Lama Zopa Rinpoche

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Since our rebirth most of the other limbs have already happened and all that remains is aging and death. Normally the world defines aging by wrinkled skin and other visible signs of getting old, but aging actually starts from birth. In reality, death is the only one of those seven resultant limbs we have yet to experience. With every action, we start another set of twelve limbs. For example, with one action we might create the potential to be born as a human being and with another the potential to be reborn in hell. Which seed will ripen when craving and grasping lead us into the becoming of our next rebirth? It could easily be that of the hell rebirth. There are eight major hot hells, eight major cold hells, six neighboring hells and some occasional hells, ones that are anywhere rather than in a specific location. In each hell there is so much unbelievable suffering. We have experienced such rebirths countless times but cannot remember them. If we could it would be utterly terrifying. Hungry ghosts have to suffer for tens of thousands of their years—which are much longer than human years—from not finding a drop of water or a scrap of food. They have the most unbelievable suffering but are unable to die. For tens of thousands of years they have to experience the three types of obscurations: outer obscurations, inner obscurations and obscurations of food and drink. 108 And they have to experience exhaustion, hopelessness and disappointment. Their suffering is unbelievable, horrible. Then there are the animals, who are so foolish and ignorant. They suffer from being eaten by other animals, heat and cold, and hunger and thirst. Those that are kept by humans have to endure much torture, being used for work and food, killed for their meat, bones and other parts of their body. They have so much suffering. For example, African elephants are killed for their tusks, which fetch a lot of money. One of our students in Singapore has a project to protect the elephants, but one of the ways they are protected is by killing the poachers. So that’s thinking of the elephants but not thinking of the human beings, which seems very silly. I asked her if humans might have to die to protect elephants and she said that perhaps that was the case. Maybe later on she realized this. I once saw a documentary on TV about a fish that hunts insects on the overhanging branches of a tree that grows by the river. The fish sees an insect from below in the water and squirts water at it to knock it off the branch. Usually it takes a few squirts to dislodge the insect, but as soon as it falls the fish shoots up and grabs it. There’s also an insect that kills its prey by spitting some kind of sticky stuff at it from a distance and immobilizing it in that way. I once saw a fight between a snake and a mongoose. Mongooses are very smart creatures— the arhat Bakula holds a wealth-producing mongoose—but this time the snake won. While in front of the mongoose the snake kept its distance, fearing the mongoose’s sharp teeth, but when the mongoose got distracted by something, the snake came up from behind, grabbed it by the neck and finished it off. 162
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SUN OF DEVOTION, STREAM OF BLESSING
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The Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive Bring
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6. The Guru Is the Most Powerful Ob
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Editor’s Preface This book is the
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Chapter 1. Taking Care of the Mind
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In a well-cultivated field, whateve
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What a pleasant life we human being
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Among those fifty-one secondary min
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means the cessation of all the gros
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Padmasambhava’s ways of diagnosin
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Practicing Dharma is subduing our m
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from life to life, we will be able
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contained in the Tengyur, a collect
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Thus the misconceptions about Buddh
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Not understanding this specific emp
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Cutter Sutra eventually does. Then
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There are sentient beings who are a
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vase, the neck is not the vase, the
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4. The freedom of not being born as
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sentient beings, not only to the ti
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If Milarepa could do that after kil
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All of us, believers or nonbeliever
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The need for refuge in our life Per
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▶abstaining from telling lies ▶
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Otherwise they come into the kitche
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Our life is so important, so precio
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Even though our mind, or the other
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We will realize this as we are abou
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The emptiness of the Z I want to en
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the greatest problem that affluent
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Without a guru, we cannot be free f
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This is mentioned in Pabongka Deche
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particles of dust of the earth. Eve
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human mother. If we were to sacrifi
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Buddhism came from the Buddha, from
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obscurations but also the obscurati
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Chapter 7. A Talk about Dolgyal Rec
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seemed to like us and we were able
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very crowded. That’s how we lived
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him about the bum-pa, the vase. Thi
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A key element of guru devotion prac
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who helped with his education, his
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In short, practicing Dolgyal is har
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Khadro-la and earthquakes Although
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esult of negative karma is rebirth
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Publicly she is like an ordinary pe
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There are other quotations but that
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Once in Nepal I dreamed of a small
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is the kind root guru. Then it star
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It is as the quote says, Before the
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The importance of guru devotion Pad
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Page 182 and 183: End Notes 1. Or his. Rather than us
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Page 190 and 191: Where and when these teachings were
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