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24 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago -Tibetan Buddhist Teachings
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Healing Disturbing Emotions Meditation 1
February 28, 2022 09:48 - 30 minutes - 55.1 MBIt is important to see the destructive nature of emotions, how they harm the mind and body, in this way we become motivated to work on and transform the emotions. According to Buddhism, we need to deal with disturbing emotions (delusions) with a skillful "middle way", as opposed to the two unskilful ways, the expression or suppression of emotions. Expressing emotion (acting it out with family or friends) creates a situation that you need to fix with those you have acted out your emot...
The Nobel Truth Of Suffering
February 05, 2022 15:26 - 1 hour - 81 MBCONTEMPLATING SUFFERING When you create suffering potential within the mind, that potential can be purified, if it's not purified suffering will be experienced. If it's experienced in this life and becomes habitual behavior at the end of life the suffering will appear strongly in the mind and will be probable propelling karma into the hell realms. Conversely, if you are very kind during your life then kindness would be the propelling karma into heavenly realms. WHAT ARE HELL REALMS? Hell...
Understanding The Twelve Links Of Dependant Origination - Part 2
July 11, 2021 15:26 - 1 hour - 108 MBDHARMA OR DRAMA? Building up our dharna practice Testing our practice Rejoicing in our dharma progress Appreciation of emptiness teachings SAMSARA TO NIRVANA Comprehending our ignorance Getting in touch with our suffering The antidote to suffering is wisdom Comprehending the emptiness of suffering THE SUPREME ANTIDOTE TO SUFFERING Comprehending dependent origination is the supreme antidote to the sensation of suffering that changes the way that we respond to samsara, "Dependent a...
The 12 Links of Dependent Arising
June 06, 2021 13:23 - 29 minutes - 26.6 MBThe 12 Links of Dependent Arising Ignorance Compositional action Consciousness Name and form The 6 sources Contact Feeling Craving Grasping Existence Rebirth Ageing and death
Meditation By Venerable Namgyel
May 29, 2021 14:28 - 16 minutes - 30.3 MBRENUNCIATION Renunciation isn't related to the appearance of your surroundings. it is the self-cherishing state of mind that diminishes as your heart opens when walking on the Bodhisattva path accompanied by a deep understanding that all sentient beings deserve our compassion. THE SUFFERING OF PAIN The experience of unpleasant feelings, the manifest suffering which is easy to identify, such as pain in the body and emotional suffering. We need to be aware of the pain and suffering within s...
Meditation On Suffering By Lillian
April 03, 2021 12:14 - 23 minutes - 21.4 MBWHY THE BUDDHA TAUGHT SUFFERING FIRST Know the suffering then there is nothing more to know. Abandon the source then there is nothing more to abandon. Attain the cessation then there is nothing more to attain. Meditate on the path, then there's nothing more to meditate on. Suffering, its cause, cessation, and path are to be known, abandoned, attained, and practiced. THE EIGHT SUFFERINGS Suffering is related to Karma Each time we take rebirth we experience sufferings related to Birth...
Four Noble Truths Meditation By Lillian
March 02, 2021 15:39 - 15 minutes - 14.5 MBTHE FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS WHEEL OF DHARMA SUTRA Each of the four noble truths has four parts, making up sixteen aspects of the four noble truths. True suffering has... Impermanence Misery Emptiness Selflessness True source has... Cause Source Strong production Condition True cessation has... Cessation Pacification Abundance Definite emergence True path has... Path Knowledge Achievement Deliverance HOW DO WE ACHIEVE LIBERATION FROM CYCLIC EXISTENCE? We achieve liberation fr...
Meditation On Renunciation By Lillian
March 02, 2021 12:52 - 21 minutes - 19.7 MBHOW DO WE ACHIEVE LIBERATION FROM CYCLIC EXISTENCE? We achieve liberation from cyclic existence through realising the third and fourth noble truths, true cessation, and true path. Realising them depends on first realising the first two truths, namely true suffering, and true source. You need to know true suffering to be the very nature of cycling existence and then you are motivated to escape.
Meditation On Virtuous Speach By Lillian
February 22, 2021 07:27 - 16 minutes - 14.8 MBKeeping a Karma Diary positive negative 8 am 10 am 12 pm 2 pm 4 pm 6 pm 8 pm Set a timer to remind you every two hours, to STOP. Pause in the midst of your busy life, and look back over the last two hours. What happened? Positive, then negative. Just a few words or a sentence. If you are monitoring karma, you would write in 8am, negative: Killing, and in the positive, did you save lives? 10 am Sexual misconduct in th...
Meditation On Gossip By Lillian
February 07, 2021 10:24 - 20 minutes - 18.4 MBVenerable Namgyel Offers Us Continued Guidance On The Teachings Of Karma Covering... LYING Lying comprises of... The object - another person able to understand you The intention - discrimination, the unmistaken recognition of the content of the lie The motive - to fully intend to deceive somebody The delusion - attachment, anger, or jealousy. The action - speech or non speach actions causing others to believe something that may not be true The completion, the moment when someone und...
Meditation On Stealing By Lillian
December 24, 2020 07:47 - 25 minutes - 23.7 MBTHE REALMS OF CYCLIC EXISTENCE Cyclic existence is composed of three realms, the desire realm, the form realm, and the formless realm. The desire realm has six divisions, the hell realm, the hungry ghost realm, the animal realm, the human realm, the demi-god realm, and the god realm. Above the desire realm, are the four levels of the form realm, where there are 17 classes of gods born amongst the four levels according to which of the four stages of meditative absorption they have previously a...
The Four Points Of Karma By Lillian
December 13, 2020 09:57 - 18 minutes - 16.9 MBWHAT IS KARMA? Karma is often referred to as "cause and effect", however, the meaning of the word karma in Sanskrit means just action. it's implicit that when there is action something will happen in return. It covers the action that you are doing, the cause, the imprints made onto the mind from the actions motivated by delusion, and the results of those actions. The law of karma is, therefore, the law of cause and effect and referrers to the inevitable production of a certain future result...
Refuge Meditation From The Lamrin App - With Venerable Namgyel
December 03, 2020 06:04 - 15 minutes - 14 MBUNDERSTANDING THE DHAMMA JEWEL The actual refuge is the Dhamma. The Dhamma is the path. The path in Tibetan Buddhism includes incredible analytical meditations that antidote delusions, bringing about deep realisation, love, tolerance, an opening of the heart, a deepening concentration, and experience of this realisation. UNDERSTANDING THE SANGHA JEWEL The Sangha Jewel is a Superior Being, One who has attained the path of insight, with complete concentration devoid of the slightest agitati...
Shakyamuni Buddha Meditation With Lillian
November 23, 2020 12:38 - 18 minutes - 16.9 MBExtract from Fundamental Potential: The Four Buddha Bodies. Through the continued development of the potential, finally, the two surpassing aspects of perfection will be attained. The two surpassing aspects of perfection are the surpassing perfect benefit for oneself, which is the attainment of the Truth Bodies of a Buddha, and the surpassing perfect benefit for others, which is the attainment of the two Form Bodies of a Buddha. The two Form Bodies of a Buddha are the complete enjoyment bo...
Lamrim Meditation Led By Venerable Namgyel
November 07, 2020 12:02 - 9 minutes - 18.5 MBIDENTIFYING THE OBJECTS OF REFUGE Two types of Buddha Jewel: The conventional Buddha Jewel & the ultimate Buddha Jewel. The Buddha’s holy omniscient mind, simultaneously perceiving past, present and future, karma, delusions & personality of all beings & all elements of existence. DHARMA Definition of Dharma Jewel - completely purified truth in the continuum of a Superior being. With any of the "8 qualities": Inconceivable, free from "either" or "both", non-conceptual, pure, clear, antido...
Suffering Of Animals, Led By Lillian (Audio)
November 01, 2020 07:33 - 23 minutes - 21.3 MBUnderstanding the suffering of the lower realms and cyclic existence.
9 Point Death Meditation, Led By Lillian
October 25, 2020 10:47 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MBDEATH IS CERTAIN Death will definitely come, Life span cannot be increased, but decreases continuously. Death will come regardless of whether you have made time to practise Dharma. The Conclusion: Death is definite, therefore I must practise the Dharma. THE TIME OF DEATH IS UNCERTAIN The life span of beings in this world is not certain. There are more factors conducive to death than to life. Our bodies are very fragile. The Conclusion: The time of my death is uncertain; therefore practis...
Death & Dying Part 2, Led By Lillian
October 25, 2020 10:26 - 26 minutes - 23.9 MBDEATH IS CERTAIN Death will definitely come, Life span cannot be increased, but decreases continuously. Death will come regardless of whether you have made time to practise Dharma. The Conclusion: Death is definite, therefore I must practise the Dharma. THE TIME OF DEATH IS UNCERTAIN The life span of beings in this world is not certain. There are more factors conducive to death than to life. Our bodies are very fragile. The Conclusion: The time of my death is uncertain; therefore practise...
Death & Dying Part 1 - Led by Lillian
October 10, 2020 08:57 - 17 minutes - 32 MBDeath & Dying Part 1 - Led by Lillian
Impermanence Meditation 1 - Led by Lillian
October 10, 2020 08:42 - 24 minutes - 45.4 MBNOTES BY VENERABLE NAMGYEL FOR THE LAM RIM TEACHING ON IMPERMANENCE AND DEATH. 23RD AUGUST 2020. Shantideva said: Leaving all, I must depart alone. But through not having understood this, For the sake of my friends and foes, I have committed various kinds of evil. Faults of not meditating on death are under the following headings: 1) You will not remember the Dharma. 2) You will not practise the Dharma even if you remember it. 3) Even if you practise the Dharma, you will not practi...
Analytical Meditation with Venerable Namgyel
October 08, 2020 15:40 - 12 minutes - 23.5 MB"You have created incredible causes and conditions in order to experience this precious human rebirth..." PRECIOUS HUMAN REBIRTH In past lives we've created the conditions to obtain this precious human rebirth, to meet the Dharma, and practice the path to enlightenment THE EIGHT FREEDOMS Clarifying making this life 'precious', if these freedoms are present, then Dharma practice is accessible to develop compassion and wisdom. THE TEN ENDOWMENTS The conditions to recognise and eliminate...
Refuge Meditation With Venerable Namgyel
October 08, 2020 15:29 - 15 minutes - 14 MBACTUALISE & DEVELOP THE POTENTIAL WITHIN In this introduction to the teaching of Lamrim, the Tibetan Buddhist training presenting the stages in the complete path to enlightenment originally put together by Lama Atisha, Venerable Namgyel guides us on how to appreciate the qualities of the Buddha to control the mind, creating virtue in place of non-virtue, leading to the understanding of morality, impermanence and emptiness. Lamrim Course “ The more convinced one becomes of the inner law of...
Precious Human Rebirth Meditation - Led by Lillian
October 08, 2020 06:31 - 24 minutes - 22.4 MB"You have created incredible causes and conditions in order to experience this precious human rebirth..." PRECIOUS HUMAN REBIRTH In past lives we've created the conditions to obtain this precious human rebirth, to meet the Dharma, and practice the path to enlightenment THE EIGHT FREEDOMS Clarifying making this life 'precious', if these freedoms are present, then Dharma practice is accessible to develop compassion and wisdom. THE TEN ENDOWMENTS The conditions to recognise and eliminate...