Awaken Your Mind Series
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This section features a selection of snippets from H.E. Tsem Rinpoche’s Dharma teachings, as well as Rinpoche’s thoughts and views on various issues.
For each snippet, a link to the original full video is provided should you want to learn more.
Do return to this page often as we will bring you more snippets of teachings and sharings from Rinpoche.
Table of Contents
Click here to go to snippets no. 1-5
- How to Not Be Disappointed?
- You Won’t Be Young Forever
- Definitions of the Mind
- Causes for Your Mind to Exist
- Do You Have Karma?
Click here to go to snippets no. 6-10
- How Is Karma Created?
- Discovering the Real You Inside
- Staying in Monastery Is Natural!
- Chasing After Money Is Unnatural?
- Did You Take Your Medicine?
Click here to go to snippets no. 11-15
- Do Not Change Your Culture
- Attending a Dharma Talk
- Respecting Spiritual Gurus
- Is Your Spiritual Guru Wrong?
- Meeting a Spiritual Guru
Click here to go to snippets no. 16-20
- What to Look out for in a Guru or a Spiritual Practitioner?
- The Buddha’s Spoken Words
- Unanswered Questions on the Spiritual Path?
- What Did the Buddha Teach?
- Are You Working for Your Car?
Click here to go to snippets no. 21-25
- Why Offer Ornaments on the Buddhas?
- The Power of Wisdom
- Cause and Effect Explained I
- Cause and Effect Explained II
- Cause and Effect Explained III
Click here to go to snippets no. 26-30
- Three Great Aeons of Practice
- Transforming the Body, Speech and Mind
- The Buddha’s Speech
- How Did the Buddha Attain His Excellent Features?
- What Does a Buddha Look Like?
Click here to go to snippets no. 31-35
- How to Play the Bell?
- The Dakini Dance
- Dakini Dance and Awareness
- The Bell and Damaru
- How to Play the Damaru?
Click here to go to snippets no. 36-40
- The Parts of a Damaru
- Offering Beautiful Sounds to the Buddhas
- How a Damaru Is Made
- The Hidden Meaning Behind a Damaru
- How to Play the Bell and Damaru?
1. How to Not Be Disappointed?
Description: A simple method you can apply to not be disappointed with the people around you. Click here to watch the full video.
2. You Won’t Be Young Forever
Description: So what happens when you are not young anymore? Click here to watch the full video.
3. Definitions of the Mind
Description: Learn about cognition and clarity, explained by H.E. Tsem Rinpoche. Click here to watch the full video.
4. Causes for Your Mind to Exist
Description: Understand the causes for your mind to exist, explained by H.E. Tsem Rinpoche. Click here to watch the full video.
5. Do You Have Karma?
Description: H.E. Tsem Rinpoche gives a short explanation about karma and how it works. Click here to watch the full video.
6. How Is Karma Created?
Description: Do you know how karma is created? Learn from this short explanation by H.E. Tsem Rinpoche. Click here to watch the full video.
7. Discovering the Real You Inside
Description: Do you know who you are inside? Watch this video to find out more about your natural state of mind. Click here to watch the full video.
8. Staying in Monastery Is Natural!
Description: H.E. Tsem Rinpoche explains why staying in a monastery is natural. Watch to understand. Click here to watch the full video.
9. Chasing After Money Is Unnatural?
Description: Chasing after money is unnatural? Watch this video to learn more. Click here to watch the full video.
10. Did You Take Your Medicine?
Description: H.E. Tsem Rinpoche shares about internalising Buddha’s teachings with the example of modern medicine. Click here to watch the full video.
11. Do Not Change Your Culture
Description: You can be who you are and incorporate the Buddha’s teachings into your life. Click here to watch the full video.
12. Attending a Dharma Talk
Description: How should we view our Gurus? What are the proper ways to invite a Guru to teach? Click here to watch the full video.
13. Respecting Spiritual Gurus
Description: A short video about meeting a spiritual guru and how we should practise with the spiritual guru. Click here to watch the full video.
14. Is Your Spiritual Guru Wrong?
Description: Can your spiritual guru be wrong? Click here to watch the full video.
15. Meeting a Spiritual Guru
Description: How can you meet a real spiritual guru? Get some tips from H.E. Tsem Rinpoche who met many great spiritual gurus. Click here to watch the full video.
16. What to Look out for in a Guru or a Spiritual Practitioner?
Description: Some guidelines to help you in your search for a spiritual teacher. Click here to watch the full video.
17. The Buddha’s Spoken Words
Description: Did you know how the Buddha’s spoken words were recorded? Click here to watch the full video.
18. Unanswered Questions on the Spiritual Path?
Description: What’s the purpose of life? Why am I here? Click here to watch the full video.
19. What Did the Buddha Teach?
Description: Buddha Shakyamuni is one of the many spiritual teachers who appeared in the past to give teachings. What did he teach? Click here to watch the full video.
20. Are You Working for Your Car?
Description: Is your car a cause for happiness or suffering? Click here to watch the full video.
21. Why Offer Ornaments on the Buddhas?
Description: How does making offerings to the Buddhas lessen our negative qualities? Click here to watch the full video.
22. The Power of Wisdom
Description: Learn more about a Buddha’s omniscient mind in this short and simple explanation by H.E. Tsem Rinpoche. Click here to watch the full video.
23. Cause and Effect Explained I
Description: H.E. Tsem Rinpoche explains cause and effect (karma) with simple examples from our interpersonal relationships. Click here to watch the full video.
24. Cause and Effect Explained II
Description: H.E. Tsem Rinpoche explains cause and effect (karma) in relations to our actions, the motivation and object. Click here to watch the full video.
25. Cause and Effect Explained III
Description: H.E. Tsem Rinpoche explains cause and effect (karma) in relations to the object of our action. Click here to watch the full video.
26. Three Great Aeons of Practice
Description: How do we save ourselves through the example of Buddha’s enlightenment? Click here to watch the full video.
27. Transforming the Body, Speech and Mind
Description: H.E. Tsem Rinpoche talks about the basis of a blessing and how it can be developed through refraining ourselves from harming others. Click here to watch the full video.
28. The Buddha’s Speech
Description: H.E. Tsem Rinpoche speaks about the qualities of the Buddha’s speech. Click here to watch the full video.
29. How Did the Buddha Attain His Excellent Features?
Description: H.E. Tsem Rinpoche shares some of the Buddha’s features and what led to attaining those features. Click here to watch the full video.
30. What Does a Buddha Look Like?
Description: A Buddha has 32 excellent signs and 80 exemplary features. H.E. Tsem Rinpoche shares some insights into these features. Click here to watch the full video.
31. How to Play the Bell?
Description: H.E. Tsem Rinpoche explains how to play a bell in rituals of Tibetan Buddhism. Click here to watch the full video.
32. The Dakini Dance
Description: H.E. Tsem Rinpoche explains the focus of the dakini dance, which is part of the Kadro Tenshug ritual performed in order to request a Lama to remain long in this world for the benefit of beings. Click here to watch the full video.
33. Dakini Dance and Awareness
Description: H.E. Tsem Rinpoche talks about parts of the Dakini Dance and how the ritual reflects our awareness. Click here to watch the full video.
34. The Bell and Damaru
Description: H.E. Tsem Rinpoche explains what the bell and damaru represent in the Dakini Dance, as well as how to play the damaru well. Click here to watch the full video.
35. How to Play the Damaru?
Description: H.E. Tsem Rinpoche demonstrates how to play a damaru. Click here to watch the full video.
36. The Parts of a Damaru
Description: H.E. Tsem Rinpoche explains the parts of a damaru. Click here to watch the full video.
37. Offering Beautiful Sounds to the Buddhas
Description: H.E. Tsem Rinpoche explains the parts of a damaru in relations to offering to the Buddhas. Click here to watch the full video.
38. How a Damaru Is Made
Description: H.E. Tsem Rinpoche explains how a Damaru is traditionally made. Click here to watch the full video.
39. The Hidden Meaning Behind a Damaru
Description: H.E. Tsem Rinpoche explains how a Damaru represents the qualities of a Buddha, as well as how to hold a Damaru properly. Click here to watch the full video.
40. How to Play the Bell and Damaru?
Description: H.E. Tsem Rinpoche explains how to play a bell and damaru in rituals of Tibetan Buddhism. Click here to watch the full video.
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I want to buy this Damaru
These dharma sharing snippets are very handy and helpful especially for busy people of this modern time. They can listen to it quickly on the go very conveniently. Thank you very much Rinpoche and blog team for sharing these various interesting dharma snippets for the convenience of everyone???????
I want that damru
How can I get this damru
I am looking forward to buy this beautiful DAMARUKAM
These snippets are very handy and helpful especially for people of this modern time. They can listen to it quickly on the go very conveniently. The various topics covered are especially useful for busy people on various levels. There will be more and more of these snippets made and shared here from time to time. Do visit this page from time to time. Thank you!
With deep devotion to the guru, higher meditational insights will arise. Because of not having higher meditational insights, one will not realize the need to have devotion to the guru in order to gain higher insights. They are interdependent.~Tsem Rinpoche
With deep devotion to the guru, higher meditational insights will arise. If one does not have deep devotion to the guru, it is a clear sign one does not have higher meditational insights.~Tsem Rinpoche