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This last Bodhicharyavatara LIVE Question and Answer Session with Rinpoche took place on:
The recorded video of the live session is now above. For the audio only version, and all the audio translations, visit the Chapter 10 page.
If you would like to make an offering for translations, please click the links below:
These teachings are dedicated for all who are sick and dying of corona virus, and for all who are tirelessly working in order to help them.
This is the final teaching by Ringu Tulku Rinpoche on Bodhicharyavatara Chapter 10 which is on Dedication. In these final verses Shantideva outlines the various people to whom his dedication prayers are directed. And, he says, because we are restricted by our limited knowledge and understanding, we ask that we can enjoin our dedication with all the great Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, so that our own dedications take on the power of theirs and reach the whole of the limitless universe, missing nothing and one.
Finally in his now famous dedication prayer, Shantideva asks that he will always remain a monk, to help sentient beings in samsara, prostrating to his own yidam, Manjushri along with all his teachers and guides in past and future lives, asking that this will come true.
And now as long as space endures,
As long as there are beings to be found,
May I continue likewise to remain
To drive away the sorrows of the world.
You can can also view the teaching on the Chapter 10 page along with the other teachings on this chapter. All previous sessions on Chapters 1–9 are available in the Courses section of the Teachings Archive.
New sessions will be posted twice a week, usually on Tuesday and Friday. Every Friday we will send a mailout with links to all new teachings posted during the week.
Rinpoche has kindly agreed to answer questions regarding these teachings once in every two weeks in a live webinar on Zoom. The course is coming to its end and so are the Live Question and Answers sessions. Next – and the last – webinar will be on 31st October. You are encouraged to ask your question live in the webinar, but if you are more comfortable with submitting it in writing, you can do so by using the comment area below. Please reflect on your question carefully before you send it, and be concise and only use one short paragraph and less than 80 words.
Vous pouvez également envoyer des questions en français. También puede enviar preguntas en español. Sie können Fragen auch auf Deutsch senden. Puoi anche inviare domande in italiano. Presubmitted questions in other languages are also welcome and they will be translated to English.
In any other questions and for technical help, please contact us at Teachings Archive.
These teachings are dedicated for all who are sick and dying of corona virus, and for all who are tirelessly working in order to help them.
The dedication verses now focus on dispelling the negative, what is unwanted and harmful and prevents us from staying on the path, in this way focusing the necessary conditions to maintain and sustain practice: places of worship, monastics, sanghas, solitary retreats, protection from harmful influences and the capacity to recognise distractions that lead to those wayward behaviours that in turn cause suffering.
We dedicate ourselves to focusing and preserving the gift of the buddhas’ teachings, treasures that are so freely given, and we continually make offerings to all the buddhas.
You can can also view the teaching on the Chapter 10 page along with the other teachings on this chapter. All previous sessions on Chapters 1–9 are available in the Courses section of the Teachings Archive.
New sessions will be posted twice a week, usually on Tuesday and Friday. Every Friday we will send a mailout with links to all new teachings posted during the week.
Rinpoche has kindly agreed to answer questions regarding these teachings once in every two weeks in a live webinar on Zoom. The course is coming to its end and so are the Live Question and Answers sessions. Next – and the last – webinar will be on 31st October. You are encouraged to ask your question live in the webinar, but if you are more comfortable with submitting it in writing, you can do so by using the comment area below. Please reflect on your question carefully before you send it, and be concise and only use one short paragraph and less than 80 words.
Vous pouvez également envoyer des questions en français. También puede enviar preguntas en español. Sie können Fragen auch auf Deutsch senden. Puoi anche inviare domande in italiano. Presubmitted questions in other languages are also welcome and they will be translated to English.
In any other questions and for technical help, please contact us at Teachings Archive.
These teachings are dedicated for all who are sick and dying of corona virus, and for all who are tirelessly working in order to help them.
The next group of verses begin with a wish that through our dedication, aspiration and intention, all beings will abandon harmful actions and find happiness. Through this we pray they may they come into contact with great teachers and follow the bodhisattva path as their disciples. As a result of this not only the beings, but the whole of our environment will become wholesome, nourishing and healing so that even harmful or negative influences are transformed into expressions of compassion.
You can can also view the teaching on the Chapter 10 page along with the other teachings on this chapter. All previous sessions on Chapters 1–9 are available in the Courses section of the Teachings Archive.
New sessions will be posted twice a week, usually on Tuesday and Friday. Every Friday we will send a mailout with links to all new teachings posted during the week.
Rinpoche has kindly agreed to answer questions regarding these teachings once in every two weeks in a live webinar on Zoom. The course is coming to its end and so are the Live Question and Answers sessions. Next – and the last – webinar will be on 31st October. You are encouraged to ask your question live in the webinar, but if you are more comfortable with submitting it in writing, you can do so by using the comment area below. Please reflect on your question carefully before you send it, and be concise and only use one short paragraph and less than 80 words.
Vous pouvez également envoyer des questions en français. También puede enviar preguntas en español. Sie können Fragen auch auf Deutsch senden. Puoi anche inviare domande in italiano. Presubmitted questions in other languages are also welcome and they will be translated to English.
In any other questions and for technical help, please contact us at Teachings Archive.
These teachings are dedicated for all who are sick and dying of corona virus, and for all who are tirelessly working in order to help them.
Rinpoche continues to discuss the dedication verses, in this short session focussing on the human realm. These verses touch on the suffering and vulnerabilities of beings that exist in the human realm that are caught in samsara, praying that every condition that causes experiences of sadness and suffering be transformed into a cause of happiness.
You can can also view the teaching on the Chapter 10 page along with the other teachings on this chapter. All previous sessions on Chapters 1–9 are available in the Courses section of the Teachings Archive.
New sessions will be posted twice a week, usually on Tuesday and Friday. Every Friday we will send a mailout with links to all new teachings posted during the week.
Rinpoche has kindly agreed to answer questions regarding these teachings once in every two weeks in a live webinar on Zoom, which will be simultaneously streamed on this website. Next webinar will be on 31st October. You are encouraged to ask your question live in the webinar, but if you are more comfortable with submitting it in writing, you can do so by using the comment area below. Please reflect on your question carefully before you send it, and be concise and only use one short paragraph and less than 80 words.
Vous pouvez également envoyer des questions en français. También puede enviar preguntas en español. Sie können Fragen auch auf Deutsch senden. Puoi anche inviare domande in italiano. Presubmitted questions in other languages are also welcome and they will be translated to English.
In any other questions and for technical help, please contact us at Teachings Archive.
These teachings are dedicated for all who are sick and dying of corona virus, and for all who are tirelessly working in order to help them.
Continuing our study of the verses on Dedication, we are brought in graphic detail through the throw lower realms of existence, the Hell Realm, the Animal Realms, and the Realm of the Pretas, or Hungry Ghosts. Shantideva tells us that through our genuine heartfelt dedication prayers to the great Bodhisattvas: Vajrapani, Avalokiteshvara and Manjushri, all beings trapped in the Hell Realms can be released from their torments and the Hell Realm itself transformed into a Buddhafield. We are reminded of the dreadful limitations of the Animal Realm, where beings only exist to feed, or be fed, both as predators themselves, or as slaves to human beings. It is a miserable existence where survival is the only objective and there is no escape. The third of the three lower realms presented here is the Hungry Ghost Realm, where beings know nothing of satisfaction, but constantly want for more, often despite having enough.
Through dedicating everything positive, we are drawing on the power and compassionate eyes of all the great Bodhisattvas who release those beings trapped in the lower realms from their suffering, and the Realms themselves are transformed into Purelands.
You can can also view the teaching on the Chapter 10 page along with the other teachings on this chapter. All previous sessions on Chapters 1–9 are available in the Courses section of the Teachings Archive.
New sessions will be posted twice a week, usually on Tuesday and Friday. Every Friday we will send a mailout with links to all new teachings posted during the week.
Rinpoche has kindly agreed to answer questions regarding these teachings once in every two weeks in a live webinar on Zoom, which will be simultaneously streamed on this website. Next webinar will be on 17th October. You are encouraged to ask your question live in the webinar, but if you are more comfortable with submitting it in writing, you can do so by using the comment area below. Please reflect on your question carefully before you send it, and be concise and only use one short paragraph and less than 80 words.
Vous pouvez également envoyer des questions en français. También puede enviar preguntas en español. Sie können Fragen auch auf Deutsch senden. Puoi anche inviare domande in italiano. Presubmitted questions in other languages are also welcome and they will be translated to English.
In any other questions and for technical help, please contact us at Teachings Archive.
These teachings are dedicated for all who are sick and dying of corona virus, and for all who are tirelessly working in order to help them.
In this fourth session on the last chapter which is on Dedication, we are taught about the required depth of a bodhisattvas’ intention that accompanies a dedication, and the potential transformative results. This is followed by step by step examples of the benefits that can be felt by beings who experience the lower realms of samsaric existence.
We are also reminded that while on the one hand, all of the six realms we experience are aspects of mind, they are still felt in a very real and solid way. If in our dedication we can specifically direct our intention to those who find themselves in the named hell realms, and we pray that peace and tranquility will replace the suffering currently experienced as a result of wrong view and karmic causes and conditions, this will have a powerful effect.
You can can also view the teaching on the Chapter 10 page along with the other teachings on this chapter. All previous sessions on Chapters 1–9 are available in the Courses section of the Teachings Archive.
New sessions will be posted twice a week, usually on Tuesday and Friday. Every Friday we will send a mailout with links to all new teachings posted during the week.
Rinpoche has kindly agreed to answer questions regarding these teachings once in every two weeks in a live webinar on Zoom, which will be simultaneously streamed on this website. Next webinar will be on 17th October. You are encouraged to ask your question live in the webinar, but if you are more comfortable with submitting it in writing, you can do so by using the comment area below. Please reflect on your question carefully before you send it, and be concise and only use one short paragraph and less than 80 words.
Vous pouvez également envoyer des questions en français. También puede enviar preguntas en español. Sie können Fragen auch auf Deutsch senden. Puoi anche inviare domande in italiano. Presubmitted questions in other languages are also welcome and they will be translated to English.
In any other questions and for technical help, please contact us at Teachings Archive.
These teachings are dedicated for all who are sick and dying of corona virus, and for all who are tirelessly working in order to help them.
Verse One of this final chapter of the Bodhicharyavatara begins the instruction on dedication. Rinpoche explains what is entailed in offering an authentic dedication which goes beyond the habit of a recitation of words, emphasising the need for understanding and believing in the possibility that brings one’s dedication to bear fruit. He reminds us to visualise a cloud of enlightened beings in front of us, because it is the power of the Three Jewels waiting to be called upon to aid us in our quest to reach the bodhisattva ideal that makes our practice effective, and it is the four aspects that we engage with, step by step in dedicating our practice and positive actions: aspiration, intention, commitment alongside the power of the Buddhas, that provides the force that brings result.
Dedicating positive practice is essential to gathering merit, one of the two accumulations, and through engaging the power of the three jewels we will not exhaust ourselves and will receive help beyond measure.
You can can also view the teaching on the Chapter 10 page along with the other teachings on this chapter. All previous sessions on Chapters 1–9 are available in the Courses section of the Teachings Archive.
New sessions will be posted twice a week, usually on Tuesday and Friday. Every Friday we will send a mailout with links to all new teachings posted during the week.
Rinpoche has kindly agreed to answer questions regarding these teachings once in every two weeks in a live webinar on Zoom, which will be simultaneously streamed on this website. Next webinar will be on 17th October. You are encouraged to ask your question live in the webinar, but if you are more comfortable with submitting it in writing, you can do so by using the comment area below. Please reflect on your question carefully before you send it, and be concise and only use one short paragraph and less than 80 words.
Vous pouvez également envoyer des questions en français. También puede enviar preguntas en español. Sie können Fragen auch auf Deutsch senden. Puoi anche inviare domande in italiano. Presubmitted questions in other languages are also welcome and they will be translated to English.
In any other questions and for technical help, please contact us at Teachings Archive.
These teachings are dedicated for all who are sick and dying of corona virus, and for all who are tirelessly working in order to help them.
This LIVE Question and Answer Session with Rinpoche took place on:
The recorded video of the live session is now above. For the audio only version, and all the audio translations, visit the Chapter 10 page.
The next LIVE Question and Answer Session with Rinpoche will be:
See the LIVE Teaching Events page for more details.
Please join us for these bi-monthly live sessions with Rinpoche and ask your question live or send them in advance using the comments areas or forms on any of the Bodhicharyavatara teaching posts.
If you would like to make an offering for translations, please click the links below:
These teachings are dedicated for all who are sick and dying of corona virus, and for all who are tirelessly working in order to help them.
At the start of chapter 10, Rinpoche explains what dedication is, why we do it and what the differences are between dedicating the merit, reciting wishing prayers and making aspirations and commitments. In Buddhism dedication is described as polishing the diamond, it is a way of enhancing the value and sharing the benefit of a positive action with others. If we don’t dedicate––whether it is our practice or something else, it is similar to leaving the door of the treasury open, allowing the jewels to be stolen. So when we dedicate, we accumulate virtue through our positive deeds using skilful means and we share the merit of our positive deeds for the benefit of everyone. Sealing each positive act with a prayer for the long term happiness of all beings is central to the development of the second accumulation, the Paramita of Wisdom. If this is not done, any negative act will override and negate the positive, the treasury will remain empty.
However although the teachings thus far have brought us to an understanding of the emptiness of phenomena, if the illusory appearances of subject, object and action (the three circles) are acknowledged and we dedicate with that understanding, our dedication will be perfect.
You can can also view the teaching on the Chapter 10 page along with the other teachings on this chapter. All previous sessions on Chapters 1–9 are available in the Courses section of the Teachings Archive.
New sessions will be posted twice a week, usually on Tuesday and Friday. Every Friday we will send a mailout with links to all new teachings posted during the week.
Rinpoche has kindly agreed to answer questions regarding these teachings once in every two weeks in a live webinar on Zoom, which will be simultaneously streamed on this website. Next webinar will be on 3rd October. You are encouraged to ask your question live in the webinar, but if you are more comfortable with submitting it in writing, you can do so by using the comment area below. Please reflect on your question carefully before you send it, and be concise and only use one short paragraph and less than 80 words.
Vous pouvez également envoyer des questions en français. También puede enviar preguntas en español. Sie können Fragen auch auf Deutsch senden. Puoi anche inviare domande in italiano. Presubmitted questions in other languages are also welcome and they will be translated to English.
In any other questions and for technical help, please contact us at Teachings Archive.
These teachings are dedicated for all who are sick and dying of corona virus, and for all who are tirelessly working in order to help them.
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