Rinpoche gave five sessions of teachings on various topics during his week-long stay at Bodhicharya Berlin in May 2018. During this auspicious week in the month of Saga Dawa, there was also the first inauguration of the structurally completed new stupa.

Part 1:
How to deal with sickness and death
The three trainings in Buddhism: discipline/conduct, meditation and wisdom

Part 2:
Motivation – Actual practice – Dedication
Mandala offering and requesting teachings
Praying to the Buddhas and receiving their blessings
Questions and answers:
– How are View, Meditation and Action related with the Eightfold Noble Path?
– The Four Gurus: the Lineage Guru, the texts/teachings as the Guru, the ultimate Guru, and everything as the Guru
– Low self-esteem

Part 3:
The Four Gurus
How to relate with the Gurus
Shechen Kongtrul Rinpoche

Part 4:
Questions and answers:
– Examining the Guru
– Rinpoche talks about his own Gurus and teachers
– Meaning of purification
– Stupa
– Are consciousness and the mind one and the same, or two separate things?

Part 5:
Questions and answers:
– How to balance meditation and study
– Nine Ways of a Noble Being
– Prayers
– Story of a weaver who was granted one wish
– How does a Lung work; Can all the many practices that one has received from different teachers be combined into one? How should we do the Vajrasattva practice for which we received the initiation today?

The summary here is according to the audio recordings. On video there is also some additional material, i.e. a talk and a guided meditation on the Buddha’s birthday, and footage from the stupa consecration.

Photo thanks to Conrad Harvey.

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