On Demand Audio: The Buddha’s First Public Talk

THE BUDDHA’S FIRST PUBLIC TALK In this session, you will be listening to an original unedited audio recording of a public talk by Gelek Rimpoche, offered through Jewel Heart in Lincoln, Nebraska in November 2012. The Four Noble Truths, the core message coming from Buddha’s personal experience, was shared by Buddha in his first public…
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Four Noble Truths Summary This talk sums up the Four Noble Truths all together, with more focus on suffering of death and how to die well and help others die well. At least have some faith in guru, buddha, yidam or any pure being you believe in. Next best, go beyond attachment and hatred, able…
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On Demand Audio: Heart Sutra: The Freedom of Understanding Reality As It Is

HEART SUTRA: THE FREEDOM OF UNDERSTANDING REALITY AS IT IS In this series, you will be listening to original unedited audio teachings by Gelek Rimpoche at the 2012 Memorial Day Weekend Retreat, Heart Sutra: The Freedom of Understanding Reality As It Is, held at Garrison Institute in Garrison, NY. The focus of the teachings is…
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Causes and Conditions: Criteria of the Second Noble Truth Meditation helps health, and so does modern medicine. Use both wisely to overcome pain and addictions and their causes. We ourselves ultimately create these for ourselves. You can use White Tara to be healthy, but when death comes, switch to ask her to help with the…
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On Demand Video: Living Ancient Art of Tibetan Buddhist Thangkas

THE LIVING ANCIENT ART OF TIBERAN BUDDHIST THANGKAS In this offering, you will be viewing the video recording of Gelek Rimpoche’s lecture opening the University of Michigan Museum of Art exhibition “Buddhist Thangkas and Treasures: The Walter Koelz Collection, Museum of Anthropology” in Ann Arbor, Michigan on February 24, 2013. While discussing the role of…
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On Demand Audio: Foundation of All Perfections

FOUNDATION OF ALL PERFECTIONS In this session, you will be listening to an unedited audio teaching given by Gelek Rimpoche at Jewel Heart Nebraska in 2012. The Foundation of All Perfections is Je Tsong Khapa’s shortest lam rim, a poetic and concise map that lays bare for us the potential of the human heart and…
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4 characteristics of the First Noble Truth Impermanence, suffering, emptiness and selflessness are the four characteristics of the Truth of Suffering. Knowing impermanence forces us to confront our priorities in life and to choose virtue over non-virtue. Suffering is our reality of contaminated existence. Emptiness means in this case that everything is based on causes…
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On Demand Audio: Attaining Lasting Satisfaction – Part 2

ATTAINING LASTING SATISFACTION – PART 2 In this series, you will be listening to eight lightly edited audio recordings of teachings given by Gelek Rimpoche as part of an ongoing series in 2003 at Renaissance Unity, an inclusive spiritual community in Warren, Michigan. Addressing a public audience over eight sessions, Gelek Rimpoche explores a range…
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Karma and continuation of life Suffering and joy has a lot to do with what our mind projects, depending on our perceptions and causes and conditions. Together that becomes karma. Karmic consequences produce our suffering and joy. Karmic imprints follow us into future lives, our stream of consciousness is a continuation of discontinuity carrying karmic…
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On Demand Audio: Attaining Lasting Satisfaction – Part 1

ATTAINING LASTING SATISFACTION – PART 1 In this series, you will be listening to eight lightly edited audio recordings of teachings given by Gelek Rimpoche as part of an ongoing series in 2003 at Renaissance Unity, an inclusive spiritual community in Warren, Michigan. Addressing a public audience over eight sessions, Gelek Rimpoche explores a range…
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