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The Path to Bodhimind Developing bodhimind is one of the supreme goals of Mahayana Buddhism. Achieving this unparalleled state of love and compassion requires an extraordinary and sustained Audio Only

Motivation: the Key to Practice Buddhist practice begins with motivation. Setting a positive motivation makes a huge difference in our effectiveness in helping ourselves and others. Our motivation is a measure against which we can assess the quality of our thoughts and actions and our progress along the path. Audio Only

Finding the Path of Practical Buddhism Suffering is within us and all around us. Yet Buddhism speaks of the joy that has never known suffering. What is this joy and how do we best direct our motivation toward achieving it? Audio Only

Four Noble Truths Summary This talk sums up the Four Noble Truths all together, with more focus on suffering of death and how to die well and help others die well. At least have some faith in guru, buddha, yidam or any pure being you believe in. Next best, go beyond attachment and hatred, able…
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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.

Wisdom and Compassion The purpose of meditation is not only to relax and calm down, but to challenge the addictive negative emotions. We need both wisdom and compassion. Wisdom challenges the grasping at an “I” and compassion challenges the self-cherishing. Audio Only

Review of last year and preview of next Reincarnation is continuation, but not the same individual. You are responsible for yourself, lean, think, meditate together on each point. Motivate yourself to have a good spiritual achievement this year. Audio Only

4 aspects of the Third Noble Truths There are many wrong views about the cessation of suffering, like there is no state of liberation, or that liberation is temporary, or liberation is found in samsaric picnic spots or liberation is place you get born it. To counteract that, the 4 criteria of the Third Noble…
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4 Aspects of Second Noble Truth The four aspects of the Second Noble Truth are: causes, conditions, growing and very growing, counteracting wrong views that suffering either has no cause, or only one cause, in particular caused by a creator god. Being caused by causes and conditions allows us to change them. We are responsible…
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Definitions of 4 Noble Truths and 4 aspects of 1st Noble Truth The Definition of second, third and fourth noble truths are given and the 4 aspects of the 1st noble Truth, counteracting 4 wrong views: things are permanent, pure, joy in nature and have self nature, when in fact they are impermanent, suffering, contaminated…
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4 aspects of the 1st Noble Truth The four aspects of the 1st Noble Truth are: impermanence, suffering, emptiness and selflessness. The 1st Noble Truth; suffering, is contaminated,. born out of karma and delusion. It is contaminated, because it is oriented by and influenced by delusions, especially ignorance. It is also impermanent. Audio Only