31 episodes
Gently Spoken Advice Lama Yeshe Ling Buddhist Center
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- Religion & Spirituality
Buddhist teachings from Dharma Teachers at Lama Yeshe Ling. Teachings are in Tibetan and English. Teachings will cover a range of topics from classic Mahayana Buddhist texts.
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Guided Lam Rim Meditation #4 - Reducing Eight Worldly Concerns (in Tib. & Eng.)
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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Guided Lam Rim Meditation #3 - Precious Human rebirth (in Tib. & Eng.)
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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Guided Lam Rim Meditation #2 - Nature of the Mind (in Tib. & Eng.)
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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Guided Lam Rim Meditation #1 - Visualization of the Field of Accumulation (in Tib. & Eng.)
*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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Shantideva on Wisdom (in Tib. & Eng.)
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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Āryadeva on Overcoming Afflictive Emotions (in Tib. & Eng.)
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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