of this homework because you can rejoice in advance iti Patanjali Virachite Yoga Sutra Pratama Samadhi Bhada this concludes the chapter on meditation which is the first cornerstone of Master Patanjali's Yoga Sutra so this is the final this this marker that the chapter has finished is not found in all of the editions but I think it's useful. It's like a header at the beginning of the chapter. So in Tibetan and in Sanskrit, the name of the chapter comes at the end of the chapter. But, and Viracheta means written, written by Patanjali. The rest of the words you know here, Pratama means first. So by the time you finish this document that's up on the screen today, which we won't finish today, we'll get, we'll finish it probably next Monday, but then we're finished with the first chapter. And that's a sizable accomplishment. That's the real guts of the Yoga Sutra. And in a way, if you understand the first chapter, you understand the whole Yoga Sutra. So you should start congratulating yourselves now. Okay. So we got to go through how many questions here? Seven questions, seven episodes here. I forgot to name the episodes, Connie. I guess we'll call it Approaching the Goal. And as far as time, I think this is going to be short. This is going to be actually four to five minutes. Okay. Okay. Now, you know, my publisher, Doubleday, made me, Random House, made me crush the whole thing into too much, too little space. but uh but there's actually three verses here okay and we're not going to cover all three they're not all relevant to what we have to cover but i thought i would give them to you anyway so those are the three verses uh and the important one uh is the third one all right and the first one has to do with actually shamatha and the second one has to do with gakja okay and the third one has to do with path of habituation where you still have seeds and seeds in the negative sense sabija right sabija still you still have seats bija you still have bijas okay uh and there's a little essay about it from the essential yoga sutra i don't have to go through it now but those of you who cover this one you can bring that up and then it's talking about name the fifth of the five paths so we're on the juncture between the fourth and the fifth path who can tell me the meaning of the photograph summertime vacation you're close graduation no more learning yeah who said no more yeah they're like yeah I could throw the books out now I don't know I don't know if you guys used to be at Princeton there's this thing where you throw your books out the window when you graduate which is kind of dumb because they're expensive but anyway yeah no more learning okay the fifth path is called no more learning I think it's interesting to point out that it's not really a path it's called the fifth path but it's not it's not a path in the sense that you're going somewhere what's the synonym for path in in buddhism realization yeah who said that It's Aaron. Very good. Yeah. Lam equals topa. With an S, right? Equals realization. State of realization. I wonder if I'll give you the Sanskrit for let me see what's the best one there's many I would say Praboda yeah there are many synonyms in Sanskrit but I would say Praboda okay sorry and Prabhada is a popular name in India actually which means a kind of awakening or kind of realization okay okay at this point the kleshas which is the negative emotion the most serious being how the mind turns things around that master potentially mentioned so we can say that the fifth path we we can kind of question whether it's kind of a path where you're going anywhere but it is a topa it does fit the definition of a path which is a state of mind a state of realization okay so uh in that sense it's a path uh if one is under the so at this point your negative emotions which Master Patanjali mentioned at the beginning of the chapter are permanently stopped and by the way when somebody says Buddhism denies that anything could be permanent this is the counter example you can give them the stopping is permanent and it's definitely permanent you don't go back All right. Okay. If you're under the influence of love or bodhicitta, then you transform into a being of light who can serve all living creatures on all worlds, which is the ultimate goal of yoga. Okay. So you can read this answer and you can go through this segue to the fifth path from the fourth path because Nick, is Nick there? Come here. If the fourth path is characterized as still having seeds, how can you characterize the fifth path? Depends which track. I mean just a Mahana track. No more seeds, right? Yeah, at the fifth path, you destroy the deep seas and all traces, right? Now, if someone can tell me the word for traces, I'll give them a hundred bucks. Sukshma? Vasana. Nice try. Sukshma. Vasana. I want the Tibetan, by the way. At least I'll give word that much. isn't it bakchak here no okay i saved my money i'm having a good day today with word okay right hello how come you talk so much when i when you win money but when you lose money you don't I didn't know you were talking to me. Sorry. Yeah. All right. Yeah. It's called taking a bad place. Okay. It's a kind of a misnomer. Okay. All right. So whoever covers this is going to do, I mean, it's not, it's kind of straightforward, But it is exciting to talk about the segue from the fourth path to the fifth path. Fourth path, Sabija. You still have those bad seeds. And even in samadhi, you still have them. And then when you destroy them, those subtle seeds and the traces of those seeds, then you become an enemy destroyer. if you have bodhicitta at that moment, you reach enlightenment. Okay, so you could talk here, we could talk here about arhat, and then arhat equals nirvana, right? And an arhat with bodhicitta, which equals what? Buddha. Yeah. Fully enlightened being. Okay. I like Samyak. Samyak Sam Buddha. I like that. Samyak Sam Buddha. Totally enlightened being. Okay. Cool. All right. Let's go to the next question. Okay, how are we doing on time? Okay, good. Yeah, the next section is called Beyond About Fear. I guess we could call it, yeah, Episode Fear. I'll call it beyond all fear. And how long this would take? Do you want to hear this? Okay, I think this is good. Somebody has their mic on. Probably Word. Okay, good. All right. When you gain the fearlessness of going beyond all examining, you reach inner bliss. At that point, wisdom becomes vast and awakened. That Sanskrit word for vast and awakened, I like it because it's ertambhara. Okay, say ertambhara. Yeah, ertambhara, actually. Okay. And erta means gone or finished, cleaned out. Bharata here means wide what's the Indian word for India? Bharata Bharata yeah Mahabharata the wide country okay so Urtambharam is translated by the Tibetans as Sangye which is kind of interesting you know awakened and and expanded it uh so anyway at this point tatra your prasnya your wisdom is earthenbhara uh is wide is is pure and wide which is the meaning of the word buddha okay and the way the tibetans translated it okay so this is talking about fearlessness okay uh where's the fearlessness here john is of sharadja is it Vaisaradya? Saradya. Yeah, Vaisaradya. No fear, right? Okay. Yeah. So, Vaisaradya. And I took it to this, there's a thing on there. Say again? Vaisaradya actually means lucidity or, you know, clarity. The fearless thing would be abhaya. I don't know. Yeah, no, I think it's here. Let's look it up in the dictionary. How do you spell it? Baisarad. Baisarad is prasadak. Well, prasadak here too means kind of like. In the Tibetan, Vaisharadhyaya is jikpase. Oh, cool. Finnish fear. Yeah. Okay, cool. All right. So once you've used inner and outer methods, this verse is about fearlessness. And I thought it's kind of a popular subject, even in physical asanas. I mean, if you can overcome your fear of poses. I remember being very afraid of headstone. And then, you know, having someone teach me very, very carefully. And so I think there's an element of fear in asana practice, even, especially when you first start. So I think it's interesting that in the ancient texts, there's four kinds of fearlessness that are talked about here. Minjigpa-shi in Tibetan. Minjigpa-shi equals four kinds of fearlessness. Okay. And they are, and this is funny. Fearlessness at this point means you're not afraid to talk about what you did. Okay. It's not that you're afraid of some other thing. It's that you're not afraid to talk about amazing stuff that has happened to you. You can speak about it with confidence. It also, it kind of means a super chutzpah. Okay. like you're not afraid to talk about things that happen to you. So the four traditional forms of Vaisaradhyaya here are one, you're not of indisputable pronouncement, means nobody could dispute what you're saying, is that I'm omniscient. I truly am what? Mr. No-at-all. No-at-all. Okay. This is no-at-all. I'm not by the way but I I'm just describing what it what it would be like you know to say yeah actually I do know everything in the universe okay uh some someone starts to argue with you you know there's no way that they can confirm it unless they see emptiness directly or something anyway that's okay uh then i say yeah it's true it's it's impossible for me to have anger anymore i am i am physically incapable of anger why physically no side channels yeah good very nice i should give you who's keeping the money it's awful quiet it is is venerable chunzum out there who's jig me yes who was that John no 100 bucks for anatole an answer is so good you gotta pay for it even if you didn't ask a question got it okay Desire to be anything less than a Buddha is a serious obstacle. So they say, if you don't want to be an enlightened being who helps all living beings, then I can say without any kind of hesitation that you are an idiot. Okay. So that's one of the four, maybe we can call the four chutzpahs, okay? Chintong. The four chutzpahs. Oh. I think it's something like that. Okay. Anyway, there you go. And the indisputable pronouncement that giving up the world of death is the path. Okay. It's a cool way to go. If you can give up death, then that's a really a cool way to be, a cool way to go. So those are called, when you're talking about the fifth path in the Buddhist tradition, and you mentioned fearlessness, they're always talking about these four. Okay, so it doesn't mean you're not afraid of cats and dogs or, you know, you're not afraid of your, I don't know. It's not talking about physical fear or like that. It's talking about an indisputable confidence that you can make certain claims and not have to worry that someone contradicts you. Okay. And of course, people will. It happens. But people tried to kill the Buddha. But the Buddha didn't have any problem with claiming he was omniscient. Okay. He was. All right. So that's what fearlessness needs. So it might be interesting if I were going to teach this one. I think it might actually go beyond, I'm going to say seven to 10 minutes. If you teach this one, I think it'd be interesting to start it from the place of fear during an asana, you know, like talk about an asana that I think a lot of us have a fear of a headstem when we first start yoga. We're afraid we're going to fall down and hurt ourselves or break our neck or something like that. It's only with practice that you realize how bullheaded you are and thick neck you have. It's hard to break your neck. Okay. Okay. Number three. Master Patanjali here mentions inner bliss where you go beyond all examining. discuss briefly these two qualities of an enlightened angel and the cause for them at the level of the subtle body okay so uh when the two side channels collapse into the central channel and we are thus able to open the central channel permanently then simultaneously you perceive the greatest bliss imaginable and you perceive ultimate reality and all other objects all at the same time. You could say, including past, present, and future, all at the same time. This is a reflection of the actual process of becoming the angel at this point, achieving an all-knowing and permanent compassion mind, coupled with a body of light that can trouble to all worlds. So this one is, this one's kind of short, okay, but it's cool. I mean, you could talk about, if it's someone who's had that, those teachings about the withdrawal of the side channels, which they call in Tibetan, they call it the collapsing of the vines. What's the classic symbol of that? The cha symbol? that's a good guess but I'm thinking of something else Caduceus? yeah how do you spell that? C-A-D-E C-E-U-S I believe C-A-D-E C-E-U-S C-A-D-U C-E Oh, here's, anyway, I got one. Let me see. Yeah, this, oh, no, it's not working. Okay, anyway, you guys know the medical symbol, right? Let's see here. Okay. Okay. - Geshele, is that symbol symbolizing the collapsing or is that symbolizing the choking? - Choking, that's a good question. Yeah, I don't know, this is not the greatest one, but, yeah, it's called the Chishin. I think it's like this, Chishin. equals vines. What are they called in the Vajjogini-sandh? The vines of the vines of grasping grasping, right? Equals grasp and grasping equals Right and left side channel. Pingala and Iida. Yeah. Equals red and white. Right. Okay. Meaning taking people and things as coming from their own side. But you can also call what? what is it? Chittas Chittasvirti Chittasvirti is it? Okay Anyway, there you go Maybe this did become an interesting question You could talk about these too You could talk about the collapse of the vines What's it called? Sungdang Jinbi chishin - Sungdan zinbae ti shing, yeah. Okay. That would become an interesting question then, okay. And they collapse as Earl said in a cha shape. So maybe Earl would be nice to talk about that also, which is extremely similar to the plumbing in your bathroom because of the hot and cold water pipes. Okay, all right. okay next question number four describe the meaning of the words vast and awakened earthenbhara bhara right which appear here near the close of the first chapter of the yoga sutra so here's the sanskrit earthenbhara and here's a sangye okay by the way you don't often see the vowel er by itself but when it starts a word this is the shape of the vowel this is very unusual shape and beginning Sanskrit students always have trouble drawing it when you add it to another word you just use that little hook at the bottom but by itself beginning a word it's er what's a classic john campbell for twenty dollars what's a classic sanskrit word that starts with ur that's important to our tradition nice twenty bucks yay okay what's it mean sage or a seer good yeah sage or a seer and it got mispronounced and they called places like Rishikesh like Krishna same okay here we go who's keeping the money is Jigme here I'm doing it I don't want to go to the hell of unpaid darmats okay alright and here's a little discussion about the word Sangye, which means Buddha. And I think it's fascinating personally that they use the word Urtumbhara here, which means clean them and wide, clean them vast, which is exactly how the Tibetans translate Buddha, which is Sangye, clean them. So I think this one, this is just sort of a, let me think about this. How about we combined, I think we'll combine this with the previous one. So it's a second part. So the person who, The person who does episode three could do both of these questions. Because it would be, it's not enough for one question. And it's a meaty question if you take both of them together. So I'm going to say, now it's seven minutes. Okay. You okay? What's going on there? I'm at least causing trouble. She took my, oh, sorry. with. It took what? She stole my glasses. Ever since she learned to get in the refrigerator, somehow I feel a bond with her. I don't know. Okay. Question number five. Episode five. Here we go. What are we going to call this one? Yeah, triple wisdom. Okay. And I would give it seven minutes or so or more. Okay. And Master Patanjali at this point, you know, he's, you can feel the horse is coming down the end of the racetrack. You know, you can feel he's excited. about finishing the first chapter of his greatest work. And this book kind of reminds me of the Tao Te Ching, which was presented to a tax collector at a gate to get, was it Lao Tzu, to get him past the gate. Anyway, you get that feeling here that he knows he's finishing an important chapter. You feel it. Okay. All right. All right. And he mentions here the wisdoms of hearing and reasoning. Okay. Shrutanumana. Okay. Prajna. the wisdom, prasna, which comes from shruta, which is hearing, and anumana, which is anumana, which is reasoning, okay, which gives us an excuse to go to the three kinds of learning or the three kinds of wisdom and so i i took it there uh and i think it's it's useful to to go from i think it's useful to go from the three kinds of wisdom and make people aware of the three steps of Buddhist, what do you call it? Pedagogy? How we learn things in ancient India, okay? It's not sitting in the class. It's not just sitting in the class, okay? There are three different parts, okay? By the way, I looked up on 1, 2, 3, RF, class outside, because I wanted to have a class outside. but now that I look at it I'm not very happy with this picture so maybe you can find a better picture the point is it's really pleasant in India I think John's been in that to sit outside under a tree and have a class because that's that's the way you had classes usually in India it's very pleasant so anyway first is hearing where you and I looked up the Tibetan and the Sanskrit okay you can say shuta mayi prajna okay say shuta mayi prajna where did you see this maya before you guys just before an illusion who does mother no you had it recently illusory no that's my my means consisting of that thing exactly I forget where it came I've seen this suffix lately come on the five koshas oh yeah all maya which means made of or coming from anamaya kosha visnanamaya kosha manamaya kosha right you had all these kosha's right so here's the maya mayi short a maya as john said so it means made of or coming from so shrutamaya prasna shutamaya prasna means wisdom that comes from hearing okay composed of hearing which means classroom hours okay classroom hours okay so i i i think to me this is a very interesting question and that master patanjali brings up at the end of the first chapter how you get there is these three steps of learning you know these three separate kinds of learning. First you sit and listen. Okay. And by the way, the meaning of shruta as listen carries the same pun that the English does. What does that mean? Double entendre. Listening and understanding? Understanding and? And to hear, be able to hear something. No. and doing what your teacher tells you okay okay you're not listening to me okay and the buddha even accuses um uh suburi of it in the diamond color sutra so you know shudhi has those two english listen has these two meanings of to hear but also to obey and i think it's interesting that the sanskrit has the same has the same two meanings okay so shruti okay all right all right and then the wisdom of contemplation i like to call it sitting in the car you know especially those of you who've ever commuted to a job i used to commute for many hours a day and you stare out the window, you're too tired to study or to meditate, and you just think about stuff. And I think it's very, I think the second step of contemplation is very sweet and underrated in the modern world. You know, we tend to pick our phone up and we try to stay busy, but just sitting on the porch. I have neighbors here in Rimrock, Arizona, who just sit on their porch all day. And I'd like to think they're contemplating, you know, they just have an old broken chair and they're sitting out on the porch all day. So that's contemplation of thinking about it, mulling over, okay, mulling over stuff you heard on the porch. And I think that's a lost art in America and the modern world. And maybe the person who does this question can talk about, you know, the great enjoyment of just sitting out on your porch and thinking about stuff. Because in Buddhism, that's an important part of your day. That's an important part of your life. and to sit quietly without being busy and without looking at your phone and just think about stuff that's going on in your life and that's called Samchung Vishara okay in Sanskrit Chintamayi Chintamayi okay contemplation on the porch okay contemplation porch contemplation we got to start selling that you know i don't know connie you could do t-shirts called porch contemplation right after the four hoods nick you and me could have a band called porch contemplation you know when you lose the beat and you lose you don't remember the next chord you just kind of going to kind of a pause and you say that was a porch contemplation. It happens when I'm recording my YSI videos. Okay, third kind of wisdom is that, I just think this is a very fertile question for someone to really sell the idea that sitting on the porch thinking about stuff is is a form of wisdom. And it does take you to your spiritual goals. And sitting in the car on the subway on the way to work, thinking, you know, it's very important. Or when you're alone at breakfast, just thinking, you know, I find those moments very valuable. And I think Netflix and the internet are attacking that kind of wisdom. You know, I enjoy Netflix and I do, I do watch stuff that I consider inspiring like Daredevil. But I do think, by the way, Daredevil is a blind do-gooder who goes to church every week and confesses all the people he punched out to his priest. But anyway, I think whoever gets this question, it'd be wonderful to sell the practice of sitting on the porch, the practice of sitting under a tree with a friend who understands this stuff and just talks to you about it. I think it's very sweet. Today, in the Medicine Buddha Sutra, we're studying. By the way, you're all welcome to come to that. It's three days a week of Medicine Buddha Sutra. But they're talking about this Buddha who, this guy who got, they specifically say that when he reached his Buddha paradise, he just started sitting under trees in his Buddha paradise, because that was the most pleasant place for a Buddha to sit. And his Buddha paradise has all these Bodhi trees, one of the Medicine Buddhas. So anyway, I think whoever does this question, if you could sell the idea of that, maybe have someone sitting under a tree for the picture. Okay, change the picture, change the picture. Change picture to someone sitting under a tree. Okay, okay, all right. All right, the third one, which is Gom Chung Gishyarab, say Gom Chung Gishyarab, Chung means comes from Bhavana, Bhavana, Bhavana, Bhavana, Mayi, that's Nya, okay? You can put a thing here, okay? We can do Chinta, Mayi, and shudha, my, Okay. All right. And that's the one you get from meditation. And you can't achieve the direct perception of emptiness and you can't achieve the direct perception of bodhicitta if you don't meditate. By the way, Katie's question about bodhicitta before the direct perception emptiness, there is a thing called, there's a couple of pre-bodhicittas like sugarcane bodhicitta and maybe those kinds of bodhicitta. Okay. All right. Okay. Question six is somebody, oh, let's see. We got that episode cover, episode five. Okay. i'm going to change the name to sitting under a tree porch porch contemplation sitting in okay and we're on to episode six and i am watching the time we have about 15 minutes left left we might actually finish uh episode six actually we will finish uh yeah talk about the five paths and mention how each one of them helps you turn your mind stop your mind turning things around and thus achieve yoga which is what the master promised us at the beginning so the person who does this episode has to try to say okay we're reaching the end of the first chapter the opening lines at least the second line of the first chapter was about uh you know what you're doing with yoga what yoga is to do which is to stop how your mind turns around things around and um i think i think it'd be really cool for the people who do the last two episodes of and by the way i mean the the user the end user should feel i mean their computer should spit out a certificate when they finish this homework or something uh you know this is a big deal to finish the first chapter of the yoga sutra which is the meatiest chapter you know it's a big deal for one of our students online students to get through the first chapter so whoever does this they should start congratulating them about uh about getting through the this first chapter and this question is sort of a celebration of getting through the five path okay so yoga at the end of the path. And I would say this is going to take, I think it's going to take seven to 10 minutes. Okay. And you're just going to follow through the five paths and go through them one by one and try to relate each one to the stopping how the mind turns things around twist things around so you're gonna have so that's kind of a fun exercise you know that's a typical debate ground exercise you know you'll tell your debate partner uh tell me how your mind tell me how stopping how your mind turns things around gets you get progress at that as you go through the five paths tell me what milestones at each path help you get through uh help help you stop how your mind turns things around okay who wants to take a shot just off the top of your head how how does the first path get you to help stop turning things around you're collecting the virtues tragedy go ahead nick go ahead oops so in the first path you're collecting the goodness to be able to even begin to understand how your mind turns things around and and in the second one you're studying wait wait i'm gonna ask somebody else for the second one But I would also say, what about the genjung at that point, Nick? Oh, yeah, you realize that you're in pain because your mind is turning things around. Yeah. You have a desire to stop it. Yeah, you get motivated. If stopping how your mind turns things around could help my marriage or if it could help my job or help my health problems, then then i'm i'm interested okay yeah okay second one was that you chintzong who was that what do i like to say is the second path in dc someone teaches you the band say again someone teaches you the pen story exactly yeah exactly yeah someone explains emptiness to you intellectually okay uh and then then at path number two at least you start to understand the theory of how you could turn stop turning things around so at path number two you're just understanding the theory you know you're understanding the books about it okay then number three who's got number three oh whoever takes number three i want to hear a but halfway through you you see directly that things aren't coming from your own side but when it's over you you they still appear that way to you. Yeah, good. It's the first time, actually in billions and billions of years, in countless years, that your mind has stopped turning things around for 20 minutes. And then you go back. You go back again. Okay. So that's why three isn't the end. That's why there's still some paths after three. So who's going to tell me what happens in path number four, as far as turning things around? is that like the bavanamai you have to habituate that yeah yeah you get used to it and i think you would just apply it to more and more incidents in the kitchen you know you have you have fights with your partner in the kitchen and then you know you just get used to applying what you heard and i guess you i'd say you get faster at using it, at applying it, you know. So you learn to apply it within a few minutes, and then you learn to apply it within a minute, and then you learn to apply it within a few seconds. And then finally, it's automatic. Path number five. No more learning. I mean, what's happening with the twisting? Your mind stopped twisting. Yeah, I mean, I would say you can't, you couldn't go back to twisting things around if you wanted to. Even if you wanted to twist things around, you can't remember how to do it. Okay, you can't. Okay. All right, cool. We finished question six. Connie, we're going to finish the first chapter today, I think. Okay. Let me make sure. Is this the last question? Yeah, this is the last question. Okay, get ready to celebrate, you guys. I expect to see you jumping up and down. Okay, this is the end of the seeds. This is the last of the chapters we're going to study. And what seeds are we talking about? Negative ones. yeah the ones that make you twist things around okay and maybe it's significant that the last verse talks about uh near bija samadhi okay that's the deep meditation where you don't have seeds anymore maybe that line is so important that you could call the chapter samadhi pada yeah the chapter on meditation because it's talking about the goal of near bija samadhi where you don't have bijas anymore you don't have seeds anymore okay and you you couldn't twist things around if you even if you wanted to okay so those seeds are killed the subtle seeds are killed even the what is killed word the subtle seeds I want the Tibetan word what's the classic example of Ningen Limba an arhat jumping inelegantly nice an arhat skipping because they still have subtle subtle subtle subtle subtle subtle subtle seeds of negativities and they are skipping across the road okay wow this is a long question uh age of life supposed to live in enlightened paradises and send out countless bodies without premeditation that's very important what's the without present premeditation called in tibetan for $50. $100. Damn. He finally took some of my money today. Shunduk, $50 for... Who was that? I got it. I'm just kidding. Okay. Yeah, Shunduk, which is a common Tibetan name without meditation. You don't think to send out bodies. They just fly out, okay? These paradises, and even the body and mind we possess there, are things and because they are things they must be projections from our own seeds forced on us by how we took care of others in the past therefore why would you say you have to destroy your seeds at this point it's a trick question why is the goal to destroy your seeds if even a buddha is seeing things because of their seeds negative seeds yeah negative seeds okay that wasn't an exciting question episode seven uh after meditation okay did we get into the idea of scorching and irradiation and i think that's where we go and let's see. Let me see. I think we're going to go there. Let me just finish giving you a time frame on this one. Yeah, I guess we could say seven to ten minutes, okay? Okay, do we talk about scorching? Let's see. yeah it's talking about what's the expression here what's that mean you guys Nick you want to take a shot at that suck the karma that's unstained and karma that's karma that's stained and karma that's pure the collection is good it's called what uh karma that's pure is and what's its nickname more popular nickname uh yeah the collection of merit so uh and the collection of wisdom rather two collections yeah two collections yeah what's nick what's the most famous verse about the two collections the 60th verse of the 60th is on reasoning yeah yeah okay the end of nick's book see if verse 60 okay yeah so it's just talking about uh good seeds and bad seeds yeah you get rid of your bad seeds but that doesn't mean you get rid of all your seeds and you still want to plant good seeds you still want to garden your reality and you know this week as i mentioned before i think somewhere i forget but me and v are we actually for her birthday in the end of june i i studied all the plants that grow in the fall that the bees like and then i i searched the world and got her all those seeds you know and uh so we're planting them this week you know we're designing the autumn garden so that our bees can get maximum honey nectar to make honey you know these bees already made like 12 pounds of honey since we bought them and so you gotta look ahead and plant the seeds that you need for a paradise and and that's the so it's not true that near be just samadhi samadhi without seed that means samadhi without bad seeds right and of course it's it's pop it's it's possible to make samadhi with good seeds and nick see we should do that verse because we finished the first chapter of the sutra which is a massive of good karma. All right, ready? I'm ready. You can turn on your mics, everybody. Ke wa di. Thank you. I can honestly say you guys sound worse than my coyote that was cool so congratulations it's not a small thing it's a big deal and the big deal is that the big deal is that so many people do yoga so this is just a vehicle to sell enlightenment to people who thought they were just going to do headstands, you know. So I think it's a great vehicle, Connie. I agree, Geshe. Thank you for this. Anything else, Connie? Any announcements? Anything? We'll continue. We'll stop doing the Mondays. Oh, do you want to stop doing Mondays as a Monday party line and carry on doing a gauntlet and till we finish gauntlets and dress rehearsals? For me, it would be equivalent. So I guess we might as well. Oh. You see what I mean? It doesn't help me. I still have to do the same total number of classes either way. Right. Or would you rather just give us feedback on a dress rehearsal and we could work on all of the gauntlets? Yeah, you could do your own finals, right? Or we would do our own finals, but you would give us, it's really more that you would give us your feedback on dress rehearsals. Yeah, I'm fine. That's a good idea. Let's do that. So let's just do dress rehearsals from here on out. Okay. And Lydia will send out a schedule for that. And get the first chapter, wrap the first chapter and put it up. Okay. Sounds good. I'm sorry, just to jump in. Wouldn't it be better to have Geshler's feedback at the gauntlet and not the dress rehearsal because that's where we're really working on the level yeah it is the gauntlet i was i you're correct it is the gauntlet yeah the gauntlet's where it would be more helpful connie yeah okay um the reason why i put it out there is because in the gauntlets now we have tim and lydia and earl kind of giving really strong feedback and you one who gives the all the final changes that need to happen. So I was feeling really comfortable with what Lydia and Earl and Tim were doing. So that's why I was... I feel good. I think I should do the gauntlet because it gives them a chance to change it by the time they get to the final one. And then we could rotate through those three or something if you want. But I think it's good if everyone gives... I think if we continue to rotate through everybody for the gauntlet feedback, I think it's cool. I think I'd like to attend both. Yeah. Okay. All right. So then we'll set up a schedule for gauntlets only. Is that what you're asking for Geshe-la? Yep. Gauntlets. If that's convenient for everybody, if it's not weird, or maybe it'd be weird, maybe, maybe it could do gauntlet, final, gauntlet, final, gauntlet, final. And I just come to the gauntlets. How's that? Okay. all right so it will only be a thursday and a saturday class oh yeah is that what it is it's no longer a monday for sure connie what you could do is uh just uh alternate uh gauntlets and finals so people don't have to wait three weeks to do their final take you know Would you guys like me to share what I planned and then you guys tell me if it works and it's a go? What I'd like to do is just rough take. You do your rough take and then within two or three days you do your final take. That's all. So that would be alternating rough takes and final takes until we finish the first chapter. Okay. Okay. That's what I have. We just have a backlog of rest rehearsals. Yeah, that's fine. But it pretty much just goes gauntlet, dress rehearsal. And then I have, for example, like next week, I have Monday dress rehearsal, Thursday gauntlet, Saturday dress rehearsal. And then it repeats again the next week. Monday dress rehearsal, Thursday gauntlet, Saturday dress rehearsal. Because that's where we have more people waiting to go. That's cool. So just make sure to finalize it and send it out to everybody so they know where they are. And if I see a gauntlet, I'll come. Okay. And then Lydia, just make sure that it's fairly consistent for which day Geshe and Michael has to be on the call. Like if we could just make those ones like the regular Thursday ones. Yeah, the gauntlet is every Thursday. The only time it's going to change is when we get to August 17th. Then we actually catch up and that's the only difference. There will be gauntlets every Thursday except Monday, August 17th. Okay, good. And then for my purposes, Nick, I think I can only start this again in October. Okay. Like I have to take off. I can help you with the gauntlets in August. But September, I'm totally underwater because of lash off. Right. Okay. Right. I have 65 translation classes in 10 days. Yeah. Books to work on. Yeah. So this is not going to happen that I can prepare for this. Yeah. So we'll start the second chapter in October, right? Beginning. Yeah. Take September off and give us all a chance to be able to get the course out there. Yeah. And you guys should probably, if you can, sit in on the translator classes anyway. It's 10 days of intense classes that can prepare you for the second chapter of the Yoga Sutra. Okay. All right. So Lydia will get that together for you, Genshala. But Jack just mentioned there is an issue from the 17th on. It would mean that you'd have to be on just that one week? A Monday and a Thursday of the week of the 17th. I can do that. As a gauntlet, I can do it because I don't have to prepare for a gauntlet. Oh, okay. Great. Okay. Thanks. Okay. Congratulations, everybody. Thank you, Geshe. That was awesome. By the way, from here on in, it's a marketing question. It's not a content. You know, we have content. It's how it's sold. It's how many people we can help is going to be decided in the next two months. Whether we just are a niche thing, you know, a little niche thing with 5,000 people, or whether we go viral, it's up to you and Bob Serino. Thanks, Gesheh. No pressure. Okay. Bye. Congratulations, you guys. Thank you. Thank you, Gesheh. Bye. Thank you, everyone. Love you. Thank you, everybody. Bye. Bye. Thanks, everybody. I see the spreadsheet in the chat that Lydia put there. Please take a look. Thanks. Thank you, Connie. Bye-bye. Thank you, Connie. Thank you, Jack. Thank you.