Three Types of Spiritual Laziness There are three types of ‘laziness’ explained in the Abhisamayalankara. The first is the laziness engaging in uncalled-for activities – being caught up in something other than what needs to be done. The second is the laziness of delaying. The third is the laziness of thinking you are incapable, or…
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Overcoming Laziness Through Enthusiasm What is spiritual laziness? How can use the perfection of enthusiasm to curb our laziness? There are three enthusiasms to counteract laziness. In this talk Gelek Rimpoche explains the first, the diligence of non-adherence and how we can make more time in our lives for spiritual practice. This Sunday webcast, October…
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The Qualities of the Three Jewels of Refuge The goal of Mahayana is to achieve the total enlightenment of a Buddha – which includes the Sambogakaya quality of being able to see the past, present, and future of all phenomena simultaneously. While we cannot keep talking about the qualities of the Three Jewels, having an…
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Review of the 10 Instructions This talk is largely a recapitulation of previous weeks’ presentations on method and wisdom, the pervasiveness of the Two Truths (relative and absolute) in all our practice, the pervasiveness of Buddha’s manifestations, and the benefits of refuge. The talk also emphasizes that the worst form of laziness is not doing…
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The Meaning of Refuge In Abhisamayalankara’s 10 instructions, the basis on which you conduct your spiritual practice is developing refuge in the Three Jewels. Taking refuge is more than just stating that you are taking refuge in the Three Jewels; that’s just relative refuge, and while it is very important, you should strive to achieve…
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The Qualities of the Sangha An authentic member of sangha has one or more of the eight qualities of recognizing/realizing either the state of realization or the state of cessation. There are some significant technicalities here, but basically this means that one must have a direct insight or realization of emptiness. The sangha as conventional…
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The Qualities of the Dharma Up to now, our discussion has been about bodhimind, the union of compassion and wisdom, the Two Truths, and the Four Noble Truths. Today we focus on basis of our religious practice, the Three Jewels of Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha. We already discussed the eight qualities of Buddha. Of the…
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The Eight Qualities of the Buddha In this talk Rimpoche continues with the 6 remaining of the 8 qualities of the Buddha: not realized by other conditions, total knowledge, unlimited love, unlimited ability, benefit for oneself and benefit for others. This Sunday webcast, August 31, 2014 was sponsored anonymously. Audio Only

The Qualities of the Buddha Rimpoche continues with teaching on the Three Jewels, going into details on the first two of the eight qualities of Buddha, first the the unconditioned nature body. We also have Buddha nature, but that doesn’t mean we are buddhas. We have the seed or potential. The second quality is: spontaneously…
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The Three Jewels of Refuge Going to the 3rd of the 10 Mahayana instructions of the Abhisamayalankara, Rimpoche talks about Buddha as the base on which we practice and explains Buddha as one who has achieved the three kayas, Dharmakaya, Sambogakaya and Nirmanakaya. The Dharma is equivalent to the last two of the Four Noble…
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