News
Four Noble Truths
On April 22, 2016 in Teachings
[s3bubbleAudioSingle bucket=”teachings-archive” track=”2016/2016-03-15-Four Noble Truths-Gangtok-Sikkim/audio/2016-03-15-FourNobleTruths-GMC-GangtokSikkim.mp3″ autoplay=”false” download=”false” style=”bar” preload=”auto”/]
This is a teaching on the Four Noble Truths, which Rinpoche gave in Gangtok, Sikkim.
15 March 2016
English / Spanish translation
New teaching recordings on the website
On April 21, 2016 in Teachings
Dear Friends,
This year Rinpoche has been making audio recordings of most of the teachings he has given while travelling around Europe and beyond. We are now planning to present these on the Bodhicharya website here.
We will be posting these daily over the next week or so while we catch up to where he is now. Then we will add the new recordings here as and when they come in.
We hope that you will find these teachings very helpful and inspiring.
If you would like to support the activities and projects of Ringu Tulku Rinpoche, please kindly consider making a donation by using one of the buttons on the left.
Interactive Facebook Study Group with the Teachings of Ringu Tulku Rinpoche
On November 17, 2015 in Teachings
On his last visit to Bodhicharya Berlin in September 2015, H.H. the 17th Karmapa gave this heart advice on how to practice the Dharma and emphasised the importance of integrating our learnings into the actions of our daily lives.
Those who want to follow the guidance of His Holiness can now join a new, interactive WISDOM-IN-ACTION STUDY GROUP starting very soon on Facebook with Ringu Tulku Rinpoche’s teachings on the Six Paramitas, condensed into a series of six beautiful videos.
Each paramita will be studied and practised for 2 weeks and the whole course will last 12 weeks. Ringu Tulku Rinpoche has kindly agreed to be part of the group and every once in a while share some advice and/or answer some questions. Everybody is warmly invited to join the study group on Facebook: www.wisdom-in-action.com
Read more about the study group on the Facebook page
For those who are not on Facebook, the videos of Rinpoche’s teachings on the Six Paramitas can also be viewed on our playlist of Short Teachings.
Meditation Advice from Ringu Tulku Rinpoche
On September 29, 2015 in Teachings
So, practically, if we are doing sitting meditation, we relax our body. Try to let all tensions go because we don’t want them. Relax our body from our toes to our head, to the brain, to the eyes. Relax. Wherever there is tension, we try to relax. Relax our eyes. Relax our face muscles, our mouth, neck, shoulders and internal organs. Relax our feet, our hands. We really relax our whole body. And bring our mind into the body so that I feel the body. I am here. I am now, in my body. I feel the relax-ness of my body, I see with my eyes, I hear what I hear with my ears, I feel with my body, I smell with my nose. So I am here now, in this very moment. I am not there in yesterday, I am not there in tomorrow, I am here in my body now, this moment.
My mind is also relaxed. I am not dealing with all the problems from yesterday, I am not dealing with the problems of tomorrow, I am not even dealing with the problems of the last hour or minute or the next hour or minute. I am just here, now.
Only seeing what I am seeing, now. Only hearing what I am hearing, now. Not holding on to anybody or anything, just being.
I am not meditating. I am not doing anything, I am just being. Clear, open, not fighting against anything, not closing anything, not trying to wish away anything, not trying to get anything. Just here, natural.
Maybe a thought comes, it doesn’t matter. You hear something, it doesn’t matter. You see something, it doesn’t matter. Whatever you see, it’s okay. Don’t make a story of it. You hear something, that’s okay. Sometimes a bird sings. Then you think, “Oh, the bird is singing. It’s disturbing me. It has to sing as soon as I start to meditate!” You don’t have to think like that. You let the sound come and go and if it continuously comes, continuously let it come, and let it go.
With thoughts it is the same. When a thought comes, it’s ok. If a thought comes, don’t concentrate on the thought, just be in the present moment. And then, if too many thoughts come, allow your mind to be aware of your breathing. You are feeling that you are breathing in. You are breathing in and then you are feeling that you are breathing out. You are not thinking about it, you are just doing it; you are feeling it. If too many thoughts and too many things are going on in your mind then just lightly focus on that breathing because that is what is happening now.
You are not trying to push away thoughts. You are just letting them go, because you are more focused on what is happening now.
You may remember something that happened yesterday. You don’t go through it too much, you just remember breathing now.
If you are a little bit more advanced, then you can even look at that thought.
The thought is not a story; it’s just a thought coming up. There is nowhere that it comes from; there is nowhere it goes away to. As soon as it arises, it changes. It goes. Another thought comes. And actually that’s your mind. There is nothing called one mind. It’s the stringing of thoughts and emotions and arisings. It’s not one thing.
And all these thoughts and emotions and sensations that arise in your mind are yourself, your mind. It’s not coming at you. It’s not coming to affect you. That is me, that is my mind. So, therefore, I don’t have to be afraid of that. I don’t have to be afraid of my fear as well, because that’s also myself. Anger, upset, is myself, it’s my own manifestation. So there is no need get rid of it, there’s no need to follow it, there is no need to be afraid of it, there’s no need to feel bad, or good. I just allow it to be and then, like the waves coming and going, it dissolves itself. There is nothing outside my mind.
So whatever comes, nice experiences, not nice experiences, they come and they go. And I have to allow them to come and allow them to go. Not holding on to anything, whether good or bad. Even good and bad is just a concept.
If I can enjoy myself in all these thoughts and emotions, if I can just relax in my thoughts and emotions, if nothing is happening, it’s very nice. It’s peaceful; it’s joyful. If thoughts and emotions are coming, it’s very nice. It comes and it goes and I just relax in it. I don’t own it, I don’t grab it, I don’t build a story on it, I just be…. and relax.
If you are trying to meditate for a session, keep an alarm clock. Don’t say, “I want to meditate for five minutes” and look at your watch 50 times. When the time is ended, the alarm clock will come and you might jump out of it! But don’t jump out of it.
Enjoy it. Make friends with your meditation. Think that this is time off. Sometimes you get time off from work, but you don’t get time off from your mind. You don’t get time off from your thoughts and emotions. This is the only time you can get time off from your thoughts and emotions. So it is real time off. Look forward to that time off. It’s not only that you don’t have to work but you don’t have to think also. It’s the greatest pleasure.
This is an excerpt from a teaching on Ultimate Bodhichitta given by Rinpoche in Dzogchen Beara in 2012.
Webcast from Argentina
On September 25, 2014 in Teachings
Dear Friends,
On Saturday and Sunday, September 27-28 2014, there will be webcasts streamed from Rinpoche’s teachings at Kagyu Tekchen Chöling in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The webcasts can be viewed at facebuda.org. There will be translation to Spanish, and the English will also be webcast. Viewing the webcast at facebuda.org is quite simple. If you have any issues with the transmission, try refreshing your browser.
The timetable is as follows:
Saturday and Sunday 27th and 28th of September:
Session 1
6:00 – 8:00 Los Angeles
10:00 – 12:00 Buenos Aires
15:00 – 17:00 Central European Time (UTC/GMT +2)
Session 2
11:00 – 13:00 Los Angeles
15:00 – 17:00 Buenos Aires
20:00 – 22:00 Central European Time (UTC/GMT +2)
Here is the link to a Facebook event, with some more info in Spanish, created by Comunidad Dharmadatta:
https://www.facebook.com/events/365031070314650/
With courtesy of Kagyu Tekchen Chöling and Comunidad Dharmadatta. Special thanks to Ani Damchö.
Bodhicharyavatara Audio Teachings Available in the Library
On August 17, 2014 in Bodhicharyavatara, Teachings
Dear Online Shedra followers,
You can soon download all the Bodhicharyavatara teaching audios through one page in the Library. Chapter 1 audio links are there already, and the rest of the chapters will be added shortly. Hopefully this makes accessing the teachings nice and easy!
Our video server has been down for a while. It will soon be up and running again after a thorough maintenance. We apologise for the inconvenience, thank you for your patience, and hope you enjoy listening to the teachings on audio.
As you know, it has been a busy, exciting and successful year for Rinpoche, with a lot of hard work organising His Holiness the Karmapa’s historical first visit to Europe in May-June, and now he is travelling again, without a steady internet access. Nevertheless, we hope that Rinpoche will very soon send us new teachings on the Bodhicharyavatara again.
Photo: Bodhicharya Berlin, 2014.
Online Shedra Update
On March 22, 2014 in Bodhicharyavatara, Teachings
Dear Friends,
Our sincere apologies for not posting any new updates on the Online Shedra during the past months. Now, this is to inform you that Ringu Tulku’s Bodhicharyavatara teachings will still be on hold for some time. As you may know, His Holiness the 17th Karmapa Orgyen Trinley Dorje’s first visit to Europe will take place in Germany in May-June. Rinpoche is in good health, and very busy, being the main organiser of His Holiness’ visit. We hope that many of you will be able to participate the upcoming events at Kamalashila and in Berlin.
Please find out more on His Holiness the Karmapa’s visit:
http://karmapafoundation.eu/activities/visits/european-visit-2014/
A Commentary on Patrul Rinpoche’s Text ‘Meditation Instructions on Bodhicharyavatara’
On November 18, 2013 in Bodhicharyavatara, Teachings
Dear Friends,
For the past two months Ringu Tulku could not send new video teachings on the Sixth Chapter of the Bodhicharyavatara, and we have been missing his videos badly. In the meantime, the website has gone through some technical improvements, and the Online Shedra teachings were moved to a new platform. Re-linking of the videos is still under way and we apologize for the delay.
(more…)
Update for the Online Shedra
On November 2, 2013 in Teachings
We are still moving the Shedra teachings to the new server and updating the video links. Our sincere apologies for it taking so much longer than expected! We hope everything to be available again very soon. Thank you for your patience.
Rinpoche is now attending Nam Cho Empowerments in Shechen Monastery. The transmissions last until mid-November. We very much hope that Rinpoche can send some new video teachings after that.
In the meantime, there will be a series of videos posted soon from the teachings Rinpoche gave in France recently. The teaching is a commentary on Patrul Rinpoche’s short text on meditation on the Bodhicharyavatara.
Stay tuned for some great teachings soon, and don’t hesitate to contact us any time by email shedra@bodhicharya.org or via the contact form.
Maintenance Update for the Online Shedra
On October 13, 2013 in Teachings
Dear Friends,
The Online Shedra videos are in the process of moving to a new server. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have been be causing you these past days. We expect all videos to be visible from the new server by next weekend. Until then, the number of videos that can be viewed will increase gradually.
The audio teachings are available for listening during the move as usual.
With love and thanks,
Online Shedra
BA6_76-86 Having Patience When People Do Good to Our Enemies
On September 21, 2013 in Bodhicharyavatara, Chapter 6, Teachings
After a successful summer tour Ringu Tulku is now again continuing the video teachings on the Bodhicharyavatara. With this video (BA6_76-86) Rinpoche gives a commentary on the section of cultivating patience towards those who are doing something good for the people we regard as our enemies. This section is covered by stanzas 76 to 86 of the Sixth Chapter of the Bodhicharyavatara.
To view the video, simply click on the image to view all the Chapter 6 videos.
(more…)
More Teachings from Ringu Tulku’s Summer Tour
On August 14, 2013 in Teachings
Many of us have been fortunate to meet Rinpoche in some of the events during his summer tour, but he has not been able to send new videos on the Bodhicharyavatara lately.
Teachings from Rinpoche’s Summer Tour
On July 25, 2013 in Teachings
Dear Online Shedra followers,
After the glorious Bodhicharya Summer Camp in Portugal, Rinpoche is continuing his summer tour, currently traveling in France. He’s not had the circumstances to send new videos on the Bodhicharyavatara so far, so why not enjoy this summer gap and maybe catch up with the previous online shedra teachings — or listen to the recordings of Rinpoche’s wonderful teachings generously shared by some of the centers he has visited on his tour recently.
For instance:
“The Nature of Mind” and “Change Starts in Our Heart”, two teachings given by Ringu Tulku in Totnes, UK, for Bodhicharya Southwest: http://www.bodhicharyasouthwest.org.uk
“Meditation – What’s the Point?”, a public talk by Ringu Tulku in Dublin, organised by Bodhicharya Ireland:
Log in to the Community site, http://bodhicharya.intouch.net and then go to this address while logged in: http://bodhicharya.intouch.net/dl/cv_content/152288
With best wishes for your summer,
Bodhicharya Online Shedra
Photo courtesy of Ani Könchog Lhamo, 2013.
BA6Q5 Questions and Answers 5 (Chapter 6)
On July 6, 2013 in Bodhicharyavatara, Chapter 6, Teachings
With video BA6Q5 Ringu Tulku Rinpoche answers the questions submitted by students concerning stanzas 54 to 75 of Chapter 6 of the Bodhicharyavatara.
To view the video, simply click on the image to view all the Chapter 6 videos.
(more…)
BA6_67-75 Having Patience When Our Loved Ones Are Harmed. Part 2.
On June 15, 2013 in Bodhicharyavatara, Chapter 6, Teachings
With this video (BA6_67-75) Ringu Tulku explains how the negative actions are done out of ignorance. It’s up to us to end this spiral, which otherwise could go on for generations.
If I react with patience and loving kindness instead of hatred, then, even if that requires some sacrifice now, it will prevent more problems in the long run, and contribute to happiness of everybody. At least, I have started a more positive way of life for myself. If I can do this, I should rejoice. That’s the true dharma practice. This is Rinpoche’s commentary on stanzas 67 to 75 of the Sixth Chapter of the Bodhicharyavatara.
To view the video, simply click on the image to view all the Chapter 6 videos.
(more…)
BA6_64-66 Having Patience When Our Loved Ones Are Harmed
On June 8, 2013 in Bodhicharyavatara, Chapter 6, Teachings
One of the most difficult times to have patience is when our religion, our teachers, or our loved ones are harmed. Even then, however, there is no reason to be angry. We should of course do whatever we can to prevent and stop that, but we should remain patient. This is Rinpoche’s commentary on stanzas 64 to 66 of the Sixth Chapter of the Bodhicharyavatara. (BA6_64-66)
To view the video, simply click on the image to view all the Chapter 6 videos.
(more…)