This is an original unedited video teaching by Gelek Rimpoche.

INSPIRED DISCIPLINE In this session, you will be listening to an unedited audio recording of a public talk by Gelek Rimpoche at Jewel Heart Ann Arbor, MI in June, 2009. In 2009, public talks on Sunday mornings in Ann Arbor were given by senior students selected by Gelek Rimpoche. Once a month Rimpoche was the…
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Mental Faculty of Non-Violence All non-virtues interconnected, like attachment, hatred, jealousy. Violence escalates quickly, causing damage in families, societies, countries and globally. It’s opposite is compassion, reacting with kindness. Buddha, Jesus, Gandhi, M.L.King, Nelson Mandela, Mother Theresa, very successful with non-violence. All genuine spiritual paths practice non-violent principles. Audio Only

When you engage your mind in faith then your mind is becoming that faith; that faith is becoming part of your mind. I told you that there are 52 different mental faculties and all are oneness with the mind and yet there is separation there. So when faith is engaged by the mind, the mind…
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THREE SPIRITUAL TECHNIQUES In this session, you will be listening to an unedited audio recording of a public talk by Gelek Rimpoche at Jewel Heart Ann Arbor, MI on April, 2009. In 2009, public talks on Sunday mornings in Ann Arbor were given by senior students selected by Gelek Rimpoche. Once a month Rimpoche was…
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Excerpted from Gelek Rimpoche’s teaching on Essence of Tibetan Buddhism, 9/8/2013 Mind is something that governs our activities. With everything we do, we follow our thoughts. I develop thoughts, thinking, “I’d like to get up”, so following that thought I get up. My thought will say, “I should walk” and then I walk. A thought…
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The Mental Faculty of Non-Violence Wishing for enlightenment is great motivation, but shouldn’t stop at only wishing. violence is a great obstacle to bodhimind, coming in many forms, physical, verbal, mental, including sexism, racism, any form of abuse and manipulation. Non-violence is part of non-hatred and compassion and requires patience to sustain itself when challenged….
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A MEANINGFUL LIFE In this session, you will be listening to an unedited audio recording of a public talk by Gelek Rimpoche at Jewel Heart Ann Arbor, MI on March, 2009. In 2009, public talks on Sunday mornings in Ann Arbor were given by senior students selected by Gelek Rimpoche. Once a month Rimpoche was…
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