Blog Posts: What Is Meditation On The Spiritual Journey?

Briefly speaking to practice Buddhism there are three things: learning, thinking – or contemplating – and meditating. Learning doesn’t mean to become a great scholar or teacher. At least, you have to know what you are doing. I just want to bring this up to date. One shouldn’t do what one doesn’t know. That’s very…
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Blog Posts: Concentrated Meditation And Balancing

We have been working for along time on a variety of topics based on the lamrim, Odyssey to Freedom. Now we have come to the point of the fifth Paramita, the Paramita of Meditation, which is mainly concentrated meditation. We have two parallel programs running on this topic. One is the course in Ann Arbor…
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Blog Posts: Feeling the Suffering

The Buddha’s teachings sort of push us into all kinds of challenges. They will drive us. Why? Because the goal is total enlightenment. In order to get total enlightenment we are forced to see our limitations. That is why this is serious and solid business. Fortunately or unfortunately, it is not just a feel-good business….
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Blog Posts: Following A Tradition With A Lineage And 29th Day Soup

The spiritual path is the same thing we all definitely need. Otherwise you people won’t be here today. There is no reason why you would come here on a beautiful sunny Sunday morning, with beautiful clean, pure white snow – a pure land must be something like that. Whatever else purer is there? Pure snow…
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Blog Posts: Put Your Learning Into Practice

What are you going to take home today? Compassion, love and the ultimate, unlimited, unconditional love and compassion, which is the bodhimind. It is something we can develop, at least create as an artificial thought. If we entertain that, every day our life will be very worthwhile. That also clears a lot of our obstacles…
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Blog Posts: Buddhas Teachings Reach Everyone’s Level

Whether it is the teachings on wisdom, or whether it is teachings on method. It is the same logic that teachings should be given according to the mental aptitude of the disciples. So this diversity of teachings given by the Buddha, depending on the diversity of mental aptitudes of the disciples, is perhaps something that…
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Blog Posts: Gain A Little Control Of Your Mind

If we look at our addictions we will see something. For the strongest addictions we have like hatred, obsession, we don’t need a teacher to teach us how to develop them. We have that automatically. The parents will try to hide all this from the kids. They don’t talk about it in front of the…
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Blog Posts: Suffering, Self-Esteem, and Humility

One of the criteria of the Truth of Suffering, is impermanence. The second criteria [of the First Noble Truth] is suffering [itself]. It is absolutely true, whether you like it or not. Our life has tremendous suffering. Who can deny? No matter whoever you are, higher, lower, politicians, rich, poor, wherever and whoever you look, how…
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Blog Posts: Gelek Rimpoche On Feeling The Preciousness Of His Life (2016)

As we all know, our life is so important. Really, it is something very, very important. It is very easy to say that life is important, and very easy to agree, that by all means, it is. But you don’t really understand, unless there is a threat. When there is a threat, you begin to think,…
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Blog Posts: We Continue

After being taught by some of the greatest teachers in Tibet, fleeing into India having memorized some of the most important works of Tibetan culture and Buddhist writing, through many permutations, Gelek Rimpoche landed in Michigan, USA, to help “the Dharma shine in the West.” His lifetime of teaching, debating, and composing is cherished the…
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