- Please read the Sanghata Sutra 300 times. Students can also write it out.
- Offer gold to statues that are dull or tarnished.
- Perform the practice of offering water to Dzambala's crown.
- Make a two-storey Dzambala statue.
Working at the Dharma Center
Working at the Dharma Center
Date Posted:
October 2006
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a Dharma center as to which practices students could do in order to develop the center.
Date Posted:
October 2006
Rinpoche gave the following advice to students at a Dharma center.
My very dear fortunate ones, whose hearts are opened for liberation and to bring others, who are countless, to liberation and full enlightenment.
I am very happy to hear that the group is stable, continuing to learn the path to enlightenment and practice.
Please continue to learn from the geshe as much as possible while he is there. Later, you will rejoice so much. Even after you have achieved enlightenment and after you have enlightened all suffering beings, still you will enjoy the Dharma. Even at that time, there is nothing in life better than meditating on and practicing the lamrim. This is the best life, because it is not suffering, and you attain everything from this. You can give all happiness to all suffering beings.
With much love and prayers for all you to have meaningful lives...
Date Posted:
October 2005
Rinpoche offered the following advice concerning which texts to study at new Dharma groups. He also commented which text would be more beneficial for this particular group to study out of a lamrim text, a lo-jong text, or Shantideva’s A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life.
In this case, it would be more beneficial to study a lo-jong text. The lo-jong and lamrim texts are more beneficial for newer groups to study, as they give the outline of the whole path to enlightenment. Shantideva gives more detail of this outline.
So, it is like with the news on the television, the main points are presented and then you can decide whether to stay for the detailed report that follows. So, too, with the lamrim and lo-jong texts: you receive an outline, and then you can choose to study Shantideva for more details of this outline.
Date of Advice:
January 2000
Date Posted:
October 1999
See also:
- The Most Important Thing in the FPMT an extract from a Dharma talk in November 2001.
- The Role of the Center and Study Group, a talk about the purpose of centers and study groups, May 2003.
