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Tibetan Buddhist Teachings We offer free online courses, as our offering to the world in this difficult time. We are not asking for any fees for this course. We do have considerable expenses, if you would like to sponsor these episodes, you are welcome to give a meritorious donation via our website.

  1. 02/05/2022

    The Nobel Truth Of Suffering

    CONTEMPLATING SUFFERING When you create suffering potential within the mind, that potential can be purified, if it's not purified suffering will be experienced. If it's experienced in this life and becomes habitual behavior at the end of life the suffering will appear strongly in the mind and will be probable propelling karma into the hell realms. Conversely, if you are very kind during your life then kindness would be the propelling karma into heavenly realms. WHAT ARE HELL REALMS? Hell is an experience of the mind, there. A collective of beings who have created similar karma to suffer. One who has created the potential to suffer needs a being who will bring about suffering, so it is the mind that creates the torture and a collective of beings who have created a similarity of karma suffer together believing that it is indeed a realm that exists, but when we analyse it we understand that it is a figment of the mind, not truly existing from the perspective of emptiness but seemingly existing (in such a way as a rainbow does). TRANSFORMING SUFFERING How we respond to suffering depends on whether we mentally rise up or whether we go down. Do we go into depression because of problems that we encounter, or can we use suffering positively as a way of realising that it is indeed true that samsara is suffering, that no matter where we are in samsara, whether in god realms, human realms or hell realms, enhancing the determination to get out of samsara through changing ourselves, mentally transforming suffering into a positive response to the world (samsara) through the act of renunciation of the causes of suffering.

    1h 29m
  2. 03/02/2021

    Four Noble Truths Meditation By Lillian

    THE FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS WHEEL OF DHARMA SUTRA Each of the four noble truths has four parts, making up sixteen aspects of the four noble truths. True suffering has... Impermanence Misery Emptiness Selflessness True source has... Cause Source Strong production Condition True cessation has... Cessation Pacification Abundance Definite emergence True path has... Path Knowledge Achievement Deliverance HOW DO WE ACHIEVE LIBERATION FROM CYCLIC EXISTENCE? We achieve liberation from cyclic existence through realising the third and fourth noble truths, true cessation, and true path. Realising them depends on first realising the first two truths, namely true suffering, and true source. You need to understand true suffering to be the very nature of cyclic existence and then you are motivated to escape. WHAT IS CYCLIC EXISTENCE? To be liberated from cyclic existence we need to know what cyclic existence is. As a human being, you have five aggregates, Form Feeling Discrimination Compositional factors Consciousness We have form but we're not form. We have feeling but we're not feeling. We have discrimination but we're not discrimination. We have compositional factors but we're not compositional factors. We have consciousness but we're not consciousness. These five aggregates are the basis of the label "person", a person is dependent on five aggregates. Cyclic existence is the five contaminated aggregates of every ordinary being arising from contaminated karma and delusion. An ordinary being is distinguished as one who has not attained the path of insight. A sentient being is anyone who has not attained Buddhahood. It's ordinary beings who suffer in cyclic existence.

    16 min

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