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132974Just Giving Food and Shelter to Our Pets Is Not EnoughRinpoche tells about a Tushita dog he gave to a lady in Delhi, asking her to recite a Lamrim prayer and mantra to the dog and praises her so much for doing this every day. Hearing the prayers saves the dog from the lower realms, frees it from samsara and brings it to enlightenment. Meaning this is what we all need to do for our own beloved pets!PRACTICES TO BENEFIT ANIMALS -- Animal Liberation16. Dez. 20200:03:29TRANSCRIPT Just Giving Food and Shelter to Our Pets Is Not EnoughEVENT TRANSCRIPT Kopan Monastery 2020Nepal,
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133873Karma of the Children in Korea Who Kill the SnakesSadly these children and anyone who kills even one sentient being will experience the four suffering karmic results of killing. Rinpoche stresses how therefore it’s soooo important and even urgent to abandon the ten non virtues, to practice dharma.KARMA -- Understanding Karma9. Dez. 20200:10:47TRANSCRIPT Karma of the Children in Korea Who Kill the SnakesEVENT TRANSCRIPT Kopan Monastery 2020Nepal,
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132404Every Holy Object Comes from Every Sentient BeingEvery single holy object is the basis for you to create all the merits that bring every success and pleasure that you experience now, as well causing your future liberation and enlightenment. All these holy objects came from every single sentient, including the tiniest ant. Therefore, they are all sooooo precious, much more precious to us than millions of dollars. Whether a person is Buddhist or not, just seeing a holy object allows them to create soooo much merit. If you put your hands together in prostration when you see a holy object, as well as offering lights and flowers rather than just thinking, “This is just a statue or painting,” you create even more merits than just seeing them. That’s why your motive for every daily activity should be only to benefit every living being and bring them to enlightenment. Getting up in the morning, dressing, eating breakfast, taking medicine, working, studying, meditating… all should be done with the wish to benefit every single living being, including the tiniest insect. Then you’ll have such a happy life. You’ll have no regrets now and when you die, and in your future lives, you’ll achieve every success and realization, especially being able to benefit so many sentient beings. You should realize that you’re soooooo fortunate! This awareness will persuade you to create as much merit as possible.HOLY OBJECTS23. Dez. 20200:18:28TRANSCRIPT Every Holy Object Comes from Every Sentient BeingEVENT TRANSCRIPT Kopan Monastery 2020Nepal,
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133872The Definition of Having Generated BodhichittaYou need to develop unbelievably strong compassion before realizing bodhichitta. The example is a mother who cherishes her child so much and who has fallen into a fire. She can’t stand that her child is suffering in the fire for even one second. However many minutes or seconds it takes to save the child, it’s too long for her mind. In the same way you can’t stand that the countless mother sentient beings are experiencing unbearable suffering for one more second- and on this basis you develop the effortless wish to achieve omniscience.COMPASSION AND BODHICHITTA -- Bodhichitta24. Okt. 20200:07:53TRANSCRIPT The Definition of Having Generated BodhichittaEVENT TRANSCRIPT Kopan Monastery 2020Nepal,
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133871Question Your Decisions and Check If You Were Influenced by SpiritsIt’s possible that when we have problems with attachment, anger, and so on, our mind has been “invaded” by spirits. Often when people commit suicide, especially in ways that are impossible to do by oneself alone, spirits were involved. Lama Zopa Rinpoche tells a story of a monk at Buxa who hung himself from a very high tree. When we think about doing this or that, it’s important to carefully check whether it would actually be good or not to do that particular thing, otherwise it could even be dangerous to follow such thoughts.PROTECTION FROM SPIRIT HARM -- Possessed by Spirits14. Okt. 20200:16:05TRANSCRIPT Question Your Decisions and Check If You Were Influenced by SpiritsEVENT TRANSCRIPT Kopan Monastery 2020Nepal,
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132401Purify Now Because You Can Die AnytimeLama Zopa Rinpoche explains that the solution to our problems is to do purification practice every day. These practices include reciting the names of the Thirty-Five Buddhas while prostrating to them, reciting powerful mantras such as Buddha Shakyamuni’s name mantra, doing self-initiation, and reciting OM MANI PADME HUM, which purifies not only ourselves but even the microscopic creatures living in our body. Rinpoche emphasizes that if we know these practices, we should do them now because we can die anytime!BUDDHIST PRACTICES -- Purification PracticesDEATH AND TRANSITIONS -- Impermanence and Death,25-Sep-20200:08:31TRANSCRIPT Purify Now Because You Can Die AnytimeEVENT TRANSCRIPT Kopan Monastery 2020Nepal,
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132400Basic Buddhism Is Discovering Your SelfLama Zopa Rinpoche explains that we live our whole life with the hallucination that the I exists from its own side, that it is a real I. Basic Buddhism is about discovering the self, discovering that the way the I, or self, appears is a total hallucination. Buddhism is not just about chanting rituals; it is for learning about our life!ADVICE ON EMPTINESS PRACTICE -- Emptiness MeditationEMPTINESS -- Nature of the I,25-Sep-20200:03:36TRANSCRIPT Basic Buddhism Is Discovering Your SelfEVENT TRANSCRIPT Kopan Monastery 2020Nepal,
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132402Without Remembering Impermanence-death, You Won’t Practice LojongLama Zopa Rinpoche explains that all the teachings of the Buddha are to subdue our minds. However, for the teachings to do that, we first need to meditate on impermanence-death. Without remembering impermanence-death we will listen to teachings, such as those on lojong, and even think that they are nice, but we won’t put them into practice. Instead we will put them away in a box!DEATH AND TRANSITIONS -- Impermanence and Death25-Sep-20200:04:04TRANSCRIPT Without Remembering Impermanence-death, You Won’t Practice LojongEVENT TRANSCRIPT Kopan Monastery 2020Nepal,
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132976When You Generate Bodhichitta it Is for Everyone You See!Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains that every time we generate bodhichitta, such as before doing a meditation or practice, we are doing it for every sentient being, not even one of the numberless sentient beings in each realm is left out. Our bodhichitta includes, for example, every single human being we see around us, our parents, our children, our friends, strangers, and even those who are harming us. It also includes every single animal, even every single ant, we see around us. Therefore, whenever we see a sentient being, we have to recognize that we did our meditation and our practice for them!BODHICHITTA -- Advice on Developing Bodhichitta18-Aug-20200:19:24TRANSCRIPT When You Generate Bodhichitta it Is for Everyone You See!EVENT TRANSCRIPT Kopan Monastery 2020Nepal,
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132438Recognizing Impermanence-death Reminds You to Practice Dharma Right Now!Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains that recognizing the reality of death reminds us to practice Dharma, and not just to practice Dharma in this life, but—because we don’t know when we will die—to practice Dharma right now! This is the only thing that will benefit us at the time of death. Nothing else can help us, not our family and friends, not our possessions, nor even our cherished body. However, practicing Dharma doesn’t mean circumambulating holy objects, reading Dharma texts, or meditating. It means transforming everything we do into holy Dharma.DHARMA IN DAILY LIFE -- A Meaningful LifeDEATH AND TRANSITIONS -- Impermanence and Death,16-Aug-20200:06:57TRANSCRIPT Recognizing Impermanence-death Reminds You to Practice Dharma Right Now!EVENT TRANSCRIPT Kopan Monastery 2020Nepal,
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132399You Can’t Repay the Kindness of Your Enemy Even by Offering Them the Whole WorldLama Zopa Rinpoche explains how the person who harms us, who criticizes us, who is angry with us, our enemy, allows us to complete the practice of patience and achieve enlightenment. No one else, not our friends or strangers, gives us this precious opportunity. By practicing patience and overcoming anger, we can achieve the infinite qualities of an enlightened being and do perfect work for sentient beings. Therefore, our so-called enemy gives us skies of kindness. We can’t repay this kindness by offering them the sky filled with dollars or wish-granting jewels. We can’t even repay their kindness by offering them the whole world. Their kindness is unbelievable.DELUSIONS -- Anger12-Jul-20200:08:13TRANSCRIPT You Can’t Repay the Kindness of Your Enemy Even by Offering Them the Whole WorldEVENT TRANSCRIPT Kopan Monastery 2020Nepal,
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132403The Sangha Are Real Heroes Because They Are Defeating DelusionEvery single holy object is the basis for you to create all the merits that bring every success and pleasure that you experience now, as well causing your future liberation and enlightenment. All these holy objects came from every single sentient, including the tiniest ant. Therefore, they are all sooooo precious, much more precious to us than millions of dollars. Whether a person is Buddhist or not, just seeing a holy object allows them to create soooo much merit. If you put your hands together in prostration when you see a holy object, as well as offering lights and flowers rather than just thinking, “This is just a statue or painting,” you create even more merits than just seeing them. That’s why your motive for every daily activity should be only to benefit every living being and bring them to enlightenment. Getting up in the morning, dressing, eating breakfast, taking medicine, working, studying, meditating… all should be done with the wish to benefit every single living being, including the tiniest insect. Then you’ll have such a happy life. You’ll have no regrets now and when you die, and in your future lives, you’ll achieve every success and realization, especially being able to benefit so many sentient beings. You should realize that you’re soooooo fortunate! This awareness will persuade you to create as much merit as possible.SANGHA (MONKS AND NUNS)12-Jul-20200:14:30TRANSCRIPT The Sangha Are Real Heroes Because They Are Defeating DelusionEVENT TRANSCRIPT Kopan Monastery 2020Nepal,
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132398Beauty Comes from Your MindLama Zopa Rinpoche explains that attachment to others’ bodies comes from the beginningless habituation of thinking they are nice. This is not only true of human beings but even insects have this attraction to the opposite sex. But our attachment changes—it disappears when we see someone who is even more attractive. This proves that attachment does not come from the side of the object, the other person’s body; it comes from our own mind. Since our own mind produces attachment, our own mind also can become free from attachment.DELUSIONS -- Desire and Attachment12-Jul-20200:13:00TRANSCRIPT Beauty Comes from Your MindEVENT TRANSCRIPT Kopan Monastery 2020Nepal,
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133870You Get Skies of Merits by Meditating on Immeasurable Loving KindnessLama Zopa Rinpoche explains that our perfect human rebirth is so precious because we can use it to generate loving kindness. Rinpoche then recites the short prayer for generating loving kindness and explains its significance. As Rinpoche says, “Even generating loving kindness just for a very short time, a few seconds or a minute, wow, wow, wow, amazing, amazing, wow, wow, the benefits, the merits that you get, wow, wow.” However, if we don’t understand this, we won’t like doing prayers and instead will spend our life involved in negative karma.DEVELOPING COMPASSION -- The Good Heart20-Jun-20200:12:08TRANSCRIPT You Get Skies of Merits by Meditating on Immeasurable Loving KindnessEVENT TRANSCRIPT Kopan Monastery 2020Nepal,
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133869Your Perfect Human Rebirth Is Incredible Because You Can Use it to Teach DharmaLama Zopa Rinpoche explains—in his animated “Lawudo comedian” style—the incredible merits that are collected by someone who teaches even one verse of Dharma to one sentient being. As a sutra says, they collect more merits than someone who fills up as many buddha worlds as the number of sand grains of the River Ganga with the seven types of jewels and, with an extremely happy mind, offers them to the buddhas. Likewise, they collect more merit than someone who fills up the great-thousand-fold universes with gold and offers them to the buddhas. Can you imagine the merits of someone who constantly travels the world teaching Dharma? You have to realize how your perfect human rebirth is so incredible!WORKING FOR THE DHARMA -- Teaching Dharma9-Jun-20200:10:21TRANSCRIPT Your Perfect Human Rebirth Is Incredible Because You Can Use it to Teach DharmaEVENT TRANSCRIPT Kopan Monastery 2020Nepal,
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133868Bearing Difficulties to Follow the Guru’s Advice Is Like Doing Hundreds of Thousands of ProstrationsLama Zopa Rinpoche explains that when we experience difficulties in doing as our guru advised, such as in keeping our vows, doing retreat, or working for a center or the FPMT organization, we should know that it is like doing hundreds of thousands of prostrations or mandala offerings. By bearing these hardships, we are purifying our negative karma and collecting extensive merits, which we need to do in order to achieve enlightenment. On the other hand, if we don’t continuously keep our mind in devotion and allow heresy to arise, our mind becomes suffering, like popcorn popping, tak, tak, tak, tak, and we are creating the cause of hell.GURU DEVOTION -- Offering Service to the Guru7-Jun-20200:07:37TRANSCRIPT Bearing Difficulties to Follow the Guru’s Advice Is Like Doing Hundreds of Thousands of ProstrationsEVENT TRANSCRIPT Kopan Monastery 2020Nepal,
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132437Do Your Best in This Life—now!Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains that due to having received a perfect human rebirth, we can put an end to rebirth in samsara and plant the seeds of enlightenment. It is, therefore, much more precious than the whole sky filled with numberless wish-granting jewels. Because this if we waste it, it would be like putting poison in perfectly good food or like using our human body to create the cause to become firewood in hell. Therefore, Rinpoche says: Do the best in this life NOW!PATH TO ENLIGHTENMENT (LAM-RIM) -- Perfect Human Rebirth5-Jun-20200:09:33TRANSCRIPT Do Your Best in This Life—now!EVENT TRANSCRIPT Kopan Monastery 2020Nepal,
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132436By Remembering Impermanence-death, Everything You Do Becomes Holy DharmaLama Zopa Rinpoche explains a quote by Milarepa that says that by remembering impermanence and death, we will conquer the mara of laziness. If, on the other hand, we don’t remember that we could die any time, our main aim in life will be to achieve happiness in this life, today, and right now! Due to procrastinating, we risk wasting our whole life. Milarepa also says that by remembering impermanence and death, whatever we do becomes Dharma, not only receiving teachings and meditating, but even activities such as eating, walking, working, and sleeping.DEATH AND TRANSITIONS -- Impermanence and Death26. Mai. 20200:04:20TRANSCRIPT By Remembering Impermanence-death, Everything You Do Becomes Holy DharmaEVENT TRANSCRIPT Kopan Monastery 2020Nepal,
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133867Because the Virus Came from Your Mind You Need to Subdue Your Own MindLama Zopa Rinpoche explains that world still does not know much about the coronavirus and, in particular, people don’t know that it came from negative karma, which came from our mind—from our delusions. Because the virus and other problems come from our mind, the whole emphasis should be on taking care of our mind. Therefore, as Buddha said, what we need to do is “Subdue one’s own mind.” In fact, the whole point of learning Buddhism, whether lamrim, lojong, or the extensive teachings of sutra and tantra, is to subdue our mind.NEGATIVE EMOTIONS -- Delusions11. Mai. 20200:15:59TRANSCRIPT Because the Virus Came from Your Mind You Need to Subdue Your Own MindEVENT TRANSCRIPT Kopan Monastery 2020Nepal,
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133866How to Help Sentient Beings Say Goodbye to the Suffering of SamsaraLama Zopa Rinpoche describes some of the ways in which he helps animals as well as people say goodbye to suffering. For example, in California, Rinpoche together with sangha go to a bridge over the ocean and dip a board on which is carved the Namgyalma mantra in the ocean. Before that, Rinpoche also recites mantras and blows on some water to bless it, and then pours the water in the ocean to purify the sentient beings living in it. Rinpoche also recites the long Chenrezig mantra and whenever he puts his feet in an ocean or lake, the water becomes blessed and anyone who is touched by it is purified. When Rinpoche goes to a beach, he makes prayers that anyone who comes to the beach, or even hears about or sees the beach, is never again reborn in the lower realms, that all their wishes succeed according to holy Dharma, and that they actualise bodhichitta and achieve enlightenment.PRACTICES TO BENEFIT ANIMALS -- Animal Liberation5. Mai. 20200:14:39TRANSCRIPT How to Help Sentient Beings Say Goodbye to the Suffering of SamsaraEVENT TRANSCRIPT Kopan Monastery 2020Nepal,
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132975The Virus and All the Problems in the World Are Telling You to Practice DharmaLama Zopa Rinpoche explains that the coronavirus and all the problems in the world are telling us to look at our mind and to abandon the cause of suffering and practice the cause of happiness. Every problem we experience is an instruction or teacher telling us what to do. Rinpoche also clarifies that “meditation” means making our mind more and more familiar with virtue. We have to be careful because many people don’t understand this and spend their whole life meditating on delusion.COMPASSION AND BODHICHITTA -- Mind Training (lo-jong)19-Apr-20200:00:00TRANSCRIPT The Virus and All the Problems in the World Are Telling You to Practice DharmaEVENT TRANSCRIPT Kopan Monastery 2020Nepal,
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130494Our Whole Life We Are in Between the Fangs of YamaIn the following Essential Extract video, from a teaching Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave in December 2019 at Kopan Monastery, Rinpoche explains the wheel of life drawing and reminds us that death can happen at any time. In the drawing you can see that the whole wheel is in between fangs. During our whole life we are between the fangs of Yama. And they can close any time. Rinpoche recalls a couple of events where people have died suddenly and unexpectedly. He strongly encourages us to meditate on death and impermanence. Otherwise you live your live with the concept of permanence, thinking “I will live long,” while wasting time. When you lie in bed, think, “Now I am lying here in my bed, but tomorrow I can already be on the pile of firewood in the cremation ground.” When you think this, attachment and anger have no reason to exist, and the mind is at peace.DEATH AND TRANSITIONS -- Impermanence and Death11. Dez. 20190:16:20TRANSCRIPT Our Whole Life We Are in Between the Fangs of YamaEVENT TRANSCRIPT Kopan Monastery 2019Nepal,BLOG Our Whole Life We Are in Between the Fangs of Yama
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130495Our Whole Life We Are in Between the Fangs of Yama SCRIPTEDIn the following Essential Extract video, from a teaching Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave in December 2019 at Kopan Monastery, Rinpoche explains the wheel of life drawing and reminds us that death can happen at any time. In the drawing you can see that the whole wheel is in between fangs. During our whole life we are between the fangs of Yama. And they can close any time. Rinpoche recalls a couple of events where people have died suddenly and unexpectedly. He strongly encourages us to meditate on death and impermanence. Otherwise you live your live with the concept of permanence, thinking “I will live long,” while wasting time. When you lie in bed, think, “Now I am lying here in my bed, but tomorrow I can already be on the pile of firewood in the cremation ground.” When you think this, attachment and anger have no reason to exist, and the mind is at peace.DEATH AND TRANSITIONS -- Impermanence and Death11. Dez. 20190:16:20TRANSCRIPT Our Whole Life We Are in Between the Fangs of Yama SCRIPTEDEVENT TRANSCRIPT Kopan Monastery 2019Nepal,
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76614The Real 'I' That Gets Angry Does Not ExistIn this video Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains the difference between the appearance of our body as a base to be labeled "I", the label and the mistaken view that this "I" exists from its own side and that we are the aggregates. He compares this with mistaking a rope at dusk for a snake. Rinpoche emphasis that everything is empty, but that this does not mean nothing exists. We have to bring the two truths together. We can apply this meditation for example when we get angry to realize that the "real I" that get’s angry does not exist. Then anger is gone immediately. Ant the same goes for attachment and all delusions. And even birth and death do not exist from their own side. We childish beings think we have a "real son or daughter" or "real wealth". That is impossible as there is not even a "real I".EMPTINESS -- The Two TruthsNEGATIVE EMOTIONS -- Delusions,9. Dez. 20190:32:12TRANSCRIPT The Real 'I' That Gets Angry Does Not ExistEVENT TRANSCRIPT Kopan Monastery 2019Nepal,
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76615The Real 'I' That Gets Angry Does Not Exist SCRIPTEDIn this video Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains the difference between the appearance of our body as a base to be labeled "I", the label and the mistaken view that this "I" exists from its own side and that we are the aggregates. He compares this with mistaking a rope at dusk for a snake. Rinpoche emphasis that everything is empty, but that this does not mean nothing exists. We have to bring the two truths together. We can apply this meditation for example when we get angry to realize that the "real I" that get’s angry does not exist. Then anger is gone immediately. Ant the same goes for attachment and all delusions. And even birth and death do not exist from their own side. We childish beings think we have a "real son or daughter" or "real wealth". That is impossible as there is not even a "real I".EMPTINESS -- The Two TruthsNEGATIVE EMOTIONS -- Delusions,9. Dez. 20190:32:33TRANSCRIPT The Real 'I' That Gets Angry Does Not Exist SCRIPTEDEVENT TRANSCRIPT Kopan Monastery 2019Nepal,
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130492Transform Your Experience of Suffering Into Happiness by Taking on Suffering of OthersEveryone at one point in his life experiences suffering. Rinpoche explains that scientists found out that many people experience heart attacks because of anger. Instead of indulging in self pity and self-centredness we should think “By my experiencing this disease, may all sentient beings be free from all disease and spirit harm, negative karma, defilements and achieve enlightenment." This way we turn our experience of suffering in something useful. Then we can turn suffering into great happiness. Rinpoche recalls the story of Choje-Gotsangpa, a Kagyu master, who almost died because he gave his body to lice completely. Compared to him our practice is a mere lip service.MIND TRAINING (LO-JONG) -- Transforming ProblemsDHARMA IN DAILY LIFE -- Understanding the Suffering of Samsara,7. Dez. 20190:10:31TRANSCRIPT Transform Your Experience of Suffering Into Happiness by Taking on Suffering of OthersEVENT TRANSCRIPT Kopan Monastery 2019Nepal,
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130493Transform Your Experience of Suffering Into Happiness by Taking on Suffering of Others SCRIPTEDEveryone at one point in his life experiences suffering. Rinpoche explains that scientists found out that many people experience heart attacks because of anger. Instead of indulging in self pity and self-centredness we should think “By my experiencing this disease, may all sentient beings be free from all disease and spirit harm, negative karma, defilements and achieve enlightenment." This way we turn our experience of suffering in something useful. Then we can turn suffering into great happiness. Rinpoche recalls the story of Choje-Gotsangpa, a Kagyu master, who almost died because he gave his body to lice completely. Compared to him our practice is a mere lip service.MIND TRAINING (LO-JONG) -- Transforming ProblemsDHARMA IN DAILY LIFE -- Understanding the Suffering of Samsara,7. Dez. 20190:10:31TRANSCRIPT Transform Your Experience of Suffering Into Happiness by Taking on Suffering of Others SCRIPTEDEVENT TRANSCRIPT Kopan Monastery 2019Nepal,
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76612Tonglen Part 2 - Giving Your Wealth and Possessions Purifies and Creates So Much MeritIn the first part of this Tonglen teaching Lama Zopa Rinpoche focused on generating compassion and taking on others suffering. In this talk he advices us to give all our happiness for example by visualising wish fulfilling jewels. He then emphasis how our precious human rebirth is far more precious than a wish-fulfilling jewel because we can use it to become free from suffering and achieve enlightenment. Rinpoche explains the sufferings of deva realms and advices in detail how to give whatever sentient beings need and want. Rinpoche points out that this practice is also included in Six-Session Guru Yoga and praises the immense purification and merit it creates. Finally Rinpoche advices to think that all our food, money, clothing, etc. All belongs to sentient beings. This is the Bodhisattva attitude.MIND TRAINING (LO-JONG) -- Tong-len: Exchanging Self and Others7. Dez. 20190:32:03TRANSCRIPT Tonglen Part 2 - Giving Your Wealth and Possessions Purifies and Creates So Much MeritEVENT TRANSCRIPT Kopan Monastery 2019Nepal,
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76613Tonglen Part 2 - Giving Your Wealth and Possessions Purifies and Creates So Much Merit SCRIPTEDIn the first part of this Tonglen teaching Lama Zopa Rinpoche focused on generating compassion and taking on others suffering. In this talk he advices us to give all our happiness for example by visualising wish fulfilling jewels. He then emphasis how our precious human rebirth is far more precious than a wish-fulfilling jewel because we can use it to become free from suffering and achieve enlightenment. Rinpoche explains the sufferings of deva realms and advices in detail how to give whatever sentient beings need and want. Rinpoche points out that this practice is also included in Six-Session Guru Yoga and praises the immense purification and merit it creates. Finally Rinpoche advices to think that all our food, money, clothing, etc. All belongs to sentient beings. This is the Bodhisattva attitude.MIND TRAINING (LO-JONG) -- Tong-len: Exchanging Self and Others7. Dez. 20190:32:03TRANSCRIPT Tonglen Part 2 - Giving Your Wealth and Possessions Purifies and Creates So Much Merit SCRIPTEDEVENT TRANSCRIPT Kopan Monastery 2019Nepal,
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76610Tonglen Part 1 - Generating Compassion and Taking on Suffering of OthersRinpoche emphasises the importance of Tonglen and Bodhichitta. In fact he says, this is the most important meditation. He explains how to generate compassion to all sentient beings first and then to understand that the root of all that suffering is the self-cherishing thought, while all happiness comes from cherishing others. Rinpoche explains in detail the verse on Tonglen by Panchen Lozang Chokyi Gyaltsen from Lama Chopa. In order to counteract that self-cherishing you take on the suffering onto yourself, which is exactly against the self-cherishing and eventually dissolves it completely. Then Rinpoche explains how to think of the kindness of others, even those who abuse you, and to give all your happiness.MIND TRAINING (LO-JONG) -- Tong-len: Exchanging Self and Others7. Dez. 20190:44:17TRANSCRIPT Tonglen Part 1 - Generating Compassion and Taking on Suffering of OthersEVENT TRANSCRIPT Kopan Monastery 2019Nepal,
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76611Tonglen Part 1 - Generating Compassion and Taking on Suffering of Others SCRIPTEDRinpoche emphasises the importance of Tonglen and Bodhichitta. In fact he says, this is the most important meditation. He explains how to generate compassion to all sentient beings first and then to understand that the root of all that suffering is the self-cherishing thought, while all happiness comes from cherishing others. Rinpoche explains in detail the verse on Tonglen by Panchen Lozang Chokyi Gyaltsen from Lama Chopa. In order to counteract that self-cherishing you take on the suffering onto yourself, which is exactly against the self-cherishing and eventually dissolves it completely. Then Rinpoche explains how to think of the kindness of others, even those who abuse you, and to give all your happiness.MIND TRAINING (LO-JONG) -- Tong-len: Exchanging Self and Others7. Dez. 20190:44:17TRANSCRIPT Tonglen Part 1 - Generating Compassion and Taking on Suffering of Others SCRIPTEDEVENT TRANSCRIPT Kopan Monastery 2019Nepal,
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76608How to Think When Seeing Suffering People and Animals. Bodhisattva AttitudeRinpoche starts out by quoting Nagarjuna verse on Tonglen, advising us to generate the wish to take others suffering on us, any time we get sick. While this actually often stopped sickness in the case of Rinpoche the aim is not to stop the suffering but to bring us to enlightenment. Then he reminds us to be mindful whenever we see suffering of animals that are put to hard work by humans and to take their sufferings and to pray for them for example with OM MANI PADME HUM. Rinpoche emphasises to practice Tonglen when we are dying and advices to read his book called How To Enjoy Death. Rinpoche then continues to explain the bodhisattva attitude emphasis its great benefits quoting several verses.MIND TRAINING (LO-JONG) -- Tong-len: Exchanging Self and OthersPREPARING ONESELF FOR DEATH -- Preparing for Death,SICKNESS AND HEALTH,7. Dez. 20190:45:45TRANSCRIPT How to Think When Seeing Suffering People and Animals. Bodhisattva AttitudeEVENT TRANSCRIPT Kopan Monastery 2019Nepal,
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76609How to Think When Seeing Suffering People and Animals. Bodhisattva Attitude SCRIPTEDRinpoche starts out by quoting Nagarjuna verse on Tonglen, advising us to generate the wish to take others suffering on us, any time we get sick. While this actually often stopped sickness in the case of Rinpoche the aim is not to stop the suffering but to bring us to enlightenment. Then he reminds us to be mindful whenever we see suffering of animals that are put to hard work by humans and to take their sufferings and to pray for them for example with OM MANI PADME HUM. Rinpoche emphasises to practice Tonglen when we are dying and advices to read his book called How To Enjoy Death. Rinpoche then continues to explain the bodhisattva attitude emphasis its great benefits quoting several verses.MIND TRAINING (LO-JONG) -- Tong-len: Exchanging Self and OthersPREPARING ONESELF FOR DEATH -- Preparing for Death,SICKNESS AND HEALTH,7. Dez. 20190:45:45TRANSCRIPT How to Think When Seeing Suffering People and Animals. Bodhisattva Attitude SCRIPTEDEVENT TRANSCRIPT Kopan Monastery 2019Nepal,
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76606Benefit from a Long Life Not Harming but Cherishing Others and Remembering ImpermanenceThe purpose of taking a long life initiation is to purify life obstacles and to have more time to collect virtue. We have collected so much negative karma from beginningless lives that we need as much purification as possible. With Buddha, Dharma and Sangha to rely on there need be no fear when we come to die but from our side we need to open our minds to the truth of their support.All sentient beings are so precious as they lead us to enlightenment and our enemies are especially important. They are the cause of our past, present and future happiness and free us from oceans of suffering. To benefit our enemies fulfils both their and our happiness.Both having a good heart and being aware of impermanence and death removes so many obstacles in our life whereas following the ego leads to so many problems. Becoming our own psychotherapist and remembering that we may die at any time leads to less fear and anxiety.KARMA -- Purifying Negative Karma22-Sep-20190:54:16TRANSCRIPT Benefit from a Long Life Not Harming but Cherishing Others and Remembering ImpermanenceEVENT TRANSCRIPT Amitabha Buddhist Centre 2019Singapore,
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76607Benefit from a Long Life Not Harming but Cherishing Others and Remembering Impermanence SCRIPTEDThe purpose of taking a long life initiation is to purify life obstacles and to have more time to collect virtue. We have collected so much negative karma from beginningless lives that we need as much purification as possible. With Buddha, Dharma and Sangha to rely on there need be no fear when we come to die but from our side we need to open our minds to the truth of their support.All sentient beings are so precious as they lead us to enlightenment and our enemies are especially important. They are the cause of our past, present and future happiness and free us from oceans of suffering. To benefit our enemies fulfils both their and our happiness.Both having a good heart and being aware of impermanence and death removes so many obstacles in our life whereas following the ego leads to so many problems. Becoming our own psychotherapist and remembering that we may die at any time leads to less fear and anxiety.KARMA -- Purifying Negative Karma22-Sep-20190:54:16TRANSCRIPT Benefit from a Long Life Not Harming but Cherishing Others and Remembering Impermanence SCRIPTEDEVENT TRANSCRIPT Amitabha Buddhist Centre 2019Singapore,
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76604The Importance of FPMT Centers and the Benefit of Working for ThemIn his talk to the regional meeting of the SEA Rinpoche explains why our centers are so important. Unlike so many other religious centers, even Buddhist centers, they offer teachings on the whole lamrim and thus on all of Buddha’s teachings. This is extremely rare and that is why this work is so important. Even if participants of only one course just stop harming animals, what an incredible benefit. And then of course our centers work with Mahayana motivation for all sentient beings. Not one left out. And highly learned geshes who studied many years teach the whole of lamrim and even tantra. Rinpoche then elaborates on the immense merit created working for the center and the guru and how it quickly purifies large amounts of negative karma.ADVICE TO DHARMA CENTERS -- The Benefits of Dharma Centers17-Sep-20190:51:55TRANSCRIPT The Importance of FPMT Centers and the Benefit of Working for ThemEVENT TRANSCRIPT Amitabha Buddhist Centre 2019Singapore,
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76605The Importance of FPMT Centers and the Benefit of Working for Them SCRIPTEDIn his talk to the regional meeting of the SEA Rinpoche explains why our centers are so important. Unlike so many other religious centers, even Buddhist centers, they offer teachings on the whole lamrim and thus on all of Buddha’s teachings. This is extremely rare and that is why this work is so important. Even if participants of only one course just stop harming animals, what an incredible benefit. And then of course our centers work with Mahayana motivation for all sentient beings. Not one left out. And highly learned geshes who studied many years teach the whole of lamrim and even tantra. Rinpoche then elaborates on the immense merit created working for the center and the guru and how it quickly purifies large amounts of negative karma.ADVICE TO DHARMA CENTERS -- The Benefits of Dharma Centers17-Sep-20190:51:55TRANSCRIPT The Importance of FPMT Centers and the Benefit of Working for Them SCRIPTEDEVENT TRANSCRIPT Amitabha Buddhist Centre 2019Singapore,
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76602Benefits of Correctly Following the Virtuous FriendRinpoche began the teaching by quoting and giving commentary on this verse from Gyalwa Ensapa“whether great realizations or small realizations are generated in your mind, that is due to whether you have generated great devotion or small devotion, therefore look at the Gurus qualities and never look at the mistakes and hold this as your utmost practice”. Rinpoche then translated and gave commentary on a number of different quotes on the benefits of correctly following the virtuous friend. Rinpoche explained what to think when making offerings to the Guru, such as offering tea, lunch, dress, etc. you should think you are offering to numberless Buddhas. When you achieve the path of merit then you see numberless Buddhas inNirmanakayaaspect, and when you achieve the rising path you see numberless Buddhas inSambhogayakaaspect with five qualities, and when you become enlightened you become one with all the Buddhas. But at the moment as we haven’t achieved even the first path, our mind is very obscured, so until we are free of negative karma and obscurations, even if all the buddhas descend in front of me, we have no fortune to see the sublime holy body with all the signs and exemplifications except this present appearance, which is your Guru, that which has impure appearance. Every single action of the Guru is every single action of all the Buddhas and of all the deities, we should try to have this pure appearance all the time. We should meditate on this and have pure thought like this. If the Guru is talking to you, think all the Buddhas are talking to you, even if the Guru is scolding you then think that all the Buddhas are scolding you. Then you feel you are most unbelievable fortunate, it is hard to believe that you have this karma. Then there is no space for depression. This practice is so important to have all the time. The conclusion is whatever mistakes appear that I see in the Guru, think that all that is hallucination of my negative karma or purposely shown, or to have without doubt that for sure this is shown for some other purpose. The most powerful thing is pleasing the Guru. This is what you have to hold as the main, important practice in your daily life. That is the greatest purification and greatest way to collect merit and quickest way to achieve enlightenmentGURU DEVOTION -- Advice on Guru DevotionGURU DEVOTION -- Offering Service to the Guru,14-Sep-20192:16:47TRANSCRIPT Benefits of Correctly Following the Virtuous FriendEVENT TRANSCRIPT Amitabha Buddhist Centre 2019Singapore,
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76603Benefits of Correctly Following the Virtuous Friend SCRIPTEDRinpoche began the teaching by quoting and giving commentary on this verse from Gyalwa Ensapa“whether great realizations or small realizations are generated in your mind, that is due to whether you have generated great devotion or small devotion, therefore look at the Gurus qualities and never look at the mistakes and hold this as your utmost practice”. Rinpoche then translated and gave commentary on a number of different quotes on the benefits of correctly following the virtuous friend. Rinpoche explained what to think when making offerings to the Guru, such as offering tea, lunch, dress, etc. you should think you are offering to numberless Buddhas. When you achieve the path of merit then you see numberless Buddhas inNirmanakayaaspect, and when you achieve the rising path you see numberless Buddhas inSambhogayakaaspect with five qualities, and when you become enlightened you become one with all the Buddhas. But at the moment as we haven’t achieved even the first path, our mind is very obscured, so until we are free of negative karma and obscurations, even if all the buddhas descend in front of me, we have no fortune to see the sublime holy body with all the signs and exemplifications except this present appearance, which is your Guru, that which has impure appearance. Every single action of the Guru is every single action of all the Buddhas and of all the deities, we should try to have this pure appearance all the time. We should meditate on this and have pure thought like this. If the Guru is talking to you, think all the Buddhas are talking to you, even if the Guru is scolding you then think that all the Buddhas are scolding you. Then you feel you are most unbelievable fortunate, it is hard to believe that you have this karma. Then there is no space for depression. This practice is so important to have all the time. The conclusion is whatever mistakes appear that I see in the Guru, think that all that is hallucination of my negative karma or purposely shown, or to have without doubt that for sure this is shown for some other purpose. The most powerful thing is pleasing the Guru. This is what you have to hold as the main, important practice in your daily life. That is the greatest purification and greatest way to collect merit and quickest way to achieve enlightenmentGURU DEVOTION -- Advice on Guru DevotionGURU DEVOTION -- Offering Service to the Guru,14-Sep-20192:16:47TRANSCRIPT Benefits of Correctly Following the Virtuous Friend SCRIPTEDEVENT TRANSCRIPT Amitabha Buddhist Centre 2019Singapore,
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130490The Benefits of Bodhichitta and Why it Is So Important to Develop ItIn this video Rinpoche reminds us on how extremely rare it is to meet the Dharma and practice Dharma. Most people only produce causes for future suffering and have no understanding on how to create virtue. Rinpoche quotes Atisha to illustrate the enormous benefit it has to generate bodhichitta. Seeing how much others create causes for suffering continuously we cannot bear to not work for their benefit as much as possible. Especially as center directors or parents we have to teach others and our children how to generate a good heart and live in accordance with the Dharma.DEVELOPING COMPASSION -- The Good Heart11-Sep-20190:15:57TRANSCRIPT The Benefits of Bodhichitta and Why it Is So Important to Develop ItEVENT TRANSCRIPT Amitabha Buddhist Centre 2019Singapore,
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130491The Benefits of Bodhichitta and Why it Is So Important to Develop it SCRIPTEDIn this video Rinpoche reminds us on how extremely rare it is to meet the Dharma and practice Dharma. Most people only produce causes for future suffering and have no understanding on how to create virtue. Rinpoche quotes Atisha to illustrate the enormous benefit it has to generate bodhichitta. Seeing how much others create causes for suffering continuously we cannot bear to not work for their benefit as much as possible. Especially as center directors or parents we have to teach others and our children how to generate a good heart and live in accordance with the Dharma.DEVELOPING COMPASSION -- The Good Heart11-Sep-20190:15:57TRANSCRIPT The Benefits of Bodhichitta and Why it Is So Important to Develop it SCRIPTEDEVENT TRANSCRIPT Amitabha Buddhist Centre 2019Singapore,
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76600Practicing Lamrim Is the Best Way to Take Care of Your LifeLama Zopa Rinpoche emphasizes that we have make strong effort to make this precious human life meaningful recalling the lives of great lamas and the buddha. We have to reflect on how we will have to continue suffering endlessly if we do not use this chance to get out of samsara. Then we need to contemplate the kindness of others to generate the good heart and the right view of reality. Rinpoche strongly advices to recall emptiness in our daily experience, especially in difficult situations and to read the Heart Sutra. So practicing the lamrim is the best way to take care of your lifeADVICE ON EMPTINESS PRACTICE -- Emptiness MeditationPATH TO ENLIGHTENMENT (LAM-RIM),PATH TO ENLIGHTENMENT (LAM-RIM) -- Perfect Human Rebirth,8-Sep-20190:50:46TRANSCRIPT Practicing Lamrim Is the Best Way to Take Care of Your LifeEVENT TRANSCRIPT Amitabha Buddhist Centre 2019Singapore,
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76601Practicing Lamrim Is the Best Way to Take Care of Your Life SCRIPTEDLama Zopa Rinpoche emphasizes that we have make strong effort to make this precious human life meaningful recalling the lives of great lamas and the buddha. We have to reflect on how we will have to continue suffering endlessly if we do not use this chance to get out of samsara. Then we need to contemplate the kindness of others to generate the good heart and the right view of reality. Rinpoche strongly advices to recall emptiness in our daily experience, especially in difficult situations and to read the Heart Sutra. So practicing the lamrim is the best way to take care of your lifeADVICE ON EMPTINESS PRACTICE -- Emptiness MeditationPATH TO ENLIGHTENMENT (LAM-RIM),PATH TO ENLIGHTENMENT (LAM-RIM) -- Perfect Human Rebirth,8-Sep-20190:50:46TRANSCRIPT Practicing Lamrim Is the Best Way to Take Care of Your Life SCRIPTEDEVENT TRANSCRIPT Amitabha Buddhist Centre 2019Singapore,
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130488How to Understand That Everything Comes from Your Mind and the Importance to Meditate on ImpermanenceUsing the example of letters on a blackboard in primary school Rinpoche very vividly explains the difference between the mere appearance and the labeling of phenomena and how the later clearly only comes from our own mind. Taking that example further and applying the same logic to the "I" he guides us to loosen the grip of this hallucinated "I" and to look at phenomena constantly holding this awareness, giving us much more peace in our daily life. To help us becoming motivated to the Dharma and to stay inspired Rinpoche strongly advices to meditate on impermanence and not abandon it as a meditation for beginners.EMPTINESS -- How Things ExistEMPTINESS -- Nature of the I,8-Sep-20190:20:23TRANSCRIPT How to Understand That Everything Comes from Your Mind and the Importance to Meditate on ImpermanenceEVENT TRANSCRIPT Amitabha Buddhist Centre 2019Singapore,
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130489How to Understand That Everything Comes from Your Mind and the Importance to Meditate on Impermanence SCRIPTEDUsing the example of letters on a blackboard in primary school Rinpoche very vividly explains the difference between the mere appearance and the labeling of phenomena and how the later clearly only comes from our own mind. Taking that example further and applying the same logic to the "I" he guides us to loosen the grip of this hallucinated "I" and to look at phenomena constantly holding this awareness, giving us much more peace in our daily life. To help us becoming motivated to the Dharma and to stay inspired Rinpoche strongly advices to meditate on impermanence and not abandon it as a meditation for beginners.EMPTINESS -- How Things ExistEMPTINESS -- Nature of the I,8-Sep-20190:20:23TRANSCRIPT How to Understand That Everything Comes from Your Mind and the Importance to Meditate on Impermanence SCRIPTEDEVENT TRANSCRIPT Amitabha Buddhist Centre 2019Singapore,
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76598How to Deal With Suffering Like Cancer Using Tonglen and LojongHow we experience difficult situations solely depends on our mind. Rinpoche explains how we can use tonglen to completely turn around our experience of very disturbing experiences like cancer and to transform them into something we actually want to quickly go to enlightenment. He then quotes several masters to illustrate how to think and practice. Rinpoche then quotes from Bodhicharyavatara to remind us that we can only experience karma that we have created in the past and we must think of this when somebody makes us angry. At this point our action of the past even causes this person now to create his own future hell experience. So we generate compassion instead of anger towards him or her.MIND TRAINING (LO-JONG) -- Tong-len: Exchanging Self and OthersDELUSIONS -- Anger,PATH TO ENLIGHTENMENT (LAM-RIM)KarmaPurifying Negative Karma,8-Sep-20190:30:57TRANSCRIPT How to Deal With Suffering Like Cancer Using Tonglen and LojongEVENT TRANSCRIPT Amitabha Buddhist Centre 2019Singapore,
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76599How to Deal With Suffering Like Cancer Using Tonglen and Lojong SCRIPTEDHow we experience difficult situations solely depends on our mind. Rinpoche explains how we can use tonglen to completely turn around our experience of very disturbing experiences like cancer and to transform them into something we actually want to quickly go to enlightenment. He then quotes several masters to illustrate how to think and practice. Rinpoche then quotes from Bodhicharyavatara to remind us that we can only experience karma that we have created in the past and we must think of this when somebody makes us angry. At this point our action of the past even causes this person now to create his own future hell experience. So we generate compassion instead of anger towards him or her.MIND TRAINING (LO-JONG) -- Tong-len: Exchanging Self and OthersDELUSIONS -- Anger,PATH TO ENLIGHTENMENT (LAM-RIM)KarmaPurifying Negative Karma,8-Sep-20190:30:57TRANSCRIPT How to Deal With Suffering Like Cancer Using Tonglen and Lojong SCRIPTEDEVENT TRANSCRIPT Amitabha Buddhist Centre 2019Singapore,
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76596Knowing the Secrecy of the Mind Makes You Focus on the Happiness of Even Your EnemyAll sentient beings want happiness, but as their actions have a selfish motivation they actually create karma to suffer. This is the secrecy of the mind. Actions done with a motivation to benefit others on the contrary will result in happiness. Rinpoche quotes Buddha from the Dhammapada to illustrate this. While we always blame the outside for our problems the true cause is actually within our own mind. Rinpoche then guides an extensive meditation on how we should think when being angry with someone and on the kindness of all sentient beings.DELUSIONS -- AngerKARMA -- Avoiding Negative Karma,7-Sep-20190:41:52TRANSCRIPT Knowing the Secrecy of the Mind Makes You Focus on the Happiness of Even Your EnemyEVENT TRANSCRIPT Amitabha Buddhist Centre 2019Singapore,
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76597Knowing the Secrecy of the Mind Makes You Focus on the Happiness of Even Your Enemy SCRIPTEDAll sentient beings want happiness, but as their actions have a selfish motivation they actually create karma to suffer. This is the secrecy of the mind. Actions done with a motivation to benefit others on the contrary will result in happiness. Rinpoche quotes Buddha from the Dhammapada to illustrate this. While we always blame the outside for our problems the true cause is actually within our own mind. Rinpoche then guides an extensive meditation on how we should think when being angry with someone and on the kindness of all sentient beings.DELUSIONS -- AngerKARMA -- Avoiding Negative Karma,7-Sep-20190:41:52TRANSCRIPT Knowing the Secrecy of the Mind Makes You Focus on the Happiness of Even Your Enemy SCRIPTEDEVENT TRANSCRIPT Amitabha Buddhist Centre 2019Singapore,
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75559Why Monasteries and Nunneries Are NeededLama Zopa Rinpoche responds to a comment made by a Ladakhi man at a meeting in Delhi complaining about how Buddhist monks and nuns do not engage in charity work in hospitals. Rinpoche explains that while working in a hospital is not contradictory to the life of a monk or nun, this work will not necessarily bring about the realizations that will free one from samsara and enable one to achieve enlightenment. On the other hand, living in a monastery or nunnery provides conducive conditions to live in morality, meditate, and actualize the path. To develop the wisdom realizing emptiness, one needs calm abiding, and, for that, one needs pure morality. By living in a monastery or nunnery a monk or nun is protected from distracting attachments that could cause them to break or give up their vows. Therefore, conducive places, such as monasteries and nunneries are needed as without them living in pure morality doesn’t happen, then perfect meditation doesn’t happen, and then higher wisdom doesn’t happen.SANGHA (MONKS AND NUNS) -- Advice for Sangha30-Jun-20190:17:25TRANSCRIPT Why Monasteries and Nunneries Are NeededEVENT TRANSCRIPT Ganden Buddhist Centre 2019Latvia,
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75558Why Monasteries and Nunneries Are Needed SCRIPTEDLama Zopa Rinpoche responds to a comment made by a Ladakhi man at a meeting in Delhi complaining about how Buddhist monks and nuns do not engage in charity work in hospitals. Rinpoche explains that while working in a hospital is not contradictory to the life of a monk or nun, this work will not necessarily bring about the realizations that will free one from samsara and enable one to achieve enlightenment. On the other hand, living in a monastery or nunnery provides conducive conditions to live in morality, meditate, and actualize the path. To develop the wisdom realizing emptiness, one needs calm abiding, and, for that, one needs pure morality. By living in a monastery or nunnery a monk or nun is protected from distracting attachments that could cause them to break or give up their vows. Therefore, conducive places, such as monasteries and nunneries are needed as without them living in pure morality doesn’t happen, then perfect meditation doesn’t happen, and then higher wisdom doesn’t happen.SANGHA (MONKS AND NUNS) -- Advice for Sangha30-Jun-20190:17:25TRANSCRIPT Why Monasteries and Nunneries Are Needed SCRIPTEDEVENT TRANSCRIPT Ganden Buddhist Centre 2019Latvia,
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75557How to Meditate on the Kindness of Sentient BeingsIn this teaching Rinpoche guides us through several meditations that help us generate bodhichitta. First, Rinpoche goes through the reasoning showing that the person abusing us is the one who allows us to reach enlightenment. Based on this argument Rinpoche makes it clear that there is no point in feeling close to some and distant to others. He then quotes Kadampa Geshe Chekawa reminding us to put all the blame on the self cherishing. Rinpoche mentions briefly that all beings have been our mothers and finishes by pointing out that we heavily depend on others for our bare survival and all the comforts that we want to have.BODHICHITTA -- Advice on Developing Bodhichitta30-Jun-20190:26:13TRANSCRIPT How to Meditate on the Kindness of Sentient BeingsEVENT TRANSCRIPT Ganden Buddhist Centre 2019Latvia,
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75556How to Meditate on the Kindness of Sentient Beings SCRIPTEDIn this teaching Rinpoche guides us through several meditations that help us generate bodhichitta. First, Rinpoche goes through the reasoning showing that the person abusing us is the one who allows us to reach enlightenment. Based on this argument Rinpoche makes it clear that there is no point in feeling close to some and distant to others. He then quotes Kadampa Geshe Chekawa reminding us to put all the blame on the self cherishing. Rinpoche mentions briefly that all beings have been our mothers and finishes by pointing out that we heavily depend on others for our bare survival and all the comforts that we want to have.BODHICHITTA -- Advice on Developing Bodhichitta30-Jun-20190:26:13TRANSCRIPT How to Meditate on the Kindness of Sentient Beings SCRIPTEDEVENT TRANSCRIPT Ganden Buddhist Centre 2019Latvia,
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75555From Birth to Death You Believe the Movie of Your Life Is RealRinpoche describes how the mind creates our samsaric reality by projecting true existence on to all phenomena, just as it does with the I, and then we believe that they exist from their own side, as real. While a buddha does not have this hallucination, we are hallucinated by the negative imprint left by ignorance on our mental continuum, just like a magician hallucinates the senses of their audience. because of this from birth to death, everything that appears to us appears real, existing from its own side. Due to this, we live our whole life in a hallucination unaware that ignorance is projecting the movie of our life, complete with a real partner, real children, a real eduction, and a real job. On the basis of our wrong perception we create anger, jealousy and all the rest, but it is only a hallucination. We are completely cheated by this wrong appearance, this concept. By realizing emptiness, we cease the ignorance and therefore the hallucination.ADVICE ON EMPTINESS PRACTICE -- Emptiness MeditationNEGATIVE EMOTIONS -- Delusions,30-Jun-20190:22:01TRANSCRIPT From Birth to Death You Believe the Movie of Your Life Is RealEVENT TRANSCRIPT Ganden Buddhist Centre 2019Latvia,
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75554From Birth to Death You Believe the Movie of Your Life Is Real SCRIPTEDRinpoche describes how the mind creates our samsaric reality by projecting true existence on to all phenomena, just as it does with the I, and then we believe that they exist from their own side, as real. While a buddha does not have this hallucination, we are hallucinated by the negative imprint left by ignorance on our mental continuum, just like a magician hallucinates the senses of their audience. because of this from birth to death, everything that appears to us appears real, existing from its own side. Due to this, we live our whole life in a hallucination unaware that ignorance is projecting the movie of our life, complete with a real partner, real children, a real eduction, and a real job. On the basis of our wrong perception we create anger, jealousy and all the rest, but it is only a hallucination. We are completely cheated by this wrong appearance, this concept. By realizing emptiness, we cease the ignorance and therefore the hallucination.ADVICE ON EMPTINESS PRACTICE -- Emptiness MeditationNEGATIVE EMOTIONS -- Delusions,30-Jun-20190:22:01TRANSCRIPT From Birth to Death You Believe the Movie of Your Life Is Real SCRIPTEDEVENT TRANSCRIPT Ganden Buddhist Centre 2019Latvia,
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75553Subdue Your Own MindLama Zopa Rinpoche explains the last two lines “Subdue one’s own mind. this is the teaching of the Buddha” from the four-line verse often recited at the beginning of Dharma teachings. If we don’t take care of our minds by eliminating the chronic disease of self-cherishing thought and the three poisonous minds, then we are not actually practicing the holy Dharma. No matter how much Dharma we know intellectually, if we don’t’ use it to take care of our mind, it is not Buddhism.The more we take care of our mind the more happiness and contentment we will experience. In short, the reason that the Buddha said to subdue our mind is because all suffering and all happiness come from our mind. They don't come from outside, they come from inside. So taking care of our mind is the most important practice.DHARMA IN DAILY LIFE -- Understanding the Suffering of SamsaraLAM-RIM STUDY AND PRACTICE -- Training the Mind in Lam-rim,29-Jun-20190:25:39TRANSCRIPT Subdue Your Own MindEVENT TRANSCRIPT Ganden Buddhist Centre 2019Latvia,
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75552Subdue Your Own Mind SCRIPTEDLama Zopa Rinpoche explains the last two lines “Subdue one’s own mind. this is the teaching of the Buddha” from the four-line verse often recited at the beginning of Dharma teachings. If we don’t take care of our minds by eliminating the chronic disease of self-cherishing thought and the three poisonous minds, then we are not actually practicing the holy Dharma. No matter how much Dharma we know intellectually, if we don’t’ use it to take care of our mind, it is not Buddhism.The more we take care of our mind the more happiness and contentment we will experience. In short, the reason that the Buddha said to subdue our mind is because all suffering and all happiness come from our mind. They don't come from outside, they come from inside. So taking care of our mind is the most important practice.DHARMA IN DAILY LIFE -- Understanding the Suffering of SamsaraLAM-RIM STUDY AND PRACTICE -- Training the Mind in Lam-rim,29-Jun-20190:25:39TRANSCRIPT Subdue Your Own Mind SCRIPTEDEVENT TRANSCRIPT Ganden Buddhist Centre 2019Latvia,
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75551How to Turn Every Action Into DharmaIn answer to a student’s question, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains how to transform any action, including painting pictures and playing music into Dharma. The first decision is to live our life with a good heart, then, whatever we do, including painting and playing music, will become beneficial to others. Otherwise, if we continue to live our life with the self-cherishing thought, our lives are no different from tigers, mosquitoes, and other animals. Now that we have been born as human beings, we need to stop harming others and, if possible, do whatever we can to benefit them. By doing an action with a good heart, it will fulfill two purposes, it will bring happiness to ourselves and happiness to others. Also other people will like to be around us and will want to help us. Rinpoche concludes the teaching by explaining what prayers we can say before playing music or painting pictures to make these specific actions beneficial for others, including make them into cause of enlightenment for all sentient beings.DHARMA IN DAILY LIFE -- Integrating Dharma and the Arts29-Jun-20190:41:35TRANSCRIPT How to Turn Every Action Into DharmaEVENT TRANSCRIPT Ganden Buddhist Centre 2019Latvia,
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75550How to Turn Every Action Into Dharma SCRIPTEDIn answer to a student’s question, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains how to transform any action, including painting pictures and playing music into Dharma. The first decision is to live our life with a good heart, then, whatever we do, including painting and playing music, will become beneficial to others. Otherwise, if we continue to live our life with the self-cherishing thought, our lives are no different from tigers, mosquitoes, and other animals. Now that we have been born as human beings, we need to stop harming others and, if possible, do whatever we can to benefit them. By doing an action with a good heart, it will fulfill two purposes, it will bring happiness to ourselves and happiness to others. Also other people will like to be around us and will want to help us. Rinpoche concludes the teaching by explaining what prayers we can say before playing music or painting pictures to make these specific actions beneficial for others, including make them into cause of enlightenment for all sentient beings.DHARMA IN DAILY LIFE -- Integrating Dharma and the Arts29-Jun-20190:41:35TRANSCRIPT How to Turn Every Action Into Dharma SCRIPTEDEVENT TRANSCRIPT Ganden Buddhist Centre 2019Latvia,
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68068This Is the LifeLama Zopa Rinpoche points out, why it is so important to make the best out of this precious human life and why we have to reach enlightenment quickly. He explains how, by studying the Dharma, we come to see that samsara is only suffering, even though some experiences appear to be happiness on first glance, such as having a good meal. To become free from all suffering, we need to destroy the cause of all delusions once and for all. And the time to do so is NOW. NOW we have all the conditions, from a precious human live up to having met a qualified guru. If we do not do it now, when will we do it? Who knows what will happen in the next life?PATH TO ENLIGHTENMENT (LAM-RIM) -- Perfect Human Rebirth15-Jun-20190:46:11TRANSCRIPT This Is the LifeEVENT TRANSCRIPT Institut Vajra Yogini 2019France,
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67967Why it Is So Important to Devote Yourself Correctly to the Guru SCRIPTEDIn the Essence of Nectar it is said that even over the course of countless eons it is very difficult to achieve enlightenment, but due to the power of the guru you can achieve it in a brief lifetime by pleasing the guru. Like a mother who is so happy when she sees someone helping her child, all the buddhas are pleased when they see that you are correctly devoting yourself to the guru. They enter the guru whereby your offerings to the guru become an offering to all the buddhas. Rinpoche then uses the example of the life story of bodhisattva Cho Phag to illustrate that without the guru, even if you gain a lot of realizations you cannot achieve enlightenment. This is why it is extremely important to meditate on guru devotion and to not create heresy, even if the guru scolds you and does other actions that your self cherishing does not like.GURU DEVOTION -- The Benefits of Guru Devotion13-Jun-20190:39:56TRANSCRIPT Why it Is So Important to Devote Yourself Correctly to the Guru SCRIPTEDEVENT TRANSCRIPT Institut Vajra Yogini 2019France,
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75549Why it Is So Important to Devote Yourself Correctly to the GuruIn the Essence of Nectar it is said that even over the course of countless eons it is very difficult to achieve enlightenment, but due to the power of the guru you can achieve it in a brief lifetime by pleasing the guru. Like a mother who is so happy when she sees someone helping her child, all the buddhas are pleased when they see that you are correctly devoting yourself to the guru. They enter the guru whereby your offerings to the guru become an offering to all the buddhas. Rinpoche then uses the example of the life story of bodhisattva Cho Phag to illustrate that without the guru, even if you gain a lot of realizations you cannot achieve enlightenment. This is why it is extremely important to meditate on guru devotion and to not create heresy, even if the guru scolds you and does other actions that your self cherishing does not like.GURU DEVOTION -- The Benefits of Guru Devotion13-Jun-20190:39:56TRANSCRIPT Why it Is So Important to Devote Yourself Correctly to the GuruEVENT TRANSCRIPT Institut Vajra Yogini 2019France,
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67966Make Sure Your Emptiness Meditation Touches the Target SCRIPTEDIn this teaching, Lama Zopa Rinpoche goes to great length to help us make sure that when we meditate on emptiness, our meditation hits the target, whether it is the I existing from there or the table existing from there. This is because many people make the mistake of keeping the gagja, the I that is the object to be refuted, there, rather than negating it, and so it ends up that there is a real I meditating on emptiness! Rinpoche uses several examples to show us how we can go wrong and in our emptiness meditation.ADVICE ON EMPTINESS PRACTICE -- Emptiness Meditation12-Jun-20190:52:20TRANSCRIPT Make Sure Your Emptiness Meditation Touches the Target SCRIPTEDEVENT TRANSCRIPT Institut Vajra Yogini 2019France,
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68064Make Sure Your Emptiness Meditation Touches the TargetIn this teaching, Lama Zopa Rinpoche goes to great length to help us make sure that when we meditate on emptiness, our meditation hits the target, whether it is the I existing from there or the table existing from there. This is because many people make the mistake of keeping the gagja, the I that is the object to be refuted, there, rather than negating it, and so it ends up that there is a real I meditating on emptiness! Rinpoche uses several examples to show us how we can go wrong and in our emptiness meditation.ADVICE ON EMPTINESS PRACTICE -- Emptiness Meditation12-Jun-20190:52:20TRANSCRIPT Make Sure Your Emptiness Meditation Touches the TargetEVENT TRANSCRIPT Institut Vajra Yogini 2019France,
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67965If You Develop a Good Heart You Can Continuously Help Others SCRIPTEDIt makes a big difference whether you care for others with a good heart or a selfish mind. With a good heart, even without bodhichitta, it is easy to help sentient beings without getting tired, while it is very difficult and tiring when you do not have that attitude to help others. Rinpoche advices us to remember that the disabled or old person or the child that we are taking care of is the cause for us to reach enlightenment. They have cared for us countless time in the past as our mothers and it is due to them that we can now create merit and develop a good heart. Even if we do only a small act of helping others, it is very important, and if it is very hard work, we can enjoy it even more, as it makes us achieve enlightenment quicker.DEVELOPING COMPASSION -- The Good Heart12-Jun-20190:26:19TRANSCRIPT If You Develop a Good Heart You Can Continuously Help Others SCRIPTEDEVENT TRANSCRIPT Institut Vajra Yogini 2019France,
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68062If You Develop a Good Heart You Can Continuously Help OthersIt makes a big difference whether you care for others with a good heart or a selfish mind. With a good heart, even without bodhichitta, it is easy to help sentient beings without getting tired, while it is very difficult and tiring when you do not have that attitude to help others. Rinpoche advices us to remember that the disabled or old person or the child that we are taking care of is the cause for us to reach enlightenment. They have cared for us countless time in the past as our mothers and it is due to them that we can now create merit and develop a good heart. Even if we do only a small act of helping others, it is very important, and if it is very hard work, we can enjoy it even more, as it makes us achieve enlightenment quicker.DEVELOPING COMPASSION -- The Good Heart12-Jun-20190:26:19TRANSCRIPT If You Develop a Good Heart You Can Continuously Help OthersEVENT TRANSCRIPT Institut Vajra Yogini 2019France,
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67964The Benefits of Teaching Dharma Are Unbelievable SCRIPTEDLama Zopa Rinpoche explains the extensive benefits of teaching Dharma, even one verse consisting of four lines, to one sentient being. According to the Gandi Sutra, the benefits are much more than that of making charity of a great thousand universes filled with gold to one sentient being. The benefit is also far greater than someone who, wishing to benefit others, makes charity of all the happiness in the three worlds to one sentient being. In addition, the benefit of teaching the holy Dharma is such that giving even one verse of teaching, with compassion, to one sentient being far surpasses the benefit of offering, with an extremely happy mind, as many buddha fields as the number of sand grains of the River Ganga totally filled up with the seven types of jewels to a buddha. But this is still only talking about the benefits of teaching Dharma to one sentient being so to teach Dharma to two, three, and more sentient beings brings double, triple, and more benefits. In fact, it brings so many that they would make you fall down in a faint!DHARMA IN DAILY LIFE -- A Meaningful LifeWORKING FOR THE DHARMA -- Teaching Dharma,9-Jun-20190:26:08TRANSCRIPT The Benefits of Teaching Dharma Are Unbelievable SCRIPTEDEVENT TRANSCRIPT Institut Vajra Yogini 2019France,
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68060The Benefits of Teaching Dharma Are UnbelievableLama Zopa Rinpoche explains the extensive benefits of teaching Dharma, even one verse consisting of four lines, to one sentient being. According to the Gandi Sutra, the benefits are much more than that of making charity of a great thousand universes filled with gold to one sentient being. The benefit is also far greater than someone who, wishing to benefit others, makes charity of all the happiness in the three worlds to one sentient being. In addition, the benefit of teaching the holy Dharma is such that giving even one verse of teaching, with compassion, to one sentient being far surpasses the benefit of offering, with an extremely happy mind, as many buddha fields as the number of sand grains of the River Ganga totally filled up with the seven types of jewels to a buddha. But this is still only talking about the benefits of teaching Dharma to one sentient being so to teach Dharma to two, three, and more sentient beings brings double, triple, and more benefits. In fact, it brings so many that they would make you fall down in a faint!DHARMA IN DAILY LIFE -- A Meaningful LifeWORKING FOR THE DHARMA -- Teaching Dharma,9-Jun-20190:26:09TRANSCRIPT The Benefits of Teaching Dharma Are UnbelievableEVENT TRANSCRIPT Institut Vajra Yogini 2019France,
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67963As Center Director Think of Yourself as Others Servant SCRIPTEDLama Zopa Rinpoche praises the benefits of generating bodhichitta and says to center directors, in particular, that in their position it is especially important to have the attitude that one is a servant to sentient beings. As a center director one has so much opportunity to benefit others, but in order to protect oneself from disappointment one should think, “I am the one to receive all criticism." Recalling a former director who spoke quite roughly to people, Rinpoche also emphasizes the need to always smile at others as this automatically creates happiness in their minds.SERVING AS CENTER DIRECTOR -- Advice to Center Directors6-Jun-20190:39:25TRANSCRIPT As Center Director Think of Yourself as Others Servant SCRIPTEDEVENT TRANSCRIPT Institut Vajra Yogini 2019France,
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68058As Center Director Think of Yourself as Others ServantLama Zopa Rinpoche praises the benefits of generating bodhichitta and says to center directors, in particular, that in their position it is especially important to have the attitude that one is a servant to sentient beings. As a center director one has so much opportunity to benefit others, but in order to protect oneself from disappointment one should think, “I am the one to receive all criticism." Recalling a former director who spoke quite roughly to people, Rinpoche also emphasizes the need to always smile at others as this automatically creates happiness in their minds.SERVING AS CENTER DIRECTOR -- Advice to Center Directors6-Jun-20190:39:26TRANSCRIPT As Center Director Think of Yourself as Others ServantEVENT TRANSCRIPT Institut Vajra Yogini 2019France,
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67962What the Guru Really Is Part 3 SCRIPTEDLama Zopa Rinpoche continues his explanation of the Lama Chopa verses, reminding us that when we recite “Lama tonpa chomdende" we should remember the guru's kindness in having guided us since beginningless rebirths. In all our lifetimes, even when we were animals, the guru has guided us and will continue to do so until we achieve the same qualities. It is the guru, the dharmakaya, who manifested as Shakyamuni Buddha and turned the three wheels of Dharma and who manifested as Vajradhara and other deities in order to teach tantra. Rinpoche then explains the remaining epithets in “LA MA TÖN PA CHOM DÄN DÄ DE ZHIN SHEG PA DRA CHOM PA YANG DAG PAR DZOG PÄI SANG GYÄ PÄL GYÄL WA SHA KYA THUB PA LA CHHAG TSHÄL LO." In relation to dezhin shegpa (tathagata), Rinpoche explains how to identify the object of negation and how to see the true nature of phenomena as being empty. In relation to drachompa (arhat or foe destroyer), Rinpoche then explains how the maras of the son-of-the-devas hinder practitioners who try to live a pure live by shooting them with the arrows of attachment and other delusions and emphasizes how the sangha, in particular, need to be aware of this.GURU DEVOTION -- The Benefits of Guru DevotionSANGHA (MONKS AND NUNS) -- Advice for Sangha,3-Jun-20191:07:54TRANSCRIPT What the Guru Really Is Part 3 SCRIPTEDEVENT TRANSCRIPT Institut Vajra Yogini 2019France,
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68056What the Guru Really Is Part 3Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues his explanation of the Lama Chopa verses, reminding us that when we recite “Lama tonpa chomdende" we should remember the guru's kindness in having guided us since beginningless rebirths. In all our lifetimes, even when we were animals, the guru has guided us and will continue to do so until we achieve the same qualities. It is the guru, the dharmakaya, who manifested as Shakyamuni Buddha and turned the three wheels of Dharma and who manifested as Vajradhara and other deities in order to teach tantra. Rinpoche then explains the remaining epithets in “LA MA TÖN PA CHOM DÄN DÄ DE ZHIN SHEG PA DRA CHOM PA YANG DAG PAR DZOG PÄI SANG GYÄ PÄL GYÄL WA SHA KYA THUB PA LA CHHAG TSHÄL LO." In relation to dezhin shegpa (tathagata), Rinpoche explains how to identify the object of negation and how to see the true nature of phenomena as being empty. In relation to drachompa (arhat or foe destroyer), Rinpoche then explains how the maras of the son-of-the-devas hinder practitioners who try to live a pure live by shooting them with the arrows of attachment and other delusions and emphasizes how the sangha, in particular, need to be aware of this.GURU DEVOTION -- The Benefits of Guru DevotionSANGHA (MONKS AND NUNS) -- Advice for Sangha,3-Jun-20191:07:20TRANSCRIPT What the Guru Really Is Part 3EVENT TRANSCRIPT Institut Vajra Yogini 2019France,
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129944Sangha Are the Real VictorsIn this teaching, Lama Zopa Rinpoche emphasizes the importance of having sangha in the West as their presence helps others to have a life with the eight freedoms and ten richnesses. This is because the Dharma is present in a country where the Vinaya exists and there sangha communities living in morality. Rinpoche then reminds us of the suffering of sentient beings and says that we must come to the conclusion that we need to help them every second. To do this, we need to develop renunciation, actualize lamrim, bodhichitta, right view. Since the sangha are trying defeat the delusions, they are the real victors and heros, not the people who kill many enemies. Rinpoche then reminds the sangha of their responsibility for inspiring lay people to also take ordination and to not show themselves as having a messy life attached to the eight worldly dharmas. Rinpoche then elaborates at great length on the importance of keeping pure morality, especially for the sangha.ADVICE FOR SANGHA -- The Role of Sangha3-Jun-20190:00:51TRANSCRIPT Sangha Are the Real VictorsEVENT TRANSCRIPT Institut Vajra Yogini 2019France,
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67961Sangha Are the Real Victors SCRIPTEDIn this teaching, Lama Zopa Rinpoche emphasizes the importance of having sangha in the West as their presence helps others to have a life with the eight freedoms and ten richnesses. This is because the Dharma is present in a country where the Vinaya exists and there sangha communities living in morality. Rinpoche then reminds us of the suffering of sentient beings and says that we must come to the conclusion that we need to help them every second. To do this, we need to develop renunciation, actualize lamrim, bodhichitta, right view. Since the sangha are trying defeat the delusions, they are the real victors and heros, not the people who kill many enemies. Rinpoche then reminds the sangha of their responsibility for inspiring lay people to also take ordination and to not show themselves as having a messy life attached to the eight worldly dharmas. Rinpoche then elaborates at great length on the importance of keeping pure morality, especially for the sangha.ADVICE FOR SANGHA -- The Role of Sangha3-Jun-20190:51:02TRANSCRIPT Sangha Are the Real Victors SCRIPTEDEVENT TRANSCRIPT Institut Vajra Yogini 2019France,
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67960What the Guru Really Is Part 2 SCRIPTEDRecalling a visit in a Christian monastery in Spain, where monks were weaving products from straw and did not have much practice, Rinpoche reminds us how incredibly fortunate we are to have met the Dharma and to know how to practice. Then, based on the understanding that the guru is actually Vajradhara as explained in part one of this talk, Rinpoche elaborates on verse LC52 from Lama Chopa, clarifying the meaning of the guru being the dharmakaya. This is to whom you make your request in verse LC 53, understanding that the guru can see all your needs. Due to his kindness, we have obtained this precious human birth. The guru is like a magnifying glass without which fire cannot be produced from the sun. Rinpoche than presents several quotes reminding us to consider the guru to be higher than even Vajradhara.GURU DEVOTION -- The Benefits of Guru Devotion31. Mai. 20191:15:52TRANSCRIPT What the Guru Really Is Part 2 SCRIPTEDEVENT TRANSCRIPT Institut Vajra Yogini 2019France,
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68052What the Guru Really Is Part 2Recalling a visit in a Christian monastery in Spain, where monks were weaving products from straw and did not have much practice, Rinpoche reminds us how incredibly fortunate we are to have met the Dharma and to know how to practice. Then, based on the understanding that the guru is actually Vajradhara as explained in part one of this talk, Rinpoche elaborates on verse LC52 from Lama Chopa, clarifying the meaning of the guru being the dharmakaya. This is to whom you make your request in verse LC 53, understanding that the guru can see all your needs. Due to his kindness, we have obtained this precious human birth. The guru is like a magnifying glass without which fire cannot be produced from the sun. Rinpoche than presents several quotes reminding us to consider the guru to be higher than even Vajradhara.GURU DEVOTION -- The Benefits of Guru Devotion31. Mai. 20191:15:52TRANSCRIPT What the Guru Really Is Part 2EVENT TRANSCRIPT Institut Vajra Yogini 2019France,
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67959What the Guru Really Is Part 1 SCRIPTEDLama Zopa Rinpoche begins to explain, in great detail, the meaning of each word in the the prayer “LA MA TÖN PA CHOM DÄN DÄ DE ZHIN SHEG PA DRA CHOM PA YANG DAG PAR DZOG PÄI SANG GYÄ PÄL GYÄL WA SHA KYA THUB PA LA CHHAG TSHÄL LO.” While doing so Rinpoche gives an extraordinary teaching on how the guru is actually the dharmakya and how to correctly relate to the guru. Rinpoche explains what to think of when we say “LAMA.” The guru is actually Vajradhara, so it is the guru who is the manifestation of all the buddhas. The guru is not just the body we see. It is not as if Vajradhara is higher than the guru. Whatever service you offer to the guru, remember that and instead of creating piles of negative karma you will create skies of merit.GURU DEVOTION -- The Benefits of Guru DevotionGURU DEVOTION -- The GuruDisciple Relationship,31. Mai. 20191:06:07TRANSCRIPT What the Guru Really Is Part 1 SCRIPTEDEVENT TRANSCRIPT Institut Vajra Yogini 2019France,
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68050What the Guru Really Is Part 1Lama Zopa Rinpoche begins to explain, in great detail, the meaning of each word in the the prayer “LA MA TÖN PA CHOM DÄN DÄ DE ZHIN SHEG PA DRA CHOM PA YANG DAG PAR DZOG PÄI SANG GYÄ PÄL GYÄL WA SHA KYA THUB PA LA CHHAG TSHÄL LO.” While doing so Rinpoche gives an extraordinary teaching on how the guru is actually the dharmakya and how to correctly relate to the guru. Rinpoche explains what to think of when we say “LAMA.” The guru is actually Vajradhara, so it is the guru who is the manifestation of all the buddhas. The guru is not just the body we see. It is not as if Vajradhara is higher than the guru. Whatever service you offer to the guru, remember that and instead of creating piles of negative karma you will create skies of merit.GURU DEVOTION -- The Benefits of Guru DevotionGURU DEVOTION -- The GuruDisciple Relationship,31. Mai. 20191:06:08TRANSCRIPT What the Guru Really Is Part 1EVENT TRANSCRIPT Institut Vajra Yogini 2019France,
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67409Freedom Is in Our HandsWhy does a car drop out of the sky and kill a certain person? Why are leaves and petals of a flower made a certain way? What decides the colors of a butterfly’s wings or the colors of a peacock’s tail? Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains that the answers to all these questions are karma, in particular, subtle karma. Because they come from karma, they come from the mind. Rinpoche says, “Because of that, we can create suffering, we can create happiness, we can create enlightenment, we can create hell. So we have freedom in our hands.” In short, we should use our understanding of the external world to understand how our mind has great freedom.KARMA -- Understanding Karma30. Mai. 20190:07:01TRANSCRIPT Freedom Is in Our HandsEVENT TRANSCRIPT Institut Vajra Yogini 2019France,
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68048How to Correctly Meditate on Emptiness Without Falling Into Nihilism(First minute missing in the first edit)In this very profound teaching on emptiness Rinpoche corrects the mistaken meditation on emptiness that looks for the parts of phenomena to then dismiss the existence of that very phenomena all together and think one has realized the emptiness of that object, while in reality one has not touched the gagja, the object to be refuted. While this way to meditate is very common one actually meditates on nihilism.ADVICE ON EMPTINESS PRACTICE -- Emptiness Meditation28. Mai. 20191:01:52TRANSCRIPT How to Correctly Meditate on Emptiness Without Falling Into NihilismEVENT TRANSCRIPT Institut Vajra Yogini 2019France,
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67958That We Have to Experience Suffering Again Endlessly Is the Most Scary SCRIPTEDIn this short teaching Lama Zopa Rinpoche advices us to remember emptiness when we do practices to purify obstacles like sicknesses for ourselves or other people. And then to also remember the oceans of suffering of the various beings that we ourselves have experienced in the past and will continue to experience if we do not realize emptiness. We will experience it again and again, without end. That is the most scary thing. Having cancer is nothing compared to that. So recall that and then with strong motivation to realise emptiness read and meditate on the Heart SutraADVICE ON EMPTINESS PRACTICE -- Emptiness Study and Practice27. Mai. 20190:24:22TRANSCRIPT That We Have to Experience Suffering Again Endlessly Is the Most Scary SCRIPTEDEVENT TRANSCRIPT Institut Vajra Yogini 2019France,
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68046That We Have to Experience Suffering Again Endlessly Is the Most ScaryIn this short teaching Lama Zopa Rinpoche advices us to remember emptiness when we do practices to purify obstacles like sicknesses for ourselves or other people. And then to also remember the oceans of suffering of the various beings that we ourselves have experienced in the past and will continue to experience if we do not realize emptiness. We will experience it again and again, without end. That is the most scary thing. Having cancer is nothing compared to that. So recall that and then with strong motivation to realise emptiness read and meditate on the Heart SutraADVICE ON EMPTINESS PRACTICE -- Emptiness Study and Practice27. Mai. 20190:24:22TRANSCRIPT That We Have to Experience Suffering Again Endlessly Is the Most ScaryEVENT TRANSCRIPT Institut Vajra Yogini 2019France,
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67957You Need to Develop a Stable Faith to Your Guru Based on Quotations and Logic SCRIPTEDLama Zopa Rinpoche explains how we have broken our vows and commitments since beginningless lifetimes. Yet we do not remember it at all. Even from the initiations we took in this life we do not recognize downfalls and broken samaya. Due to our karmic obscurations we see faults in our gurus, even in His Holiness Dalai Lama. Even many Tibetans see faults in him. As long as our gurus praise us, we have faith, but as soon as they scold us, our faith disappears. That is blind faith! So we have to base our faith on reasoning, logics and study. Otherwise we loose the connection to our guru and our mind becomes empty, like an empty purse.VOWS AND COMMITMENTS -- Broken Vows and CommitmentsGURU DEVOTION -- The GuruDisciple Relationship,25. Mai. 20190:00:41TRANSCRIPT You Need to Develop a Stable Faith to Your Guru Based on Quotations and Logic SCRIPTEDEVENT TRANSCRIPT Institut Vajra Yogini 2019France,
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68044You Need to Develop a Stable Faith to Your Guru Based on Quotations and LogicLama Zopa Rinpoche explains how we have broken our vows and commitments since beginningless lifetimes. Yet we do not remember it at all. Even from the initiations we took in this life we do not recognize downfalls and broken samaya. Due to our karmic obscurations we see faults in our gurus, even in His Holiness Dalai Lama. Even many Tibetans see faults in him. As long as our gurus praise us, we have faith, but as soon as they scold us, our faith disappears. That is blind faith! So we have to base our faith on reasoning, logics and study. Otherwise we loose the connection to our guru and our mind becomes empty, like an empty purse.VOWS AND COMMITMENTS -- Broken Vows and CommitmentsGURU DEVOTION -- The GuruDisciple Relationship,25. Mai. 20190:13:55TRANSCRIPT You Need to Develop a Stable Faith to Your Guru Based on Quotations and LogicEVENT TRANSCRIPT Institut Vajra Yogini 2019France,
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67956Showing Disrespect to Dharma and Holy Objects Creates Strong Obstacles in Your Mind SCRIPTEDRinpoche makes a strong point of how important it is to respect Dharma texts and holy objects. Recounting various events where even center SPCs or directors would not be mindful of that basic practice, Rinpoche points out the consequences of obscuring our minds so we do not understand Dharma or even fall asleep as soon as we hear teachings. If you have to destroy damaged or outdated dharma texts and you cannot store them in a proper place, best is to burn them following the instruction Rinpoche gives in this teaching. In general it is best to treat any text with Tibetan letters with respect, Lama Zopa Rinpoche says. Then he briefly contemplates on how long Dharma will last in the West. Although Buddhism has spread a lot in the West, it is at a very superficial level, while in Nepal, India and Tibet yogis had gone through incredible hardship to practice dharma.HOLY OBJECTS -- Advice on Holy ObjectsADVICE ON HOLY OBJECTS -- Texts,25. Mai. 20190:00:41TRANSCRIPT Showing Disrespect to Dharma and Holy Objects Creates Strong Obstacles in Your Mind SCRIPTEDEVENT TRANSCRIPT Institut Vajra Yogini 2019France,
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68042Showing Disrespect to Dharma and Holy Objects Creates Strong Obstacles in Your MindRinpoche makes a strong point of how important it is to respect Dharma texts and holy objects. Recounting various events where even center SPCs or directors would not be mindful of that basic practice, Rinpoche points out the consequences of obscuring our minds so we do not understand Dharma or even fall asleep as soon as we hear teachings. If you have to destroy damaged or outdated dharma texts and you cannot store them in a proper place, best is to burn them following the instruction Rinpoche gives in this teaching. In general it is best to treat any text with Tibetan letters with respect, Lama Zopa Rinpoche says. Then he briefly contemplates on how long Dharma will last in the West. Although Buddhism has spread a lot in the West, it is at a very superficial level, while in Nepal, India and Tibet yogis had gone through incredible hardship to practice dharma.HOLY OBJECTS -- Advice on Holy ObjectsADVICE ON HOLY OBJECTS -- Texts,25. Mai. 20190:00:41TRANSCRIPT Showing Disrespect to Dharma and Holy Objects Creates Strong Obstacles in Your MindEVENT TRANSCRIPT Institut Vajra Yogini 2019France,
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67955How to Truly Take Care of Your Life SCRIPTEDQuoting from “Calling the Guru from Afar" Lama Zopa Rinpoche points out that every second we have a choice between generating causes for happiness or for suffering. As long as we only work for the self cherishing, the false “I" we only create suffering. If we think of others we create happiness. Similarly if we look at the “I" as empty, merely imputed, there is happiness, while from following ignorance, suffering comes. And we need to remember that all our happiness came through the kindness of the guru. We need to take the essence of this life without mistake by reflecting on that. Otherwise we will be like animals, harming back when receiving harm and only following our self cherishing thought. Taking care of your life means taking care of sentient beings. The conclusion is: first realizing your own suffering in Samsara, then all your mothers suffering you practice lamrim, the three higher trainings and six paramitas and then tantra to be able to benefit all sentient beings.BUDDHIST PRACTICESDHARMA IN DAILY LIFE -- Understanding the Suffering of Samsara,23. Mai. 20190:41:47TRANSCRIPT How to Truly Take Care of Your Life SCRIPTEDEVENT TRANSCRIPT Institut Vajra Yogini 2019France,
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68040How to Truly Take Care of Your LifeQuoting from “Calling the Guru from Afar" Lama Zopa Rinpoche points out that every second we have a choice between generating causes for happiness or for suffering. As long as we only work for the self cherishing, the false “I" we only create suffering. If we think of others we create happiness. Similarly if we look at the “I" as empty, merely imputed, there is happiness, while from following ignorance, suffering comes. And we need to remember that all our happiness came through the kindness of the guru. We need to take the essence of this life without mistake by reflecting on that. Otherwise we will be like animals, harming back when receiving harm and only following our self cherishing thought. Taking care of your life means taking care of sentient beings. The conclusion is: first realizing your own suffering in Samsara, then all your mothers suffering you practice lamrim, the three higher trainings and six paramitas and then tantra to be able to benefit all sentient beings.BUDDHIST PRACTICESDHARMA IN DAILY LIFE -- Understanding the Suffering of Samsara,23. Mai. 20190:41:47TRANSCRIPT How to Truly Take Care of Your LifeEVENT TRANSCRIPT Institut Vajra Yogini 2019France,
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67954Dharma Teachers Should Always Focus on Good Heart SCRIPTEDIn this message for Dharma teachers, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains how important it is to teach bodhichitta or the ultimate good heart. Even though one begins with the subject of perfect human rebirth, one should introduce the motivation of bodhichitta right from the very beginning. Because the final goal of practicing Mahayana Buddhism is to achieve enlightenment, when someone studies they should always aim very far but with a relaxed attitude. As Rinpoche says, “The main thing is you start from the very beginning of lamrim, yes, but with the motivation of bodhichitta. Some who give courses but does not teach bodhichitta, who only teaches renunciation this life and then renunciation of samsara but without bodhichitta—that is wrong.” In short, Rinpoche says that those who teach Dharma should have as their main aim to help people become good people with a good heart.DEVELOPING COMPASSION -- The Good HeartPATH TO ENLIGHTENMENT (LAM-RIM),21. Mai. 20190:14:52TRANSCRIPT Dharma Teachers Should Always Focus on Good Heart SCRIPTEDEVENT TRANSCRIPT Institut Vajra Yogini 2019France,
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68038Dharma Teachers Should Always Focus on Good HeartIn this message for Dharma teachers, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains how important it is to teach bodhichitta or the ultimate good heart. Even though one begins with the subject of perfect human rebirth, one should introduce the motivation of bodhichitta right from the very beginning. Because the final goal of practicing Mahayana Buddhism is to achieve enlightenment, when someone studies they should always aim very far but with a relaxed attitude. As Rinpoche says, “The main thing is you start from the very beginning of lamrim, yes, but with the motivation of bodhichitta. Some who give courses but does not teach bodhichitta, who only teaches renunciation this life and then renunciation of samsara but without bodhichitta—that is wrong.” In short, Rinpoche says that those who teach Dharma should have as their main aim to help people become good people with a good heart.DEVELOPING COMPASSION -- The Good HeartPATH TO ENLIGHTENMENT (LAM-RIM),21. Mai. 20190:14:52TRANSCRIPT Dharma Teachers Should Always Focus on Good HeartEVENT TRANSCRIPT Institut Vajra Yogini 2019France,
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67953Nothing Creates More Merit Than Following the Instructions of and Serving the Guru SCRIPTEDLama Zopa Rinpoche clarifies that serving the guru is equal to doing a lot of preliminary practices or meditating. He recalls the story of Atisha checking on the realizations of three disciples and the ones who served as cook and translator had more realizations than the one who focused on study and meditation. Quoting from Kalachakra tantra Rinpoche clarifies that service to the guru creates far more merit than making countless offerings and saving the lives of millions of creatures. Following the advice and instructions of the guru you collect incredible merit every second.GURU DEVOTION -- Offering Service to the Guru19. Mai. 20190:31:40TRANSCRIPT Nothing Creates More Merit Than Following the Instructions of and Serving the Guru SCRIPTEDEVENT TRANSCRIPT Institut Vajra Yogini 2019France,
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68036Nothing Creates More Merit Than Following the Instructions of and Serving the GuruLama Zopa Rinpoche clarifies that serving the guru is equal to doing a lot of preliminary practices or meditating. He recalls the story of Atisha checking on the realizations of three disciples and the ones who served as cook and translator had more realizations than the one who focused on study and meditation. Quoting from Kalachakra tantra Rinpoche clarifies that service to the guru creates far more merit than making countless offerings and saving the lives of millions of creatures. Following the advice and instructions of the guru you collect incredible merit every second.GURU DEVOTION -- Offering Service to the Guru19. Mai. 20190:31:40TRANSCRIPT Nothing Creates More Merit Than Following the Instructions of and Serving the GuruEVENT TRANSCRIPT Institut Vajra Yogini 2019France,
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67952We Have All the Wrong Views SCRIPTEDLama Zopa Rinpoche explains that due to ignorance we have been living in a total hallucination from beginningless rebirths. Not only do we not have the right view of the Prasangikas, that everything is merely labeled by the mind, but we have all the wrong views of all the lower Buddhist schools, including that of the Svatantrikas, that things are labeled by the mind but exist from their own side. We even have even the coarsest wrong view of the non-Buddhist school, that things are permanent, exist alone without depending on their parts, and exist with their own freedom without depending on causes and conditions. Because of this, all the wrong views are there when the I and other phenomena appear back to us.HOW THINGS EXIST -- 18. Mai. 20190:28:30TRANSCRIPT We Have All the Wrong Views SCRIPTEDEVENT TRANSCRIPT Institut Vajra Yogini 2019France,
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68034We Have All the Wrong ViewsLama Zopa Rinpoche explains that due to ignorance we have been living in a total hallucination from beginningless rebirths. Not only do we not have the right view of the Prasangikas, that everything is merely labeled by the mind, but we have all the wrong views of all the lower Buddhist schools, including that of the Svatantrikas, that things are labeled by the mind but exist from their own side. We even have even the coarsest wrong view of the non-Buddhist school, that things are permanent, exist alone without depending on their parts, and exist with their own freedom without depending on causes and conditions. Because of this, all the wrong views are there when the I and other phenomena appear back to us.HOW THINGS EXIST -- 18. Mai. 20190:28:30TRANSCRIPT We Have All the Wrong ViewsEVENT TRANSCRIPT Institut Vajra Yogini 2019France,
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67951Meditation on Emptiness Stops All the Problems SCRIPTEDLike magicians use various means to hallucinate their audiences, the past ignorance holding the I and other phenomena as truly existent left an imprint on our mental continuum that projects true existence onto everything. And then we believe that is how they actually exist. All the problems in the world of fighting and quarreling, including even the first and second world wars, began with the concept of a real I. Likewise, depression and all worries and fears come from it. Once you discover this by studying and meditating on emptiness, all the problems are no longer there.ADVICE ON EMPTINESS PRACTICE -- Emptiness Study and PracticeNATURE OF THE I -- ,18. Mai. 20190:14:06TRANSCRIPT Meditation on Emptiness Stops All the Problems SCRIPTEDEVENT TRANSCRIPT Institut Vajra Yogini 2019France,
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68032Meditation on Emptiness Stops All the ProblemsLike magicians use various means to hallucinate their audiences, the past ignorance holding the I and other phenomena as truly existent left an imprint on our mental continuum that projects true existence onto everything. And then we believe that is how they actually exist. All the problems in the world of fighting and quarreling, including even the first and second world wars, began with the concept of a real I. Likewise, depression and all worries and fears come from it. Once you discover this by studying and meditating on emptiness, all the problems are no longer there.ADVICE ON EMPTINESS PRACTICE -- Emptiness Study and PracticeNATURE OF THE I -- ,18. Mai. 20190:14:06TRANSCRIPT Meditation on Emptiness Stops All the ProblemsEVENT TRANSCRIPT Institut Vajra Yogini 2019France,
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67408Dont Use the Guru to Be Born in HellLama Zopa Rinpoche says that we should write down two verses from Lama Tsongkhapa’s Hymns of Experience explaining how to rely on the guru. If we don’t put this advice into practice, we will use our virtuous friend to create the heaviest negative karma. If we don’t study and practice the lamrim, even though we find a guru, we will use the guru to be born in hell. Rinpoche also explains that we have to think about why Lama Tsongkhapa said that we have “to put effort” into correctly following the virtuous friend with thought and action. It is because being able to see the guru as a buddha has to come from our side - with much effort.GURU DEVOTION -- Advice on Guru Devotion17. Mai. 20190:15:41TRANSCRIPT Dont Use the Guru to Be Born in HellEVENT TRANSCRIPT Institut Vajra Yogini 2019France,
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67407Studying and Meditating on Lamrim Is the Only Way to Help All Sentient BeingsRinpoche reminds us that sentient beings keep practicing negative karma as they are completely obscured and do not know what brings happiness, what brings suffering. So we need to study and practice lamrim to guide them to enlightenment.DHARMA IN DAILY LIFE -- Understanding the Suffering of SamsaraPATH TO ENLIGHTENMENT (LAM-RIM) -- Lam-rim Study and Practice,16. Mai. 20190:08:05TRANSCRIPT Studying and Meditating on Lamrim Is the Only Way to Help All Sentient BeingsEVENT TRANSCRIPT Institut Vajra Yogini 2019France,
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67950Renounce Samsara and Live in Accordance With the Dharma SCRIPTEDRinpoche emphasis the importance of renunciation. Only by having a strong understanding of your own suffering in samsara and wanting to get out of it every second we will start to feel true compassion for others. Then Rinpoche gives examples of the suffering in hell realms, reminding us that not believing in them does not protect from going there. Then he reminds us that every suffering we experience has been caused by ourselves creating the karma for it, even the bombing of the twin towers in the states. So it is of utmost importance that we live our life in accordance with the dharma, especially not harming others. Otherwise we are not different from people who never met dharma. And we even cause others to get born in hell by harming us back.COMPASSION AND BODHICHITTA -- Developing CompassionDHARMA IN DAILY LIFE -- Understanding the Suffering of Samsara,PATH TO ENLIGHTENMENT (LAM-RIM)Renunciation,16. Mai. 20190:38:33TRANSCRIPT Renounce Samsara and Live in Accordance With the Dharma SCRIPTEDEVENT TRANSCRIPT Institut Vajra Yogini 2019France,