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Precious Human Life
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What to Consider When Remembering Death
The Difficulty of Obtaining a Precious Human Rebirth and How to Take Best Advantage of It It is important to think in the beginning about the difficulty of obtaining a precious human rebirth with all its respites from situations preventing Dharma practice and all its...
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Commentary on “The Foundation for Good Qualities” – Tsenzhab Serkong Rinpoche
Making Best Use of a Precious Human Rebirth
The Rarity of a Precious Human Life In our first discussion, we spoke about how this precious human rebirth that we all have is a perfect working basis for our Dharma practice. This working basis is complete with all of the eighteen qualities: the respites and the enrichments....
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Explanation of “Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment” – Tsenzhab Serkong Rinpoche
Developing a Positive Attitude about One’s Self
Mental Activity and How the “Me” Exists We began our discussion of the healthy development of the self through the lam-rim graded stages. We established the need to clearly differentiate between the conventional self and the false self, the one that needs to be refuted. When...
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Healthy Development of One’s Self through Lam-rim
Mind Training for an Initial Lam-rim Scope
Verses 1 through 7 Taking Advantage of Being in a Holy Place As I explained yesterday, we are at a special place here where the Buddha manifested his enlightenment and where many enlightened beings have been. Nagarjuna and his two spiritual sons, for instance, and many...
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Commentary on “37 Bodhisattva Practices” – The Dalai Lama
Making Life Meaningful with Meditation on Impermanence and Renunciation
Making Life Meaningful Now we will continue with the text. We are on the second verse. (2) Listen with a clear (mind), O fortunate one, whose mind would rely on the path pleasing to the Triumphant through being unattached to the pleasures of compulsive existence and eager to...
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Commentary on “The Three Principal Aspects of the Path” – Tsenzhab Serkong Rinpoche II
Preparatory Understandings Needed for Persons of All Three Scopes
Three Types of Spiritual Persons To continue with the text, the next verse reads: (2) Since (practitioners) come to have small, intermediate, and supreme (scopes), they are known as the three types of spiritual persons. I shall therefore write about these specific divisions,...
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Commentary on “Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment” – Tsenzhab Serkong Rinpoche
Questions to Dr. Berzin about Lower Realms and Helping Others
Fear of Death and Lower Realms I wanted to ask something about fear. Rinpoche said that we can develop fear for states of rebirth that can come to us after death. I was thinking that fear is suffering too. Are we making ourselves suffer for something that may or may not happen...
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Explanation of “Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment” – Tsenzhab Serkong Rinpoche
Combining the Causes for Refuge
There are three emotional states that we need to develop as our motivation for refuge, for going in this safe direction. They are usually called fear, belief or confidence and compassion. The main issue is learning how to put them together in a way that they mean something and...
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Refuge: Putting a Safe Direction & Meaning in Our Lives
Guidance for Meditation on the Initial Scope Teachings
Contemplation on the Rare Precious Human Life, Certainty of Death and Necessity of Dharma We’ve been talking about the precious human rebirth that we have all achieved. This precious human rebirth has the eight respites and ten enrichments necessary for Dharma practice. We...
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Explanation of “Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment” – Tsenzhab Serkong Rinpoche
Precious Human Rebirth, Death and Refuge
A Precious Human Rebirth It is very important to appreciate the fact that we have a precious human body as a working basis and that it enjoys all the various respites from all the difficult situations with no chance to practice and that it also has the enriching factors of...
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Serkong Rinpoche Dialogues with Students about Lam-rim
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