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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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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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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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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