Saturday's Recommended Reading

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From Dilgo Khyentse's
"The Heart Treasure of the Enlightened Ones,"
lets read from the Commentary on pg. 88-89 and
let's also read from the root text on page 207.





In today's selection from Dilgo Khyentse's commentary we can read:


"While you are meditating on Chenrezig
[the Buddha of Compassion],
ordinary thoughts will come to a standstill
and the mind will settle in tranquility.

If you then look at the nature of mind,
it will begin to become clear to you
that the deity is essentially
one with voidness.

This understanding will then expand into
the the realization that all appearances
are void in nature
and therefore perfectly pure.

To maintain this realization at all times
is know as the development stage of
infinite purity."

From the Dalai Lama's
"The Path to Enlightenment,"
lets read page 110-111 and
let's also read from the
Translator's Introduction on page 19.





In today's selection the 14th Dalai Lama explains:

"The negative courses of action
to be abandoned are ten-fold.

Three of these refer to physical actions:
killing, stealing and misuse of sexuality.

Four are of speech:
lying, speaking cruelly, slander and
meaningless talk.

The last three are mental actions:
attachment, harmful thoughts and wrong views."


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In today's exploration of
the " Intermediate Collection of Practices "
we could consider:

Morality could be thought of
as Two-fold:
#1 Knowing the right thing {to do}
#2 and then actually Doing the right thing.

That is why I teach each of
my 1st semester students
how to reliably dialog with
the Buddha of Compassion.

That way they always know
what the right thing to do, is!


I invite you to share your feelings and insights with
my other students at: Buddha's Quick Path


Om Mani Padme Hum,
Lama Jigme Gyatso: Rime Manipa Tantrika


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Friday's Recommended Reading

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From Dilgo Khyentse's
"The Heart Treasure of the Enlightened Ones,"
lets read from the Commentary on pg. 72-73 and
let's also read from the root text on page 191.





In today's selection from Dilgo Khyentse's commentary we can read:

"The six-syllable mantra, too,
can be recited as an offering to
the Three Jewels {Buddha, Dharma and Sangha}
and to all sentient beings;

it has the power to bring
infinite benefit.

Even the most ruthlessly cruel and
arrogant beings,
completely lacking the slightest inclination
toward the Dhar-ma,

can be tamed and helped
with this mantra,
for it is the source of the Bo-dhi-chit-ta,
whose infinite power of compassion always
succeeds where force and violence fail."

From the Dalai Lama's
"The Path to Enlightenment,"
lets read page 94-95 and
let's also read from the
Translator's Introduction on page 11.





In today's selection the 14th Dalai Lama explains:

"The sufferings of the animal realms
are obvious to us.
Work and farm animals experience being
driven, beaten, killed, and eaten by human beings.

We would go to an institution and
claim our human rights if
someone tried to do these things to us, but
animals can do nothing but look on pathetically.


The fish in the Kangara Lake are
NOT respected as the owning the lake;
to the humans they are merely sources of food.

We forget they are living beings who,
like us, grasp at an "I" and
aspire to happiness.

We forget that they do NOT want pain and
do NOT want to die,
and we pull them out of the water on hooks and in nets,
causing them to die in fear and agony.

The same is the case with chickens,
cattle, goats and so forth."


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In today's exploration of
the " Intermediate Collection of Practices "
we could consider:

The Bowing Prayer

Lord, white in color, unstained by faults,
a perfect Buddha adorning your head,
you look upon all beings with eyes of compassion.
Chen-re-zig, we bow to you!



I invite you to share your feelings and insights with
my other students at: Buddha's Quick Path


Om Mani Padme Hum,
Lama Jigme Gyatso: Rime Manipa Tantrika


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Friday's Recomended Reading

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From Dilgo Khyentse's
"The Heart Treasure of the Enlightened Ones,"
lets read from the Commentary on pg. 32-33 and
let's also read from the root text on page 201.





In today's selection from Dilgo Khyentse's commentary we can read:

"In this decadent age,
because of their limited intelligence
and lack of determination,
people need to practice the Dhar-ma
in an essentialized form.

The practice of combining
devotion to the teacher
as inseparable from Chen-re-zig
{the Buddha of Compassion} with

the recitation of the Six-syllable mantra
fulfills this need.

This Six-syllable mantra,
the mani,
is so easy to recite,
yet it concentrates within it
the substance of all
the Buddhist Scriptures.

It is the essence of Chen-re-zig's heart,
and the blessings it brings are infinite.

If you make it your main practice,
humans, celestial beings, and
even harmful spirits
will be well disposed to you,

and your will have a long life free
from illness and obstacles.

In your next life you will be
born in the Blissful Buddha-field of
the Po-ta-la Mountain, or
at the very least in a place where
the Dhar-ma prevails.

This is because Chen-re-zig's mantra contains
the infinite blessings and
compassion of the Buddas."


From the Dalai Lama's
"The Path to Enlightenment,"
lets read page 56-57 and
let's also read from the biography of
the 3rd Dalai Lama on page 204.





In today's selection the Dalai Lama explains:

"The essential nature of the two truths
is something that is present at all times,
yet we are NOT aware of it.

Thus the vision of our mind
does NOT attune to the actual nature of
the reality within which we live.

The purpose of the spiritual path is
to bring about this attunement.

When we follow a spiritual master {teacher}
who has realized the conventional AND
the ultimate natures of existence,
we place ourselves in a position of
tremendous opportunity."


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In today's selection from "The Healing Power of Love and Letting-go"
we can read:


"...remembering this
may my mind turn towards Buddha’s Dhar-ma,
Om Ma-ni Pad-me Hum!..."



I invite you to share your feelings and insights with
my other students at: Buddha's Quick Path

Om Mani Padme Hum,
Lama Jigme Gyatso: Rime Manipa Tantrika


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