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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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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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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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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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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What is spiritual practice? Tibetan Buddhism is continuation of Nalanda tradition of Indian Buddhism, which has now reached the West. It’s practice is to oppose negative emotions. We have to take the teachings personal and apply them within ourselves. Learning, thinking, meditating need to be done on each point together, to purify negativities and build…
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In these 57 weekly Sunday morning teachings from January 2012 to February 2013, Gelek Rimpoche introduces Buddha’s transformative message through the goals and methods of Tibetan Buddhism, helping us to see, session by session, the personal applicability of Buddha’s life-changing realizations for our lives today.
Jewel Heart Fall Retreat Friday, October 5 – Monday, October 8, 2012 Melodies of an Echo: Searching for Truth Melodies of an Echo, also known as Recognizing the Face of the Mother, is an exquisitely composed song that poetically expresses how we can come to recognize the true nature of reality, surrender our misguided perceptions,…
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