BDW 6 «Алмазный Путь Арьи», занятие 9

Autotranscript · BDW6, Malaysia, Class 9

03.08.2026 / processed with Claude (AI) for Irra / Dharma · Malaysia · BDW6

Date: 12 July 2026 · Malacca, Malaysia · duration 1 h 32 min

Teacher: Geshe Michael Roach

Translation into Chinese: Stanley (consecutive; the Chinese translation was not captured in this recording)

Source audio: ENG Arya's Diamond Way with Geshe Michael Roach - Class 9 (July 12, 2026)

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Host: Hello everyone, and welcome back. We are happy to have you here as we come to the final Arya's Diamond Way class in this course. Over the past days, we have had the precious opportunity to study these teachings together, and today we continue this journey with class 9 with Geshe Michael Roach. Please settle in and enjoy today's class. It's my pleasure to welcome again Geshe Michael Roach.

Hi everyone, welcome back. Did you have nice classes of yoga or dancing class? Yeah? Did you enjoy? Good.

So remember, today is our last day. Sometimes feeling sad, but better rejoice that we had. And rejoice that we are here together creating such an amazing, amazing seeds. Thank you for everything. Thank you for being on time.

Thank you for following our instructions. We are appreciating. Without all of you, we wouldn't manage here. Thank you. So, we are still on the bridge to Diamond Way, Course 6.

Time is flying, and it's the last class with Geshe Michael. Please. Welcome Geshe Michael Roach. On the stage. Hello.

Geshe Michael Roach: Hi. Thank you for being so nice. I always take Jasmine's photo of the group to my house, so my wife knows I wasn't in Singapore drinking. Alright, I think we have one more class, Brian. I think.

So, please repeat Je T'ob Yeshe. Je T'ob Yeshe. This is the name in the ancient books. Je means afterwards. T'ob means you get it.

Yeshe means wisdom, kind of wisdom. So, after you come down, there's about, I don't know, five, ten minutes you sit there and you're just thinking about it. And that's when you think about diamonds for the first time. Then, special understandings start to come to you. In the textbooks, the monastery textbooks, they say most of the sixteen aspects come to you as Je T'ob Yeshe.

Sixteen aspects is the sixteen parts of the Four Arya Truth. In English, in the last hundred years, the people who translated the sutras translated it wrong. And they said Four Noble Truths. So, noble in English means like a super nice person or something. But that's a mistake.

And it should be called Four Arya Truths. Then Arya is simple. It just means higher, higher. And I think in DCI level seven, I think we did a good job with that manual. And we kind of had a ...

do you know that picture of evolution? First, there's a monkey, and then the monkey starts to stand up. Then human being is walking, and then I like to add one more person called Arya after that. And it means every living being will become an Arya. And it's a higher kind of evolution.

Like we used to live in the ocean, then we came up on the beach, then we went and climbed in the trees like monkeys. Then the monkey learns how to use tools and language. Then we call them human. Arya is the next evolution after human. And, of course, it was ...

you guys are too young, but when I was a little kid, they just finished World War II. And the Germans in the war, they called themselves Arya. We are Arya. And they meant that except for them, everybody else is a lower person. But they took the word from India, from Sanskrit.

Then recently, I've been trying to describe the difference between Arya and a regular person. And I like to say the regular person is like amoeba. Those little animals in your blood, and they see something good to eat and they go ... They only think about eating, I guess. And then Einstein.

And that's the difference. But the difference is more than that. Then I tried to convince my wife about that. Convince my wife. Look, honey, I'm Arya.

I can eat anything. She's like, I don't care if you're Arya. You can't eat ... you can't go to Peachtree Cafe (?) and have three cinnamon rolls. Then recently, I feel like I gave up on this idea to explain it to people.

I try to tell somebody something. I can see the future, 500 years. Listen to me. And nobody listens anyway. So, I went back to my old opinion about talking about Arya.

I went back to my old closed mouth. But an Arya does ... they do have special experiences, especially on the same day. Up to the time that they go to sleep. I think the prana of seeing kongxing directly means your zhong mai (?) ...

chi is completely full of chi. And that's why in yoga we try to do exercises that put chi into the central channel. The whole purpose is to see emptiness. Normal people have chi, a little chi, in their central channel at the moment of sexual orgasm. When the body is like that, for a few seconds, and then it completely empties out and at least the boys are like ...

And when we die, briefly the central channel is full of chi. But during those 20 minutes, when you see it directly, the chi is flowing powerfully in the central channel. And it doesn't empty out immediately. It stays there for, in my case, it's about eight or nine hours. And I think because of that extra leftover chi, you have a whole series of special understandings that come one after another.

And at that time, you have to remember I was studying with my teacher for one month. And I stayed there for 25 more years. And he taught me a lot. He used to teach me privately because I was the only person who wants to have private class. And it was exciting for me because in the sutras that he taught me, one by one I found the experiences that I had on that day.

So, we don't have a lot of time. But we have enough for me to tell you the main ones. I didn't talk about this with other people for many years. And I thought maybe they won't believe me anyway. And I can't prove it.

So, I just teach those ideas like I'm teaching philosophy. It's called the ACI course. Idiom. But today I'll teach it from the horse's mouth. That horse's mouth.

Okay, so here we go. And by the way, I believe that you can separate 16 different experiences. And in the preface, I divided the experiences into the 16 which Buddha taught. Generally, in Buddhism, we are very, very lucky because every hundred years, the teachings get more and more clear. Here's another idiom.

We call it the final word. The final word means those four red books. Those are the final word on emptiness. It's just about perfect. 2,000 pages.

Just about perfect. So, it got more and more clear every generation. But the 16 got a little bit confused and they got lost. And that's a strange karma because generally, the teachings got more and more clear. But the 16 got more and more unclear.

And that's the very first teaching Buddha ever spoke. He had five students. He repeated the 16 four times. And all five saw emptiness directly. Then those 16 got confused and lost.

And then due to John Brady's kindness, we have all the sutras and tantras and all the Indian commentaries are input already by 2004, I think, 2005. And there's something like 600 times those 16 are described. 600 times in the sutras, tantras, and commentary, shastra. So, I checked all of them before I wrote the preface. And I put the best one in the preface.

And it's unclear. It's not clear at all. And you can read it. It's beautiful and it's not clear. It's like modern spiritual writing.

So, that preface is important because grandpa cleaned it up after 2,000 years. So, I would say not all of the 16 happened on that day. Some of them happened before. So, I believe you have all had some of them already. Or you wouldn't be here.

Okay? And you have to trust me. Okay? You have many of the most important of the 16. You already have them.

You just have to develop them. Alright. If you're here, if you have the karma to be here, you already have like five or six already. Usually you find out your bank account ... Usually you find out your bank account doesn't have as much money as you expected.

In this case, the bank called you and said, we found some more money in your bank account. So, here are some of the 16 which happened on the day, in my case, between roughly 11 a.m. and the end of the day, maybe 9 o'clock. And by the way, I was half joking, I was saying we should build a stupa in that place.

And Jean and Kelly, they offered to take care of it. So, if they ask you for money, it's not for their apartment in Singapore. And the temple has a lot of land, and if it's interesting, Tolstoy, his daughter bought the land. 1950s. She lived in America.

Because they fought for the land. White Russians. How sorry? They were the best fighters. No.

They were the best ones. Okay, anyway. So, when the Nazis came through Kalmykia, they came through their small country in Europe. Everybody's really scared, and they all rushed to fill ... they have some horse wagons.

They don't have any cars. People start putting their furniture, their clothes, things like that. Because remember, these people, if they get caught, they will also go to concentration camps. Then they're putting all their stuff on the horse wagon. Then those two Mongol monks, Sharemche and Delowa, who took to Tilopa (?), they're like, no, no, no, no junk, no junk.

We are taking just the Buddha images. And he's short. Sharemche is pretty short, but he's like, get these chairs off of here. Get the furniture off of here. Back to the Buddhas.

So, they brought all these little Buddha images. These are not the real ones. I made this on AI. The real ones are very old, broken. And they are very plain.

They're not very fancy. They're made from clay or wood or things like that. And they're, we call them mish-mash, all mixed up. All different quality.

——— Slide 1 · A real prostration ———

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Geshe Michael Roach: And up to that day, I didn't respect them. I was like, who will keep this one? Then, after I saw kongxing, I look at those statues, and I was walking towards the middle of the temple. And I looked at those Buddhas, and I throw myself on the ground, and just stay there. And I'm like, oh, Buddha.

Then I saw something different. I saw a Buddha. If you meet a real Buddha, you have to get down on the ground. You have to put your face in the ground. I'm not talking four-point prostration.

I'm talking ... If you meet a real Buddha, you will throw yourself on the ground. And it's not just four-point prostration. It's lying on the ground. In the ...

After we take transmission in October, the big job we all have together, and everybody can help to teach it, is we have to learn our vows. And one of those vows is, if you see a painting or if you see a statue, it doesn't matter how lousy is the artist, you have to respect it. And if you ... the day you become an Arya, you will throw yourself on the ground. And that's where prostration comes from.

When you see a statue of the Buddha, it means somewhere in the past, somebody met him. Then they tried to make his face and his body, and then other people copied, then other people copied, then other people copied, but at some point the original was made by somebody watching Buddha and making it. So, up to that time, I always thought ... I grew up Christian, I thought this prostration is kind of weird. Then after Arya, I found out it's a completely natural reaction if you meet a Buddha.

It's a completely natural reaction if you meet a Buddha. So, I had walked maybe ten feet away, and then I prostrate, and then I sit down again to meditate again. Next picture, right? These are not in order, okay? This one I saw about 45 minutes later.

By this time, I am standing up near the side door of the temple. And still these understandings are coming, they're hitting me like waves. And I saw myself dead in this life, at the end of this life. And this is what the A.I.

suggested, and it's very good. It's almost perfect. It looks like that, it feels like that. I'm standing there, and I can see my dead body.

——— Slide 2 · Pre-confirming my death ———

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Geshe Michael Roach: And I'm trying to stay alive, don't worry. I also enjoy being alive. But, I have seen my dead body. And I know I'm absolutely sure I will die. Because I've seen it.

And we all know we're going to die. We figure it out when we're about ten years old or something. We all figure out we're going to die someday. Okay. But there's a little part of you that doesn't really believe it.

There's a little part of you that thinks you will be the first exception. And there's a little part of you that doesn't want to think about it. But I have seen my death. And it sounds sad or something like that. But there's more.

Okay, next picture. I forget where I put this picture. Okay. What is the caption? I remember there was a reason to put this picture here.

What's it say? Okay. It's not what it looks like. Let's do the next one. What's the caption on that one?

There's no caption?

——— Slide 3 · A true knowledge of the value of the books ———

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Geshe Michael Roach: Yeah, there should be some words. True knowledge of the value of the books. Good. Oh, yeah, now you can go back. Just after I saw the poorly made statues as real Buddhists, in that temple there are, as I mentioned, the original sutras and tantras.

There's a whole set there. It's the only carving of the Lhasa Kangyur in the Western world. And I looked at them, and I always tell my friends, let's say that, you know there's HIV, right? Nowadays if you get HIV, I'll tell you something interesting. When they consider you for a kidney transplant, and somebody offers a kidney, we all have two kidneys, people offer one kidney.

And they will ask the person who gives the kidney, they have to test them for many, many weeks, many, many, many tests to make sure it won't hurt them. And they will ask the kidney donor, have you ever been in a jail for more than 24 hours? Because if you have, they assume you have HIV. Because you got raped in the jail. Men and women.

So, they won't take the kidney. So, this is a deadly disease. Nowadays you can take medicine. You will survive longer, but you will die for sure. Then I always tell my friends, imagine someone found a medicine that works.

And they say, here's the ... I wrote down the formula. It can save millions of people's lives. And it's the only copy in the world. And someone give it to you.

Say, please take good care of it. What John Brady is doing is more important than that. Okay? Those books are true. And when you become Arya, and I was looking at those 100,000 pages, and I can see every single page is correct.

Then you become a crazy person. We must save these books. His author, Vasubandhu, he said, I give you a choice. The books disappear in this world, or the sun goes out. Which one is worse?

Lose the books. You can survive without sun. Your world, it won't be very nice, but maybe some people will survive. But if we don't have those books, Vasubandhu said, then the world's already dark. So, it's not John running around trying to ask you for a hundred dollars.

Without those books, this world is dark. We have to save them, and we have to put them in a language that people can understand. Those jing were translated by Xuanzang and his team 1,400 years ago. But that's old Chinese characters. Nobody can read it.

Honestly, nobody can read it. There's a funny custom in modern China. If you're a very wealthy business person, you will have a set in your office. And I always ask them, do you enjoy the ... which is your favorite sutra?

And they always look at the ground and say, actually, I never read that. Because their characters changed. They can't really read it. So, we're starting by translating into English, just because I grew up with English. But we have great Chinese-speaking members of our team, Sugeng, Stanley, Xiaoping.

And we have to finish this work. And we're close. We're doing a good job. About six months ... so I trained twelve translators.

Each one does a different dialect of the ancient language. He's Abhidharma dialect. Nowadays, Sugeng is mind-only dialect. And they are completely different languages. So really, we have to translate from twelve languages.

And only Geshe studies all of them. That's why it takes 25 years. Then there's one more language, which is the secret teachings. And they have their own unique language. But we're not supposed to teach it to new people.

So after they finish ten years of training ... And by the way, unusually, nobody died and nobody quit. Yeah. Yeah. Now I'm training them in the secret language.

But on that day, you understand the value of these books. Okay, and those books ... in English there's an idiom, they are on life support. They are on life support. Only the machine is keeping them alive.

They're almost ... almost completely dead. They are close to dead. Oh, Geshe-la, there's lots of monasteries and lots of people in the monasteries. If the wisdom of those books stays inside the monastery, they are the same as dead.

They won't help anybody. We must teach them to normal people. Family people. Working people. Otherwise they will die.

Okay, that means you. Alright. Have some tea. That is good. Excuse me, we're having a tea break.

We were in Singapore and we were having tea. Next picture.

——— Slide 4 · The 7 lifetimes ———

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Geshe Michael Roach: When I was standing on the east side of the temple near the front, I saw that I will die ... I will die six more times. Then when I tell people that, they're like, oh, Geshe-la, it's so sad to die once. Die six times, that's drag. When you see the seven ...

well, six deaths, seven more lives, you feel like dancing around the temple. Because at the same time you know you died a billion, billion, billion, billion, billion, billion, billion, billion, billion, billion, billion, billion times more. You shoot a bullet. Shoot a gun. Bullet is going towards a paper target.

The bullet touched the paper, but the bullet didn't go through yet. One tiny piece of an instant, the bullet will go through. That's how close Arya is to Buddha. That's a seven lifetime. No problem.

It feels extremely happy. Okay, he just dies six more times. Exciting, exciting thing. If you can see emptiness directly, then of course you will continue your studies, and you will read the great books. Like three years later, I found ...

say Sipa? It's good luck. Say Sipa. Len Dumbawa Sipa Len Dumbawa Sipa Len Dumbawa Sipa Len Dumbawa (?) And it means, I asked my teacher, what's Sipa Len Dumbawa? (?

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——— Slide 5 · My coming life & caretakers ———

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Geshe Michael Roach: Then Rinpoche said, oh, that means seven lifetimes to go. It's a word for baby Arya. Then I didn't say anything, I just said ... Understand. It's really fun to see it first, and then later find it in the jing.

So, this number means a lot to me. So, I will be a Buddha after seven lifetimes. Okay, next. So, I was standing in the same area, in the same area in the temple, and I remember I was looking at the benches where the monks sit for the ceremonies. And I saw ...

I saw myself after my next death. And I saw myself as a child, as a baby. And I saw several people taking care of the baby. And those people were teachers. So, I have seen ...

that I will be born again. And I have seen that from the day of my birth, at least two teachers will be taking care of me from that day. Geshe-la, did you see that you will remember that you are an Arya? I don't think I will remember. As an infant, as a one-year-old, as a one-year-old, as a one-year-old or two-year-old, I don't believe I will remember.

But I believe that my teachers will take good care of me and maybe about the time of sixteen years old, I will see it, I will remember who I am. Then, to see your death and to see your next life, in this life, it's very, very, very happy and very comfortable. And then suddenly you realize there are eight billion people going to die. And they don't know anything what's going to happen to them. They know ...

intellectually, they know they have to die. But there's not one who saw this much of their next life. Then how does that change the baby Arya psychologically? How does it feel? To see your death and to see you will be born and to see there will be people on the other side waiting to re-train you.

How does it feel to be the only person among eight billion who died in this life? Who doesn't have to worry about that? And it changes your own psychology completely. It's a deep, deep kind of happiness. And then, of course you still have bad days.

You fundraise for Tim's five houses salaries and nobody gives anything. Arya's still have bad days. But deep down, they are filled with happiness. And it's the happiness that comes from knowing what's going to happen. And I really encourage you to try to see emptiness.

It's not some mystical, you know, woo woo woo. It's not like that. It's very practical. And you feel very happy. Very deeply happy.

And you can really help other people. It's one thing to feed other people. It's one thing to help them when they are sick. But to help a person with their death, that's really fun. And Arya's feel goofy.

They want to play rock and roll. They want to play loud rock and roll while they sign for it. Is rock and roll the music of the Buddhists? I think so. Just kidding.

Next picture. What happened? So, as I mentioned, I decided to buy a diamond. At that moment in my life, I just paid off my school loans. And I didn't get my grandmother's inheritance yet.

So, I was completely broke. Then, my rent. The rent of my old garage with the drunk Mongol. My rent is $50 a month. Eat your heart out Singapore.

Eat your heart out in Singapore. Eat your heart out means you can be jealous of me. And because I built several buildings at the temple, they never raised it for 25 years. So, anyway, I was broke. I didn't have enough money to buy a diamond.

So, I told you the story. I went to sell my car. And here's the conversation. I will never forget it. It's like one car sales place in Lakewood, New Jersey.

At that time.

——— Slide 6 · Reading a mind ———

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Geshe Michael Roach: It's out near the park east of town. And I get out of the car. That's the first person I met after I saw emptiness. And suddenly, I can hear his thoughts. And I'm like, And he's like, hmm, I wonder who's this young guy.

So, I can hear his thoughts. Everything, clearly. And I said, well, I like to sell my car. Ah, he probably doesn't own it. Maybe he stole it.

Too young to have a car. That was a beautiful car. Then I'm like, oh, I got the paperwork. Here's my name. My teacher gave me the car.

His teacher didn't give him the car, but he's got the paperwork. I'll take it. Then I can hear everything he's thinking, like he's talking in my ear. And he said, okay, it looks like your name is here. What's your work?

Just out of curiosity, what do you do? And I thought I shouldn't tell him I'm an Arya. Maybe they'll put me in the mental hospital. Hi, my name's Arya Mike. Then I said, I'm a cook in a church.

Then he's like, yeah, looks like a cook in a church. And I'm like, oh, okay. Then I bought the car. I sold the car. And he gave me $100.

Even in those days, it's worth about $5,000. And I can feel this intense happiness coming from him. I'm really happy. And then I said, can you do me a favor? He said, what do you want?

I said, I need to go to a jewelry store. Can you give me a ride to Lakewood? And he said, sure, anything. I'll give you a ride in your own car. Then he took me to the jewelry store.

And that's the last I ever saw him. But that's another power that you get on the same day. Good news for you, that power goes away that night. I promise, I promise. Okay, I cannot read your minds.

Cannot. And by the way, in the jing, if you meditate well, you can read other people's minds without being an Arya. But that's another power that you get on that day. Temporarily. Probably because of the prana.

Next picture.

——— Slide 7 · A trip around the universe ———

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Geshe Michael Roach: This is probably the most important Je T'ob Yeshe. And I'd like to spend some time ... we have ten minutes. And this is the last one I'll tell you about today. And I have some other ones, but I'll tell you some other day.

I would like to spend two years on this subject. And help you to reach the same place. So, in between the Buddhas and the seven lifetimes, I was at the southwestern pillar of the temple. In front of it. Then I saw emptiness in the southeastern corner.

So, I sat down again after the prostration. And I started to meditate again. And it's very, very specific. And it's like everything is dark. And then a picture came up like this.

And it's my mom. And my mom had just died about two or three months before. And she looked ... She didn't look dead, okay? She looked pretty good.

She looked like 30 years old or something. And she's sitting with me. But a little bit higher. And she's looking at me strange. She's very happy to see me.

Like any mother. But she has this little frown. And then I realized she's very happy to see me, but she has some serious worry in her life. And then I realized she's worried about dying again. And she's worried about her kids in the last life.

And I'm like ... So, very naturally I talked to her in my mind. And I'm like, Mom, don't worry. You don't have to worry like that. Because today I became Aya.

In seven lives I'm a Buddha. I will be babysitting my own planet. I'll take care of you. You don't have to worry about anything. Then her face changed.

She's like ... We call it UG ZHUNG (?). UG ZHUNG means sigh of relief. Then she's like, Okay, honey, I know you got it. Then she's kind of like a slot machine.

She goes. Then my father comes. He died a little bit after that. Yeah. He also looks worried.

And I'm like, Dad, don't worry. I'm on it. It's all going to be alright. I can take care of you. I'm coming.

He's like ... Yeah, he looks happy. Then he goes. Then my older brother Jeff and then one by one all the people in my family in the same inner conversation, same face, they're not like crying or something. They are just worried.

And I'm like, don't worry. I'm like almost there. And then they're like ... Then our neighbors started. The ones I know and the ones I don't want to know.

Even the one who hates rock and roll used to come over. Then people in my neighborhood back home in Phoenix who I never met. Exactly the same mental conversation. And then people from other cities. And then people from other countries.

And it's all of them. All the people in the city one by one. All the people in this planet. Nowadays it would be eight billion conversations. Short.

They're very short, okay? There's not much time. Then really fun, after the last person in this world is finished, my family dog. His name is George. And I'm like, don't worry George.

He's a Basset Hound. They have two dogs. Permanent worried look. I'm like George, don't worry. I'm on top of it.

I got it. Then he's like ... And then one by one all the dogs ... And I'm not kidding, and I'm not lying. Every dog in the world.

Then all the cats in the world. Even my cat. And then, you know, like mice, and then birds. One by one. Individual conversation.

Not very long. It's like a job interview with someone you don't intend to hire. All finished. Every living creature on this earth. And it's the same conversation.

Don't worry, I'm almost there. And I promise you I'll take care of you. You don't have to worry. You really don't have to worry. I'll take care of you.

And I can. And I will. Then some dude from the next planet He's like ... Not really, I'm just kidding. But next planet's people.

One by one. And same thing, and countless planets. One by one. And that is bodhichitta. That's real bodhichitta.

Okay, and you can ... Human being has that capacity. You have the capacity to read other people's mind. You have the capacity to see 500 years ahead. And you have the capacity to have a relationship with every being in the universe.

You do have that capacity. It's not just some sutra said that. Somebody wrote the sutra. Somebody taught the sutra. And I think at that moment you become a bodhisattva.

Well Geshe-la, that sounds like a lot of work to become a bodhisattva. There's many preliminary levels of bodhisattva. In Arya bodhisattva is a lot different from ... What they call mahabodhisattva in the Heart Sutra. BYANG CHUB SEMS PA SEMS PA CHEN PO (?) That's Arya.

You can be a bodhisattva and you're not a Buddha. It's possible. All Buddhas are already bodhisattvas. You don't have to be a bodhisattva to be an Arya. If you're in this class, you will become a bodhisattva on the same day you become an Arya.

Okay? And that's all. Okay, that's all. So far I'd like to teach these things in more detail. In these next two years.

Especially with my health. I'll probably survive two years, but we don't know. And I don't know about you. So, it's mutual. Okay?

So, if you try to stay, I'll try to stay. Okay? Then we have a date, okay? Yeah, okay. And so, my general plan I'd like to teach this ...

I'd like to clear up the sixteen. Then I'd like to teach it in ... we have many different organizations because there are many different kinds of people. Some people are more physical, I'm not. If I sit in a chair and read the whole day, I'm very happy.

I don't see any reason to. But then some people prefer exercise. And some people prefer business, DCI. So, generally we created a different organization for each kind of person. SC.

Is that a mazal or not? If it is, raise your hand. SC. SC. Thank you very much.

Is it a deal? No, just raise your hand if it's a deal. Okay, well, we made a new organization this morning. Sophie Chow. Tin Nguyen.

Where is Tin? Yeah, hi. I had this dream last night. I couldn't sleep, okay? We all come from many countries.

You know, we don't know each other's language. Chinese people sit over there. Western people, Russians, Ukrainians sit over there. I think if we could learn each other's language, it would be more fun. Okay?

We don't have to be fluent. You can say, You can say, Very good. Yeah, very good. Learn a few words of the other person's language. And these programs are such a great opportunity.

Hey, hey. Sugeng. Terima kasih. Okay. Then people feel happy.

If you know each other's language. So, I had a meeting with Tin and Sophie. China has 1.5 billion people. Some people learn Japanese in their university.

Then they take a national examination for fluency. Sophie Chow was number one in the exam. Number one. Okay. She won't ...

I will brag. I like to brag. I will brag for her. Sugeng speaks Japanese. And many languages.

And many languages. So, my dream is we all learn each other's language a little bit. And those two guys are going to organize it. I like to learn language while I eat. I like to do everything while I eat.

So, they're going to figure out a program. I think we kind of mix up the eating tables. And we try to learn each other's language. Not fluent. Even just a hundred words is very wonderful.

I had a deal with Wang Xia. Where's Wang Xia? She sends me two Chinese words every day. For six months or something. One day I actually read it.

Never mind. But it's so fun. And as a teacher, your students are so grateful if you make some effort to speak their language. So, Tin and Sophie Chow, they will design some program for these kinds of events. For this kind of event.

And let's try to learn each other's language. All right. Thank you. That's it, right? I'd like to thank Stanley Chen.

Without him, I cannot talk to anybody. And I'm extremely grateful. And he's also ... he and Xiaoping are really, really fun to be around. And they work really hard for the Dharma.

People online, thank you for coming. Venerable Phil Baker. Phil Baker. Thank you for ... Thank you for still being here.

Thank you for still being here. A 90-year-old gentleman. See you next time.

Host: This is the last time we have a class with Mr. Geshe. We still have a few hours in the afternoon. So, first, let's give him a huge thank you for teaching us. Please.

And many, many people have asked me, Geshe Michael. They're asking me to ask you publicly. First, please keep teaching us. And please, please stay as long as you can. And we're very much looking forward to seeing you in October.

Thank you very much once again for teaching us. And we'll see you very, very soon. Thank you. Thank you, Geshe. Please keep your seat.

We have a special announcement for everyone. First of all, you know we arranged each one to take a photo and get signature from Geshe-la. But our teacher team keep them the last. So, please keep your seat. Let's invite all the teacher go first and get signature photo with Geshe-la.

Only the teachers from five house. Say goodbye to friends online. Thank you, Geshe Michael Roach, for sharing these precious teachings with us. And thank you, everyone, for walking this path with us. As we complete this series of Arya's Diamond Way classes, we invite you to reflect on what has touched you most and carry it with you into your daily life, starting from today.

We wish you a meaningful continuation of the course. And thank you for being here with us at Five Houses.