An expression of your Compassion: A teaching by H.E. Tsem Rinpoche Tsem Rinpoche gave a really lovely teaching to a few of us yesterday about the significance of doing pujas (literal translation: a set of rituals and prayers done to remove obstacles). Here is the full, unedited transcript of his teaching, straight from the...
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Dear friends, This is really beautiful and I want to share these with you. Take a few minutes out to enjoy and be blessed. Tsem Rinpoche Tsongkhapa in Denma Gonsa Monastery Who was Lama Tsongkhapa? Lama Tsongkhapa (1357-1419) was a Buddhist scholar and saint who lived in Tibet during a time when...
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My dear friends, This is very powerful prayer to Heruka Chakrasamvara written by Changkya Rolpai Dorje or one of the previous incarnations of His Holiness Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche. This prayer can be done daily or as and when you like in order to create a closer connection to Heruka and Vajra Yogini. This prayer...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Never say “I CAN’T change”, never say “It’s TOO LATE to change”, because when you say it you are thinking it, when you are thinking it, you open up that karma that “you CANNOT change”. You CAN change, you CAN transform, you CAN improve, we can overcome it when we think...
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Advice from Atisha A Lamp for the Enlightened Path Advice to Namdak Tsuknor Bodhisattva’s Jewel Garland Translation by Thubten Jinpa Translation by Alexander Berzin The Jewel Rosary of an Awakening Warrior Essential Wealth for the Warrior-like People Who Wish to be Liberated Seven Point Mind Training Prayer Root Lines of Mahayana Mind Training...
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(译文请往下阅读) (By Tsem Rinpoche) What is hardship? Is there really a definitive way of classifying a certain situation as hardship? What may be difficult for you and I may not be a problem for another person. I have been a Dharma teacher for more than 25 years and during this time, I’ve encountered many people who face obstacles when they try to engage in spiritual practice. Many times, these obstacles are self created… and the answer is instant if they choose to view things differently. I recently read an article about a group of ascet...
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(译文请往下阅读) (By Tsem Rinpoche) His Holiness Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche was one of the most famous, sought-after and extremely powerful teachers of recent times in Tibet. Pabongka Rinpoche comes from a long line of incarnations stemming back to the tutors of the emperors of China, such as his incarnation as Changkya Rolpe Dorje. As Pabongka Tulku, this attained master is counted as the third of his incarnation lineage but prior to his name and recognition as Pabongka Tulku, He has had innumerable incarnations. When Pabongka Rinpoche taught in Tibet,...
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I request His Holiness the Dalai Lama to please look at the sufferings of all beings, not just non-Dorje Shugden practitioners, and for His Holiness the Dalai Lama to please look at the sufferings of all beings, not just non-Dorje Shugden practitioners. We love you, we respect you, we miss you, we would like...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) In life after life since the time of the historical Buddha you have incarnated in a string of scholars, masters and yogis with the express wish to liberate others from sufferings. Your many emanations and incarnations are both seen and unseen. Common and uncommon in Dharmakhaya, Sambhogakhaya and Nirmanakaya forms...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends I care about, Try to make the tormas big as usual the way it’s done daily, but much more refined and symmetrical also. Not bulgy looking. The size we do daily is very good. Just more refined. Offer the best tormas with best ingredients to the holy Buddhas daily.This...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear students and friends, In Buddhism, there are various practices that we can engage in to help remove obstacles and receive the conditions that we need in order to pursue our path to enlightenment. Being in samsara, we are subjected to and influenced by certain rules that are not within our...
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I lived in a family that was Mongolian and my Mongolian stepmother in Howell, New Jersey was very religious and at the same time, extremely superstitious. Every Mongolian household in Howell – and there were a couple of hundred of us – would have a Buddhist shrine room or shrine area in their homes. That means...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends around the world, I found this to be interesting. Obviously people have had attachments to the body which causes us to take up actions that bind us for a lifetime pulling us away sometimes from higher spiritual attainments. We think we can do something for a while, but it...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) When Buddhas give teachings, it is specifically to benefit the listener. When the listener applies the teachings of the Buddhas and becomes enlightened, that person becomes another Buddha, and that person may teach others and so on. Therefore the number of Buddhas in existence is limitless, and the number of...
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Dear BOD, Respected Pastors and Students, Be kind to each other. Work with each other. Do not ask for exceptions, special treatment for oneself or one’s family but be leaders that make policies in all our departments and facilities that benefit the organization and our future. Make policies that benefit the organization as a...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Everything in life has false dualistic views. If we choose to enter the door of dualism, then we get hurt, disappointed, and bitter in the end. If we choose a better doorway which is emptiness, then the door leads seemingly nowhere yet everywhere. Emptiness of dualism. Whatever we choose, everything ends in death...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Twenty-Seven Verses On Mind Training Je Tsongkapa (1357-1419) 1 ) With body, speech, and mind fully aligned, I prostrate fervently before those rare beings, who are victorious over all notions of limitation, and before their spiritual daughters and sons. May a cosmic celebration of pure poetry, perfectly expressing the most...
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You may be bigger, stronger, and more faster now….but there’s this thing called karma and impermanence. All situations will end one day. Nothing is permanent. Hence you may be strong and powerful today, but at a later date it might be the reversed. Never take refuge in power or having the ability to take advantage, hurt...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) We believe sponsoring the Dharma in anyway has many benefits. Some of the benefits are: One will understand easier the subject you are making available to others. You will have easy acccess to dharma in this and future lives. Whatever practice you engage in will get results. Less obstacles for your...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) The Praise to Mañjuśrī ༄༅། །དཔལ་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཡོན་ཏན་བཟང་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་བསྟོད་པ། ། The Praise to Mañjuśrī: Glorious Wisdom’s Excellent Qualities རྒྱ་གར་སྐད་དུ། །ཤྲཱི་ཛྙཱ་ན་གུ་ཎ་བྷ་དྲ་ནཱ་མསྟུ་སྟི། ། In the language of India: śrī jñāna guṇa bhadra nāma stuti བོད་སྐད་དུ། །དཔལ་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཡོན་ཏན་བཟང་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་བསྟོད་པ། ། In the language of Tibet: dpal ye shes yon tan bzang po zhes bya ba’i bstod pa Begin Praise བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་འཇམ་པའི་དབྱངས་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། ། chomden dé jampé yang la chaktsal lo Homage to the Lord Mañjughoṣa! གང་གི་བློ་གྲོས་...
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