[George Raine]

I live in a very small apartment and have very limited space to appropriately host representations of the Three Jewels! Fortunately though I have a lovely shelf right above my workstation, so I can always feel that I am practicing!

[George Raine]

Hi Katy!

I asked one of our translators, Oriane Lavole who teaches the Tibetan for Practitioners course about the correct pronunciation and meaning of Rinpoche’s name. Here is her response:

Kyab (protection) gön (lord) is an honorific title.
Phak means noble.
Chok means supreme.
Rinpoche means precious one or jewel, and it is a title given to realized masters or recognized reincarnations of such masters in the Tibetan tradition.

You can find an audio recording of Oriane pronouncing Rinpoche’s name attached below.

Thank you! I hope this answers your question!

[George Raine]

Thank you for the material Sandi! After the Samadhiraja I plan to study the Vimalakirti as well. The extract you’ve posted is a very interesting presentation of the Bodhisattva path!

Thank you so much for joining us for In the Footsteps of Bodhisattvas!

[George Raine]

༄༅། །རྒྱལ་བ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོའི་ཞབས་བརྟན། །

Supplication for the Long Life of His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama

 

གངས་རི་ར་བས་བསྐོར་བའི་ཞིང་ཁམས་སུ། །

gang ri rawé korwé zhing kham su

In the buddha realm encircled by snow peaks,

ཕན་དང་བདེ་བ་མ་ལུས་འབྱུང་བའི་གནས། །

pen dang dewa malü jungwé né

you are the source of all benefit and bliss.

སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་དབང་བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ཡི། །

chenrezik wang tenzin gyatso yi

Tenzin Gyamtso, Avalokiteśvara in person,

ཞབས་པད་བསྐལ་བརྒྱའི་བར་དུ་བརྟན་གྱུར་ཅིག །

zhapé kel gyé bardu den gyur chik

may your lotus feet remain firm for a hundred aeons!

 

Lhasey Lotsawa Translations, 2019 (trans. Laura Dainty, ed. Libby Hogg).

[George Raine]

Hi Sandy!

Yes, we will be postponing our class next week for the Independence Day holiday in the USA. In the meantime, we should continue with the practice and reading instructions we have been given.

Thanks!

George

[George Raine]

Hi Siska!

Yes, we have a recording of the first class available. You can access it from the course home page, then selecting “continue course” on the right-hand side. From there, just click on “lectures” on the right-side, here you’ve got all the course units. To see the recording of the first course, just go to “Unit one: Introduction”, and you’ll see the video!

Thanks! I hope I’m clear!

George

[George Raine]

Hi Choyang,

The recordings are stored in the various unit pages for the course. From the course homepage, click on “begin course”, from there, each course lecture page (that we’ve had so far!) has the video recording attached. I’ve attached some screenshots to let you get a sense of where to find them.

Please let me know if you need any further help!

Link to images: https://imgur.com/a/5D4S6Su

View post on imgur.com

[George Raine]

Hi Sandy,

We will be using the same Zoom link as last week, and will be continuing to use that link for all the subsequent sessions of the course. Here’s the link:

Join Zoom Meeting
https://samyeinstitute.zoom.us/j/95908674615?pwd=TVhhY21DNHNSOWJkUkcxVDFhTU1UZz09

Meeting ID: 959 0867 4615
Passcode: 866925

[George Raine]

The links posted by Jack should be automatically downloaded to your machine by your browser, generally in the “downloads” folder or wherever you have set it. Here are some alternative links if they are not downloading for you:

Samadhiraja Sutra – https://read.84000.co/translation/toh127.html

Refuge and the Four Immeasurables – https://lhaseylotsawa.org/library/treasury-of-blessings (You can click “Yes” on having the transmission or empowerment for this practice).

Dedication of Merit – https://lhaseylotsawa.org/library/verses-of-dedication

 

 

[George Raine]

We also recommend that all course participants enable “daily digest email” in the “email options” bar on the left-side menu. This will enable you to receive email notifications of course updates and discussions in the forum.

See you all on Wednesday

[George Raine]

Hi Paulo,

The Zoom details are included in the announcement thread I just posted. See you on Wednesday!

George

[George Raine]

That’s a very good point Sandi!

If we just listen to the teachings mindlessly, just repeating the words of the teacher we’re not really engaging with the teachings. We’re supposed to listen, contemplate and meditate on the teachings, they’re supposed to be lively and viscerally present in our experience. Another Dune quote sums the pitfalls of this pretty well!:

“All men must see that the teaching of religion by rules and rote is largely a hoax. The proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you’ve always known.”

There’s naturally a form of creative tension operating between the lineage and applying the teachings to our own experience. This isn’t a bad thing, and is in fact one of the great strengths of the Buddhist tradition!

It’s certainly a challenge to avoid falling into the extreme of clinging to our idea of what Dharma is, we should hold the Dharma in a light grasp, without reifying it or turning it into those rules and rotes Herbert talks about. The true dharma cannot be expressed in words, ultimately all the instructions and trainings we are given are compounded, impermanent things, but they point the way to the true, unconditioned space without concepts!

I may not be very educated in Sutra and Shastra, but I can certainly talk incessently about the philosphy of Dune!

George