Continuing with our stages of the path (Lam Rim) series, Geshe Sonam Ngodup leads a meditation on recognizing and decreasing the eight worldly concerns (eight worldly dharmas). These concerns are outlined by Nāgārjuna in Letter to a Friend:
You who know the world, take gain and loss,
Happiness and unhappiness, fame and insignificance
praise and blame,
Make them the same and don't disturb your mind.
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In the third session on the Lam Rim series of meditations , Geshe Sonam Ngodup guides us through a contemplation and meditation on our precious human rebirth, how it is greatly meaningful and difficult to find.
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In this session, Geshe Sonam guides a meditation on the nature and potential of the mind . Although this is not traditionally part of the Lam Rim outlines, understanding a little bit about our mind and its nature is an excellent preliminary contemplation for our Lam Rim/Stages of the path practice.
Geshe la gives an introduction, leads a short visualization meditation to settle the mind, and then gives impulses for meditation on the mind's fundamental nature.
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*New Series Alert* - Stages of the Path (Tibetan: 'Lam Rim')
Preliminaries – the Field of Accumulation: This week, we begin the first of what will be between 22-23 weekly short videos on the topics of the Stages of the Path (Lam Rim). The aim of this series is to give students a brief taste of these topics in a format that can be used for meditation.
In this session, Geshe Sonam guides a meditation on the preliminary practice for the Lam Rim meditation - visualizing the field of accumulation.
This meditation includes a brief recitation of the mantra of the Buddha
TADYATHĀ OṂ MUNE MUNE MAHĀ MUNAYE SVĀHĀ.
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Geshe Sonam quotes a verse from Shantideva's Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra on how all the teachings are for the sake of arising wisdom. Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable Khedrup.
All the teachings are for the sake of arising wisdom
ཡན་ལག་འདི་དག་ཐམས་ཅད་ནི།
All these branch [practices] were taught
ཐུབ་པས་ཤེས་རབ་དོན་དུ་གསུངས།
By the mighty one for the sake of wisdom
དེ་ཡི་ཕྱིར་ན་སྡུག་བསྔལ་དག།
Therefore those who wish to pacify suffering
ཞི་བར་འདོད་པས་ཤེས་རབ་བསྐྱེད།
Should generate this wisdom.
–Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra / བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པ་།
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In this episode, Geshe Sonam teaches that we overcome all the afflictive emotions by overcoming confusion. He quotes a verse from Āryadeva's Four Hundred Verses. Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable Khedrup.
From Āryadeva's Four Hundred Verses:
ལུས་ལ་ལུས་དབང་ཇི་བཞིན་དུ།
As tactile sense [pervades] the body
གཏི་མུག་ཀུན་ལ་གནས་གྱུར་ཏེ།
Confusion is present in all places
དེ་ཕྱིར་ཉོན་མོངས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱང།
By overcoming confusion (ignorance) one also
གཏི་མུག་བཅོམ་པས་བཅོམ་པར་འགྱུར།
Overcomes all the afflictive emotions.
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In this teaching, Geshe Sonam teaches a short but profound verse by Dromtonpa Gyelwa Jungne ('brom ston rgyal ba 'byung gnas) on three Baskets and three Capacities. Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable Khedrup.
རྒྱལ་བའི་འབྱུང་གནས་ཀྱི་གསུང་ལས།
From Gyalwa Jungne (Dromtonpa)
ངོ་མཚར་བཀའ་ནི་སྡེ་སྣོད་གསུམ་པོ་དེ།
This wonderful speech of the Buddha, the Tripitaka (Three Baskets)
དམ་པ་སྐྱེས་བུ་གསུམ་གྱིས་མཛད་པ་ཡི།
The excellent deeds [accomplished] by beings of the three capacities,
བཀའ་གདམས་རིན་ཆེན་གསེར་གྱི་འཕྲེང་བ་འདི།
The precious golden rosary of the Kadampas,
འགྲོ་བ་གང་གིས་བགྲང་ཡང་དོན་ཡོད་འགྱུར།
By which migrators accomplish the meaningful.
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In this episode, Don Handrick presents the introductory session to the "Seven Point Mind Training Teachings". Don provides a comprehensive history and overview of these precious and practical teachings. Hope you enjoy this teaching!
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This is a short meditation on Bodhicitta from the first session led by Don Handrick, from the Seven-Point Thought Transformation teachings at Lama Yeshe Ling.
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Presenting a short interview with Don Handrick, talking about his experience with the teaching on Giving and Taking "Tong-Len", in the Seven-Point Thought Transformation teaching. These practices are very practical and powerful tools for transforming problems into happiness.
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In this teaching, Geshe Sonam explains, using a verse by Arya Nagarjuna from the text 'Precious Garland of the Middle Way', on the three causes of Complete Enlightenment or Buddhahood. Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable Khedrup.
The Three Causes of Enlightenment
བདག་ཉིད་དང་ནི་འཇིག་རྟེན་འདིས།
Oneself and [others] of this world,
བླ་མེད་བྱང་ཆུབ་ཐོབ་འདོད་ན།
If they wish to attain the unsurpassed enlightenment:
དེ་ཡི་རྩ་བ་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས།
Its roots are bodhicitta, རི་དབང་རྒྱལ་པོ་ལྟར་བརྟན་དང་།
Firm like the King of Mountains,
ཕྱོགས་མཐས་གཏུགས་པའི་སྙིང་རྗེ་དང།
Compassion reaching all directions,
གཉིས་ལ་མི་བརྟེན་ཡེ་ཤེས་ལགས།
And wisdom not relying on duality.
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In this teaching Geshe Sonam explains the potential of all sentient beings to achieve Enlightenment which is known as the Tathagata Garbha or Buddha Nature (Buddha Essence). Geshe la explains how due to this potentiality, all sentient beings can achieve full Enlightenment.
All Sentient Beings Possess Buddha Nature
སེམས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཅད་ལ་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་རིགས་ཡོད་པ།
From the Uttaratantra Shastra (Sublime Continuum)
རྒྱུད་བླ་མ་ལས། Because a perfect Buddha's body (enlightened qualities) are pervasive,
།རྫོགས་སངས་སྐུ་ནི་འཕྲོ་ཕྱིར་དང་།
Because suchness is without differentiation,
།དེ་བཞིན་ཉིད་དབྱེར་མེད་ཕྱིར་དང་།
And because Buddha lineage exists,
།རིགས་ཡོད་ཕྱིར་ན་ལུས་ཅན་ཀུན།
All embodied beings are always in possession of a Buddha essence.
།རྟག་ཏུ་སངས་རྒྱས་སྙིང་པོ་ཅན།
Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable Khedrup.
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On this bonus episode, Ven. Jamyang Khedrup elaborates about qualities that mark exceptional teachers: Equal care to the integrity of the teachings and well-being and freedom of the listeners. Enjoy!
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Saga Dawa Greetings! ས་ག་ཟླ་བ་དུས་ཆེན་ལ་བཀྲིས་བདེ་ལེགས།
In this special teaching on the special day of Saga Dawa, Geshe Sonam Ngodup wishes all our viewers greetings and hopes everyone is well. Geshe La teaches how and why this day is important, and because it is important what activities one should engage in on this holy day.
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In this short teaching, Geshe Sonam Ngodup explains to us about the benefits of Bodhichitta by quoting a verse from Chapter 1 of Shantideva's Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra or Bodhicaryāvatāra (Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པ་ byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa). Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable Khedrup.
More Benefits of Bodhicitta
།བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་སྐྱེས་གྱུར་ན་སྐད་ཅིག་གིས།
The moment an awakening mind arises
།འཁོར་བའི་བཙོན་རར་བསྡམས་པའི་ཉམ་ཐག་རྣམས།
In those fettered and weak in the prison of cyclic existence
།བདེ་གཤེགས་རྣམས་ཀྱི་སྲས་ཞེས་བརྗོད་བྱ་ཞིང་། T
hey will be named a child of the Sugatas
།འཇིག་རྟེན་ལྷ་མིར་བཅས་པས་ཕྱག་བྱར་འགྱུར།
And will be revered by both devas and humans of the world
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In the fourth and final session from Venerable Yönten's teaching, she will guide us through a brief analytical meditation on Identifying the Object of Negation, the inherently existent self. Please enjoy!
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In the third session from Venerable Yönten's teaching, she will guide us through a brief analytical meditation on the King of Reasonings - Dependent Origination.
Venerable Yönten is an American-born Buddhist nun in the Gelug Tibetan tradition who was ordained in 2003, and who is now a fully ordained Bhikshuni/Gelongma in the Dharmaguptaka tradition.
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In the second session from Venerable Yönten's teaching, she will guide us through a brief analytical meditation on the topic of Karma - Actions and Results.
Venerable Yönten is an American-born Buddhist nun in the Gelug Tibetan tradition who was ordained in 2003, and who is now a fully ordained Bhikshuni/Gelongma in the Dharmaguptaka tradition.
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We are happy to present to you a series of guided meditations led by visiting teacher Venerable Yönten at Lama Yeshe Ling. The first session is a guided analytical meditation on Laws of Karma.
Venerable Yönten is an American-born Buddhist nun in the Gelug Tibetan tradition who was ordained in 2003, and who is now a fully ordained Bhikshuni/Gelongma in the Dharmaguptaka tradition.
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Geshe Sonam presents glimpses of Buddhist meditation and wisdom in a practical way. The teachings are the perfect way to bring some calm and compassion into your day.In this teaching, Geshe La will explain the first verse from Lama Tsong famous text "Three Principal Aspects of the Path" and will show us how this verse contains all the essential aspects of Buddha Shakyamuni's teaching. Enjoy this short teaching.
The Very Essence of the Buddha's Teachings From Lama Tsongkhapa's Three Principal Aspects of the Path
།ལམ་གྱི་གཙོ་བོ་རྣམ་གསུམ། ། རྗེ་བཙུན་བླ་མ་རྣམས་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ།
Homage to the precious noble masters!
རྒྱལ་བའི་གསུང་རབ་ཀུན་གྱི་སྙིང་པོའི་དོན། །
The very essence of all the buddhas’ teachings,
རྒྱལ་སྲས་དམ་པ་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་བསྔགས་པའི་ལམ། །
The path that is praised by the noble bodhisattvas,
སྐལ་ལྡན་ཐར་འདོད་རྣམས་ཀྱི་འཇུག་ངོགས་དེ། །
And the entrance for all fortunate ones desiring liberation—
ཇི་ལྟར་ནུས་བཞིན་བདག་གིས་བཤད་པར་བྱ། །
To the best of my ability, I shall now set forth.
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