The Dalai Lama - Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, Days 3 and 4

Here are the morning and afternoon sessions of the third day, and the single session from the fourth day, of His Holiness the Dalai Lama's four day teaching on Shantideva's "Guide to a Bodhisattva's Way of Life" given at the request of a group from Russia in Delhi, India, on December 24-27, 2012. His Holiness speaks in Tibetan followed by an English translation.

Morning Session:


Afternoon Session:


Day 4, only session:

The Dalai Lama - Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life - Day 2

These are the morning and afternoon sessions given on Day 2 of His Holiness the Dalai Lama's four day teaching on Shantideva's "Guide to a Bodhisattva's Way of Life" given at the request of a group from Russia in Delhi, India, on December 24-27, 2012. His Holiness speaks in Tibetan followed by an English translation.

You can watch Day 1 here.

Morning Session:


Afternoon Session:

The Dalai Lama - Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life - Day 1

This is the morning session of a four-day teaching from the Dalai Lama on a Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, delivered December 24-27, 2012 in Delhi, India. This post will contain the two lectures from day one.

The Dalai Lama - Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life - Delhi, 2012, Day 1

Morning session of the first day of His Holiness the Dalai Lama's four day teaching on Shantideva's "Guide to a Bodhisattva's Way of Life" given at the request of a group from Russia in Delhi, India, on December 24-27, 2012. His Holiness speaks in Tibetan followed by an English translation.

Afternoon session of the first day of His Holiness the Dalai Lama's four day teaching on Shantideva's "Guide to a Bodhisattva's Way of Life" given at the request of a group from Russia in Delhi, India, on December 24-27, 2012. His Holiness speaks in Tibetan followed by an English translation.

The Dalai Lama's 3-Day Teaching on Shantideva's "A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of LIfe"

The first video is the morning session of the first day of His Holiness the Dalai Lama's three-day teaching on Shantideva's "A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of LIfe" given at the Main Tibetan Temple in Dharamsala, India, on September 4-6, 2012.

Each of the following videos continue from there - covering the three day series of lectures.

Day One - Morning


Day One - Afternoon


Day Two - Morning


Day Two - Afternoon


Day Three - Morning


Day Three - Afternoon Q and A

David Loy - The New Bodhisattva path

David Loy

This is a nice dharma teaching from David Loy at Dharma Seed - this was part of a seven-day retreat at Spirit Rock Meditation Center - Awakening in Service and Action: A Study Retreat on Socially Engaged Buddhism.

2012-05-27The New Bodhisattva path - 59:52
Notes for a Buddhist Revolultion
With David Loy

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The whole retreat is available here, but this other talk also got my attention, so I'll share it, too.

2012-05-26
Practicing with Difficult Emotions and thoughts - 56:56
With  Donald Rothberg

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We look at several ways to practice when strong, difficult emotions and thoughts are present. 1) Finding antidotes - ways to get unstuck if we are stuck; 2) mindfulness using various tools; and 3) wisdom.

Michael Stone - Awake In the World - On Samskaras and the Bodhisattva Vow

I'm not sure how I found this, but it's an interesting talk, especially for the Buddhist crowd. Michael Stone is a yoga teacher and Buddhist teacher. He travels internationally teaching about the intersection of Yoga, Buddhism and mental health. He has written four books with Shambhala Publications on ethics, yoga's subtle body, inner/outer pilgrimages, and the sometimes uneasy blend of social engagement and Buddhism. Please check out the website at www.centreofgravity.org. He is also a contributor at Elephant Journal.

Michael Stone - Awake In the World - On Samskaras and the Bodhisattva Vow

 

Michael Stone - Awake In the World - On Samskaras and the Bodhisattva Vow 

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The practice of yoga is a practice of intimacy. The process of reaching into the physical, psychological and other interdependent sheaths of the postures wakes us up to the intelligence of life.

Through becoming intimate with the breathing patterns, bandhas and stillness of meditative awareness we wake to our lives and realize the possibility of serving others. Yoga Philosophy and practice, juxtaposed with Buddhism and western Psychology gives us the tools for personal healing and social action.

Learn more about Michael Stone
http://www.centreofgravity.org/

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The Dalai Lama - The Wishing Bodhimind

THE PATH TO ENLIGHTENMENT
by H.H. the Dalai Lama,
edited and translated by Glenn H. Mullinmore...




Dalai Lama Quote of the Week


All beings suffer in the same way as we do, and some are even more deeply immersed in sorrow. Yet all of these beings wish to experience only happiness and to avoid all suffering, frustration, and pain. They wish lasting happiness but do not know how to cultivate its causes, and they wish to avoid misery but automatically collect only causes of further misery. As Shantideva said, "Although seeking happiness, they destroy their own causes of happiness as they would an enemy. And although seeking to avoid misery, they treat its causes as they would a close friend."


Were the countless sentient beings unrelated to us, or were they not to mind their sufferings, perhaps there would be no need for us to bother with their welfare. In reality, however, all are related to us and not one of them wishes to suffer. Over the billions of lifetimes that we have experienced since beginningless time, we have known all the living beings again and again. Sometimes they have been parents to us, sometimes friends or mates, sometimes enemies. Without exception, each of them has been even a mother to us again and again, performing all the kindnesses of a mother. How can we be indifferent to them?


Wishing them to have only happiness and its causes and to be free of suffering and its causes, we ourselves should generate a sense of responsibility for their well-being. Finally, as only an omniscient Enlightened One is effectively able to benefit beings in deep, lasting, and ultimate ways, we must quickly attain enlightenment. This is the wishing bodhimind, the inner basis of Mahayana practice.(p.136)


--from The Path to Enlightenment by H.H. the Dalai Lama, edited and translated by Glenn H. Mullin, published by Snow Lion Publications

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Sogyal Rinpoche's Glimpse of the Day for September 15, 2011

A daily quotation from the book "Glimpse After Glimpse" by Sogyal Rinpoche. The image is Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom.

What the world needs more than anything is bodhisattvas, active servants of peace, “clothed,” as Longchenpa said, “in the armor of perseverance,” dedicated to their bodhisattva vision and to the spreading of wisdom into all reaches of our experience. We need bodhisattva lawyers, bodhisattva artists and politicians, bodhisattva doctors and economists, bodhisattva teachers and scientists, bodhisattva technicians and engineers, bodhisattvas everywhere, working consciously as channels of compassion and wisdom at every level and in every situation of society; working to transform their minds and actions and those of others, working tirelessly in the certain knowledge of the support of the buddhas and enlightened beings for the preservation of our world and for a more merciful future.

Amen.