Land of Compassion Buddha Edmonton Teaching Library – Dharma Talks

Dedication prayers and Long life prayer for Venerable Khensur Rinpoche Lobsang Tsephel

Dedication & Long life prayer for Venerable Khensur Rinpoche Lobsang Tsephel

LONG long life prayer for Venerable Khensur Rinpoche Lobsang Tsephel

Other prayers (Praise to Shakyamuni Buddha; Heart Sutra; Three Principal Aspects of the Path, etc.)

http://www.compassionbuddha.sg/practice/en/LCB_Prayer_En.pdf

1. Four Noble Truths

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The Four Noble Truths Edmonton Outline

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Definitions of Mental Afflictions Land of Compassion Buddha Edmonton

2. Nagarjuna’s “Letter to a friend”

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– Contains introduction to Buddhism

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• Question 2 contains further clarification into the first Ngondro or Preliminary practice: Taking refuge and generating Bodhicitta.

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• contains another introduction to Buddhism
• contains the first part of the antidotes to the 6 root afflictions (attachment, anger)

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• contains detailed teaching on the preliminary practices (ngondro), especially the first one of taking refuge and generating bodhicitta

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• Great compassion
• more questions and answers on how to practice the first ngondro

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• 8 leisures of precious human rebirth

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• ten privileges of precious human rebirth
• continue 37 harmonies of enlightenment
• shamata (calm abiding) meditation
• vipassana (special insight) meditation
• 12 links of dependent arising

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• 12 links of dependent arising

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• 12 links of dependent arising
• wheel of life
  • 1st ring: pig, rooster, snake representing afflictions = causes of samsara
  • 2nd ring: afflictions cause us to commit Karma: virtuous and nonvirtuous
  • 3rd ring: karma takes us to different realms – upper and lower
  • 4th ring: 12 links of dependent arising
• 12 links of dependent arising
  • 1. Ignorance
    2. Compositional action
    3. Consciousness
    4. Name and form
    5. Six sense spheres
    6. Contact
    7. Feeling
    8. Craving
    9. Grasping
    10. Existence
    11. Birth
    12. Aging and death
• Four Noble Truths
  • True suffering
  • True origins
  • True cessation
  • True path
• Process of dependent arising and stopping further links from arising by stopping earlier links
• how to reduce afflictions

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• dependent arising in reverse order to stop earlier links
• how to counteract ignorance: reflecting on dependent arising
• Noble eightfold path: right view, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right absorbed concentration, right speech, right boundary of actions, right thought
• Four Noble Truths
• Gate Gate Paragate Parasamgate Bodhi: The Five Paths: accumulation – preparation – seeing – meditation – attaining enlightenment

12 Links of Dependent Arising (handouts and picture below)

Taught in 03262016 notes

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• Contemplating that it’s not necessary to be discouraged with respect to accomplishing the path to liberation
• How to actualize the temporal result
  • How to make this life meaningful
    • avoid 10 nonvirtues (killing, stealing, sexual misconduct; lying, gossip, harsh speech; divisive speech; covetousness; malice; wrong views)
  • How to make future lives meaningful
    • How to empower your continuum with respect to qualities of a Buddha
    • How to fully ripen sentient beings

  How to actualize the final result (Buddhahood)

Question/Answer:

• addressed tonglen again (more in 11292015 notes)

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3. Other topics

Antidotes to mental afflictions

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Summary of Buddha’s teachings and Explanations of the Benefits of receiving Empowerments / Initiations and how to prepare to receive Empowerments / Initiations

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4. Three Principal Aspects of the Path

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5. Eight Verses of Thought Transformation

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• root afflictions: attachment, anger, pride, doubt
• how to meditate (on the points in class) – how to meditate on bodhicitta, equanimity; how to do analytic meditation (and placement afterwards)

Geshe Pema Tshering’s instructions on analytical meditation 08272016 kindly translated by Yangjenla!

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• tonglen meditation (recommended to be combined with meditating on breath)

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6. Thirty seven practices of Bodhisattvas

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Class 10082016

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-GIYoUKJtDkYWw4SkR0dEp6SjA/view?usp=sharing AUDIO FILE

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Class 10162016

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-GIYoUKJtDkeVB5R2txV2hXb3c/view?usp=sharing AUDIO FILE (same as above)

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Class 10222016

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there was no class Nov 19

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Dec 17 to come

no classes in between

Jan 7 to come

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7. Shantideva’s “A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life”

starting February 11, 2017

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February 18-2017 Dharma Talk

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Dharma talk – April 29, 2017

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Due to impermanence, Geshela’s teachings on this text weren’t recorded down into word files.  Please kindly come to our Centre to hear Geshela’s teachings live.  Thank you.

Preliminary practices (ngondro)

First: Taking Refuge and Generating Bodhicitta

Taught in notes above from 02062016.  Additional explanations in 12062015  & 02202016 & 05212016.

They are also consolidated into 1 document: Instructions for 1st ngondro taking refuge and generating bodhicitta

First Ngondro recitation text.

Second: Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga

Explanation: Second ngondro

• I. Preliminary prayers
  • 1. Taking refuge and generating Bodhicitta
  • 2. The Four Immeasurable thoughts
• II. Main prayers
  • 1. Inviting the Merit Field
  • 2. Seven-limbed practice
    • 1. Requesting to remain in the world
    • 2. Prostration
    • 3. Offering
    • 4. Confession
      • [Here, Geshela teaches the four opponent powers: support, regret, resolution, remedy.]
    • 5. Rejoicing
    • 6. Requesting to turn the Dharma wheel
    • 7. Dedication of merit
  • 3. Requesting prayer to Lama Tsongkhapa (Mig-tse-ma)
• III. Concluding prayers
  • 1. Dissolution of the merit field
  • 2. Request to confer the siddhis
  • 3. The Guru entering one’s heart
  • 4. Dedication
  • 5. Special request to Lama Tsongkhapa
  • Mantra recitations

Text to recite:Second ngondro recitations

Third: Vajrasattva

Text to recite: Vajrasattva ngondro

Explanation: Please refer to Class 04012017.

Refuge prayer in Vajrasattva ngondro

Vajrasattva mantra

Fourth ngondro (mandala offering) 

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Guru Puja (with tsog offering) led by Geshe Pema Tshering

with Chenrezig’s Mantra, Om Mani Padme Hum, Dedication, and Venerable Khensur Rinpoche Lobsang Tsephel’s LONG long life prayer at the end

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Please see http://compassionbuddha.sg/practice/en/Puja_GuruPuja_A5.pdf for a copy of the text from our sister centre Land of Compassion Buddha – Singapore