Khenchen Tsewang Gyatso Rinpoche

teaching by Khenchen Tsewang Gyatso Rinpoche

published in Palyul Clear Light

Afflictive emotions don't arise anywhere but within yourself. The important practice is to not look outside at the external condition. The moment anything becomes a condition for your afflictive emotions you have to look into your mind. Mostly our five senses are faced outward. We think, "This person said this certain word and it affected me and THAT is why I'm angry." Our minds always try to blame.

So it is important to look into your own mind. To watch your thoughts is the key point for your practice. If you really want Dharma, this is key. But if you want to just have fun with Dharma then you don't necessarily have to worry about it, you can just be angry. It's fine unless you are really thinking, "How can I do real Dharma practice?" Then truly you must work with your mind.

His Holiness Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

In one of his past rebirths, the Buddha was a giant ocean turtle. One day, while he was far from any land, he saw that a ship carrying some merchants had been wrecked and was sinking. The merchants were about to drown, but the turtle rescued them by carrying them the long way to the nearest shore on his back. After carrying them to safety, he was so exhausted that he fell asleep on the beach. But while he slept, eighty thousand flies began to eat their way into his body. The turtle awoke in great pain, and realized what had happened. He saw that there was no way to be rid of all the flies; if he plunged into the sea, all of them would die. So, being a Bodhisattva, he stayed where he was and let the flies eat away his body. 

Filled with love, he made the prayer, "Whenever I attain enlightenment may I, in turn, consume all these insects' negative emotions and actions, and their belief in true existence, and thus lead them to Buddhahood." As a result of this prayer, when the Buddha turned the wheel of Dharma for the first time in Varanasi the former flies had been reborn as the assembly of eighty thousand fortunate celestial beings who were present. 

Had the turtle killed the insects in anger by diving into the sea, however, there would have been no end to his sufferings. The result of killing a single being out of anger is to be reborn in the hell realms for the duration of five hundred human lives, or a great kalpa.

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THE HEART OF COMPASSION THE THIRTY – SEVEN VERSE ON THE PRACTICE OF A BODHISATTVA 

Dilgo Khyentse Translated From the Tibetan by the Padmakara Translation Group

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Mahaguru Padmasambhava

SEVEN CORRUPTIONS

 Master Padma said: When practicing the Dharma there are seven types of corruption

. The lady asked: What are they? The master said: if your faith is small while your intelligence is great, you become corrupted by considering yourself a teacher.

 If you have many listeners while your self-regard is high, you become corrupted by considering yourself a spiritual friend. 

If you assume superior qualities while not having taken the Dharma to heart, you become corrupted by considering yourself a leader. 

If you give oral instructions while not practicing them yourself, you become corrupted by being an insensitive "Dharma expert." 

If you are fond of senseless babble while lacking the Dharma in your heart, you become corrupted by being a craving charlatan yogi. 

If you have little learning while lacking the oral instructions, you become corrupted by being a commoner though your faith may be great. 

A genuine practitioner who acts in accordance with the true teachings should liberate his being with intelligence, tame his mind with faith, cut misconceptions with listening to teachings, cast away social concerns, mingle his mind with the Dharma, perfect his knowledge with learning and reflecting, resolve his mind with the oral instructions, and gain final certainty through the view and meditation. That, however, is difficult.

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'Dakini Teachings PADMASAMBHAVA'S ORAL INSTRUCTIONS TO LADY TSOGYAL Recorded and concealed by YESHE TSOGYAL •• Revealed by NYANG RAL NYIMA OSER and SANGYE LINGPA Translated according the oral teachings of Kyabje Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche by ERIK PEMA KUNSANG

Mahaguru Padmasambhava

Lady Tsogyal asked the master: How many ways are there to safeguard awakened mind? 

The master replied: 

There are three ways to safeguard it. Safeguard it as you would a wild horse, which should be tamed undistractedly; similarly, the yogi should remain undistracted from the nature of the view. Safeguard it as you would a treasure of precious gems, which, unless you make efforts to protect it, is vulnerable to bandits and thieves. Similarly, the yogi should remain invulnerable nerable to dullness and agitation, lest he allow his samadhi to stray. Safeguard it as a king would his queen, so that people are unable to hurt the queen, as they are all included among her subjects. Similarly, the yogi should remain so that thoughts can cause no harm since he or she has realized all phenomena to be mind.

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Treasures from Juniper Ridge: the profound instructions of padmasambhava to the dakini

Pyeshe tsogyal. From the revelations of Nyang Ral Nyima Özer, Rigdzin Gödem, Sangye Lingpa, Rinchen Lingpa, Dorje Lingpa, Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, and Chokgyur Lingpa. Translated from the Tibetan based on the teachings of Kyabje Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche by Erik Pema Kunsang (Erik Hein Schmidt). Edited by Michael Tweed and Marcia Binder Schmidt. First ed.

Mahaguru Padmasambhava

Lady Tsogyal asked the LotusBorn master: What is the dividing line between pain and pleasure?

 The master replied: Pain is uneasiness of mind, while pleasure is mental ease. When applying this experientially to

your stream-of-being, look into the painful state of uneasiness and see that it does not consist of any concrete substance but rather is mind. Mind is empty, and this empty quality is a state of ease—this is the vital point of changing pain to ease. Tsogyal, this advice of utmost importance, I give to you.

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Treasures from Juniper Ridge: the profound instructions of padmasambhava to the dakini

yeshe tsogyal. From the revelations of Nyang Ral Nyima Özer, Rigdzin Gödem, Sangye Lingpa, Rinchen Lingpa, Dorje Lingpa, Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, and Chokgyur Lingpa. Translated from the Tibetan based on the teachings of Kyabje Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche by Erik Pema Kunsang (Erik Hein Schmidt). Edited by Michael Tweed and Marcia Binder Schmidt. First ed.

Sri Amma Bhagavan

The more you recognize the hand of Grace in your life, the more it arrives, and there is no end to it.

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Sri Amma Bhagavan

Sri Amma Bhagavan

Forgiveness happens when you know that the other is not responsible.

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Sri Amma Bhagavan

Sri Bhagavan

Change in your inner dialogue is transformation, witnessing your inner dialogue is awakening and cessation of your inner dialogue is enlightenment.

~ Sri Bhagavan

Sri Amma Bhagavan

Oneness is inner silence, which remains undisturbed by external factors. This silence is not the opposite of noise. That is inner Oneness

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Sri Amma Bhagavan

Sri Amma Bhagavan

TO EXPERIENCE REALITY AS IT IS DOES NOT NEED ANY EFFORT.

Sri Amma Bhagavan