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The FPMT is an organization devoted to preserving and spreading Mahayana Buddhism worldwide by creating opportunities to listen, reflect, meditate, practice and actualize the unmistaken teachings of the Buddha and based on that experience spreading the Dharma to sentient beings. We provide integrated education through which people’s minds and hearts can be transformed into their highest potential for the benefit of others, inspired by an attitude of universal responsibility and service. We are committed to creating harmonious environments and helping all beings develop their full potential of infinite wisdom and compassion. Our organization is based on the Buddhist tradition of Lama Tsongkhapa of Tibet as taught to us by our founders Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche.
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Die Stiftung zur Erhaltung der Mahayana Tradition (FPMT) ist eine Organisation, die sich weltweit für die Erhaltung und Verbreitung des Mahayana-Buddhismus einsetzt, indem sie Möglichkeiten schafft, den makellosen Lehren des Buddha zuzuhören, über sie zur reflektieren und zu meditieren und auf der Grundlage dieser Erfahrung das Dharma unter den Lebewesen zu verbreiten.
Wir bieten integrierte Schulungswege an, durch denen der Geist und das Herz der Menschen in ihr höchstes Potential verwandelt werden zum Wohl der anderen – inspiriert durch eine Haltung der universellen Verantwortung und dem Wunsch zu dienen. Wir haben uns verpflichtet, harmonische Umgebungen zu schaffen und allen Wesen zu helfen, ihr volles Potenzial unendlicher Weisheit und grenzenlosen Mitgefühls zu verwirklichen.
Unsere Organisation basiert auf der buddhistischen Tradition von Lama Tsongkhapa von Tibet, so wie sie uns von unseren Gründern Lama Thubten Yeshe und Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche gelehrt wird.
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La Fundación para la preservación de la tradición Mahayana (FPMT) es una organización que se dedica a preservar y difundir el budismo Mahayana en todo el mundo, creando oportunidades para escuchar, reflexionar, meditar, practicar y actualizar las enseñanzas inconfundibles de Buda y en base a esa experiencia difundir el Dharma a los seres.
Proporcionamos una educación integrada a través de la cual las mentes y los corazones de las personas se pueden transformar en su mayor potencial para el beneficio de los demás, inspirados por una actitud de responsabilidad y servicio universales. Estamos comprometidos a crear ambientes armoniosos y ayudar a todos los seres a desarrollar todo su potencial de infinita sabiduría y compasión.
Nuestra organización se basa en la tradición budista de Lama Tsongkhapa del Tíbet como nos lo enseñaron nuestros fundadores Lama Thubten Yeshe y Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
A continuación puede ver una lista de los centros y sus páginas web en su lengua preferida.
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L’organisation de la FPMT a pour vocation la préservation et la diffusion du bouddhisme du mahayana dans le monde entier. Elle offre l’opportunité d’écouter, de réfléchir, de méditer, de pratiquer et de réaliser les enseignements excellents du Bouddha, pour ensuite transmettre le Dharma à tous les êtres. Nous proposons une formation intégrée grâce à laquelle le cœur et l’esprit de chacun peuvent accomplir leur potentiel le plus élevé pour le bien d’autrui, inspirés par le sens du service et une responsabilité universelle. Nous nous engageons à créer un environnement harmonieux et à aider tous les êtres à épanouir leur potentiel illimité de compassion et de sagesse. Notre organisation s’appuie sur la tradition guéloukpa de Lama Tsongkhapa du Tibet, telle qu’elle a été enseignée par nos fondateurs Lama Thoubtèn Yéshé et Lama Zopa Rinpoché.
Visitez le site de notre Editions Mahayana pour les traductions, conseils et nouvelles du Bureau international en français.
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L’FPMT è un organizzazione il cui scopo è preservare e diffondere il Buddhismo Mahayana nel mondo, creando occasioni di ascolto, riflessione, meditazione e pratica dei perfetti insegnamenti del Buddha, al fine di attualizzare e diffondere il Dharma fra tutti gli esseri senzienti.
Offriamo un’educazione integrata, che può trasformare la mente e i cuori delle persone nel loro massimo potenziale, per il beneficio di tutti gli esseri, ispirati da un’attitudine di responsabilità universale e di servizio.
Il nostro obiettivo è quello di creare contesti armoniosi e aiutare tutti gli esseri a sviluppare in modo completo le proprie potenzialità di infinita saggezza e compassione.
La nostra organizzazione si basa sulla tradizione buddhista di Lama Tsongkhapa del Tibet, così come ci è stata insegnata dai nostri fondatori Lama Thubten Yeshe e Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
Di seguito potete trovare un elenco dei centri e dei loro siti nella lingua da voi prescelta.
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“护持大乘法脉基金会”( 英文简称:FPMT。全名:Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition) 是一个致力于护持和弘扬大乘佛法的国际佛教组织。我们提供听闻,思维,禅修,修行和实证佛陀无误教法的机会,以便让一切众生都能够享受佛法的指引和滋润。
我们全力创造和谐融洽的环境, 为人们提供解行并重的完整佛法教育,以便启发内在的环宇悲心及责任心,并开发内心所蕴藏的巨大潜能 — 无限的智慧与悲心 — 以便利益和服务一切有情。
FPMT的创办人是图腾耶喜喇嘛和喇嘛梭巴仁波切。我们所修习的是由两位上师所教导的,西藏喀巴大师的佛法传承。
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護持大乘法脈基金會”( 英文簡稱:FPMT。全名:Found
ation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition ) 是一個致力於護持和弘揚大乘佛法的國際佛教組織。我們提供聽聞, 思維,禪修,修行和實證佛陀無誤教法的機會,以便讓一切眾生都能 夠享受佛法的指引和滋潤。 我們全力創造和諧融洽的環境,
為人們提供解行並重的完整佛法教育,以便啟發內在的環宇悲心及責 任心,並開發內心所蘊藏的巨大潛能 — 無限的智慧與悲心 – – 以便利益和服務一切有情。 FPMT的創辦人是圖騰耶喜喇嘛和喇嘛梭巴仁波切。
我們所修習的是由兩位上師所教導的,西藏喀巴大師的佛法傳承。 察看道场信息:
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche News
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche traveled at the end of July 2015 to New York City, where he is spending the month of August. The primary reason for Rinpoche’s visit to New York was to receive oral transmissions from Khyongla Rato Rinpoche, a highly respected Gelug master and the founder of the Tibet Center in New York City.
Over the years, Lama Zopa Rinpoche has received transmission from Khyongla Rato Rinpoche, who is 93 years old, most happening in India. But this time, Lama Zopa Rinpoche received oral transmissions over a period of three weeks, meeting with Khyongla Rato Rinpoche on most days for about three hours either in New York or New Jersey. During the first week of transmissions Khyongla Rato Rinpoche would come to the apartment where Lama Zopa Rinpoche was staying in the city. The following weeks, Lama Zopa Rinpoche would travel to New Jersey, where Khyongla Rato Rinpoche lives, to receive the transmissions.
According to Ven. Roger Kunsang, Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s assistant and CEO of FPMT, Khyongla Rato Rinpoche, while frail, is still able to move around and is quite sharp. “He’s very low-key and humble. He also has his own peculiar sense of humor,” Ven. Roger shared. “There was quite a lot of joking between Khyongla Rato Rinpoche and Lama Zopa Rinpoche during the visits.”
After the first week, Khen Rinpoche Nicholas Vreeland — who is the first Western abbot of a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in India, which is Rato Monastery — arrived from Singapore where he had been assisting with His Eminence Ling Rinpoche’s visit. Khen Rinpoche, who is a devoted, long-time student of Khyongla Rato Rinpoche, also received the oral transmissions. [See Mandala‘s “The ‘Monk with a Camera’: An Interview with Khen Rinpoche Nicholas Vreeland,” for more.]
Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches at the Tibet House in New York City on Thursday, August 27, and Friday, August 28, at 7 p.m. The teachings on “Opening the Door to Liberation” are organized by Shantideva Meditation Center. For details, visit their website.
Rinpoche is also giving a long life initiation of Most Secret Hayagriva at 10 a.m. on Sunday, August 30, at 41 – 01 75th Street, Elmhurst, New York. The event is organized by Ogmin Jangchub Sishu Tsogpa, the association of Kopan’s ex-monks and nuns in New York.
More information, photos and updates about FPMT spiritual director Lama Zopa Rinpoche can be found on Rinpoche’s webpage. If you’d like to receive news of Lama Zopa Rinpoche via email, sign up to FPMT News.
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“Since we want only happiness and no suffering, it is extremely important for us to practice Dharma,” Lama Zopa Rinpoche says in “In Search of a Meaningful Life” in Teachings from Tibet, an updated and reprinted collection of lineage master teachings from Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive.
“Dharma is not chanting, doing rituals or wearing uniforms; it’s developing the mind, the inner factor. We have many different inner factors: negative ones, such as the unsubdued mind, ignorance, delusions and so forth; and positive ones, such as love, compassion, wisdom and the like. Dharma practice is the destruction of our negative mental factors and the cultivation of our positive ones.
“Linguistically, the word ‘dharma’ means ‘existent phenomenon,’ but when we say ‘the practice of Dharma’ or ‘holy Dharma,’ it means that which protects us from suffering. That is the meaning of the holy Dharma; that is the Dharma we should practice.”
Find Teachings from Tibet on the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive: https://www.lamayeshe.com/shop/teachings-tibet
Lama Zopa Rinpoche is the spiritual director of the Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), a Tibetan Buddhist organization dedicated to the transmission of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition and values worldwide through teaching, meditation and community service.
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“The conclusion is that we can’t say past and future lives don’t exist just because we can’t remember them,” Lama Zopa Rinpoche says in Creating the Causes of Happiness, the second volume in a Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive series drawn from the 24th Kopan course in 1991. “We can’t say they don’t exist. It’s possible that past and future lives exist. It can be possible. It can be possible. Even if it’s not a hundred percent sure, it can be possible. Therefore, it’s wiser to make preparations for the next life, it’s better, it’s wiser, before it gets too late. I’m not talking about lunch!
“What was I saying?
“Before we regret it and have to actually experience the result, the suffering, before out life ends, it’s wise to make preparations for the happiness of future lives. It’s wise to make preparations for liberation, for the cessation of the whole, entire suffering and its causes. It’s even wiser to achieve full enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings.”
Find Creating the Causes of Happiness on Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive: http://bit.ly/creating-the-causes-of-happiness.
Learn more about Lama Zopa Rinpoche, spiritual director of the Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), and Rinpoche’s vision for a better world. Sign up to receive news and updates.
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“Of course, we should respect all the religions, all the major religions in the world,” Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches in a new video on FPMT’s YouTube channel. “People don’t have the karma and are unable to be Christian, unable to be Muslim, unable to be Buddhist – they don’t have merit, they don’t have the karma. People find happiness in whichever religion they follow. Not everybody is Christian, not everybody is Muslim, Hindu or Buddhist. They get happiness from other religions. So, we must respect others. That’s so important. But, animal sacrifice should be checked and analyzed. …”
Watch “Respect Other Religions, But Analyze Animal Sacrifice” on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzyfFFZL6Lk
You can watch more video clips of Lama Zopa Rinpoche on FPMT’s YouTube page: http://bit.ly/fpmt-youtube
For longer videos of Rinpoche teaching, visit: http://bit.ly/rinpoche-available-now
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Wildfires are burning out of control in many parts of the United States’ Pacific Northwest, including several large fires in Okanogan County, Washington, where both Buddha Amitabha Pure Land (BAPL) and Pamtingpa Center are located. Sangha were evacuated from Buddha Amitabha Pure Land on Wednesday night, August 19. Members of Pamtingpa Center and other FPMT friends in Tonasket, Washington, were evacuated on Thursday night, August 20.
For anyone in fire danger now or in the future, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advised Sangha at BAPL on Wednesday to “visualize His Holiness the Dalai Lama as the merit field, sending oceans of water where there are fires. The water also releases all beings from the lower realms.” The emphasis was on lots of strong, heavy water. This can be done while reciting the Migtsema prayer (the “Five-Line Prayer to Lama Tsongkhapa”) or Medicine Buddha mantras.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche, who is currently in New York, advised early this week for the Heart Mantra of Arya Vairochana and the image of the White Umbrella Deity (Dukka) to be posted facing outward on the boundaries of Buddha Amitabha Pure Land. This was done by Sangha before being evacuated. Rinpoche also advised Sangha to recite the White Umbrella Deity prayer and the Heart Sutra several times a day. Buddha Amitabha Pure Land is where Rinpoche’s retreat house is located and is also the future site for committed long-term meditation retreatants to attain lam-rim realizations as advised by Rinpoche.
Last year when wildfires were burning in Washington State, Rinpoche gave additional advice on wildfires. Rinpoche has given extensive advice on practices for different natural disasters, including practices for dispelling fire. This advice is always available on Rinpoche’s advice page on FPMT.org:
https://fpmt.org/teachers/zopa/advice/#disasters
Additional advice from Rinpoche on this topic is also available on the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive:
https://www.lamayeshe.com/advice/natural-disasters
Lama Zopa Rinpoche is the spiritual director of the Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), a Tibetan Buddhist organization dedicated to the transmission of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition and values worldwide through teaching, meditation and community service.
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“We also went to see quite a number of old folks’ homes. Also recently in Australia. The first one was in America, I think, in Madison, [Wisconsin.] I was extremely surprised to see those young girls working in old folks’ homes, how they really took such good care,” Lama Zopa Rinpoche remembers in Cutting the Root of Samsara, the third volume in a Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive series drawn from the 24th Kopan course in 1991. “It seemed like it was not just a job to them; they worked with such kindness and sympathy. I was very impressed with that. Even though the old people couldn’t eat solid food, just things like bananas, and they had to be fed by mouth and things like that, these girls showed a lot of patience. I was very impressed by those young girls. I don’t think they had met Dharma.
“It seems there are different mental and physical states. One quite old lady seemed like wood, like a big log of wood lying down on the bed. She couldn’t move. That was very interesting. For somebody who has studied the lam-rim, the whole teachings on the graduated path to enlightenment, I think visiting such a place all day long itself becomes a meditation. If we do the work by looking at it with the understanding of the teachings, with the wisdom of the teachings, I think everything, the whole day, what we see while we’re serving becomes an incredible teaching.
“All day long what we see is the nature of samsara, which is only suffering. It also shows impermanence and becomes the cause of developing compassion. Developing compassion is the cause that makes it possible to have the realization of bodhichitta, and that makes it possible to attain enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings.
“Even if we don’t know the lam-rim, the complete teachings of the graduated path to enlightenment, if we want to develop compassion, to develop a good heart, then I think doing such work, that service, with that motivation is excellent.”
Find Cutting the Root of Samsara on the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive: http://bit.ly/cutting-the-root-of-samsara
Lama Zopa Rinpoche is the spiritual director of the Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), a Tibetan Buddhist organization dedicated to the transmission of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition and values worldwide through teaching, meditation and community service.
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“The usual [way of thinking] is that you can harm anybody in the world who you don’t like. You kill, you do every bad thing to others who you don’t like. But, nobody can harm you!” Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches in a new video on FPMT’s YouTube channel. “You see, that’s the self-cherishing thought – it’s a dictatorship. You can kill anyone you don’t like, but ‘no one can harm me.’ It’s totally unreasonable, not logical; it’s just the dictatorship of the self-cherishing thought. If you are educated, how can you agree with that? If you’re an educated person, if you’re not crazy, how can you agree with that? You can harm anybody, but no one can harm you? This is just falling into self-cherishing. This is all logic; it’s just the self-cherishing thought.
“So in the Bodhisattvacharyavatara it says it’s deserved. Because I harmed that being before, that’s why, now, they harmed me this time. So, I deserve it. … If I didn’t harm other sentient beings in the past, I wouldn’t receive this harm now. …”
Watch “What to Think When Others Harm You” on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpgeOPm_40w
You can watch more video clips of Lama Zopa Rinpoche on FPMT’s YouTube page: http://bit.ly/fpmt-youtube
For longer videos of Rinpoche teaching, visit: http://bit.ly/rinpoche-available-now
Learn more about Lama Zopa Rinpoche, spiritual director of the Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), and Rinpoche’s vision for a better world. Sign up to receive news and updates.
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Wildfires, typhoons, earthquakes and other natural disasters can affect FPMT students, centers, projects and services around the world. And Lama Zopa Rinpoche has given advice on practices for different natural disasters. This advice is always available on Rinpoche’s advice page on FPMT.org:
https://fpmt.org/teachers/zopa/advice/#disasters
Additional advice from Rinpoche on this topic is also available on the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive:
https://www.lamayeshe.com/advice/natural-disasters
The FPMT Foundation Store stocks many protection items that can offer benefit in threatening times. The new Vairochana Mantra Card, for example, protects from harm from “weapons, fire, water, poisons, substances mixed with poisons, black magic; one cannot be harmed by kings, thieves, robbers, and so forth.” Rinpoche has said, “Wherever this mantra is written and left, people do not receive sicknesses, harm and contagious diseases and will achieve the concentration called stainless light.”
Lama Zopa Rinpoche is the spiritual director of the Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), a Tibetan Buddhist organization dedicated to the transmission of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition and values worldwide through teaching, meditation and community service.
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“Bodhichitta is what makes life most beneficial for oneself and meaningful for every single sentient being that exists, because every single one is suffering and needs help,” Lama Zopa Rinpoche said to a student who asked, “What is the best and quickest way to generate bodhichitta?” Rinpoche’s extensive answer to the question continues:
“Bodhichitta makes your life most beneficial for every single other being, who are countless. Not only is it what makes your life beneficial, but when you are practicing bodhichitta, this fulfills the wishes of all the buddhas and bodhisattvas, because their only wish is the happiness of sentient beings. Buddhas actualize the path, collecting extensive merit of wisdom and of virtue, and purify the defilements, and then they achieve enlightenment in order to be able to perform perfect works, without any error, liberating all sentient beings, without any exception, and bringing them to highest happiness.
“This is the objective of their life, and their only concern is the happiness of others. Their aim is only that. Their concern is sentient beings obscured in suffering. What they cherish is nobody except sentient beings. The thought of seeking happiness for themselves doesn’t arise for even one second after having realizations of bodhichitta. Bodhisattvas, while they have bodhichitta, are like that. Of course, sometimes it is possible for some new bodhisattvas’ realizations to degenerate. Whereas for us, though the thought of cherishing others may arise, it is very rare. Even though it may arise, it does so only very occasionally. It is still not complete. It can still be very weak. The thought of cherishing the ‘I’ is still stronger than the thought of cherishing others. Buddhas also achieve enlightenment only for the benefit of sentient beings. They cherish no one else except sentient beings; they work only for sentient beings.
“When we practice compassion in our daily lives, when we perform actions with the thought of cherishing others, whether it is a small service or a big service, at that time we are fulfilling the wishes of countless buddhas and bodhisattvas. Therefore, practicing bodhichitta, serving others, and cherishing others is the best offering to numberless bodhisattvas and to all the buddhas. It is the best offering. This is what pleases them the most. So, now the purpose of our life is to free countless other sentient beings and bring them to happiness. Since that is the purpose of our life, to do that perfectly, to be a perfect guide, we need full enlightenment, in essence, to have omniscient mind and complete, perfect power to reveal the path to bring sentient beings to enlightenment by liberating them from suffering, and for this we need to complete the mind training in compassion. That is it in essence. …”
Rinpoche’s complete response to the question “What is the best and quickest way to generate bodhichitta?” can be read in the Lama Zopa Rinpoche Online Advice Book on the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive under the post “Generating Bodhicitta”: https://www.lamayeshe.com/index.php?sect=article&id=588
More information, photos and updates about FPMT spiritual director Lama Zopa Rinpoche can be found on Rinpoche’s webpage. If you’d like to receive news of Lama Zopa Rinpoche via email, sign up to FPMT News.
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When Lama Zopa Rinpoche arrived in the United States in late July, he was received with a big Sherpa welcome. About two dozen Sherpas greeted Rinpoche at the airport with khatas, offerings and tea, even bringing a puja table. New York City reportedly has the largest settlement of Sherpa people outside of Nepal and India, numbering 2,500.
During the New York visit, Rinpoche has already given an oral transmission of the Vajra Cutter Sutra to a gathering of Sherpas and has also done Chöd practice.
On August 30, Rinpoche will give the long life initiation of Most Secret Hayagriva at 10 a.m. at 41 – 01 75th Street, Elmhurst, New York 11373. The initiation is being organized by the Kopan Sherpa Association in New York.
Rinpoche’s other teachings in New York, organized by Shantideva Center, are on August 21, 27 and 28 at Tibet House. And there will be a Guru Puja with Rinpoche on August 25 at Jewel Heart Center.
More information, photos and updates about FPMT spiritual director Lama Zopa Rinpoche can be found on Rinpoche’s webpage. If you’d like to receive news of Lama Zopa Rinpoche via email, sign up to Lama Zopa Rinpoche News.
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“Buddha said to examine his own teachings,” Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches in a new video on FPMT’s YouTube channel, recorded at Kopan Monastery in December 2014. “He advised bhikshus, the monks, ‘Learned ones take my teachings like gold: you burn, cut, rub. Like that, you take my teachings and then practice. Don’t practice blindly.’ Buddha said that. …”
Watch “Check a Religion Like You Would Check Something You Want to Buy” on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq07yP-tRzs
You can watch more video clips of Lama Zopa Rinpoche on FPMT’s YouTube page: http://bit.ly/fpmt-youtube
For longer videos of Rinpoche teaching, visit: http://bit.ly/rinpoche-available-now
Learn more about Lama Zopa Rinpoche, spiritual director of the Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), and Rinpoche’s vision for a better world. Sign up to receive news and updates.
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“Whether a believer or non-believer, the most important thing is to actualize ultimate wisdom,” Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches in a new video available on FPMT’s YouTube channel. The teaching took place during Rinpoche’s July 2015 visit to Copenhagen, Denmark, organized by Tong-nyi Nying-Je Ling. “It is the most important thing to eliminate the root of samsara, to eliminate directly the root of samsara, the root of all suffering, not just cancer, not just diarrhea, not just a headache, but the entire suffering or rebirth, old age, sickness, and death.
“If you don’t want to die then you have to actualize it. If you don’t want to be reborn, if you don’t want to get old or fall sick, you must actualize the ultimate wisdom realizing the ultimate truth. You have to know what is the I.
“We have been believing in the I from beginningless rebirths, not only from this morning, not only from the time of conception. No, from beginningless rebirths we have been believing in the I, doing everything for the I, to get power, to get happiness, to get power, to get everything for the I. But we don’t know what the I is.
“It is very, very strange that we don’t know what the I is but we do everything for the I. Can you imagine? You spend a billion dollars, a zillion dollars, those who have dollars you spend everything, also those who have one dollar, everything, you are slave to the I. It is kind of like that but you don’t know what the I is. You have no idea of the I. It is very strange, completely strange.”
Watch “It Is Very Strange That We Don’t Know What the I Is” on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvbzUSc1GQA
You can watch more video clips of Lama Zopa Rinpoche on FPMT’s YouTube page: http://bit.ly/fpmt-youtube
For longer videos of Rinpoche teaching, visit: http://bit.ly/rinpoche-available-now
Learn more about Lama Zopa Rinpoche, spiritual director of the Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), and Rinpoche’s vision for a better world. Sign up to receive news and updates.
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