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Happiness
35 Articles
Nothing Special about Ourselves or Our Feelings
Introduction Mind training or attitude training, lojong in Tibetan, is a very broad topic that deals with how we experience our life and how we can change our attitudes about what we experience. We all know life is full of ups and downs and usually isn’t very easy. Many things...
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Mind Training in Daily Life: Nothing Special
The Innate Joy of Mind
Introduction This weekend we are going to be talking about happiness and its role in sutra and tantra practice. There are of course many different ways to approach the topic, but what I propose to do first this evening, as a way of introduction, is to talk about where...
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The Role of Happiness in Sutra and Tantra
Uttaratantra: Precious Human Life and Setting the Motivation
Precious Human Life Today, we are at Lama Tsongkhapa Institute, which is headed by two great spiritual masters. We have come together for spiritual teachings, and we are all very fortunate to have this opportunity. I am very happy to be here with you today. In general, it is...
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Commentary on “Uttaratantra” – Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche
Integrating the Various Aspects of Our Life
Introduction His Holiness the Dalai Lama speaks of Buddhism as having three aspects: Buddhist psychology and science – how the mind works, as well as cosmology Buddhist philosophy – a highly developed system of logic, and a very deep analysis of reality, cause and effect, and...
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Work-Life Balance: How to Get More Satisfaction in Life
Taming the Mind
Motivation Many people are here today from various different places, even Tibet, and you have all come for the Dharma purpose of listening to teachings. Therefore, concerning the development of a bodhichitta resolve and so forth, I shall teach here in Bodh Gaya 37 Bodhisattva...
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Commentary on “37 Bodhisattva Practices” – The Dalai Lama
Cherishing Others Gives Meaning to Life
Introduction In our weekend seminar we will focus on refuge. If we look at any of the Buddhist texts, we find that refuge is always described as the most fundamental aspect of the Buddhist path. In fact, it is the entry way into Buddhism. Refuge defines the dividing line...
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Refuge: Putting a Safe Direction & Meaning in Our Lives
Integrating Our Life: The Wish to Be Happy & Guru-Yoga
Recap We’ve been looking at some methods that help us to integrate our lives. We’ve also looked at the background from which these practices derive. In the larger Buddhist context, we are aiming to ensure that our future lives continue to have a precious human form like we...
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Exercises for Integrating the Aspects of Our Life
Nonstatic Phenomena as Static
How to Integrate the Teachings Before we began today, I asked you to try to remember the main points of what we discussed last evening. This is a very important thing to try to do after we have heard a lecture, or after we’ve read something. I am not just referring to reading...
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Incorrect Consideration and Emptiness
Recognizing the Various Levels of Happiness
Review I’d like to continue our discussion, but before I begin, there is a piece of advice that a very wise woman once gave me, which I think is relevant here. If you have a group and you want to lead it into a destructive action, like into battle, then you instruct them at...
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The Role of Happiness in Sutra and Tantra
Suffering as Happiness and Unclean as Clean
The Relation between Incorrect Consideration of Nonstatic as Static and of Suffering as Happiness We were speaking about our incorrect consideration of things that change. We consider that something like a relationship is going to last forever, whereas, in fact, it is...
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