Lam Rim Principles of The Path Meditation : Force For Good | 2/18/2018

This Lam Rim video is a guided meditation on the Three Principles of The Path as laid out by Tsongkhapa & the Dalai Lama lineage led by Tibet House US President Robert AF Thurman

“It’s not enough to take refuge in the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha only for this life, or for the good of the next life, or even to attain liberation; we need to take refuge until the attainment of complete enlightenment. The verse we recite includes the word ‘I’, when we say ‘may I attain enlightenment’. What we have to do is examine whether that I or self exists the way it appears.

I received the transmission of this text from Khunnu Lama, Tenzin Gyaltsen at Bodhgaya. He told me about it and that night I had a dream that a relative of Gyalwa Sonam Gyatso offered me a blue scarf, which Rinpoche regarded as a propitious sign. The Second and Third Dalai Lamas were great masters who spread the teaching of the Buddha in Central Tibet and into Mongolia.”

Dalai Lama on the Lam Rim from www.dalailama.com.

This meditation is an excerpt from the Tibet House US #ForceForGood Class Series Video: “Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Sources : Madhyamaka Lam Rim with Robert Thurman“.

Full Video Concludes with a guided meditation on the exchange of Self + Other, Mother Kindness Recognition & the Causal Steps used in Tsongkhapa’s Lam Rim teachings.

Lam Rim Monk with Tuning Forks Video Tibet House US

This video is an excerpt from the Tibet House US Member video “Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Sources : Madhyamaka Lam Rim” (1:56:24) and is apart of the Force For Good Class Series.

A Force For Good’ is a Tibet House US course to further the Dalai Lama’s contemporary world initiatives, from His Holiness’ American Institute of Buddhist Studies and Mind & Life Institute science dialogues (Universe in a Single Atom) and His creation of Abhidharma 2.0 through the “Science for Monks” programs, his “secular ethics” (Ethics for the New Millennium and Beyond Religion), His nonviolent approach to conflict resolution, including His Nobel Peace Laureate activities to seek dialogue and a win-win reconciliation with China in the face of the ongoing ethnicidal policies in Tibet (Freedom in Exile and Man of Peace: The Illustrated Life Story of Tibet’s Dalai Lama) & along with his emphasis on positive activism (A New Reality: Charter of Universal Responsibility).

This on-going series was inspired by Daniel Goleman’s ‘A Force For Good: The Dalai Lama’s Vision for Our World‘.

To join the on-going #ForceForGood series please visit: www.tibethouse.us.

To listen to audio selections from the Bob Thurman Podcast about past lives please visit: www.bobthurman.com.

To watch more videos from past ‘Force for Good’ programs please visit the Tibet House US Member Archive, available to monthly supporters.

? Music by Tenzin Choegyal, Used with Permission www.tenzinchoegyal.com

 

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