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Happiness
“Happiness” found in 32 documents
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
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 cosmologyBuddhist 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
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
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
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
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
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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Incorrect Consideration and Emptiness
Developing Self-Dignity and Willpower
Review: Precious Human Life We have been going through the lam-rim graded stages of the path from the point of view of how they help us to develop a healthy sense of self. We have seen how thinking about the precious human rebirth and realizing how fortunate we actually are...
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Healthy Development of One’s Self through Lam-rim
Using Blissful Awareness as the Cognizer of Emptiness
Review We were discussing the various methods used in Buddhism to strengthen the evolving Buddha-nature factor that we identified within the network of good qualities, namely our innate joy, our ability to experience things with happiness. As you recall, in order to strengthen...
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The Role of Happiness in Sutra and Tantra
Integrating Our Life: Inspiration & Focus on Our Mothers
Finding Inspiration We have looked at the framework from which these teachings about integrating our life derive, and there are just a few more points I want to add before I open it up for questions. This is concerning the term “inspiration.” We have the Sanskrit word...
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Exercises for Integrating the Aspects of Our Life
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