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Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition
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.
Voici une liste de centres et de leurs sites dans votre langue préférée
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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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Medicine, Meditation and Karma
By Ven. Chönyi Taylor
There’s the story of the fisherman hanging on to his capsized boat and asking God for help. He turns away a surfer on his board, a jet ski, another boat and even a helicopter saying, “No, God will save me!” After many hours, the fisherman, feeling destitute, pleads to God, “Where are you?” Eventually God looks down from the clouds and says, “I sent you a surfer, a jet skier, a boat and even a helicopter. What else do you expect me to do?”
Of course we would not be like that, or would we? “I’ve been practicing so hard. All those mantras and prostrations and hours of meditation. They’re not working. Nothing is happening. I’m still suffering.”
I remember my early days as a Buddhist when I still imagined that Buddhism was the key to all my suffering (true) and this release from suffering would happen almost immediately (false) because I was being a virtuous practitioner (false). I was making strong requests to Avalokiteshvara that I quickly realize the Eight Verses of Thought Transformation[1]. This is a very powerful practice for exposing our self-cherishing ego (true), but I was strong and could manage the intense purification (false). Suddenly I found myself in the middle of a series of difficult situations, all of which gave me opportunities to practice thought transformation. “No, no,” I said mentally to Avalokiteshvara, “it’s too much. I’ll take my Dharma practice more slowly.”
Suffering is not an obstacle to our Dharma practice. It is our Dharma practice. Or to be more precise, it is only through suffering that we experience our lack of wisdom and compassion and are moved to act so we can change the situation. Removing one form of suffering simply exposes deeper and more subtle levels of suffering, but by this time we have more effective skills to bring into the situation. This remains true right up to the moment before we become a buddha, so there is no point in complaining.
Then there are the immediate causes as well as the root cause for our dissatisfaction with ourselves and our lives. Removing the immediate causes, where it is possible, is like the fisherman accepting the surfer’s offer for a ride back to shore. If we suffer from diabetes, then we can remove some immediate causes through the appropriate diet. When that is not enough, then medication gives us the opportunity to live a full and meaningful life, even if this means daily injections. The same applies to psychiatric medications. If our serotonin levels are down, then finding an effective way to lift them allows us to function more effectively. Unfortunately these are called antidepressants. If we simply called them serotonin boosters, then maybe we would be less likely to have an aversion to them.
Removing an immediate cause to our suffering does not eliminate the root cause, our grasping at a self that does not exist. It can however help us on the way to finding the root cause. We are happy to set up the right environmental conditions to meditate. We are happy to be mindful of the food we eat. Medication is only concentrated food.
We tend not to fuss so much about taking medicine for diabetes or asthma. But we get confused when the disorder is in the brain. Bizarre behavior can sometimes be the result of a tumor or trauma to part of the brain. When we know that, then we excuse the bizarre behavior, maybe try to modify it a bit if we can. When the physical problem relates to faulty neurochemistry, we are not so accepting. There is no identifiable lesion, therefore (we falsely argue) the problem is in my mind and meditation will help more than medication.
Maybe that is true. Maybe the problem has arisen from chronic stress or severe trauma or faulty patterns of thought, and the various interactions between these factors. Calming the mind can and does help, but this may not be enough to change the negative karma which has resulted in a neurological disorder.
Maybe, just maybe, the correct medication is the ripening of your positive karma.
[1] See The Everflowing Nectar of Bodhichitta: The Practice of 1000-Arm Chenrezig and the Eight Verses of Thought Transformation, available through The Foundation Store
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