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Trainings for Bodhichitta Not to Decline or Be Lost
We were discussing bodhichitta and what it means to be a bodhisattva, and we saw what role taking the bodhisattva vows has in the general progression of developing bodhichitta, and in the stages of developing bodhichitta. What’s really important is to understand the role of...
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Explanation of Bodhichitta Actions for Training & Vows
Kalachakra Initiation: Practical Advice for Day Two
I have a stack of questions here in front of me. Let me try to answer some of them during the course of explaining what will happen today during the first day of the actual empowerment. Following the Visualizations One thing to keep in mind about what is going on here is...
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Rikon Kalachakra Initiation 1985: Explanatory Talks
Summary of Speeches at the Bhikshuni Congress: Day 1
Day One: Opening Addresses Welcoming Speeches by the Host Institution Prof. Dr. Ing. Habil. Monika Auweter-Kurtz, President of the University of Hamburg Prof. Dr. Ludwig Paul, Dean of the Asia-Africa Institute, University of Hamburg Rinchen Khandro Chogyal,...
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Conference Report on Bhikshuni Ordination Lineages
Kalachakra Initiation: Entering the Mandala
Preliminary Steps The actual empowerment begins with the disciples rinsing their mouths and prostrating, as the day before. Whether a participant or an observer, we still imagine ourselves as a simple Kalachakra on the black eastern porch of the mandala palace, and our...
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Guidelines for the Kalachakra Initiation
Fear in a Student-Teacher Relationship
Fear of "A Breach of Guru-Devotion" Almost every classical text on the disciple-mentor relationship includes a section on the hellish suffering that follows from what is usually translated as "a breach of guru-devotion." The material derives mostly from Ashvaghosha's vivid...
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Unhealthy Relationships with Spiritual Teachers
Kalachakra Initiation: Practical Advice for Day Three
Review of Some Essential Points First, I shall speak a little about what is going to take place today. We have reached the point in the empowerment at which we have entered the mandala. First, we did so with blindfolds on and now our blindfolds have been removed. We have...
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Rikon Kalachakra Initiation 1985: Explanatory Talks
Staying Mindful of Karma and Ethical Behavior
Review We need to set the proper motivation; namely, that we wish to benefit all beings and to achieve a state of enlightenment in order to be able to do so. With this motivation, listen to these teachings on The Foundation for Good Qualities with the sincere wish to put them...
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Commentary on “The Foundation for Good Qualities” – Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche
Questions about Nonrevealing Forms of Vows and Karma
Nonrevealing Forms Can Be Known Only with Mental Cognition When we talk about a nonrevealing form, how is this known? Can we in our practice learn to be able to perceive it? “Nonrevealing” means that it doesn’t reveal its motivation to anybody. It is something that can be...
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Elaboration of “Karma: Who’s to Blame?”
The Ritual for Developing a Bodhichitta Aim
The Ceremony for Wishing Bodhichitta, Together with Advice When we talk about developing bodhichitta, of course, this is a process that we need to work up to and that requires a great deal of work and effort to sincerely feel. There are stages of meditation for developing...
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Commentary on “Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment” – Dr. Berzin
Building Up Causes for Bodhichitta
Review Having an Accurate Idea of Bodhichitta and Enlightenment We have seen that there is a relative and deepest bodhichitta, and it is aimed at enlightenment, and specifically our own individual enlightenment that has not yet happened, but which can be imputed on our mental...
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What Needs to Be Understood to Have a Bodhichitta Aim
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