The Wisdom of a Spiritual Life series was recorded over five sessions of the Nyur Lam Wisdom teaching, November 2010. Please scroll down to read a description of each individual recording.

The teachings that form the basis of this transcript aim at building a solid spiritual foundation through engaging in issues relevant for our lives, now and in the long term. Gelek Rimpoche’s authentic words help to determine for oneself what is true spirituality and how to best deal with one’s emotions on a daily basis…
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A PRACTICAL EXPLANATION OF THE BUDDHA’S FIRST TEACHING The Four Noble Truths is the basis of all the Buddha’s teaching. Gelek Rimpoche’s eloquent and pragmatic approach sheds fresh light on applying these teachings to daily life.

SEM: The Nature of Mind, is compiled from teachings delivered by Gelek Rimpoche on the nature of the mind. This lightly edited transcript addresses the relationship between energy and mind, the mind’s capacity for liberation and wisdom, and continuity of consciousness.

One of the most thorough transcripts available on concentrated meditation, Gelek Rimpoche shares methods to develop deep, single-pointed meditation, as well as peace and joy in our lives. Includes 19 color plates on the meditator’s journey.

A new name for an old journey, Gelek Rimpoche created the Odyssey to Free-dom as a concise and complete Lam Rim outline for the 21st century. With 64 points, Odyssey to Freedom sets the stage for reflection on our everyday experience within a spiritual context and provides the path that lead to total enlightenment.

This commentary on the famous text in verse, The Three Principles of the Path by Je Tsongkhapa, explains the entire path to enlightenment, summarized in its three main features: renunciation, ultimate love-compassion and wisdom. Gelek Rimpoche’s commentary is profoundly modern. The whole teaching is wisdom-soaked and will provide the reader with an impulse to take…
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In this transcript Gelek Rimpoche talks about our negative emotions, how they conceal themselves, how we can recognize them, what obstacles we face and how to transform them into positivity. He also points out the signs of our buddha-nature awakening. Rimpoche gives everyday examples and also presents a buddhist practice to support the process of…
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Does karma leave any room for self-determination, or are we totally at the mercy of fate? Gelek Rinpoche explains how the law of karma works within the individual. By understanding ego and habitual patterns we find the key to freedom from pre-determination.

In this transcript, Gelek Rimpoche introduces bodhimind, the ultimate, unlimited, unconditional love and compassion that aspires to full enlightenment in order to help all living beings to get to that very enlightenment. He also explains the Six Perfections, the compassionate activities that result from the movitation of bodhimind.