So today I want to talk about the anatomy of transformation. And the key part of this, understanding this, is that this is the key to building extraordinary relationships in your life. And you need to start out and align yourself internally before you operate in the external world. And when you can do that, you can be extremely powerful in what you do. The point is you need to get clear and unstuck internally, so then you can act powerful in the real world. And what happens is when you show up and you try to implement new leadership, relationship skills, or influence skill sets, if you aren't authentic, vulnerable speaking your truth and generous within boundaries, people can tell because nonverbal communication makes up 90% of our interactions. So people can tell that you're off-kilter, but when you do the work and you show up, people are magnetically attracted to you because they're like, I want to get what that person has. And it's so much easier to sell, to lead, to have better communication between colleagues, and really you can even change your entire culture inside of your organization. And so I want to go through this process right here to explain what makes it up. And on the top layer, you have the behavior level, right? Whatever behavior that you want to change in your life. And that's extremely hard because everyone's made a New Year's resolution in their life and they've said, I want to lose weight or I want to do this. I want to sell more. I want to be more of whatever it is that you want. And then you have that aha moment.  Nothing. Business as usual. So operating the behavior level is really hard because there's so many layers below it. There's a subconscious and conscious layers that make up the things that we do. And so operating at this level and trying to change it is really difficult and that's why even if someone can do it in one area in business, they won't be able to do it in another area. And the second level down from here is the story.  And these stories are things such as people don't want to buy from me. People don't want to listen to me. People don't want to date me if it's in a personal interaction at that point. And that's really powerful because these stories are what make up our life. They are the blueprint in how we operate along with our belief system. They're our roadmap in life. And the challenge is with the story as well as with beliefs, which we're going to cover a little bit later, is the fact that we make the stuff up all the time. So I'll give you an example. You're in a business meeting. The leader asks a question you answer.  And so what happens at that point is you think to yourself they didn't like me or they didn't like what I had to say.  And that's it. We color in the stories because we get a payback in our head called dopamine when we get answers and we find them in a very fast way. But the reality is that that really hurts us and holds us back because we don't interact with that person. And in that instance what I've done now is I'll go up to a person like that and say you know the story I've made up in my mind is that you didn't like me or didn't like what I had to say. And that actually opens the door for a real conversation to happen. But again the challenge is there you operate the story level so what happens is you can do it through affirmations, training, doing reframing which is taking a negative thought and replacing it with something more positive. Well the problem is in our head is that when we get resistance or negative points and they happen especially many of them the little voice in our head pops up which I'm sure you can relate to and says jeez I told you couldn't do that. See you weren't good enough. See people really didn't like you.  The key level is right here. This is the key, right? You can think about it as an iceberg. What's below the water will either make or break you and the emotional level is absolutely key in life because emotions are why we do everything. Everyone came here today because there are emotions that they get from being a part of this group and why that is is that no one's logical in life as I went through the example on how we extrapolate information and it's basically a conspiracy theory. So at this emotional level down here emotion is driving the car, cognition and behavior are in the backseat and that is true for every single person and we will do anything in our life to not feel.  Well that's blaming other people instead of dealing with it. No man, people do this all the time with addictions in their life. They push down their emotions and don't feel it and they tell people everything's fine, everything's okay and there's quite a bit of other reasons that people push emotions down but at this layer it's important for you to recognize what your emotions are, get curious about them and then understand the body where you feel them. Well the next level down below that is your beliefs and a belief is having absolute certainty around something and that is really key because if you have absolute certainty around not being good enough, not being smart enough that's really powerful in your life and when it comes to beliefs at this level they're more limiting beliefs and limiting beliefs internally in your life and again this is the roadmap and the blueprint on how you operate in the world and create habits and these create neurological pathways in your brain as well so it's actually about genetics in this process as well and that's really important to start to take a look at so your belief system is absolutely critical to really understanding the process of creating change in your life. Well as we operate and go a layer deeper in the first level it's what I call modeling after childhood and the key thing there is understanding that absolute certainty around something well that something is what's down here and what happens is under the age of 10 we learn a lot and we feel like our parents or siblings or maybe important family member are like God to us and then we basically learn information we accept it and we model it at that point so we have ingrained patterns in our life and you need to recognize what those patterns are and how they will affect you in your life because then you can move forward after understanding what's going on at that point. Now I'll give you a quick example of how this actually played out with a client of mine. I did some sales training and a client came in and she was saying that she was really successful in her sales career but it was starting to plateau and why was that? Well she had a very high pitched voice and what happened was as early on in childhood when she was on the phone and even in her teenage years her grandmother and mother would make fun of her and basically say you have a really high pitched voice no one wants to talk to you, I can't understand you so what happened was she'd do anything not to have to get on the phone and it's amazing that she had the sales career she did but it really started to affect her in many ways in her personal life and so what happened was understanding all of that understanding the feelings of shame, guilt and sadness and looking through the beliefs and down to understanding that now what happened was I just said to her to make a simple shift it was just a really small shift and that shift was start telling everyone in the beginning of your interaction that the reason you got into sales was because of this challenge you had with your grandmother and mother and that will really open the door because people will be really impressed you'll be with vulnerability other people then will share things with you magic will happen well little do we know that three months later after I've done this now every successive month she's having better and better sales in her life and so that's one quick way and you can think about it like this if you make one or two degree change in your life how powerful could that be if you move forward especially over time you can take a look at asteroids or other things heading for the earth they did it a couple years ago they found that an asteroid is out there and they set up an explosion and if they only made a slight change and twist and a couple degree change it would miss our entire solar system and universe so that's how powerful it is because when you operate at this level what happens is you say yourself when you can't do change I'm broken no one wants to be a home repair improvement project no one wants to feel like they've always got to fix something in their house which is people who are homeowners understand this concept well when down here when you understand it's about pattern recognition and not about being broken then you understand that it's not your fault these things happen these were just ingrained early on in your life and you have the power to change any moment that you want to sure it takes some work in this process although it's simple it's definitely not easy but it's something every person can work through and if you're a leader in the organization it's absolutely essential because you need to feel your feelings fully and also be able to relate to other people because empathy is a skill set they found empathy skill sets the second thing is operating in discomfort and operating in uncertainty and the issue there is that successful leaders because they can stand in front of a group of people in their company and say I don't know I don't have all the answers now we're struggling with it but here's what we think now and we need all of your help well for a leader to do that they have to really have done this work because they'll never be able to step in that level of uncertainty but the alternative to that is setting up an organization that has to have everything right and makes it very competitive and people are not operating together so the key part of this process is to start doing this work understand that this is really step one in a multi-step process but it starts from the inside and if you again start working from the outside in you're not going to have the success that you need in your life and I have another last story here to tell you about a client of mine who is an executive chairman and a really large company here he was doing this work and he's had some magnificent things happen in his life he went to a huge conference called TED and he absolutely killed it there after we ran through this work and had a plan meeting Bill Gates Tim Cook the CEO of Apple a lot of other influential people he ended up finding a connection to meet his childhood hero Richard Branson which is absolutely fantastic and we now have gotten investments in deals that he's invested less than $10 million and looking to rate a return over the next 12 to 18 months are looking somewhere in the $500 million to $700 million range well I think anyone would say that's a pretty amazing return and we've been working together less than 8 months well all of this is possible that may be a story you think well that can't happen to me well that's exactly what he thought and what happened this magnificent thing happened and my clients are having amazing breakthroughs happening all the time so I encourage you to take a look at this model and really understand in the role that it plays in your life and understand the role it will play in creating your financial success and also your fulfillment and rarely do people have both in their life and that is what you can have anyone can create that change in their life so thank you 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One other surprising early result that we found was that dogs living in animal shelters performed very poorly on these kinds of tasks. Even though we chose dogs at shelters that seemed very happy to be playing with us, not a single one was inclined to follow a simple human pointing gesture. And we were able to show that this wasn't anything to do with some kind of genetic defect in these dogs. It was just that dogs living in shelters lack recent experience around people where the movement of people's limbs predicts that things that are valuable to the dog are about to occur. All of this led us to reassess what we were being told by others about dog intelligence. We realized there was nothing special about dogs when it came to their intellect. Dogs were just doing what any animal would that has been raised around people and is completely dependent on people for the fulfillment of all of its needs. Dogs pay close attention to everything people do that produces an outcome that matters to the dog. There's no special intelligence involved in doing that. Several years of research like this, debunking successively one claim for dogs uniquely human-like intelligence after another, gave me a bit of a reputation. One journalist called me the Debbie Downer of canine cognition research. I didn't mind. I hadn't got involved in this to win some kind of popularity contest. And yet there was something that nagged at me. Dogs might not possess special forms of intelligence, but I still thought there was something remarkable about dogs. But what was it? Some of our studies began to give me an inkling. In one experiment we gave dogs a choice between two people. One person provided treats, the other person just provided petting. Now, not surprisingly, if the person providing treats handed out the treats as quickly as she could, the dogs preferred to stay with the person who was handing out treats. But if the person handing out the treats slowed down even a little bit, the dog started preferring to spend time with the person who was giving out pets and praise. Another study was one of the very simplest we ever attempted. We just had a person sit in a chair and we marked out a one meter circle around that chair. And then we let a familiar dog come into the room for two minutes. And we simply measured what portion of a two minute interval did the dog spend inside this one meter circle as close to the person as they could. And we went back out to Wolf Park in Indiana and we repeated this test with hand-reared wolves and the person in the chair was a person who was very familiar to the wolves, a friend of the wolves. Now, when we did the experiment with wolves out of the two minutes, that's 120 seconds, the wolves chose to spend around 25 seconds inside the circle with the familiar person. When we did the experiment with dogs, the dogs spend every second of the two minutes. They spent a full 120 seconds inside the circle with this person, a person who wasn't giving them anything tangible at all, nothing but praise and petting. But that is what they wanted. That's what mattered to them. And that's when the penny dropped. In different ways these studies show the exact same thing. And actually we all know what's remarkable about dogs. Dogs have a tremendous capacity to form relationships with members of other species. I want to call this hypersociability. Now a biologist might call it social promiscuity. But the truth is we might as well call it love. Dogs have an exaggerated, embellient capacity for love. Our very latest research is even uncovering the genes that underlie this exaggerated capacity for love in dogs. Sometimes I find it slightly embarrassing. After all these years of trying to study animal intelligence in the most hard-nosed way I could think of, I find it slightly embarrassing to have to admit that what actually makes dogs special is something as soppy as affection. But I can live with that because it's also tremendously emotionally satisfying to realize that what I experienced with Benji all those years ago was a real thing. It was the true essence of the dog-human relationship. I'm not suggesting that there aren't differences between dog love and human love. But what's so wonderful is that there's enough overlap that dogs and people can live together in a very rich and rewarding way. Dogs, for example, they don't actually run and get help when children fall down wells. Trust me, a research group in Canada actually carried out that experiment. It was mildly modified so that no children were harmed. But they did test whether dogs would try and get help when an important person appeared to be in difficulty. And they don't. Dogs find it easier to form new bonds than people do. They're more readily able and willing to move on to new relationships. And that's actually a very good thing. Abandoned dogs can be very happily rehomed. If the original story of Lassie, the book, which is the story of a dog that nearly died three times, struggling over hundreds of miles to get home to her original family, if that story were true, then the millions of adoptions of dogs from shelters, dogs most of whom had already lived in a human family, those wouldn't work out as well as they certainly do. Our current dog came to us after a year of living with another family.  I honestly wasn't sure how she'd react. Thyra, I said. Thyra? She didn't even look at me. And then I said the name that she enjoys in her life with us, and she came running towards me with the boundless love that characterizes her kind. Zefos! Zefos! Yay! There you are, sweetie!


Oh there you are I was looking for you. I've got something nice. I wanted you to have this Pokemon egg. Will you accept it? Yes, oh you have six Pokemon with you already. We're waiting right here. Okay egg time I could store shield but shield is our main line of defense and no pun intended He keeps everyone alive whenever things go south. We always switch to shield. Yeah I think we're gonna have to swap out fork fork can handle himself He can solo a lot of things. I think he can go without the experience for now Now fork has got two friends to keep him company. He'll be fine. That egg is going to hatch into a Togokki Which is great. I love toga pee in this game. I love toga kiss toga kiss is a very very tanky flying type and A great special attack as well And now we have a bike we can go.  Yeah, I got dammit People telling us to go get things. So yeah, this is a this was the extension of secret base system in Ruby sapphire and emerald I spent a lot of time in the underground even though I never like ran into anybody All right, so now we're gonna go into the underground and the underground. Oh, yeah We have new emotes by the way We have a sword and a shield check it out everybody those of you who are subscribed You can now a emote with sword and shield class. I just like how he looks and I like that. He's got little friends What Okay Never mind, I guess we're not going to the underground Because I'm playing on a totally legitimate hardware probably why well, I guess we're not going mining everybody Oh, well before we don't go out there There's one more area where we can catch some folks. So this is a new area We can perhaps catch something here.  Yeah, good. All right Bronzor has no matter what ability we get for him I think it's gonna be pretty good no matter either one we get it's got two different abilities One of them reduces fire damage and the other one makes it immune to ground So either one we get is gonna be pretty good. I don't think this bronzor even has any attacking moves Although it means it makes them easier to capture. It's not gonna be easy to raise He's gonna be swapping out a lot. All right, cut it out and we can use him to swap out Doorknob because unfortunately, I feel like doorknob is gonna have to take a backseat I love doorknob, but his power is gonna drop off really fast. There we go Got ourselves a bronzor. I like Stanley. He looks like a Stanley Stanley didn't know any attacking moves unfortunately as far as Stanley was concerned. I was good enough I hide in caves unsuspectingly When my enemies believe that I'm defeated. I only return stronger and more blind than before So Batman, where's Cynthia? Where's she don't sweat arseus. Wait a minute. Where's the other team galactic going?  I am absolutely a coward Cowards know how to survive. I will not hesitate to keep every single one of these babies of mine alive I'm too invested. I don't think there's a single one that I would be okay with dying I refuse to let gum die.  I would be very tempted to end the run What's my thoughts on the new Pokemon games the recent ones? I still like them even even x and y I know x and y it's kind of like a black sheep right now because a lot of it was kind of underwhelming I still like it. I don't dislike any Pokemon games Maybe except the originals because they do not hold up well called. Oh god. No Not this my favorite gen is fourth gen. I I like diamond I like platinum more than diamond and pearl a lot more and I also really like the gen 2 remakes. That's scary Okay, alrighty. Okay. Yeah, it's alright endeavor endeavor drops you to the same amount of health As your opponent oh Boy oh boy. Oh boy. Oh boy. Oh boy. Oh boy. Oh boy This is a bad spot chat. This is a bad spot.  Alright, give him some medicine if he lives to complain about it. He still lives. What am I do? What what do you mean? What am I do? I'm switching to my strongest Pokemon Shield is the only one that can tank the wing attacks.   We're okay. If he doesn't use endeavor this turn Okay, all right rock smash is a hundred bring me use rock smash hood hood. I think we can handle a hood hood Okay, this is our last Pokemon. This is good. All right. We're fine. Oh Lord Don't even hood hood don't even I think he was shield needs to wake up Peck should be fine Okay, see he can tank he can tank That was a crit. I didn't do that much for a crit This is why we need to keep shield on the team It'd be great if we could go to the underground so we could get a fossil and get a fossil Pokemon, but Actually, you know what I'm sorry doorknob But you've you've done you've done well. You've done your job. It's time for him to rest He did good. He did good But we have way too many poison types on our team and Doorknob is not gonna scale well into the late game Yeah, we got too much got too much grass on the team and also I don't want anything to happen to singularity at all I don't want anything to happen to sing you singularity is our baby. We are we have to protect her wait So he does have a So that bronze this bronze on dude have alright Stanley is absolutely a pacifist.  Oh, please don't use endeavor. Please.  I hate endeavor so much Okay, I'm not this again Please hit All right. Nice fork the ever-reliable Gum save us there we go. We're good. We're fine This is why type coverage is important. All right more of this nonsense. I hate this Yeah, I miss crowbar crowbar was gonna get so big and strong It hurts because of what they could have become, you know, I don't think I understand So we slathered honey on these things Is there only a limited amount of time that we have to catch the Pokemon on it?    That's what the X-Men is about by the way I don't know if you knew I mean it technically is if you think about it That's how dark Phoenix ends it's when dr. Xavier goes that he looks into the camera and said and it was you Who were gay the whole time and then it ends and then everyone in the audience gets superpowers By if you're bi then you gain proficiency with dual wielding That's the difference between gay people and bi bisexual people is a gay people are good at two-handed Whereas bisexuals are good at dual wielding Because they swing both ways Anyway, if bisexuals get dual wield who gets sword and shield Pan because they're good at everything. What about asexuals they fight with their fists they don't use weapons They just punch things a lot All right, this could be bad. Oh, it's not even a crit. What is your defense? What is shinks attack? There's another good. Ah stand. Ah Bronzor is so good though. We just got him We just got him. What am I going to do at the elite four? I don't it's so far away We don't even know what our team's going to look like by then The shinks line has betrayed us. Absolutely. It's betrayed us all if the user's next move is electrotype It will deal twice the damage. What? Ah, I see. So that was I should have swapped out I should have swapped out to shield. Yeah, I thought it just raised your attack. I didn't know it doubled I'm terrified of Cynthia. I'm not looking forward to fighting Cynthia at all I'm actually not looking forward to fighting puffin Right before the elite four because he's pretty strong as well. I know this game inside and out Well, maybe not inside and out, but I know this game a fair bit This is my most familiar pokemon game, but do I know nuzlocke platinum? I guess not Uh, can I check it?  No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no Oh, oh, that's scary. That is very scary. Are we dead? We can't if he uses pursuit I'm dead. It hits you even if you switch out. We uh, we're at the mercy of the AI Oh good Oh Whew, we're fine. We're okay. Thank goodness the AI is really stupid right now Oh, yes bite, but it's a good move. It's a very good move.  I'm struggling as it is with switch Oh boy. Oh boy. Oh boy. Oh boy Okay, all right. We're gonna heal. We're gonna heal to be safe Because although shield is strong against electric double the damage can be really bad for us Hopefully not. Okay. We're fat. We're speed tied. Okay. I should have healed anyway. I still should have healed. What am I doing?  This is okay This is all right This is fine. Rhys is not using electric move Shield can tank that Okay All right, we're still okay Hang in there gum. Hang in there gum. Hang in there gum. Okay. Gum is a trooper. Gum is an absolute trooper Gum absolutely needs to evolve What is gum's defense?  I think we cheese it and keep healing Just to be safe Switch to the egg egg tank it god just like a regular battle is so stressful All right. Good. We're fine. We're okay. God.  I should have healed for some reason I was like I fought those guys already right makes p-shares for wussies I am a wussy I'm a big old wuss Bro nose lock as hard as it is and I'm playing one of the harder nose locks I'm gonna get all the help I can get I don't care that that makes me a wuss I am okay with being called a wuss I am in a world of wuss Let's give it to Rick ghastly. He's the lowest among us. All right, so this is Oh It's omelet Well, I guess we know who we're giving the xp share to Wait Omelet's gonna get so big and strong Oh metronome that's it. We win. We have metronome now. We have metronome. We won everybody. We found metronome Hey Yeah, we caught a bronzong and killed it in one less than one hour It's a new record. All right. What do we name this girl gligar kite kite a lot of kite. We'll go with kite I think yeah, it's up here So that's the first cave that cave doesn't actually have gible in it This one, however, this one does. Yeah I refuse to use slash. I refuse to teach flash to any of my pokemon. So this is the gible cave And here we have A geodude. Oh, I could name it sword I could give it the sword name. How about this? We don't nickname anything sword But we can go to the nickname changer. It's a title sword is not a name Sword is a title once something becomes worthy of the name of sword Then we can name it sword.  Well, all right, never mind. We have gibles in the back. I would like to speak with your gible manager There it is Look at him. He's 70 in mouth. Oh, it knows takedown. Uh-oh. That's not good. That's gonna have recoil. Oh, this could be bad This could be bad This could be very bad Shit. All right All right. All right. All right great ball not risking it great ball Hey Got it. Hey, and I like we caught it in a ball that matches its colors game. There we go dagger. Let's call it dagger I am so tempted to put on a rappel, but I know we need the xp Can I make emos for all of my pokemon? How about this? By the end of this nuzlocke, I will make emos for all the final Final team Yeah, what if gum turns out to be our sword? That would be that would be a twist not. All right. Well, here's a question Who is the thickest? Who's gonna be the thickest by the end of the journey? It's a tough fight between shield and gum me Oh nice. I am not thick though. I'm not thick at all. Come on bomb Hey, it doesn't have levitate. Look at that. Oh, yeah, I don't want to hustle. Let's check. So adamant nature Ah, damn it. God, that's so bad even add. Oh adamant's bad too. Yikes. Wow Physical toga kiss this is gonna be terrible It's okay omelette Omelette has potential Can we put omelette down and catch the new pokemon? Jesus you guys a mean chat. Hey, what's this? Hey That's a good move pretty sure tortera learns earthquake as soon as it evolves So we don't we don't have to give it to him game freak. Why give toga pee hustle? That's such a I don't understand. Well, we got dagger Omelette omelette's gonna stay in the box for now if uh something bad happens omelette can be our new flying type Or kite we've got a lot of alternatives for our flying pokemon Welcome to the world toga pee now In the box, but he's hearty Nice and A little upbeat Yeah, there's a happy. Looky. He looks like he would be happy. Yeah dragon rage. Hell. Yeah That can one-shot a lot of things at low level give dagger earthquake doesn't doesn't he learn it naturally? Wow, that's weird Wow, not even garchomp learns. Wow. Look at that.   It's totally gonna die now If dagger lives long enough and Proves to be a worthwhile member of our team that does a lot of work.   Ha ha ha running girl. Have you ever faced a dragon this early? Some people have a rule where if you find a revive in the wild you can use it, but I am not using that rule Hey, it's a chingling. We need pokemon regardless of who it is just in case if more people die Yeah, sometimes the pokemons the pokemon that you think are bad can be lifesavers fan of bellend. Okay, we'll call them bellend Oh, it's cyrus. Hello cyrus According to one theory melt cornet is where the syno region began. I find this state of affairs to be deplorable Syrup All right, his name is syrup now since we're making a story for our nuzlocke, right instead of being this like Well-adjusted really professional guy. What if he just spouted nonsense?  That's why he wants to recreate the world Yes, yes, I agree syrup maple. That's his full name. His full name is maple syrup Dagger's getting so big and strong you guys. No one can stop them except for ice type.  Okay, it's gonna do a little bit. I don't know that there are dragon tamers this early I'm the ultimate dragon tamer. You know how I am. I can make dragon rage crit I might show you one day, but it's a little bit too powerful to show off 80 flat damage It's a little too strong for mortal eyes and we get Hey It's a raltz. Ah, this can turn into a glade. Nice. This is also another candidate for sword. This is good. This is good No It knows teleport This game's dumb.  All right, we'll say it doesn't count That helps that helps it sing a little less. Hey, if you want to do a nuzlocke wear, uh Teleport counts then you can go ahead. This is my first one. I want to be gentle with myself We're fine. We're fine. We're fine. We're fine. Uh, it's the best mechanic in the game Overworld pokemon the contests Uh, here we go. It's poppin time Grand for the gym. Nah, I will not grant for the gym simply because you told me to what's my favorite type Either grass or ghost. I like a lot of ghost types We'll get the eevee. We'll get the eevee and then we'll buy some supplies at the pokemon art singularity because we don't want to level Ah, but if we walk with her then we get gum. We'll store gum. No, we'll come back for them We're not going to do anything with the eevee just yet.   I forgot to name it. Damn it Yeah, flareon or umbrion one of those two. Oh, yeah, we get another shot We get another shot at this. Let's see routes, please Biber El No, this is species claws species claws.  I'm a silly goober with all due respect random dude If you're gonna come into my chat and be unpleasant like you can stop watching You can have your own nuzlocke and make your own rules to have fun just being Kind of not very nice for anything when it's just like if people are just harmlessly enjoying themselves Just let them They'll be okay. I could choose not to read chat.  All right. Um I'm just tired of this area. It's not giving me what I want. I'll give myself one last encounter If it's not a raltz then that area is over. All right, this area is done Let's dragon rage the raltz because it's probably gonna die and mudbomb the magnemite easy She got a raltz and I didn't yeah. Well raltz teleported to this pokemon center That's where he went. Oh magical leaf. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no Okay. All right. Oh, never mind. All right. All right while i'm healing up What's a good name for the ev that will potentially be a flareon or an umbrion bagel I like bagel. This will be our bagel So it has a chance of either being a spicy bagel or a burnt bagel Bagel is Timid and it's fast and good endurance. So bagels bagels kind of scared Kind of a little scared and and timid and Because it's got a lot of potential bagel has a lot of potential that it knows it has to fill It's got to live up to high expectations So we could also go the psychic route jolteon is also another good choice Time to buy some drugs. Hello. I would like your best drugs, please That's probably why they're not very happy, but You know, what are you what are you gonna do? It's keeping them alive and that's important We already have a grass type singularity will be our backup grass type. How about that? Yeah gen one was broken I would believe that gen one was completely broken and how it worked Psychic was overpowered crit ratio was based on speed. Uh dragon was not a monster because In fact fun fact the only dragon type move in gen one was dragon rage with which dealt a Flat 40 and that was it dragon rage was the only damaging dragon type move I have a theory and it could be wrong, but that's why it's just a theory. The reason dragon is so weird There's only one dragon type family There's one attacking dragon type move is because dragon Obviously showed up very late in development and they didn't really have time to flesh it out Like I will not argue Being the first pokemon game I mean it it did amazing and it uh paved forth this amazing series that we all know and love But gen one is not aged well the passage of time Completely annihilated gen one the bugs did not make it fun. Do you have you not been caught in bind? So bind stops you from a bind works like the same way as fury swipes But over multiple turns I disagree. I I respectfully disagree. Maybe you like being caught in bind But I don't gen one had a lot of problems in that because it's the first in the franchise There are a lot of things they didn't think about like for example There's only one ghost type family and ghastly was ghost poison. So it was quad weakness Did we ever catch a raltz? We never ran into a second raltz in the first place We have not run into another raltz ever since that first one I don't know if that means I'm really unlucky or I was really lucky the first time Syrup swiped it. He's drowning in syrup. There are trainers down here Oh, never mind We're forges in the way Foolish bedouf your defense curl means nothing towards never mind. Let's do it It's the best mechanic in the game. Our mom is just here. I got bored So I came to heart to him. So do you have any pokemon? Oh, and here's the gym leader. There she is A fiend so it shall be I will wait for you at the gym Fantina is a queen you can fight her in the uh, sorry not fight her Yes, you can have a fist fight with her in the contest that master you actually compete against fantina Let's do one. Why not you want to do you want to do a pokemon contest Why not man? I used to play this so much Let's let's put shield in the toughness competition. Let's get shield in there. Yeah Yeah, look at that. Look how slick we look Or Let's begin by having everyone get in proper attire for evaluations Contestants dress up your pokemon for the visual competition. I always wanted to do that Okay, now we have 60 seconds to put stuff on on shield to make them look pretty Uh, I don't remember what does what I'm just putting stuff. We'll take this off. We'll give them two moustaches there Nice Nice Boo, that's not tough. That's not tough at all. Boo No, that's more smart. Oh, oh no Got a tree.  You don't know what's tough trees are super tough Ah, ah, yeah, I got it. I got it Okay. Yes. All right. Awesome. Awesome The final performance plus two are we're gonna choose dexter again Hopefully somebody uses a tough move on dexter. We will get a whole bunch of points dexter Yes, okay tough move, please Yo, we're gonna get it Yes Check this out. All right. Check this out chat. I'm so good at so good at contests last performance Voltage went up audience is going wild with excitement plus eight About to bust a nut Damn, look at that strats Easy strats.  I have maxed out these several times Watch this.  You've won the competition. You get to live


This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to find out if you can volunteer, please contact LibriVox.org. Shirabdongbu, or The Tree of Wisdom, by Nagarjuna, edited and translated by W. L. Campbell. Preface The Shirabdongbu Tree of Wisdom is a metrical translation in Tibetan of a Sanskrit ethical work entitled Pranya Danda, written by Nagarjuna, who flourished in the 4th century of the Buddhist era, about 100 BC. The Tibetan version was probably made about the 11th century of our era, but the exact date has not been determined. It is included in the ten year, beginning at leaf 165. The Tibetan translator describes it as the second volume, but I cannot say whether the remainder of the work has been preserved in Tibetan. The Sanskrit original is apparently lost. When this work was selected as one of the textbooks for the higher proficiency examination in Tibetan, the Tibetan text was edited by the late Rai, Bahandar, Sarat, Chandra Das, and printed in continuous lines as is done in Tibet. This adds to the difficulties of the student as there is nothing to show where one verse ends and the next begins. No English translation was prepared at the time, and the present attempt has been made with the object of assisting future students of Tibetan. The poem is known by name to the educated classes in Tibet, but few laymen appear to have read it, and fewer still to understand the many obscure passages. In the course of two years spent in Tibet, I sought the assistance of monks and laymen in and around Yantse, but only succeeded in finding one elderly scholar who had read the poem. The habit of the paokor monastery was good enough to make inquiries at Trashi Lompo regarding the possible existence of a commentary on this work, but without success. By the courtesy of the Tibetan trade agent at Yantse, Ken Chong, Lobsang, Kuan Chi, Lotswana, the printed text was compared with the xylograph edition forming part of the ten gear collection in the paokor monastery and a number of errors detected. It must, however, be added that the paokor text does not appear to be absolutely accurate. All that can be claimed for the present edition is that it is more correct than the earlier printed text. A number of emendations have been suggested in the footnotes. Rai Bharinder Sarachandra Das remarked in his preface that the shirabdongmu was largely quoted by Tibetan authors, but it is hardly quotation in the ordinary sense of the word. Later writers have borrowed many of the sentiments and sometimes entire lines, inserting them in their own compositions. This is particularly the case in the Sakyalegshi Sanskrit Subhasita Ratna Nithinama Sastra, written by the celebrated Kunga Gyaltsen in the 13th century of our era, which is said to be a reshafé of the works of three earlier writers on the same subject. I mention this here as the works of Nagarjuna appear to have been not so much the subject of quotation as a source of extensive literary piracies. The present translation was made at Gyansi, but the number of passages to which no clear meaning could be assigned by the Tibetans was so great that I was in doubt whether it would be possible to proceed with publication, until I came to Gangtok and obtained the invaluable assistance of Kasi Dawa Samdup, headmaster Gupta boarding school. Kasi Dawa Samdup had the advantage of receiving a scholarly explanation of the first 102 verses from a learned Lama Gai Shi Kachen Tundra of Shigatsi, who studied the book some years ago and was accordingly able to give the meaning assigned by tradition to some of the passages which appear quite incomprehensible at first sight. The latter part of the translation was done without this special advantage and some of the more difficult passages remain to be properly explained. The extreme baldness of the translation is intentional. I take this opportunity of recording my gratitude to the many Tibetan gentlemen who assisted me at the start and above all to Kasi Dawa Samdup without whose assistance this translation would never have seen the light. Finally, I would acknowledge my obligation to the honorable Sir Asutash Mukherjee Sinde and the Calcutta University who have undertaken the printing of the text and translation. W. L. Campbell Gangtok Sikim October 1918 and Preface This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to find out how to volunteer, please contact LibriVox.org Shirab Dong Bu or The Tree of Wisdom by Nagarjuna translated by W. L. Campbell Sections 1-40 In the Tibetan language, the commentary of manor is called The Tree of Wisdom. I do obeisance to the three deities. 1.  The wise should be reverenced. Fill your treasury with honest deeds and protect your own countrymen. 2. As regards your own secrets and those of others, if you guard these as your own dear child, he for whom all earthly things are equal will make love for man the principal affection. 3.  4. Avoid that friend who is greedy for wealth. Avoid a wife who is fond of fornication. If unskillful and curing and hard to please or respect, avoid such a doctor. 5. Although you know the difference between good and bad deeds, you should carry out your own work after consultation. Although you may only succeed partially, even without succeeding, you are to be admired. 6. The steadfast who speak in few words impolitely are very much respected by mankind. 7. As the sun, which coming out from the shadow, by his rays creates great heat. 7. As regards these doctrines, though you may suffer, be not anxious in your mind. When the moon has eclipsed, will it not shine again? 8. Just as for the garlands on the altars, only full-blown flowers are gathered. So a gardener, in the same way, does not uproot the plant. 9. Rewards and royal favors. The price of prostitution and praise. The hire of a boat and the rent of a dwelling. These may be asked for at once, for these six are not to be had after a long interval. 10. A magic spell misunderstood is poison. Indifference to illness is poison. 11. An old man keeping company with woman is poison. A poor man's sleep in the daytime is poison. 11. Worthy men do not make many promises. But if a promise is made under pressure, then it is like a carving on stone. Even should they die, it is not altered. 12. You will come to terms with your enemy on occasion. And on occasion, you will quarrel with your friends. Having learned to distinguish what should be done and what not, the clever man will always select his opportunity. 13. If you sin in speech, you will be damned. The parrot, the singing bird, and the water hen. The silent water duck, which man does not catch. Their entire accomplishment is keeping silence. 14. If you keep your weapons in order, your enemy will be subdued. By wearing poor clothes, a woman will be subdued. By treatment, illness will be subdued. Ignorance will be subdued by effort. 15. Keep your resolves to yourself as a secret, like the body which lies hid in the mud. If it were not the sprouts attract attention, who would find lotus root? 16. Although it may become perceptible, still a non-existent substance will not be mentioned. How could the peacock in the painting eat the jewels? This refers to the story of a man who was threading pearls in a room on the wall of which there was a painting of a peacock. The peacock came out of the picture and swallowed the pearls, but no one would believe his story. DS and Footnote 17. If anyone plans in his mind to do evil, he always uses pleasant words to the other. When the hunter sees the game to be killed, he sings a sweet song to please it. 18. Whatever your thought or opinion may be, it should be clearly impressed on all men's minds. They are thus brought under your control, as by the wish-granting gem, 19. It is easy to live by carrying the loads of others. It is easy to dress in tree bark in the forest. It is easier for men to die than to spend their days quarreling. 20. The root principle of mankind is not to quarrel. What would you do with wealth obtained by quarreling? What would you do with wealth and life obtained by pride and the suppression of good? 21. He who undertakes work which he cannot carry out, who vies with the multitude and disputes with the powerful, who lets a woman know his thoughts. The four gods of death sit at his door. 22. Regard not evil prince. Regard not deceitful relatives. Regard not a lustful woman. Regard not a great sinner. Footnote. 23. He who can go anywhere. Why should he be injured through his attachment to his own native land? The evil man says, It is my own well. And saying thus, I will go to heaven. I will go to heaven. I will go to heaven. I will go to heaven. I will go to heaven. I will go to heaven. And saying thus, drinks the brackish water. 24. A highly-learned man has two forms of felicity. Either he will abandon all earthly interests, or else he has much which could be abandoned. 25. He whose glory has left him, and whose efforts have become meaningless, when a holy man becomes impoverished in this way, he is unhappy except in a forest. 26. The career of a holy man is of two kinds, like a flower waving its head, which is either honored by all in the world, or else disappears alone in the forest. Life which perishes naturally in a moment, has this as its essence. As your actions and intellect are undeveloped, remain modest in society. 28. An ant hill increases by accumulation. Similarly, eye medicine is used up by distribution. The to be feared grows less by association. That is the thing to understand. 29. The ant hill and honey, the waxing moon up to the full, the possession of kings and beggars, increased by gradual accumulation. 30. Do not be excessively covetous. Great greed entails punishment. If you are stultified by excessive covetousness, you were like the fox that was killed by the bow. footnote The fox bit the bow string and was killed by the poisoned arrow. footnote 31. He who always pursues the man who can do something for him and pays no heed to the man who has done something is like the wicked man whose ears are filled with curds. Such a one has stolen that which was guarded. 31. O carna, evil-minded like curdled milk, you have conquered what you should have protected. footnote The last two lines of the verse are very obscure. They are possibly a reference to some story. The gay she's explanation is to the effect that the curds are a reference to churning and that the lines mean that a man who churns pays no heed to the butter already produced but thinks of the butter to come. footnote 32. Do not go in search of excessive fame. Judge honestly for yourself. By the fall of the bell fruit into the water, see, the forest was deserted. footnote This refers to a story of Sanskrit origin. The noise caused by the fall of the bell fruit frightened the smaller animals who communicated their fear to the larger, thus causing the forest to be deserted. footnote 33. Do not say things which hurt the feelings of others. Do not speak in a very injurious way. The good man and the armed enemy become known. 34. Even if the son of his enemy speaks sweetly, the wise man is not indifferent. As a poisonous leaf is extremely potent, it will cause injury at any time. 35. Whosoever does benefit to his enemy with straightforward intention. By so doing, all enemies will arrive at the state of folding their hands in devotion. 36. In desiring to injure your enemy, praise is inherent good qualities. What do evil thoughts of injury do? They injure you and not your enemy. 37. Be firm with th'unruly, not with mildness, but with suitable harshness. If the children are not diligent, does not the beneficent father threaten punishment? 38. As long as you watch the way, as long as your steps are steady, as long as your wisdom is unimpaired, so long is their profit for you. 39. If you are always seeking your own advantage, what is the use of remaining among the multitude? There exists no means whatever for making all beings rejoice exceedingly. Footnote, i.e. Whatever you do, you cannot please everybody. And footnote, 40. To seek from others and yet wish for good food. To spend your life in begging and yet have great pride. To be ignorant of literary works and yet wish to dispute.  And part one. This recording is in the public domain. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to find out how to volunteer, please contact LibriVox.org. Sherab Dong Lu, or The Tree of Wisdom by Nagarjuna. Translated by WL Campbell. Section 41-80. 41. The fire which burned the forest became the companion of the wind. And that same extinguished the fire. So has the weak man no friends. 42. Not doing harm to others, not bowing down to low people, not abandoning the path of virtue. These are small points, but really very many. Footnote. I.e. of really great importance. And footnote. 43. Having no fear of disease, endeavoring to associate with the holy, not using the vulgar language of the mean, a day spent thus is greater than a hundred years. 44. Whenever the mean find a little wealth, they despise everybody, and are filled with pride. But the virtuous, although they may attain the possession of wealth, remain bowed like ripe rice. 45. Low class creatures, should they become possessed of wealth or science, think only of quarreling with everybody, like the fox with the blue skin. Footnote. Refers to the story of the fox who fell into a vat of indigo, and then said he was a tiger. And footnote. 46. If they become possessed of wealth or learning, low people become proud. But even when doubly honored, the wise man will become the more humble. 47. Trade without profit, quarreling with those who have a following, despising to beg, and thus poor, delighting in lust, using rough language to young women. These five are improper conduct in a man. The peacock, although scorched by heat and summer, would rather hope for rain from the middle of the sky, than bend its proud neck to the bad water of the dirty pond. 49. The TT raw bird preserves its own life with dew drops, for it fears to be placed under an obligation by begging, and will not even beg from Indra. 50. If you understand real truth, why have a teacher? When the disease is cured, what is the use of the doctor? When the water is crossed, what use is the boatman? What use is a sorcerer to a man without passions? Footnote. A difficult line. Might be rendered. What is the use of a familiar spirit to an aesthetic? And footnote. 51. As long as an evil man is weak, so long as he naturally good, like the waters of a river in autumn, which can be easily crossed by everyone. 52. Where a store is made by the mouse, where the cat guards the butter, and the crow is the director of ceremonies, how could reliance be placed in such an arrangement? Footnote. This is obviously an illusion to some story, but it has not been traced. And footnote. 53. If there is much discussion about anything, all make boast of their skill, and as all wish to be placed foremost, that gathering is brought to naught. 54. Copulation by day, and sleeping by day, fresh beer, curds, and young people drinking, sleeping with withered old women. These six waste the bodily strength. 55.  56. The encounter with the time of misfortune and disease, a time of famine and danger from enemies, being at the king's gate or in Yama's abode. These are all the common remedy, i.e. affect all alike. 57. People strive for worldly things because they want them. It is not done for the sake of righteousness. Like the calf which, seeing that the milk is exhausted, leaves the cow at a distance. 58. Separation from the object of affection, the contempt of one's own people, to be much in debt, association with the evil, to be abandoned by friends who see your property. These five are not fire, yet they burn the body. 59. He who, when small discords increase, does not attempt to make peace is like the bees' honey leaking in drops and the ruin of a country. 60. He who has knowledge is firm. The holy, even when destitute, do not discard moral virtues. Although scorched by the sun's natural heat, the natural cold of snow is not taken away. 61. Those who wish to terminate their sins believe in Buddha. Those who wish to terminate their earthly existences associate with the evil.  When cereals are to be consumed, the stomach becomes heated. 62. Those blinded by desire do not perceive their sin. The blind man does not see the shape of things. The proud do not perceive their faults. He who regards himself does not perceive real truth. A conqueror, a water channel, a creeping plant, women and the blind. These five, how they are led by the crafty, and this leading places them in power of others. 64. The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery. The happiness and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel. 65. The invisible appears before you, and again becomes invisible. What is that of yours, and what are you? Who will be made miserable on that account? 66. Thus the logs of wood which go down together to the great ocean are driven apart by every wave. Who will be made miserable on that account? 67. The very wise man conquers rather by forcefulness than by anger. The evil man fails by being angry. Oh, evil men, defeated by defeat, how could you be called to the society of the wise? 68. A big stone, by a great effort, may be thrown to the top of a hill, but can be toppled over by a small effort. Our own faults and virtues are like this. 69.  70. He who has entirely forsaken his own interests and rejoices in those of the other party will surely be destroyed. How such a man resembles King Rab Mar. 71. If an astronomer calculates from the sky, he will ascertain the paths of the moon and the stars. But in his house the women folk are at variance, and he does not perceive their various misconduct. 72. The moon's color was apparent in the unsullied water, and you wished to seize the lotus root. Oh, swan, who knew how to separate water and milk, what has become of your knowledge today? 73. Any man who has work, great or small, and desires to do it, and in this endeavor does his best, is considered to be doing a lion's work. 74. So in protecting his kingdom, and in overcoming his venturesome rivals, a king should not rely on his subjects, but do it personally in this present life. 75. He who says to himself, who is the loved one, and who the other, who acts affectionately, magnanimously, and broad-mindedly, such a man controls the whole earthly globe. 76. By always uttering pleasant speeches, it is easy for a king to beguile his people. But as regards profitable words, which are like medicine, the speaker is rarer than the listener. 77. If you understand the purport of this doctrine, as when the beam is at fault when the weighing is done, even if it was constructed by a reputed wise man, it is better to let your own conviction be the winner. 78. If he is equal in wealth and ability, if he knows the essential vital point and is diligent, a follower of this kind is sure to injure you. No enemy will injure you as he will. 79. If fire is lighted in water, how is it to be extinguished? If the fear comes from the protector, who is there to protect you from this fear? 80. A drum, when not adjusted, does not give forth pleasant sounds. Even when adjusted, the sound emitted is not sweet. The world is like a small drum. It should be so adjusted as to give forth a melodious sound. And part two. This recording is in the public domain. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to find out how to volunteer, please contact LibriVox.org. Sherab Dong Bu, or The Tree of Wisdom by Nagarjuna. Translated by WL Campbell. Part three, sections 81 to 120. 81. The Lord of Earth, being influenced by passionate desires, does not discriminate between benefit and injury. He conducts himself as he pleases, like a lust-maddened elephant. Tortured by remorse, he falls over the precipice of despondent misery.  82. In a time of disputes, a king, rather than acquire wealth, should preserve his life by abandoning property. Just as when the butcher shears the sheep's fleece, the sheep thinks the sparing of its life to be a great gain. 83. When there is a snake at the root, and an eagle above, the monkeys climbing in the branches and the flowers surrounded by bees, where a resting place is provided for all savage animals, pay no heed to beware of such a sandalwood tree. 84. By whatever means you control your enemies, it is not the physical ability, but the method which matters. See how the crow, with a string of golden beads, got the snake killed. Footnote. DS explains that the snake lived at the foot of the tree in which the crow lived, who owned the beads. The crow wished to kill the snake, and accordingly, drop the beads.  Footnote. 85. He who has understanding is mighty. What can you do with might without understanding? How strong the lion was, yet he was killed by the hare. Footnote. The hare told the lion to look at his reflection in a well, and the lion fell in. One of the few stories referred to in this book, which are known in Tibet. End footnote. 86. If you want to have proper method in your work, consult those possessed of understanding. What need is there to speak of obtaining health, wealth, and happiness? Even if you fail, it will still look well. 87. The conduct of the morally virtuous is self-evident. But how can it cure evil persons? Like phlegm, which is brought on by hot, rough-tasting condiments, their evilness becomes very much increased. 88. The man against whom you feel anger in your heart is not to be admonished by words. Catch your enemy by the feet, and then admonish him with the weapon of words. 89. And as far as danger has not been encountered, in so far is danger to be feared. At the time of real danger, it should be vanquished like a mistake. 90. As regards one who has imbibed the truth, is it clever to impose upon such a man? When a man is resting on the bamboo, what is brave about killing him? 91. Even when young, rejoice in the intense tranquility of the old. Be not proud of what you know, even when learned. However great your glory, be forebearing in your manner. However high you may rise, be not proud. 92. Those who ever delight to benefit all creatures are supreme, like the lamp made from a jewel, which relies not on oil, nor on the vessel, nor on the wick for its light. 93. A doctor taking food and not digesting it. A king speaking falsehoods and a man of good birth misbehaving himself. These three are very unbecoming. 94. By association with the exalted, who would not become exalted, the thread on which the flowers are strong as a garland is attached to the head. 95. He who preaches at the timely season and speaks when opportunity arises will be very much remarked and obtain worldly greatness. 96. He who is possessed of diligence, courage, might, wisdom, the power to subdue others and perseverance, these six virtues is feared even by the gods. 97. As regards your former enemy, now defeated, trust him not even when he wishes to become your friend. See how in the cave where the owls were gathered, the raven litifier and they were burned. 98. Eating, sleeping, fearing and copulating, man and the brutes are likened these. By the practice of religion, mankind is elevated. If religion is not understood, is man not on a level with the brutes? 99.  They have breath, they are not alive. 100. Leaving the patron, Buddha, and bowing to other gods is like a fool who comes to the bank of the Ganges and being thirsty digs a well. 101. Although you may remain in a country for a very long time, it is absolutely certain that you will have to leave. Whatever may be the difference regarding, the actual going cannot be avoided. 102. By compulsory separation, excessive pain is infinitely caused to the mind. But if the giving up is voluntary, infinite peaceful happiness will be obtained. 103. One's desire is to be attractive and happy, and of course, pleasant. But yet, this world of existence is like a healthy drunken person being carried. 104. For living beings, there is no moral defilement equal to lust. Nothing injures others as envy does. None is so fawning as a beggar. There is no friend or relative to equal generosity. 105. There is no eye like that of wisdom. There is no darkness like spiritual darkness. There is no enemy like disease. There is no danger to equal death. 107. It is well to have this friend and that gem. The wishing gem is real. Stones are not gems. The topaz being treated as the best of gems, and that gem causes the ruin of the world. 108. Whatever there be on the earth's surface, grain, gold, cattle, and good health, not all these will suffice to satisfy one man. If you understand this, you will obtain tranquility. 109. Wealth hoarded with great pains and fondled at intervals how it resembles the starving mouse who hoards this store. Wealth is merely a source of misery. 110. Earthly life is not stable. Wealth and enjoyment are not stable. Wife and child are not abiding. Therefore, trust in religion and good reputation. 111. A king is not satisfied with great riches. A clever man is insatiable for elegant sayings. The ocean is never sated with salt. The world has never enough of the sight of beauty. Fire is not to be satisfied with wood, nor is it possible to satisfy a child's desires. 112. Moral conduct, self-restraint, and the control of the mind. Whoever bears these earnestly in mind and remains so, then what more does he need? 113. If you remain utterly contented, you are far from the plane of the evil man. Pleasures which are bound by the ties of carnal desire beget trouble at every step. 114. This so-called body full of faults has, however, one great moral quality. Whatever it encounters in this temporal life, its movements depend upon the steersman. 115. The forest elephant is powerful although he lives on grass. The serpent, although he lives on air, is not lean. The aesthetics, who have only a little grass are not of the past. Thus, modesty and contentment are the only objects of attainment. 116. Where is the solitary retreat where there is not vegetation and dustless water? The moon is the public light. What is the use of personal property? 117. The surest possession is real contentment. It is not difficult to earn your livelihood whatever it may be. It is like places where there are grass, leaves, and water. There is no place where these are not to be found. 118. The tiger is chief of the forest and the elephant is leader. Make of the grass your seat and your garments of tree bark and have the fruit of the trees of food.  The man who either in a good or bad style adapts himself somehow to what he has and continues to keep his body from impurity. What is the attraction of wealth to him? 120. The price of great good actions. The ship of your present body has been bought. So long as it is not wrecked strive to cross the ocean of human misery. And part 3. This recording is in the public domain. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to find out how to volunteer in the public domain, please visit the link in the description. Thank you. 122. When your eyes are fixed in unconsciousness and you have come to your last breath through constant hiccoughing as one led in the dark to a great precipice of what assistance can child and wife be then 123.  Salvation is not to be found in believing in religious books not yet in freedom from bodily suffering. 124. If the thoughts are controlled by wisdom then salvation is very near. To get rid of the contamination of moral faults what is the use of shaving your head? 125. To him who has no covering what is the use of a cotton rope? He who's mind is imbued with compassion for all sentient beings that is the way of salvation and divine wisdom. Ashes and long hair do not constitute the religious robe. 126. He who is subdued in the prime of life I know for a really subdued person if all the senses were completely exhausted how could he possibly not be subdued? 127. Over friends and kindred in the burning place there comes a change when the smoke is dispersed as regards that which always accompanies you if you are convinced that it is your own works then practice acts of virtue. Footnote DS takes the first two lines to mean that friends and kindred return home after they have seen you burned at the ghat the translation given above seems near the original and footnote 128. Wealth acquired through great misery or by acts contrary to religion or by bending before your enemy such wealth is not proper wealth 129. The holy man who is very firm in his longing to act nobly is always miserable through the fear of being decried in society but the shameless man who spreads the root of perverse conduct and does not discriminate between the proper and improper is happier on the whole 130. He who has not the sense to distinguish between the proper and improper who has abandoned all heed and observance of vows who only wishes to be filled with good food what difference is there between a rich man of this kind and the beasts 131. The great source of virtues both visible and invisible is knowledge therefore there is striving to procure them take hold of wisdom in its entirety 132. A hero is born among a hundred a clever man is found amongst a thousand but the wise hero in a hundred thousand may be born in a thousand or not at all 133. By the wise the sciences will be studied even when they are past middle age although there may be no results in this life it will become easier for them to obtain such in another life 134. Even when white-haired and wrinkled learning from others should be treasured wherever the man of much learning may go he will not obtain the aggregate of learning 135.  Although the accomplished man have faults philosophers will not grieve although the moon may become spotted the firm look at it with pleasure 137. There is no bodily ornament like accomplishments there is no physical misery like mental worry there is no protection from the body like patience there is no relative or friend to equal charity 138. Although the holy man may live far away his virtues act as a messenger through sniffing the perfume of the kataka flower the bees are attracted themselves 139. If you are persevering in virtue what is the use of your haughty attitude the cow which has no milk even if a bell be attached to it will not be purchased 140. Our existence is short but science is of many kinds we may estimate life but we do not know how long it will be so like the swan which separates milk from water devote yourself to whatever you undertake 141. Although many large stars are gleaming and the moon too shines as an ornament of the earth yet whenever the sun sets it becomes night except for the sun there is no meaning attached to the terms east and west 142. On whatever it shines darkness is dispelled and light produced the shining of the sun being supreme what is there in the shining of the other bodies 143. The man who accomplishes thoroughly excels all sentient beings what need for many acts as the moon when full lights the earth's surface a great multitude of stars have not this power 144. The growth of moral virtue depends on one's self the acquisition of property depends on previous merit why blame anybody for this 145. Moral virtues are to be obtained by making an effort and this effort rests with yourself to say that others possess moral virtues who could endure to lead such a life footnote i.e. without emulating them in endeavor and footnote 146. Of those who understand the meaning of the scriptures there are many even among the crippled it is a matter for rejoicing to find the sharp pointed sword by which the enemy is conquered 147. Rich men are to be found even among the barbarians and there are many heroes and priests but holy men who can explain the various truths are the rarest of all 148. There are not sandalwood trees on all hills nor does one get pearls from all elephants the learned who can explain the meaning of the real are not to be found everywhere 149. Real truth is a virtue to the talented but a harmful thing to those without talent the water of the river is very free from impurity but entering the ocean it becomes undrinkable 150. The cultured delight in culture the uncultured find no pleasure in it the bee is attracted from the forest by the lotus the frogs although living together are not thus 151. The fame of the sagacious increases among the sagacious themselves as valuables among experts and heroes in battle 152. The swan does not look well in an assemblage of hawks nor the horse among the donkeys nor the lion among the foxes nor the clever man among fools 153. That which is placed on their heads by the great may be considered merely as a basis by the vulgar as the shortened to which the learned bow is used as a seat by the crows footnote Sanskrit a stupa and footnote 154. Though possessing it themselves unproclaimed while others may have it in small measure holy men delight in such moral virtue how remarkable is such conduct footnote i.e. holy men are ready to praise the lesser accomplishments of others without advertising their own superior accomplishments and footnote 155. The virtues of the omniscient are comprehended only by the omniscient the exact weight of the earth is known only to Tai Yi footnote Ananta the serpent God who supports the globe and footnote 156. If people mutually advertise each other's virtues even he who possesses none will acquire them but he who proclaims his own virtues even where he Indra would not be respected 157. There where the possession of learning is not respected why should the learned man go thither in the city of the Naked Janus what would the washerman do 158. Alas this stupid world has not obtained personal independence but following the doings of others is lost in the vessel of the unobstructed disappears like a lump of copper in a vessel of molten copper footnote the translation of this line is due to the gay she it appears to mean that worldly people are lost in the round of material things and footnote 159. Of the two the buffoon and the clever man to the fool the laughter maker is superior the buffoon acquires wealth but the learned man goes empty handed 160. by means of various records of profitable meaning the sage passes his time the indigence consequent on abandoning religion may be acquired even in sleeping and part four this recording is in the public domain this is LibriVox recording all LibriVox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to find out how to volunteer please contact LibriVox.org Shirob Dong Lu or The Tree of Wisdom by Nagarjuna translated by W.L. Campbell part five sections 161 through 200 161 he who in an assembly of many persons makes no effort to obtain the virtues of the holy what is the profit in such a one being born who is driven away by his own mother's pains 162 the way of the wise man is knowledge the way of the cuckoo is a sweet note the way of the aesthetic is patience the way of a woman is perversity 163 astronomy itself and doctrinal principles the eagle spell and the repeating of spells of these the essential meaning should be seized do not analyze the sound of the words 164 knowledge contained in books and wealth procured from others when the time for needing them arrives are neither knowledge nor wealth 165 the accomplishments of the teacher of the arts are but accomplishments for earning a living but the study of the termination of earthly incarnation why should that not be THE accomplishment 166 to know man without due scrutiny should sound advice be given see how for only giving a place to a monkey the man was made homeless 167 some devote themselves to speech some gain their object without speaking the reed flower has no fruit the walnut has both flower and fruit 168 the fruit of the kataka tree clears all water but if its name only be mentioned this does not cause the mud in the water to subside 169 although a man may be learned in written works yet if he does not apply what he knows he resembles the blind man who even with a lamp in his hand cannot see the road 170 like the moon which waxes and wanes and having recourse to the holy or empires a little virtue may be increased or vast accomplishments may be decreased 171 it is easier to have a clever man for one's enemy than to be friends with the stupid as in the stories of the protection of the brahmin by a thief and of the monkey who squeezed the king's eyes 172 the clever the disciplined the contented and the truth tellers it is better for such to die than to live in the kingdom of the evil footnote or to share a kingdom with the wicked and footnote 173 in the matter of a snake's venom and that of an evil man an evil man is more venomous than a snake for the snake's venom may be overcome by drugs and spells but what can soothe the venom of an evil man 174 although the evil may be benefited by a hundred talents yet even when happy they use abusive language he who is well educated is firm although poor as a fact here he will not abandon virtue 175 the naturally evil man is like the weighing scales a little thing sends him up and a little thing sends him down 176 although smeared with sandalwood musk and camphor the natural strong smell of garlic is not driven out although many texts may be well studied one does not drive out the natural evil in one's disposition 177 there are no lotuses on the face of a holy man's son nor do horns grow on the heads of prostitutes' sons but in so far as there was perversion in the act in so far is that the essential characteristic of the bastard 178 the word which is uttered is one thing and different from the thought in the mind alas, then for the crooked-minded who can change this natural disposition 179 he assiduously retains his vices and ever discards the moral virtues in retaining vice and discarding virtue the evil man resembles a strainer 180 the evil man resembles a strainer 180 he who has been refuted by an evil man loses confidence even in the holy when a child's mouth has been scalded by hot milk he will drink curds only after blowing on them 181 seeing the stars reflection on the lake by night the swan is disappointed in taking them for lotus shoots so that even when he sees the real lotus shoot by day, he will not eat it when once refuted by a liar one will doubt even the truthful 182 a woman's appetite is twice that of a man her deceitfulness four times as much her shame six times and her passions eight times that of a man 183 not by gifts nor by attentions not by worship nor by veneration not by constant association nor by aciduity by none of these is a woman to be resisted 184 when he was carried off by the king of the birds the white lotus serpent god said he tells secrets to women his life is lost there and then 185 by them one's object and religion are completely destroyed they create an obstacle in the attainment of salvation they become the cause of all mischief rather therefore avoid other men's womenfolk 186 if even one verse of truth is given by a lama to his pupil the gift given would be supreme such a thing is not on earth 187 all worldly pleasures should be abandoned but if you are unable to abandon them then cling to the holy that is the cure for it 188 188 all desires should be abandoned but if you cannot abandon them let your desire be for salvation that is the cure for it 189 the unhelpful relative is like a stranger but he who helps even if he be an outsider is a relative like the body in its diseases which are with us and the beneficial medicine of solitude footnote i.e. the diseases of the body are like an unhelpful relative and solitude like a helpful outsider and footnote 190 if you hold with aciduity a pot half full of water on your head so also if respected the evil man becomes excited footnote this verse is rather elliptical it is to be inferred that the evil man's excitement is to be compared to the water splashing over and footnote 191 whatever may be agreeable to your mind although it be far away is yet near that which is not kept firmly in mind although by your side is yet a far off 192 though we may live in the society of the empires there is no intimacy like the water and the lotus the holy may ever live far apart yet they rejoice like the moon and the water lily footnote these two admire each other at a distance and footnote 193 if you are ever desirous of friendship then do not do these three laying wagers money transactions and speaking privily with women 194 when milk is got from a horn when the reed flower drops honey then when a woman is true the lotus will grow in dry ground 195 a man possessed a very little moral merit even should he obtain abundance knows not how to enjoy it like a dog on a lake of snow which when thirsty licks with its tongue footnote the dog has not the ability to melt the ice and footnote 196 those who do work in this world would not properly carry provisions for the journey without payment but beggars and the poor without its being evident have a hundred fold profit in the future 197 as we have to go leaving wealth behind therefore men give alms as even if you die your property is not lost realize that giving alms is like the act of a clever miser 198 hesitating to impoverish themselves by charity the miserly the miserly do not give alms but this wealth being the real danger the learned man distributes his wealth 199 from your food why not give about half to the beggars the desire and the reward which charity brings will be obtained at some time 200 although you may get no results from your actions still do not be grieved for you can still give alms from what you possess leaves, flowers fruit, water and medicines all these can ultimately be rendered inimitable by the power of mental dedication footnote mental dedication a good action to some definite object such as the salvation of a parent it is not the material value of the alms but the spirit in which they are given which matters and footnote and part 5 this recording is in the public domain this is a LibriVox recording all LibriVox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to find out how to volunteer please contact LibriVox.org or The Tree of Wisdom by Nagarjuna translated by WL Campbell part 6 sections 201 through 240 201 as regards wealth which is devoid of charity and enjoyment neither given away nor enjoyed to be the owner of such wealth is to err for although it is your property why are you not the owner 202 further this is the place for action the beyond is the place for results whatever may be done here that same will certainly be enjoyed there 203 the wealth rank, beauty and health of others why be grieved in seeing these here if you desire these is not the getting of the fruits of work from the seed of virtuous action applicable to you too 204 if you have possessions and do not distribute them the use of keeping them by you the fruit of the kimpaka may grow but what is its use in hunger footnote the kimpaka is described as a pretty but bitter fruit and footnote 205 whoever gives alms which do not harm others his various resulting pleasures will neither be carried away by water nor burn by fire nor stolen by thieves such possessions will never be utterly destroyed 206 he who does not try a remedy for the disease of hell when he reaches the place where there is no medicine what will he do he and his disease 207 holy men are seized by the snake of words which comes from the pit of savage men as a means of allaying this poison drink the medicine of wisdom and patience 208 although you may kill all your life long you will not exhaust the number of your enemies but if your own anger be slain that is to slay the real enemy 209 the mighty are not amenable to reform therefore why exercise patience with them with those who are disciplined and peaceful in conduct what necessity is there for patience 210 if you are merely angry owing to an injury then why not be angry with anger which obviously destroys religious aims and salvation 211 he who having seen the excellence of others is afflicted by disturbance in his own mind will not gain even a little of the truth such a being destroys his own merit 212 let all hear this moral maxim and having heard it keep it well whatever is not pleasing to yourself do not that unto others 213 as regards the leaving of this mortal life who is not clever in knowing and speaking about it but when it comes to practicing what they preach those who know would be considered wise among the sages 214 property is unstable and youth perishes in a moment life is like being ever in the grinning fangs of death yet mankind delays to obtain release from this world alas the conduct of mankind is very surprising 215 he who has good intellect but is lazy such a being will not become exalted he is like a youthful writer who makes his calculations in the dust 216 if all these human beings could perceive the god of death on their own heads even in food there would be no flavor what need to mention other things 217 the god of death does not wait to ask whether your composite works are completed or not therefore do tomorrow's work today and the evening's work in the morning 218 so long as you are healthy and produce a harvest which is not ruined by the great hail of disease and so long as your intellect is in your work all this is the time for heating religious doctrines 219 what are wreaths of flowers to donkeys and cattle what is delicate food to quadrupeds and pigs light to the blind or songs to the death of what use is religious doctrine to fools 220 so long as one is not ambitious for so long will one's accomplishments be great if great ambition be entertained in the mind how can moral attainments be controlled 221 so long as a man does not beg even when the time comes for so long is he styled a glorious aesthetic brave clever of high rank and manly are terms used of a man until he begs 222 the first inventor of anything how wonderful he is the water mill having been made can be managed even by a girl 223 a sages son may suitably die soon and a king's son suitably live for a long time for the hunter's son life and death are equally unsuitable and for the saint's son equally convenient 224 then let that which exists in the beginning for the purpose of increasing man's understanding let the elegant classics be expounded by the man who understands the doctrines 225 words of the nature of elegant sayings should be collected as far as convenient for the temporary but supreme gift of words any price will be paid 226 the student of science the hero and the beautifully formed woman wherever they go acquire great fame here and then 227 a scientist and a king are not to be compared in any way the king is esteemed in his own country the wise man is esteemed wherever he goes 228 he who is handsome youthful accomplished and born of high caste yet more of the violet lac tree does not look well when separated from his caste 229 he who has a body but is devoid of learning even though of good birth what uses he in the world reverence comes from learning from lack of learning comes destruction 230 your ease forsake learning if you desire learning forsake ease how can the man at his ease acquire knowledge and how can the earnest student enjoy ease 231 he who is no friend of knowledge will always be in misery he who is a friend of knowledge will always obtain happiness 232 what country is foreign to a sage who is hostile to a pleasant speaker what load is heavy to a man in his own home what distance is long to the energetic 233 since he who gives has friends the summit of the king of mountains the earth's profundities are not too deep and even when sundered by the ocean it is not beyond his reach 234 the superior man who has learned from books only and has not studied things from many standpoints resembles a pregnant girl of loose morals he does not look well in an assemblage 235 he who scorns the spiritual teacher who has given him even a single letter will pass through a hundred dog incarnations and be reborn of low cast 236 to whom so ever a single letter is given by a llama as to a pupil whatever he may hand over in payment there does not exist sufficient wealth to repay this 237 he who brings one up he who imparts elegant learning he who imparts science he who feeds one and gives fearlessness these five are declared to be like fathers 238 the wife of a king or of a minister likewise the wife of a friend a brother's wife and one's own mother these five are declared to be like mothers 239 counsel given to fools excites but does not pacify them he who pours out milk for a snake is only increasing its venom 240 the fool who is really a two footed brute should be special should be specially avoided for like the unseen thorn the pain of his words hurts and part six this recording is in the public domain this is a LibriVox recording all LibriVox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to find out how to volunteer please contact LibriVox.org Shirob Dong Bu or The Tree of Wisdom by Nagarjuna translated by WL Camp Bell part seven sections 241 through 260 241 if a fool sees a fool he is more refreshed by this than by sandalwood if he sees a learned man he regards him as a parasite 242 as regards benefiting the evil whatever you may do they are not grateful but if you do even a small service to a holy man for this he is yours to command for life 243 all the doings of fools are like ripples on water quickly effaced the doings of a holy man are like a carving on stone they may be small but they are permanent 244 though the evil man may speak sweetly yet he is not to be trusted the peacock has a sweet note but for food it eats powerful poison 245 alas the evil man and phlegm are really alike by mildness they are excited and by roughness they are soothed 246 an evil man gold a drum a wild horse women and cloth are controlled by beating these are not vessels for elegant doings 247 association with the evil man is unbecoming whether he be pleasant or obnoxious as with a dog it is unbecoming whether you play with him or let him lick you 248 wildness is worse than a serpent a serpent's venom can be assuaged by drugs and spells wildness is not to be assuaged by anything 249 the sins of the unruly leave their mark on the temperament whosoever mixes with the unruly becomes even more unruly than they 250 even without noticing his father's conduct the son imitates him from the kataka tree one does not get the karura fruit footnote the kataka is a magic tree and the karura a sour fruit and footnote 251 if my father mother own brother and wife imitate me in whatever sin I commit is as if they had committed it 252 this earth the mighty ocean and the mountains are not a burden but he who is ungrateful is indeed a heavy burden 253 he who stays in the society of those of good moral behavior rejoices to benefit all evil spirits although yama is the destroyer yet wise men praise him very much 254 in the society of the clever the disciplined the contented and the truthful imprisonment is a superior state the sovereignty of the unruly is not thus 255 intimacy in the society of the holy conversation in the society of the learned and the friendship of the unselfish these will cause no regrets 256 although for a very long time you may not perceive the misery caused by sin in this world and the other world yet bring your mind into harmony with religion 257 although a thing may afford you mental enjoyment yet the whole fruition is to be injurious how can it be right if anything upsets your health how could it be right to eat such a sweet dish 258 that which hurts but is profitable is drunk by the wise like medicine the result attained afterwards becomes in itself incomparable 259 if the learned king summarizes the meaning of this book in the beginning the middle and the end it will be found to be not otherwise than stated 260 when the ocean shall be no more it may be crossed in the middle so they say whether holy men exist or not we should not transgress the moral codes book 2 the tree of manners called the tree of wisdom written by the teacher which has been translated separately is finished footnote ie from Sanskrit into Tibetan and footnote and part 7 this recording is in the public domain


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In the center, LHTL's pressure sensor looks good. That's some good heads up. I concur. And all the LPFT discharge temperatures look good too. Copy that. And concur. Mox. Fuel up our course. Fuel. Outboard's closed. CLS is go for auto sequence start. ASAP 31. Copy that, 31. 25 seconds. HPLX is open. Morgan turbine speed. 20. Morgan is coming out. I'm coming to the end of the line. It's open. Open. It's open. So pre-assault board blade. Ignition. Ignition. Doveling up. 380. Lift off the main stage. Copy lift off. Dove up, 3104. We've got a fuel cell. Closing control. Closing control. Closing control. Closing control. Closing control. Closing control. Closing control. Closing control. Closing control. Closing control. Copy that. AC bus sensor's off. out of gas.at the fuel cycle. AC bus sensor's off.  Out of gas. EC2 a-3. EC2 a-3. So, battery cooled down.MarcStushing up. turn off the ENT burst sensor. Can you talk to theota? center and AC3 on the right, throttle on 367, in the bucket. Main engine encouraged and copies with your call. Watching for GPC-13, critical AC2. And AC3 flight, copy. And AC3 as you call. Throttling up. AC2 on the center engine, AC3 on the right. 3 at 104, CAA on the center and DCUB on the right. There, go with throttle up. Copy that.  And we did get MCF on both engines. And I concur. Here's your MPS. MPS? Yeah, right, the hydraulic pressure bravo, right on the right. Any idea what trip on AC1? It looks like ready data. Now the fuel cell pH, is that also the AC bus? That's just when the, yes sir, when it was, it just did a cell test. Copy that. Who's the main engine? Who? Yeah, we see high fuel and oxidizer attempts on the right engine. Doesn't look like a performance case right now, but I'm verifying. Copy. And dim the trend on AC1 right now, it's a fly line. I mean, it looks good, a Holley and Berger. Yes, sir, we've got three buses look healthy at this time. Okay. That should be set. 103 converged. Copy. Performance nominal. Copy, now we'll perform. Columbia Houston, performance nominal. Performance nominal. Copy, now we'll perform. And the AC bus is off. I concur. And the primary data on the center looks static. Yeah, this DCA, lots of primary data. Just can't get the BSE channel here. I'm trying to recycle the BSE channel here. Yeah, status. Two engine banger here. Two engine town. Columbia Houston, two engine bend. No space to create your loop. I'm going to take a small plus six thrust update. Okay, we've got no suspects. Copy, now. I got it. Main engine concur, then booster. Copy. All the all the parameters on the right engine looks like a possible pre-thuffling now the lake. The fuel temps and HBOT temps and OPLV is open. The fuel discharge pressure is low. But we're not meeting all cues. We're not meeting the HBOT. Yeah, we're not. We're only halfway towards the turbine temp on the HBOT to that. I concur. Negative return. Copy, negative return. And the OPLV hasn't moved near enough for that. I concur. We took a thrust update of plus six. Plus six, copy that. Who's to house your engines looking? The engines looking good flight. The right engine looks like the tags are off on the right. Doesn't line up with anything. Copy. You lose most of your data on the center? Yeah, center engine lost primary data due to the DCA channel power fail. Okay. Copy, good fest. John at the center went down and expected behind the data path. Is that correct? Negative flight. We still have secondary data. We call the PC sensors and status words. And main engines encourage and boost the main engine with sensitivities. No. GPC one is our GPC two. And also GPC three. Man pass. And the GPC three will be command data. Right. That's correct. Helium, good knowledge on that. Press to ATO. Press to ATO. Press to ATO. Copy, press. Group ban drill 109. Single engine ops three. Copy ops three. In Columbia, Houston, you can select ban drill now. Roger that.  Three. An MPF continues look good. Good helium, good knowledge. And you're right open. Not cycling. Copy that. Ban drill is on board flight. Copy ban drill. Single engine ban drill 104. Copy thing on your cow. In some town. Engine ban drill 104. Press to Miko. Press to Miko. Press to Miko. Columbia, press to Miko. Flight's ready to roll and hands up flight. Copy. One minute to take off. In fact, two minutes. Let's get an under speed. Copy. Trag booster on for another speed. Trag booster on for another speed. No under speed. Thank you. Copy no under speed. Copy none. And we're going to watch the throttling on the center on the GH2RP and G02RT. I concur. And the PC average we got. And we got the PC average coming down to this right. It's lost a primary on the center. Boost your flight. Go flying. Single engine press 104. Columbia, single engine press 104. John coming up on a minute to Miko here. Any shutdown required? Negative. No shutdowns required. We'll watch throttling on the center with with the secondary data that we have. Good call. Scooter while we give that update. Columbia Houston approaching Miko. Nominal shutdown plan. No action required. Handing over to yours. Stick it up. 3G throttles. Could have gone on a Ph.F. flight. Copy. 3G throttles out of the way. No shutdowns required. Flight booster 3G throttling on 3. Copy that. 23K. MPS is go for guided Miko. Main engines go. In flight you see we're not copying downlink on UHF to Bermuda. Fine count. Fine count. Miko. Miko confirmed. Locked in a little bit confirmed. Copy. That's closed. Disconnects closed. Relate pistols open. Backup dump valves open. Light bottle. Go. 15 foot per second under speed. Ohm's one is not required. ETCP. ETCP. Flight it looked like it was a lock. Slow little cut off. Copy. Columbia Houston we see a 15 foot per second under speed. Ohm's one not required. Copy. Ohm's one not required and it's great to be back in 3G again. And main engine is expecting dump on 3G. Could focus all the post ohm's one steps. And pistes copy. Did you see the flash on a low level sensor? It was a part of Miko. Yeah we saw the lock level sensors all four of them go dry right at Miko and with the under speed there it looked like it was probably a lock level cut off. Right. You bet. We don't need any more of these.