Have you been looking for love but unable to find it? Let Robert Holden explain where you've been going wrong in this sample from his latest audiobook Loveability. 

Get the CD here: http://www.hayhouse.co.uk/cds/1781800642/loveability

Download from iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/audiobook/loveability-unabridged/id627808856

Robert Holden PhD - Loveability (extract)

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.

For comments, please visit: www.facebook.com/siddharthasintent
For more information, please visit our website: www.siddharthasintent.org

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

Day 4 is a reflection on how to relate wisely to our experience, through bringing to mind the words of the serenity prayer. The serenity prayer is the common name for an originally untitled prayer by the American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr. It has been adopted by Alcoholics Anonymous and other twelve-step programs, and many other groups of people. It is sung by the Songsters, with music composed by Kate Munger, the founder of the Threshold Choir (http://thresholdchoir.org/).

For more resources on recovery: www.thebuddhistcentre.com/eightsteps

21 Day Meditation For Recovery - 4. The Serenity Prayer

Ayang Rinpoche chants Milarepa mantra: JE MILA JE PA DORJE LA SOL WA DEB SO

Supplication To Milarepa

A Guided Meditation On The Body, Space, And Awareness With Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

TIBETAN MUSIC 

Yangchen Lhamo - Tche Yong La (we will meet)

Yungchen Lhamo's name means "Goddess of Song," a name given her by a holy man soon after she was born near Lhasa. She left Tibet in 1989 at age 25, via the perilous navigation of the Himalayas in order to escape the oppressive Chinese regime governing Tibet. She made a pilgrimage to Dharamsala, to receive the blessings of the Dalai Lama, where he lives in exile. She was inspired to reach out to the world through her music, to share her culture and educate people about Tibet. She moved to Australia in 1993.

Since fleeing Tibet on foot in 1989, Yungchen Lhamo has emerged as the leading Tibetan vocalist on the world stage.

"Practice what you preach" (Gautama Bouddha)

* Video "Commémoration du cinquantenaire de l'exil tibétain du Dalai Lama" 
http://youtu.be/nzz1XXIhTFY

* Photos Bodhanath in Katmandu (Nepal) = Article en français = 
http://shivashaktishanti.blogspot.fr/2011/06/quest-ce-quun-stupa-bodhanath.html

Yangchen Lhamo - Te Yong La (we will meet)

Tibetan text by Thangtong Gyalpo.
English Translation by Shamar Rinpoche & Pamela Gayle White.
Music by Sanford Garner.
Vocals by Wendelin Wagner.
Arrangement by Jonathan Chapman Cook
Copyright: Bodhi Path Wisdom Foundation

Chenrezig Sadhana Full Instrument

The Dedication “Fulfilling All Aspirations” (Toh 285) is a prayer of dedication, and is meant to be recited. Its structure partly reflects the liturgy of “seven branches” or “seven limbs,” a set of practices that serves as the basic structure of many Mahāyāna Buddhist prayers and rituals. In this instance, however, the text consists of two sections: the first is a detailed prayer of confession, and the second a prayer of rejoicing, requesting that the wheel of the Dharma be turned, beseeching the buddhas not to pass into nirvāṇa, and extensively dedicating the merit.

https://read.84000-translate.org/translation/toh285.html

This second episode in our Sūtras for Well-Being series focuses on two closely related, and recently published texts:
- The Dedication “Fulfilling All Aspirations” (https://read.84000.co/translation/toh285.html) and 
- The Dedication “Protecting All Beings.” (https://read.84000.co/translation/toh286.html)

And today, we are thrilled to share with you both Tibetan and English readings of these texts by two widely respected teachers of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition: Jigme Khyentse Rinpoche (English) and Pema Wangyal Rinpoche (Tibetan).

Open the texts in our online Reading Room (https://84000.co/translations/reading-room/), and follow along with the audio in the station above!

Ep. 2.1 | Tibetan | "The Dedication: Fulfilling All Aspirations" recited by Pema Wangyal Rinpoche

Kuntuzangpo Molam, Bir, India - 21 June 2020
During the solar eclipse of 21 June 2020 Siddhartha's Intent hosted a global recitation of the Samantabhadra Aspiration Prayer.
We were fortunate to receive a teaching from Rinpoche, who painted a picture of the mind that, for lack of a better word, "composed" a prayer which has no composer: our naked cognisance, our naked awareness. The Kuntuzangpo prayer is just there; it's being recited and answered all the time. When a beautiful sunrise appears, if the owl doesn't see it because it's blind, too bad! If we can't see these prayers that are being answered, we're like an owl. There's not much we can do, just pray not to be an owl, which is what we do when we recite the prayer.
For comments, please visit: www.facebook.com/djkhyentse/
For more information, please visit our website: www.siddharthasintent.org

Samantabhadra Aspiration Prayer Mix

Shakyamuni Mantra in Raga Ahir Bairav by Namrata Vartak

This short text marks the fifth episode in 84000's Sūtras for Well-Being series, a look at the sūtras traditionally recited for resilience and well-being in times of adversity, and the stories behind them. The Aspiration Prayer from “Destroyer of the Great Trichiliocosm" contains a set of verses spoken by the Buddha as he put an end to the epidemic of Vaiśālī, extracted from one of the two main accounts of that episode. The verses call for well-being, especially by invoking the qualities of the Three Jewels and a range of realized beings and eminent gods. The text comprises two passages from the parent work, and of these the first and longest corresponds closely to a well-known Pali text, the Ratana-sutta, widely recited for protection and blessings. 

We hope this audio rendition in Tibetan, by Garchen Rinpoche, helps brings the power of the text alive, and we encourage you to visit our Sūtras for Well-Being page for more on this series includings our IGTV video episodes: 84000.co/wellbeing

第五集 | 《大千摧破經所說誓願文》 ｜噶千仁波切親頌藏文版

84000近期推出英譯版「消災祈福」系列經典，望全球疫情早日平息，人心安樂。《大千摧破經所說誓願文》 為佛陀平息毘舍離城之瘟疫後宣說的偈頌，摘錄自記敘此事件的兩部典籍之一。頌詞稱說三寶與許多證悟者及天神之功德，為世間祈請安樂。此文有一段落與著名的巴利文佛經《寶經》之內容相仿，後者是人們為消災祈福而廣泛持誦的經典。

尊貴的噶千仁波切為我們唸誦藏文版經文。

A Guided Meditation On The Body, Space, And Awareness With Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

thatpatp

Related tracks