Bodhicitta, 5 July 2021, San Francisco, USA - Part 2

Bodhicitta has been characterised as kindness, compassion, and the wish to release all beings from suffering. This is correct but does not convey the complete picture. Bodhicitta also involves freeing beings from the causes of suffering. Everyone wants to be free from suffering, but does everyone want to be free from happiness? Probably not, but from the bodhicitta point of view happiness is also problematic, because happiness is a fabricated condition and cannot be trusted or relied upon. A bodhisattva wishes to free sentient beings from all phenomena:  this is what makes bodhicitta unique. Bodhicitta is more accurately characterised as the union of wisdom and skilful means, with the aspiration of awakening all beings to the truth.

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Bodhicitta, 5 July 2021, San Francisco, USA - Part 2

Bodhicitta, 5 July 2021, San Francisco, USA - Part 1

Bodhicitta has been characterised as kindness, compassion, and the wish to release all beings from suffering. This is correct but does not convey the complete picture. Bodhicitta also involves freeing beings from the causes of suffering. Everyone wants to be free from suffering, but does everyone want to be free from happiness? Probably not, but from the bodhicitta point of view happiness is also problematic, because happiness is a fabricated condition and cannot be trusted or relied upon. A bodhisattva wishes to free sentient beings from all phenomena:  this is what makes bodhicitta unique. Bodhicitta is more accurately characterised as the union of wisdom and skilful means, with the aspiration of awakening all beings to the truth.

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Bodhicitta, 5 July 2021, San Francisco, USA - Part 1

Am I dead or am I dreaming? 👻  

Bardo teachings are commonly believed to be concerned with death but in fact encompass the whole of the Buddha’s teachings. The Tibetan word bardo refers to an intermediate state, between past and future, a crossing or a junction, in which a decision has to be made. This place of decision, this cognizance, is the bardo. This bardo is none other than our buddhanature, innately perfect, which the bardo practices lead us to uncover and reveal. Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche explains the bardo states and their associated practices, drawing on commentaries by Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche and Tsele Natsok Rangdrol.

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A Concert of Names of Manjushri

Lama Tharchin Rinpoche teaches on the practice of Guru Yoga and the Seven Line Prayer in the Vajrayana. Open Secret Bookstore, San Rafael, California, January 26, 2009. 

Rinpoche says, "The point of guru yoga is to train in merging our mind with our lama's wisdom mind and to have those qualities of wisdom and compassion that we glimpse within our lama's mind inhabit our own mind." In these Open Secret teachings, Rinpoche guides us in using guru yoga meditation on Guru Rinpoche to awaken the uncontrived, uncontaminated, primordial state of enlightenment that is our own natural, indwelling, primordial state of being.

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Photo of Dungse Thinley Norbu Rinpoche with Lama Tharchin Rinpoche, Pema Osel Ling, March 1994. 

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© 2009 Lama Tharchin Rinpoche, 2017 Lama Tharchin Rinpoche Heritage Foundation & Heart Teachings by Lama Tharchin Rinpoche

Guru Yoga OS 2009-01-26

Guru Yoga Open Secret 2009 - 01 - 26

Buddha Nature
Mahayana Uttaratantra Shastra
By Arya Maitreya
With Commentary by 
Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche

Uttaratantra Part 1 - Bangalow 2009

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Buddha Nature
Uttaratantra Shastra
By Arya Maitreya
With Commentary by
Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse

Uttaratantra Part 2

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入中論 (1 - 01A)

2011 年宗薩仁波切於台灣給予之《普賢上師言教》教授

普賢上師言教 (01)

Way of the Tathagata, 27 December 2019, Pune, India
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Pune - Day1 - Part 1

The Questions of an Old Lady Sutra, 18 May 2012 - Taipei, Taiwan
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The Questions of an Old Lady Sutra (Taipei, 2012)

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Bodhicitta, 5 July 2021, San Francisco, USA - Part 2

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