Gen-la Thubten: Recent Episodes
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Gen-la Thubten shares insights from Geshe-la's teachings, explaining how we all have the potential to become a Buddha. He introduces the idea of virtuous discrimination, encouraging us to view all beings as our mothers. This shift in perspective can help us to build compassion and deepen our connections with others.
Gen-la Thubten emphasizes the importance of watching our minds and observing our automatic reactions to pleasant or unpleasant feelings. The first step towards letting go of our feelings is to observe them without taking them seriously and to put some space between the feeling arising and our reaction to it. Using this space we can cultivate the wisdom that realizes the non-true existence of feelings. This wisdom is so powerful that it gives us a smooth mind, making the feelings much more manageable.
When ordinary beings experience pleasant feelings, they develop attachment, unpleasant feelings cause anger and neutral feelings cause ignorance. These minds lead to all our suffering and problems. However, beings like Arhats and Bodhisattvas, who have attained liberation from suffering through meditation on emptiness, experience only uncontaminated pleasant feelings. Gen-la emphasizes the importance of becoming aware of our own minds and observing automatic reactions to our feelings in order to overcome delusions and suffering.
How to avoid following habitual negative ways of thinking through applying effort in training the mind.More information on this subject can be found in the books How to Transform Your Life and Modern Buddhism.
If Buddha Shakyamuni was the first to give his teachings, who then were his disciples? He asked eight Buddhas to appear as his disciples to show living beings how to be qualified disciples. It was Bodhisattva Vajrapani who requested Tantric teachings. Vajrapani has powerful mental power. Wrath in our context means strong compassion.
Subtle conventional truth is the heart of Buddha’s teachings. The things we normally see, gross conventional truth, are a projection of ignorance. They are like dreams are a projection of the dreaming mind.
Training in tranquility abiding. Abiding means remaining. Remaining on the object means not moving from the object. Conceptual distractions arise from the mind.
More information on this subject can be found in the books Clear Light of Bliss and The Oral Instructions of the Mahamudra.
Discusses mind function. See cognise recognise, see, perceive recognise. Another function is to impute. Talks about how the mental factor discrimination in association with our conceptual minds is what imputes.
We cannot recognise our clear light mind during sleep as we are so attached to our gross mind, we need to learn to remain mindful when clear light manifest either during sleep and in meditation, and use that mind to realise the lack of inherent existence of all phenomena. Without meditating with our very subtle mind, we cannot attain enlightenment.
The common tradition of mahamudra focus on the navel to gather the wind to enter the centre channel and cause the drops in the centre channel to melt, at the navel to gather the wind into centre channel, generate the mind of clear light; The uncommon lineage of mahamudra, also called the close lineage, we meditate on the heart, bring the wind enter the centre channel at the heart chakra.
Definitive Heruka pervades everywhere. If we can see our Spiritual guide as an emanation of Heruka we can see Heruka. Its a dependent related phenomena. We need familiarity and training in the thought my Spiritual Guide is Heruka. We need faith.
The meaning of the name Heruka. Definitive Heruka. Interpretive Heruka. He reveals the entire path to enlightenment through his body. He is the manifestation of the compassion of all the Buddhas. Through relying on him with faith we can attain the union of bliss and emptiness.
Offering medicines and ourself as a servant. How to overcome the 404 diseases of the delusions
The practice of Offering to the Spiritual Guide. Developing and increasing our faith in our Spiritual Guide is the supreme offering to our Guru.
Our commitment to visualise the Buddhas in front of us and the Buddha's commitment to emanate a gross form body for all to see.