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Precious Gems from Domo Geshe Rinpoche
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Volume No.2
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Apr - Jul, 2008
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As summer retreat approaches, we are happy to announce that the
teachings from last summer retreat have been released (with the
exceptions of those that require empowerment). The five days of
teachings of Seven Point Mind Training (session 1) are available as a bundle, as are the five days of teachings on Unfolding the Mystery of Emptiness and Love (session 2.)
Rinpoche also gave an introductory seminar on the Seven Point Mind training called Developing Compassion.
We highly recommend listening to Developing Compassion as a preparation
for the subsquent teachings on the Seven Point Mind Training.
Information on ordering these teachings is below:
Unfolding the Mystery of Emptiness and Love, Aug 2007 CD and MP3
White Conch is pleased to announce that Sharon Leftwich has accepted the position of team lead for our hospice team, Grand Transitions Institute and Hospice.
Sharon has years of hospice experience as both a care provider and as a
hospice administrator. She has an extensive network in the hospice
community and is a dedicated Buddhist practitioner. A web site for this project is being developed. Stay tuned for more information.
Click on links to order the teachings extracted in Precious Gems.
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Apr 17, 2008
The nature of the process that we are talking about
has to do with the first lesson regarding understanding the real nature of
compassion. I know this seems funny, but this has nothing to do with (your idea
of what is meant by) being a compassionate person. The compassion that we are
talking about relates to an inexhaustible source of energy coming from the
purity of the higher development spheres. That sounds a little bit mystical
but, (it comes) from a place that is beyond the valuation and beyond the
knowing of your actual being. It needs to be ignited in your actual being in
order for you to be able to participate even a little bit on the outside.
Domo Geshe Rinpoche
Jan 19, 2008 Becoming Infinite Compassion, CD and MP3.
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Jun 6, 2008
I must quote Shantideva at this point from his Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life. We're talking about anger here. "Enemies such as hatred and attachment do not have arms and legs and so forth." They really have no power in themselves he is saying. "Nor do they have courage or skill. So how have they made me their slave?"
Get
angry at anger. How have they made me their slave? They have nothing.
They have no courage, they have no skill, they have no abilities, they
don't have any arms or legs. How have they made me their slave? I'm
giving them my legs and my arms and my courage and my skill. How could
this have happened?!
This
sounds like an activist. Whole societies have risen up as spiritual
seekers by becoming activists for enlightenment, and have become angry
at the conditions that they are expected to endure as ordinary beings.
They will not tolerate it anymore. I'm saying whole societies have
risen up in anger tending toward the right view. Correctly rising up as
an activist and they said, "How is it that you and you and you and
you, and how is it that I am being held as a slave? I refuse to live as
a slave!" Exactly like this. It becomes more important than anything to
stop being a slave to the delusions.
So,
the delusions only have the power of you. They must infect you. As long
as they remain in abstract form, like between the pages of a book,
that's very safe. These delusions I'm talking about - you have given
yourself willingly or unwillingly as a slave in order to perform the
functions of harming yourself. It's true, and it's the beneficial way of
thinking about it because only then will you become angry at the
delusions. In that way, you rise up in a certain dynamic (that says), "I'm not gonna
take it anymore."
I continue to quote Shantideva. "While they remain within my mind they harm me at their pleasure. And yet, without anger I patiently endure them." Is that the craziest thing you ever heard of? The very things that are bringing harm, I am being patient with. And yet, without anger I patiently endure them. They are not an object of patience.
The
traditional teachings talk about the (confused) thinking that ordinary
worldly people have, and this is one aspect of it. The very thing that
one should be angry at, one has the most patience with. So the
delusions remain lurking in the mind without any recourse while you
massage them and give them anything they wish and patiently endure
them. Shantideva is calling out like a beacon and saying they are not
an object of patience.
In
order to have real benefit from Dharma practice, you must not
externalize your difficulties. You must realize that your difficulties
lie within you. As long as you are able to place blame on others, the
perfection that you seek is not even available.
Domo Geshe Rinpoche
Sep 28, 2003 Freeing the Energy of Anger
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Jul 5, 2008
If you are not the one you think you
are, and you are not alive in the way you think you are, then what is it that
the human being is supposed to be doing? What is your function here? Can you
remember why you were supposed to be here and what you were supposed to be
doing? These are the important questions, and don't be distracted by
inconsequentialities when there is so much important work that human beings -
you - are capable of doing.
The human being becomes the facilitator of
this extraordinary process in which the real you inside transforms into another
kind of being that is capable if learning more. Your actual being inside has
become stuck in numerous kinds of dynamics which don't actually have anything
to do with what it needs or is trying to accomplish.
Domo Geshe Rinpoche
Jan, 23, 2008 How to Relate to All Living Beings, CD and MP3.
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May there be a rain of dharma!
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