| On Marriage
and Related Topics |
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by Lama Thubten Yeshe |
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These days, one of the main reasons that a man and a woman become friends
is sexual. They get together for sexual pleasure. In earlier times,
marriage had a divine quality—a couple came together out of respect, with
the aim of creating a kind of totality. That gave meaning to getting
married, and marriages made with such purpose became good ones.
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| Essence of Tibetan Buddhism
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His Holiness The Dalai Lama |
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His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s special lecture on the
essence of Buddhism to Tibetan youth.
His Holiness explains the key aspects of Tibetan Buddhism with great
emphasis on the benefits of studying Buddhism to Tibetan high school
and college students. Highlighting the need for the study of Buddhism,
His Holiness advises that a deeper and fuller understanding of
Buddhism enables one to become what His Holiness calls a Buddhist of
the 21st century. Complimenting faith with knowledge and
reason, one understands why Buddhism is a philosophy, a religion, a
science, to transform the mind.
Date: 1st - June - 2007 (Day 1)
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Date: 2nd - June - 2007 (Day 2)
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Date: 3rd - June - 2007 (Day 3)
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Talks & Teaching on Maui, Hawaii
(Video Teachings!) |
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| Shantideva’s Compendium of
Precepts (Laptu) and A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life (Chod-jug)
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(Video Teachings!) |
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His Holiness The Dalai Lama |
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His Holiness will give his annual Monlam teaching on
Shantideva’s Compendium of Precepts (Laptu) and A Guide to the
Bodhisattva’s Way of Life (Chod-jug) to view the video
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| WHAT
IS BUDDHISM? : |
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche |
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Why is it so important to learn about Buddhism
and to practice it? Because what we are all seeking is happiness and what
none of us want is suffering. Therefore we need to abandon the real cause
of suffering and create the unmistaken cause of happiness. The actual
cause of happiness is not outside. Even though people commonly believe
that suffering is connected to external situations, actually these are
just the conditions for suffering. Similarly, the actual cause of
happiness is not outside, it is within the mind.
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Renunciation : |
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by
Tsenshab Serkong Rinpoche |
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The Sanskrit word Dharma, chö in Tibetan,
means to hold, or to uphold. What is upheld, or maintained? The
elimination of suffering and the attainment of happiness. Dharma does this
not only for ourselves, but for all beings.
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Training the mind
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His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama
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Training the Mind: Verse 1
By thinking of all sentient beings as
even better than the wish-granting gem for accomplishing the highest aim
may I always consider them precious.
These four lines are about cultivating a sense
of holding dear all other sentient beings. The main point this verse
emphasizes is to develop an attitude that enables you to regard other
sentient beings as precious, much in the manner of precious jewels. The
question could be raised, "Why do we need to cultivate the thought that
other sentient beings are precious and valuable?"
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Various Aspects of Tantra, |
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by His Holiness Kyabje Trijang
Rinpoche |
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The Relationship between Buddhist Tantra and Hindu Tantra
Although some scholars
have maintained that Buddhist tantra was derived from Hinduism, this is not
correct. The theory, prevalent among those who adhere to the tenets of the
Hinayana, is based on a superficial resemblance of various elements of the
two systems, such as the forms of the deities, the meditations on psychic
veins and airs, the fire rituals, etc.
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Advice |
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by His Holiness Kyabje
Ling Rinpoche |
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If,
after receiving an initiation, you practice well, you can become like
Vajradhara. This means you should keep perfectly the root and branch tantric
vows and all aspects of the samayas (commitments). You should understand the
samayas of eating, drinking, protection, sleeping and so forth, and study
well the details of the three levels of ordination. There are teachers at
your Dharma centers and you can learn all this from them.
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The Purpose of Religion : |
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by Lama Thubten Yeshe |
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Lama Thubten Yeshe gave this teaching in Brisbane, Australia, in April,
1975. Edited by Nicholas Ribush.
Many people misunderstand Buddhism. Even some
professors of Buddhist studies look at just the words and interpret what
the Buddha taught very literally. They don't understand his methods, which
are the real essence of his teachings. In my opinion, the most important
aspect of any religion is its methods: how to put that religion into your
own experience.
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Words of Truth |
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A Prayer Composed by
His HOLINESS TENZIN GYATSO THE FOURTEENTH DALAI LAMA OF TIBET
Honoring and Invoking the Great Compassion
of the Three Jewels; the Buddha, the Teachings,
and the Spiritual Community |
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O Buddhas, Bodhisattvas,
and disciples
of the past, present, and future:
Having remarkable qualities
Immeasurably vast as the ocean,
Who regard all helpless sentient beings
as your only child;
Please consider the truth of my anguished pleas.
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| How to Make
Each Moment of Our Lives Meaningful |
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by Lama Zopa Rinpoche |
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It all depends on motivation It is
extremely important for us to know how best to lead our daily lives. This
depends upon our knowing what is a spiritual action and what is not; the
difference between what is Dharma and what is not Dharma.
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Be Your Own Therapist |
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by Lama Thubten Yeshe |
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The way we live and think everything is
dedicated to material pleasure. We consider sense objects to be of utmost
importance and materialistically devote ourselves to whatever makes us
happy, famous and popular. Even though all this comes from our mind, we
are so totally preoccupied by the external objects themselves that we
never look within, we never question what makes them so interesting.
However, this mind is an inseparable part of us; as long as we exist our
mind is there within us. Thus we are always up and down.
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