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The next four verses are examining our habit of being over attached to physical desires, and satisfying them in the long term to the exclusion of other people and out of fear of not getting what we need for ourselves. Again this is contrary to what we must actually do if we are to look after our own and other’s welfare. Rinpoche reflects on the ignorant greed that leads us as a ‘civilised people’ to imagine that taking and accumulating more than we need from our environment and killing and consuming wildlife when we already have more than enough to live on, is actually destroying that which supports us. This affects us negatively and even limits our capacity as social beings.
All we are doing through this addiction to gross and thoughtless consumption is creating hellish futures for ourselves, and our children.
We need to remedy the destruction by overcoming our fear of not having enough for ourselves by thinking of the needs and welfare of everyone, be generous with what we have, for the good of all.
You can can also view the teaching on the Chapter 8 page along with the other teachings on this chapter. All previous sessions on Chapters 1–8 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 21st March. 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.
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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.
Here we stay with the theme of seeing others as more important than ourselves and continue by extending the potential benefit even further: by training to exchange with others, learning to give them the same care and protection as I would my loved ones and myself.
I must train myself to the point where this exchange is habitual, until it eventually becomes second nature. Slowly I see that when the welfare of others is placed above my own, I benefit as well––that this is my secret doorway into developing compassion and wisdom: it is the practice of a Bodhisattva, the path to enlightenment. This altruistic approach to life requires faith and bravery. It disregards attachment to personal welfare and one that could easily be seen as crazy by others if we were to advertise it as our practice.
For now we embrace it as a sacred mystery that will reveal itself once we are ready to understand its power. Those who live their lives blind to this understanding––through wealth, greed or lust for power do untold damage because a negative self centred approach feeds on itself and is the basis of our suffering.
You can can also view the teaching on the Chapter 8 page along with the other teachings on this chapter. All previous sessions on Chapters 1–8 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 21st March. 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 8 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.
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We continue studying the reasons for placing the good of others beyond our own. Rinpoche points out that we are naturally altruistic, for example we don’t think twice about stepping in if a loved one needs protection. The practice of exchanging ourselves with others will train us to extend our capacity to benefit others, taking it beyond our normal instinctive but limited response. Without looking for praise we learn to be wholeheartedly, selflessly, compassionate to other beings, protecting them as we would our own body: as it is when we nourish ourselves with food, the reward is in our own well-being. We can extend this care to others with the understanding that if I am well, so are they.
If we generate compassion for others in this way, with little thought for ourselves, it eventually brings clarity and, the text says, we are following the path of Lord Avalokiteshvara, who by doing this, generated an energy so powerful that if a person simply brings him to mind they will receive his protection.
You can can also view the teaching on the Chapter 8 page along with the other teachings on this chapter. All previous sessions on Chapters 1–8 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 7th March. 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 three verses discuss making the transition from taking other beings as equal, to exploring the possibility of viewing every being in the same way that we do our closest family and loved ones. This, and the practice of exchanging myself with others, it is said, will help us alleviate the self clinging and habitual attachment we have to those we identify with as our own people, and free us to be more wise and compassionate to others.
The example given is that of our own body, which is an aggregate of many parts; limbs, organs, inner and outer aspects, together we call these an “I” that we identify with and protect when they are suffering. If we can apply this way of seeing and try exchanging suffering with those who are beyond our immediate circle, and no matter how they act or what they look like no-one is excluded from the whole, then we will find ourselves moving beyond those self imposed egocentric limitations that recreate samsara.
You can can also view the teaching on the Chapter 8 page along with the other teachings on this chapter. All previous sessions on Chapters 1–8 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 7th March. 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.
Verses 110 – 112 conclude the section of Bodhicharyavatara that instructs on training ourselves to see the common and shared feelings of other beings––those of wanting to be happy and be free from suffering––providing a starting point for understanding that in this respect we are all equal. With this understanding, we can begin to view ourselves on an equal playing field, without erecting self-protective barriers.
Throughout many lifetimes we have habitually defended ourselves from criticism and solidified a misperceived separateness, providing the perfect conditions for personal suffering that are so contrary to our intention. We can extend this understanding to view the health of our whole environmental eco-system as dependent upon us; to see we are not separate or independent of it.
Rinpoche tells us this is an introduction to a practice of giving and taking in lojong, an exercise in supreme generosity that will ultimately generate compassion: we exchange ourselves with others, taking their suffering, and radiating joy in the form of light. In these verses the notion that we were born with a unique identity is broken down, as we are asked to examine the truth of our origins and subsequent self-fabrication.
You can can also view the teaching on the Chapter 8 page along with the other teachings on this chapter. All previous sessions on Chapters 1–8 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 7th March. 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.
We continue to examine the benefits of placing another’s happiness before our own, which can appear contrary to our better judgement. However the text tells us that when we do so, it will in fact generate compassion and joy for us, as well as benefit to those we wish to help. In fact when learning to do this so that it becomes second nature, we will be able to withstand any hardship easily.
If everyone were to understand this and live their life accordingly, there would be no war, no need for legal structures or systems of economic control. For many many lifetimes we have been struggling to find happiness, but continue to create the same conditions that cause suffering, again and again, so if humanity as a whole were to try out this rather radical instruction – to put others first, we would find that very quickly everything would change, and the basic currency for interactions with others would be kindness and compassion. Once we realise this truth and carry it through, it should be done without boasting of achievement, as we are also beneficiaries, and that is nothing to brag about.
You can can also view the teaching on the Chapter 8 page along with the other teachings on this chapter. All previous sessions on Chapters 1–8 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 7th March. 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 8 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.
Keeping our focus on Relative Bodhicitta, these verses point to the impossibility of attempting to generate compassion while focusing on one’s own suffering, of not seeing the sameness of ourselves and our fellow human beings and our common wish for happiness. The verses address our baseless fear of bringing more pain onto our lives through taking on the suffering of others. This thinking, Shantideva says, is counter productive. By extending our awareness to the suffering of others, and making a comparison, we put our own problems into perspective; in fact our own suffering is diminished by looking beyond ourselves and seeing how small it is relative to the greater suffering felt across the earth.
Developing this understanding will help us feel better, less anxious and preoccupied with ourselves. We may even come to feel joyful.
Shantideva takes an even harder line when he says that a bodhisattva should be ready to put their own life on the line when working to alleviate to suffering felt by others, particularly when the opportunity arises to help multitudes of people, and Ringu Tulku relates the teaching of the Dalai Lama, ‘The wisest way of helping yourself is through generating compassion and trying to help others. Life will then become meaningful.’
You can can also view the teaching on the Chapter 8 page along with the other teachings on this chapter. All previous sessions on Chapters 1–8 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 21st February. 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.
Ringu Tulku Rinpoche
Teachings on Bodhicharyavatara
Chapter 8: Meditation
Session 27
Stanzas 101-103
In the first part of this talk, Ringu Tulku reviews the previous verses in which we are asked to expand our attitude to our own suffering and pain––to an awareness of the pain of others, and to begin to consider or meditate upon why we separate those two: this he tells us is caused by an egotistic perspective and the resultant self clinging.
These next three verses start to break down what we consider as ‘self’ and ask us to contemplate the solidness of believing in a self independent of others, to look at why our boundaries are so strongly defined between self and other when we are so dependent on our environment to simply exist. The past, present and future are not the same thing. Our use of a singular word, ‘body’ to describe what is in fact a composite of many things leads us to solidify ego.
The text invites us to see there can be no personal ownership of suffering, and that pain is suffered by no one person. So to prioritise our own problems above those of another person has no basis in reality: this is to be deeply contemplated.
Archive members can also view the teaching on the Chapter 8 page along with the other teachings on this chapter. All previous sessions on Chapters 1–8 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 21st February. 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.
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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.
Ringu Tulku Rinpoche
Teachings on Bodhicharyavatara
Chapter 8: Meditation
Session 26
Stanzas 97-100
These next verses discuss compassion, how to generate relative bodhichitta. First we try to understand that we are no different from others in our wish to be free from suffering and pain, and to be happy.
When I dismiss the suffering of others because it doesn’t cause me pain, I will not develop compassion. This primary identification with self as the most important is what brings suffering.
If we can compare ourselves to a river, which appears as a single object but is in fact a constant flow of water, we see it is never the same even moment to moment. Our body is like this, a constant renewal of the six elements, an ever-changing cellular structure that is in a permanent state of becoming, wherein no fixed self can be found. Why then do we hold on to hurts and anticipate future suffering?
The instruction here is let those go and care for others, to recognise that their suffering is not separate from my own. This is how bodhichitta arises.
Archive members can also view the teaching on the Chapter 8 page along with the other teachings on this chapter. All previous sessions on Chapters 1–8 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 21st February. 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.
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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.
Ringu Tulku Rinpoche
Teachings on Bodhicharyavatara
Chapter 8: Meditation
Session 25
Stanzas 90-96
In these verses we begin to look at the possibility that what we have in common with every other being is the wish to be happy and avoid suffering. In this, we are all equal, and maintaining that view is what this training is showing us––to look beyond the surface appearances and recognise it as a basic fact.
When I am asked to consider this as I examine my own attachment to myself and what I perceive as mine, along with the suffering I experience when I lose it––I will see it as a mental fabrication. Once I understand the suffering of loss is something I have constructed, it will lessen its hold on me and free me from the pain. If I can bring myself to see this, and realise that it is the same for others, my relationship with them need not be so influenced by jealousy and pride and I can begin to develop an fresh understanding: that suffering is the same for everyone and my wish becomes an aspiration to bring all beings to happiness, without exception.
Archive members can also view the teaching on the Chapter 8 page along with the other teachings on this chapter. All previous sessions on Chapters 1–8 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 21st February. 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 8 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.
Ringu Tulku Rinpoche
Teachings on Bodhicharyavatara
Chapter 8: Meditation
Session 23
Stanzas 89-90
Having established the best environment for shamatha meditation, the next two verses begin to look at developing the two bodhichittas, relative and ultimate.
First Rinpoche gives a very brief overview of the methods that can help settle the mind in shamatha, but the bottom line is the importance of right view, understanding that the development of an attitude of limitless compassion (relative bodhichitta) is critical for a successful outcome. This in turn leads to the ultimate (wisdom) aspect, which is an aspiration that excludes no one from achieving bodhichitta. Once this aspect becomes clear, we are compelled to pursue the practise with as much energy as we are able to muster.
Rinpoche acquaints us with the possibility that we are no different from anyone else in the most basic wish to be happy and avoid suffering, that this is the common ground of humanity, and through the repetitive practice of meditation we begin to train our minds step by step to become familiar with and spontaneously embrace the understanding that in this we are all equal.
Archive members can also view the teaching on the Chapter 8 page along with the other teachings on this chapter. All previous sessions on Chapters 1–8 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 7th February. 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.
Ringu Tulku Rinpoche
Teachings on Bodhicharyavatara
Chapter 8: Meditation
Session 22
Stanzas 83-88
In this session Rinpoche returns to V83, to reiterate a salient point, that if one millionth of the energy a person puts into chasing their desires were invested in a training on the path to enlightenment, that aim would have been easily achieved.
Instead, Shantideva now says, we turn greed and attachment like a poisonous weapon onto ourselves and like a fire it intensifies as it burns, bringing endless pain and suffering.
If we were take ourselves to a remote place in a natural environment amongst trees and wildlife that are away from the sources of our attachment to objects of defilement––as great masters of all traditions have done in the past, we would find that we have less temptation and thus fewer reasons to react badly: the conditions that cause negativity would not arise. This solitude naturally creates freedom from attachment, openness and a joyful mind.
Archive members can also view the teaching on the Chapter 8 page along with the other teachings on this chapter. All previous sessions on Chapters 1–8 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 7th February. 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.
Ringu Tulku Rinpoche
Teachings on Bodhicharyavatara
Chapter 8: Meditation
Session 21
Stanzas 79-83
Rinpoche returns to read verse 72 which had been missed, and to read V79 in Tibetan, and he comments further on that summation, that attachment to wealth brings pain and suffering. Continuing in the same vein, Shantideva suggests that letting go our accumulated wealth and riches for the benefit of others less well off than ourselves, can bring greater wealth, perhaps of a different kind.
By expending too much energy on accumulating wealth, we will not make ourselves happy, neither our employer, who we can never satisfy, or our family who prefer to see more of us. We become like oxen who rejoice at even the tiniest reward of fresh hay at the end of a day’s work.
If we were to instead direct the same amount of energy to becoming enlightened the rewards would be one million times greater, it is achievable once we relinquish ambition and attachment to wealth.
Archive members can also view the teaching on the Chapter 8 page along with the other teachings on this chapter. All previous sessions on Chapters 1–8 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 7th February. 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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