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Gently Spoken Advice

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.

  1. Guided Lam Rim Meditation #4 - Reducing Eight Worldly Concerns (in Tib. & Eng.)

    11/14/2021

    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. Visit our Facebook page for more teachings by Geshe Sonam Ngodup and English translator Ven. Jamyang Khedrup https://www.facebook.com/LamaYesheLing/ More about our teachers:  https://lamayesheling.org/teachers-and-facilitators/ To know more about our upcoming programs, please subscribe to our newsletter at https://community.lamayesheling.org/civicrm/mailing/subscribe

    18 min
  2. Guided Lam Rim Meditation #3 - Precious Human rebirth (in Tib. & Eng.)

    11/14/2021

    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. Visit our Facebook page for more teachings by Geshe Sonam Ngodup and English translator Ven. Jamyang Khedrup https://www.facebook.com/LamaYesheLing/ More about our teachers:  https://lamayesheling.org/teachers-and-facilitators/ To know more about our upcoming programs, please subscribe to our newsletter at https://community.lamayesheling.org/civicrm/mailing/subscribe

    13 min
  3. Guided Lam Rim Meditation #2 - Nature of the Mind (in Tib. & Eng.)

    10/25/2021

    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. Visit our Facebook page for more teachings by Geshe Sonam Ngodup and English translator Ven. Jamyang Khedrup https://www.facebook.com/LamaYesheLing/ More about our teachers:  https://lamayesheling.org/teachers-and-facilitators/ To know more about our upcoming programs, please subscribe to our newsletter at https://community.lamayesheling.org/civicrm/mailing/subscribe

    22 min
  4. Guided Lam Rim Meditation #1 - Visualization of the Field of Accumulation (in Tib. & Eng.)

    10/25/2021

    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. Visit our Facebook page for more teachings by Geshe Sonam Ngodup and English translator Ven. Jamyang Khedrup https://www.facebook.com/LamaYesheLing/ More about our teachers:  https://lamayesheling.org/teachers-and-facilitators/ To know more about our upcoming programs, please subscribe to our newsletter at https://community.lamayesheling.org/civicrm/mailing/subscribe

    23 min
  5. Shantideva on Wisdom (in Tib. & Eng.)

    09/27/2021

    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་། Visit our Facebook page for more teachings by Geshe Sonam Ngodup and English translator Ven. Jamyang Khedrup https://www.facebook.com/LamaYesheLing/ More about our teachers:  https://lamayesheling.org/teachers-and-facilitators/ To know more about our upcoming programs, please subscribe to our newsletter at https://community.lamayesheling.org/civicrm/mailing/subscribe

    20 min
  6. Āryadeva on Overcoming Afflictive Emotions (in Tib. & Eng.)

    09/19/2021

    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. Visit our Facebook page for more teachings by Geshe Sonam Ngodup and English translator Ven. Jamyang Khedrup https://www.facebook.com/LamaYesheLing/ More about our teachers:  https://lamayesheling.org/teachers-and-facilitators/ To know more about our upcoming programs, please subscribe to our newsletter at https://community.lamayesheling.org/civicrm/mailing/subscribe

    20 min
  7. Dromtonpa on the Three Baskets and Three Capacities (in Tib. & Eng.)

    09/06/2021

    Dromtonpa on the Three Baskets and Three Capacities (in Tib. & Eng.)

    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. Visit our Facebook page for more teachings by Geshe Sonam Ngodup and English translator Ven. Jamyang Khedrup https://www.facebook.com/LamaYesheLing/ More about our teachers:  https://lamayesheling.org/teachers-and-facilitators/ To know more about our upcoming programs, please subscribe to our newsletter at https://community.lamayesheling.org/civicrm/mailing/subscribe

    20 min
  8. Introduction to Seven Point Mind Training Teachings by Don Handrick

    09/06/2021

    Introduction to Seven Point Mind Training Teachings by Don Handrick

    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! If you would like to learn more about Don Handrick, please take a look at his website: https://www.donhandrick.com More about our teachers:  https://lamayesheling.org/teachers-and-facilitators/ To know more about our upcoming programs, please subscribe to our newsletter at https://community.lamayesheling.org/civicrm/mailing/subscribe

    51 min
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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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