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# Lamrim Year Companion

Making Life Meaningful Day By Day

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- [About LYWA](https://lamrimyear.com/about-lywa/) - About Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive The Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive (LYWA) is the collected works of Lama Thubten Yeshe and Kyabje Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche. The Archive was founded in 1996 by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, its spiritual director, to make available in various ways the teachings it contains.Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche began teaching
- [Getting Started](https://lamrimyear.com/getting-started/) - Getting Started Introduction to Lamrim YearThe most important thing is the continuity of developing your mind in the lamrim, the stages of the path to enlightenment.It doesn’t matter if you are in Africa, Tibet, on the moon, in Iraq or wherever, whether you are rich or poor: continue to develop your mind in the lamrim.

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- [Day 363](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-363/) - Our ignorance of the way things ultimately exist—and especially of how the I exists—is the main creator of samsara. This is our worst enemy. This is the ignorance that is the first of the twelve links of dependent origination, the link that initiates the whole process. The ignorance that clings to a sense of a
- [Day 339](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-339/) - Bodhicitta, the altruistic mind that works solely for the enlightenment of all sentient beings, is the key to unlocking the great secret of happiness. With bodhicitta, everything is possible; without it, there will always be limitations. Bodhicitta is a vast mind, the vastest of minds. Compassion is wonderful, but it does not have the power
- [Day 282](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-282/) - We can use our understanding of the twelve links to explore our world and then slowly change it. Attachment—craving and then grasping—arises for a desirable object. If we explore this in the context of the twelve links, we will see that craving and grasping could only have arisen in dependence on the feeling that arose
- [Day 266](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-266/) - If we don’t understand our own problems and know how to help ourselves, how can we possibly think we can help others? We’re just being emotional: no wisdom, no method; we’re just joking. First, we must realize our own situation: “It’s not just me; countless beings on this earth are in the same situation, full
- [Day 238](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-238/) - From beginningless samsaric rebirths up to now, this deluded negative mind has made us suffer numberless times. We have experienced the oceans of suffering of each realm numberless times from beginningless samsaric rebirths. If we think well, there aren’t a hundred thousand things for us to do, to think or to create. It’s very simple.
- [Day 208](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-208/) - We must be practical. We should use our inner wisdom and just act! We should try to be reasonable in the way we grow and never think it is too late. It is never too late. Even if we are going to die tomorrow, we should keep ourselves straight and clear and be a happy
- [Day 169](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-169/) - Taking refuge in Buddhadharma is important. Why? Taking a pill when we feel restless is only a temporary solution for our mental illness. When they become nervous, many people take a tranquilizer, don’t they? The restless mind takes refuge in a tranquilizing pill. This is not the professional way of taking refuge; it does not
- [Day 134](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-134/) - Meditating on the suffering of the lower realms is not only vital in giving us the energy to avoid that suffering in our next life, it also destroys the negative mind we have in this life, making it richer and more meaningful. We see our life in a more realistic way. If we currently lead
- [Day 113](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-113/) - This life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Perhaps it doesn’t feel like that at this moment, but when we die we will realize just how short our life has been. Despite this, we waste it by clinging, spending our life chasing trivial sense pleasures. Even if intellectually we know that something cannot
- [Day 86](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-86/) - Traditional teachings on the perfect human rebirth show us very clearly just how fortunate we are and how rare it is to be in the position in which we now find ourselves. At this moment we have in our hand the means to attain anything we want; we have the means to create the causes
- [Day 63](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-63/) - The actual proof of how experiences and realizations of the path to enlightenment depend on the root of strong guru devotion comes when we practice. We can clearly see the difference in our everyday life between times when we’re correctly devoting ourselves to the guru with thought and action and times when we’re not. When
- [Day 4](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-4/) - Guru devotion, seeing the guru as a buddha, is called “the root of the path” because just as the trunk, branches, leaves and fruit grow from the stable root of a tree, all the realizations of the graduated path to enlightenment grow from stable devotion to the guru. If there is no root, nothing can
- [Day 9](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-9/) - A disciple’s achievement of enlightenment depends upon both the guru and the disciple. The guru should be someone who is perfectly qualified to lead the disciple in the complete path to enlightenment, but if the disciple doesn’t have the fortune to be led in this path, they won’t become enlightened. If the guru is perfectly
- [Editor's Preface](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/editors-preface/) - When I first came across this advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche during the summer of 2013, it immediately struck a chord. “Great! That’s my new year’s resolution!” I thought. On January 1, 2014, I sat down on my cushion with Pabongka Rinpoche’s Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand, full of virtuous excitement at the
- [Getting Started](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/getting-started/) - Introduction to Lamrim Year Lamrim Year is a standalone one-year study program for anyone who wants to taste the essence of this ancient and powerful set of Buddhist teachings. It was published as a book for free distribution by the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive in 2021. Lamrim Year was inspired by Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s advice
- [Day 338](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-338/) - Bodhicitta is the vehicle that will definitely carry us to enlightenment. It is also great psychology. Through this attitude we can overcome self-­cherishing and hatred. As long as we are living on this earth, our relationships are with other human beings, not stones and trees, and most of our problems come from conflict with others,
- [Day 365](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-365/) - You’ve spent quite a lot of time with me now, listening to my explanations of Lama Tsongkhapa’s approach to both the fundamental human problem and your individual ones. After all these months, you need to come to a conclusion from what you’ve read and heard; you need to integrate the teachings within yourself. Listening to
- [Day 364](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-364/) - The mind is like a TV with many channels. On one channel all we see are problems, problems, problems. But if we turn to another channel, we will see everything as empty. There are many different programs! It is very important to remember that life appears to us according to our interpretation, according to our
- [Day 362](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-362/) - The law of the universe is scientific reality, not some kind of made up fantasy, and it is extremely important that we discover it for ourselves. When we do, we will understand how the dark shadow of ignorance keeps the pitiful mother sentient beings in confusion; how sentient beings are suffering because they have not
- [Day 361](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-361/) - Whatever activity we are doing in our daily life, we can practice mindfulness of the merely labeled I, the merely labeled action and the merely labeled object. If we practice mindfulness of how everything is merely labeled by the mind, then during that time the delusions—anger, attachment, ignorance—do not arise. This brings us to liberation
- [Day 360](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-360/) - If we have sharp intelligence it is not so difficult to understand emptiness. We do not have to learn tremendously complex philosophies or study volumes of texts under many lamas. Of course, we can learn from teachers and books, but if we are skillful, we can learn through a very simple method: by not believing
- [Day 359](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-359/) - In order to realize the true nature of the self, what the self is, we first have to recognize ignorance, the mind that makes us view the I in completely the wrong way, in a way that is opposite to the reality of the self. The way we view the self is the way ignorance
- [Day 358](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-358/) - We might think that we have been meditating on emptiness but actually, for many years and months we have been meditating on space, not emptiness. We’ve believed that we’re meditating on emptiness but we’ve just been meditating on the sky, as if looking out an airplane window. This is a real danger, and when it
- [Day 357](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-357/) - When we think about a year—when we don’t meditate, when we’re not aware that time is made up by our mind—a year appears to us to be a truly existent year. It appears to us like that, and we then allow our mind to believe that it’s one hundred percent true. That’s the view of
- [Day 356](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-356/) - What is the mind, or consciousness? It is a phenomenon that is not body, not substantial, has no form, no shape, no color, but, like a mirror, can clearly reflect objects. Objects appear to the mind and the mind can perceive these objects. As long as a mirror is not dirty, it will reflect whatever
- [Day 355](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-355/) - Problems in life arise because we look at things in a way that is opposite to reality, to the way things actually exist. This itself is the problem. Our view, in which we believe, is a projection that is not the reality. Let’s use the example of a table. One leg of the table is
- [Day 354](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-354/) - When we look at the outside world we have a very strong impression of its substantiality. We probably don’t realize that the strong impression is merely our own mind’s interpretation of what it sees. We think that the strong, solid reality really exists outside, and perhaps, when we look within, we feel empty. This is
- [Day 353](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-353/) - When we try to apply logical reasoning to prove to ourselves that something is empty—that it lacks inherent, concrete self-­existence—it may sometimes feel that we are pushing too hard. “This is empty for this reason ... or that reason ... or that reason.” Somehow it feels uncomfortable. This can definitely happen; strenuous application of logic
- [Day 352](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-352/) - We must understand that we cannot banish our habitual, concrete view of ego immediately. It takes time for this solid appearance to be overcome completely. But we can attack the grosser levels of misconception now by loosening our tight grip on what we think reality is. Then, even though the concrete appearance of things still
- [Day 351](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-351/) - From beginningless samsaric lifetimes up until now we have been thinking of our I as if it were something inherently unique, born by itself and existing completely independently. It does not appear to rely on our body, mind or anything else. Rather, it seems to be completely self-­sufficient. We did not have to learn this
- [Day 350](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-350/) - Despite the fact that the label “I” refers in some way to the body and mind, there is no one part of our physical or mental makeup that we can point to and say, “This is I.” Neither our hand, our heart or any other part of our body is our I. Nor can we
- [Day 349](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-349/) - Why is it wrong to feel that the I is some sort of independent entity existing by itself? If we approach this question carefully, the answer will eventually become clear. It is impossible to think of the I without also thinking in some way of either the mind or the body. Thus, if the I
- [Day 348](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-348/) - Our understanding of emptiness can only be considered correct if it helps us understand subtle dependent arising and does not contradict it. If it contradicts dependent arising—if, instead of supporting dependent arising, it leads us to the conclusion that there is no dependent arising, no existence—that means there is a mistake in our understanding. Lama
- [Day 347](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-347/) - Our normal life is totally like a dream, like a hallucination, like an illusion, like a mirage. By thinking about what really exists, we can understand the hallucination. To summarize, the valid base, the aggregates, is there. Because of that, the thought of I arises, the merely labeled I and the merely labeled action arise,
- [Day 346](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-346/) - The ego’s hallucination of a concrete, self-­existent I is like a thief who sneaks up on us when we are not looking and hides when we turn around. When we are relaxed and off guard, the thief advances on tiptoe like a demon ready to attack, but if we chase him he suddenly disappears as
- [Day 345](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-345/) - The moment I was given the name Thubten Yeshe, Thubten Yeshe came into existence. Before I was given the name, he didn’t exist; nobody looked at me and thought, “There’s Thubten Yeshe.” I didn’t even think it myself. Thubten Yeshe did not exist. But when one superstitious conception named this bubble, my body—“Your name is
- [Day 344](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-344/) - A very simple, practical approach to understanding emptiness, to realizing the non-­self-­existent I, is first to just mindfully investigate how our ego holds the self-­notion of our I, our self. That’s the first thing to seek. Then, when at a certain point we discover that we’re holding something heavy, solid, truly existent within us, a
- [Day 343](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-343/) - When we try to realize emptiness, the first thing we must do is understand exactly what it is that things are empty of. We must recognize the object of refutation, the object that does not exist in the way we think it exists. This sense of I that we always carry around, like a tortoise
- [Day 342](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-342/) - What eliminates the root of ignorance is the right view according to the Prasangika, the subtlest of the four Buddhist philosophical schools: Sautrantika, Vaibhashika, Cittamatra and Madhyamaka, which has two sub-­schools, Svatantrika and Prasangika. Even though each school has an idea of ultimate reality, it is the Prasangika view that really cuts the root of
- [Day 341](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-341/) - There are various terms used in referring to the ultimate nature of reality. Sometimes it is called emptiness, since the true nature of all phenomena is empty, as opposed to the ego’s imagination, which is full. Full of what? Full of concepts, expectations, anxieties and projections that have nothing to do with reality. Ultimately, all
- [Day 340](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-340/) - All the problems we encounter in samsara, the cycle of repeated death and rebirth, have their source in the ignorance that grasps at things as though they were self-­existent. Our situation in this cycle is similar to being trapped in a large building with many rooms and doors, but with only one door leading out.
- [Day 337](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-337/) - Bodhicitta is the most comfortable path, the most comfortable meditation. There can be no philosophical, scientific or psychological disagreement with this. With bodhicitta, there’s no East-­West conflict. This path is the most comfortable, most perfect, one hundred percent uncomplicated one, free of any danger of leading people to extremes. Without bodhicitta, nothing works. Remember the
- [Day 336](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-336/) - Developing bodhicitta for all sentient beings is the supreme task. There is no greater responsibility than to free all the countless sentient beings from every suffering and place them in the peerless happiness of enlightenment, and whenever we take the bodhisattva vows we are committing ourselves to doing just that. First we take the wishing
- [Day 335](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-335/) - The six perfections are a means of ripening our own mind, and there are four additional bodhisattva practices called the four means of drawing disciples to the Dharma, which are a means of ripening the minds of others. Although “disciples” is an accurate translation, using this term makes the meaning a little limited. It actually
- [Day 334](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-334/) - First, we develop single-­pointed concentration, which leads us beyond worldly emotional problems and gives us a degree of higher satisfaction. But a certain amount of darkness remains in our mind. In order to reach the depths of human consciousness we also have to cultivate penetrative insight, which is the only thing that can lead us
- [Day 333](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-333/) - Why does Buddhism put so much emphasis on meditation? It’s because our mind is so gross and our memory so poor that we forget things easily and cannot recall our countless lives’ experiences. The purpose of meditation, therefore, is to increase, or develop, our memory, or mindfulness, of reality. Our distracted, fragmented thoughts, which we
- [Day 332](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-332/) - Perseverance is the mind of enthusiasm, or energy, that rejoices in virtue, and like the other perfections is a vital quality for us to develop. With this mind we can put effort into removing the delusions, the obstacles that block our mind from attaining perfect concentration. Without perseverance, even if we try to concentrate we
- [Day 331](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-331/) - Happiness and peace of mind in everyday life depend on how much we are able to practice the three types of patience. Therefore, it is very important to not only understand precisely what they are but to also put them into practice. The first type of patience is the patience of not retaliating when faced
- [Day 330](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-330/) - In Lamrim Chenmo, Lama Tsongkhapa explained the three types of morality: restraining ourselves from doing nonvirtuous actions, ripening our mind and working for other sentient beings. The first type is mainly explained as developing the ten virtuous actions, which are the opposite of the ten nonvirtues. The second refers to developing whatever virtues don’t already
- [Day 329](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-329/) - All religions emphasize the importance of charity, but Lord Buddha’s approach differs from most in that he explained mainly the psychological aspect of giving and was not so interested in the externals of it. Why? Because the perfection of giving is realized only when we completely release the mind of miserly attachment, and this is
- [Day 328](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-328/) - The Mahayana way of bringing the mind to enlightenment is gradual. As we have seen, in order to develop universal love, we first have to develop equilibrium. On this basis, we generate the bodhisattva’s mind of enlightenment, bodhicitta, and having done so, our duty is to actualize the six perfections of charity, morality, patience, effort,
- [Day 327](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-327/) - Let’s be practical. Most of us are workers and have a job to deal with, so when we get up each morning we should make the strong dedication, “Today I will try as much as possible to dedicate my life for others. Physically and mentally, I will do whatever I can to make my life
- [Day 326](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-326/) - Wherever we go—East, West, sky, earth, beneath the earth—there are other sentient beings. If, through having recognized the false conceptions of ego and attachment, we develop pure motivation and dedicate our life to others, our life will become truly worthwhile. We will give real meaning to being alive and our relationships with those around us
- [Day 325](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-325/) - Generating a brave, determined attitude is extremely important for our thought transformation practice to succeed. With this strong motivation, we proceed to train our mind until we become like an experienced horseman—even though their mind may be distracted, they are able to manage the horse effortlessly, no matter what it does, without falling off or
- [Day 324](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-324/) - One of the most effective tools to free ourselves completely from the self-­cherishing thought is the five powers. This is the fundamental practice that makes life most meaningful and beneficial for all sentient beings and prevents us from creating obstacles on the path. It is the foundation that underlies all the other practices we do—sadhanas,
- [Day 323](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-323/) - When we fall ill, instead of getting depressed and obsessed with our illness, which only creates more problems, we should immediately think, “I have prayed to take on the problems of others and I have now received them. I will experience this illness on behalf of all living beings.” Our illness is the illness of
- [Day 322](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-322/) - The important thing to understand is that the self-­pity image of ourselves to which we cling does not exist. I could easily explain this in a detailed, philosophical way but the simple approach is to look at how we hold ourselves today, “I am that-­this,” and compare that with how we held ourselves last year.
- [Day 321](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-321/) - With respect to human problems, most are intellectually generated. Of course, there are problems at the deeper, intuitive level, but most problems, such as emotional disturbances and anxiety, come from the way we think. When we were babies, we didn’t have political problems, did we? When we were babies, we didn’t have economic or societal
- [Day 320](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-320/) - Whenever we experience problems, we can use them to eliminate pride, one of the six principal delusions. Until we completely liberate ourselves from delusion, we have no real freedom and are continually affected by past karma and disturbing thoughts. Pride seems to be our friend but in reality it only brings us endless problems. Pride
- [Day 319](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-319/) - If we’re not tested, we take teaching after teaching and think we’re OK, but when we’re confronted with a difficult situation, it’s possible that we’ll find we’re not OK at all. So that’s why true Dharma practitioners welcome trouble. It gives us a chance to see if what we’ve been studying works or not, a
- [Day 318](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-318/) - One of the most important things that Mahayana thought training teaches is putting all the blame on the self-­cherishing thought, where it belongs. In this way we develop aversion to the self-­cherishing thought and come to see it as our enemy. Thus, instead of identifying with and obeying the self-­cherishing thought, we separate ourselves from
- [Day 317](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-317/) - The Buddhist approach to negativity is not to avoid it but to confront it head-­on and check why it’s there, what its reality is and so forth. We think that this is the best foundation for destroying the negative mind and is much more logical and scientific than just avoiding it—like running away to some
- [Day 316](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-316/) - The Mahayana technique called lojong—thought transformation, or mind training—is essentially about transforming any situation into one conducive to the path. We view every situation as positive, using whatever we meet as a means to develop our mind in wisdom and compassion. There is no such thing as a “bad” situation other than what is labeled
- [Day 315](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-315/) - What is the technique for actually practicing the taking and giving meditation, which Tibetans call tonglen? Start by breathing out through your right nostril. Visualize the air you exhale in the form of white light, the essence of which is all your positive energy and wisdom. This white light radiates to all sentient beings in
- [Day 314](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-314/) - Tibetan lamas have a special mind training technique for releasing attachment and the self-­cherishing thought where we transform our body into thousands, millions and billions of bodies and give them to all sentient beings. We transform our body into beautiful things—not horrible ugly things that we don’t want—and give them to all sentient beings. We
- [Day 313](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-313/) - Bravely changing attachment to oneself into concern for others is both wonderful and wise. There are countless living beings on earth but very few know about exchanging self and others. This practice may be very difficult but it’s extremely worthwhile. If we can do it, it will help solve all our problems. Changing our outlook
- [Day 312](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-312/) - Without the existence of suffering sentient beings there is no way we can actualize bodhicitta. Therefore, every single living being is unbelievably precious and can benefit us so much. Living beings are our real teacher. Cherishing and serving even one living being—whether our mother, father, child or even our enemy—leads us to enlightenment because it
- [Day 311](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-311/) - Every happiness and benefit we have ever experienced has come from others. When we were born, we came from our mother’s womb with nothing. We didn’t even have any clothes. Our parents gave us clothes, milk, care and attention. Now that we have grown we have clothes and many other things. Where did they come
- [Day 310](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-310/) - Our self-­cherishing thought is the root of all human problems. It makes our lives difficult and miserable. The solution to self-­cherishing, its antidote, is the mind that is its complete opposite—bodhicitta. The self-­cherishing mind is worried about only me, me—the self-­existent I. Bodhicitta substitutes others for self. It creates space in our mind. Then even
- [Day 309](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-309/) - It might seem that our life would be perfect if it weren’t for all the external factors that keep interfering and bringing us suffering, but when we look deeper we will see that if we could destroy the self-­cherishing thought, we wouldn’t suffer at all, no matter what situation arose. This is where the blame
- [Day 308](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-308/) - The logical reason for feeling that all sentient beings are equal is that equally, all sentient beings seek happiness, and not one, ourselves included, wants to be unhappy. We should think, “All sentient beings want to be happy and no sentient being, myself included, wants to suffer. Whenever I experience an unpleasant feeling I want
- [Day 307](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-307/) - If we can transform whatever experience we have into the path by developing the two bodhicittas we can quickly progress to ultimate happiness. The two bodhicittas are relative, all-­obscuring or conventional bodhicitta, and ultimate or absolute bodhicitta. Relative bodhicitta is the primary consciousness that holds the two aspirations of wishing to benefit all beings and
- [Day 306](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-306/) - One of the methods especially emphasized by Shantideva for developing bodhicitta was that of equalizing and exchanging self and others: changing attachment to one’s own happiness to attachment to the happiness of others. For countless lives we have always been obsessed with our own pleasure and have completely neglected that of others. This beginningless focus
- [Day 305](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-305/) - When we generate the wish to help infinite other beings and then look more deeply into what’s involved in doing so, we’ll see that at the moment, our mind, wisdom and actions are too limited to help all living beings and that in order to do so we’ll need to develop the infinite, transcendental knowledge-­wisdom
- [Day 304](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-304/) - The mind of special attitude occurs when we actually take responsibility for the happiness of all sentient beings by ourselves alone. This is like in our daily life when we see a hard job that needs to be done and go from thinking that somebody else should do it to the decision that we should
- [Day 303](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-303/) - Compassion is the wish that others be free from suffering. It is the source of happiness in life, the essential means of ensuring our own happiness and the happiness of others. Without compassion there is no peace or happiness in the family, in society, in the country or the world. Generating compassion is also the
- [Day 302](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-302/) - From the Buddhist point of view we know clean-­clear what love is: love means wishing others to be happy. That is love. If we lose our partner and cry, that doesn’t mean we feel sympathetic toward our partner and wish them well. On the contrary, we are just concerned with the fact that we are
- [Day 301](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-301/) - If our own mother were stumbling blindly toward a precipice, without a guide, and we were the only one who could help her, it would be totally shameful to not help her but simply relax in a beautiful park, singing, dancing and lying in the sun while she fell to her death. This is the
- [Day 300](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-300/) - Traditionally, the kindness of the mother is discussed using four outlines: the kindness of giving us this body, protecting us from life’s dangers, leading us in the ways of the world and bearing many hardships and accumulating negative karma for us. From the moment we were born our mother sacrificed her life to ensure that
- [Day 299](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-299/) - To be able to see how all sentient beings have been incredibly kind to us and therefore wish to repay that kindness, we first have to logically understand that they have all helped us throughout our countless lives. We do this by seeing that all sentient beings have been our mother, not just once but
- [Day 298](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-298/) - Feeling equilibrium with all living beings without discrimination is not something that we just make up. We’re not trying to equalize something that’s inherently unequal. What we’re trying to do is to realize as equal that which is already equal. We’re trying to overcome the distortion of inequality projected by our two departments of ego
- [Day 297](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-297/) - Perhaps I should explain how to develop equilibrium. We do it in sitting meditation. Visualize in front of you a person who makes you agitated; someone you don’t like. Visualize behind you the person to whom you are most attached. And visualize all around you the people to whom you feel indifferent. Look at these
- [Day 296](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-296/) - One of the beauties of Buddhism is that it offers us a practical training for our mind. It does not say, “Bodhicitta is fantastic because Buddha said so!” Instead, it gives us the methods for developing such an attitude and we can then see for ourselves whether it works or not, whether it is fantastic
- [Day 295](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-295/) - If somebody asks us what is our main practice, our heart practice in life, we should say bodhicitta. Usually, if somebody is asked what their main practice is they will give the name of a deity or say that it’s kundalini yoga or concentrating on the winds and drops or something like that. But really,
- [Day 294](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-294/) - With bodhicitta, every action creates infinite merit so we naturally attain the entire path to enlightenment quickly. Becoming a bodhisattva, we engage in the six perfections and the four means of drawing disciples to the Dharma and we quickly progress through the five paths. Then we are quickly able to complete the two merits of
- [Day 293](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-293/) - A further benefit of bodhicitta is that we cannot be harmed by either internal disturbances such as distractions or external harms such as other humans and nonhumans. It’s said in the teachings that the universal kings, the extremely rich and powerful kings of the gods, have to have many protectors to guard them while they
- [Day 292](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-292/) - Another benefit of bodhicitta is that we accomplish whatever we wish. That means whatever work we undertake will be completely successful. Not only that, because we are working solely for others, whatever we do will be completed without much effort. Many worldly problems that we find difficult to overcome—harm from humans and nonhumans such as
- [Day 291](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-291/) - The wonderful mind of bodhicitta makes it possible to purify all the powerful nonvirtues that cannot be purified by other virtuous activities. The reason that very few of us worldly beings have been able to overcome negativity is because the virtue we’ve created is so feeble in comparison to our nonvirtue and because we haven’t
- [Day 290](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-290/) - Without bodhicitta it is very difficult to collect merits. We create them and immediately destroy them; by afternoon, the morning’s merits have gone. It’s like cleaning a room and an hour later making it dirty again. We make our mind clean, then right away we mess it up—not a very profitable business. With bodhicitta we
- [Day 289](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-289/) - When we become a bodhisattva we become a supreme object of offering for all sentient beings. Other beings accumulate incredible merit by making offerings to us and we ourselves accumulate incredible merit. The higher the realizations we have, the more merit we create and the more merit others create by making offerings to us. The
- [Day 288](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-288/) - With bodhicitta we outshine the arhats: the hearers and the solitary realizers. The arhats have incredible qualities but what they lack is the great will of the bodhisattvas, the supreme determination to take care of each and every sentient being more than themselves and to lead them to full enlightenment. Pabongka Dechen Nyingpo explained that
- [Day 287](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-287/) - The buddhas are all overjoyed when a being becomes a bodhisattva, calling them a child of the buddhas because they are just like a prince, destined to become a great ruler. Even before he is able to communicate or walk, a prince is still more important and more revered than the highest noble by way
- [Day 286](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-286/) - We call ourselves Mahayanists, but just ascribing to Mahayana philosophy does not make one a Mahayanist. Maha means great and yana means vehicle; to be a Mahayanist we have to possess the great vehicle attitude in our heart. What is the great vehicle attitude? It is bodhicitta, the innermost, pure, universal thought, the determination to
- [Day 285](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-285/) - The thought of bodhicitta is unbelievable. It makes everything other than working for sentient beings boring and unsatisfying. There is no real interest or enjoyment in life apart from this. Anything else is meaningless, empty, essenceless. When we cherish ourselves, think only of ourselves—“How can I be happy? How can I be free of problems?”—there
- [Day 284](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-284/) - Bodhicitta means opening our heart to others as much as we can. Normally we do open our heart to others to some extent—everybody does—but here we’re talking about doing it with the highest destination in mind: the transcendent, universal aim of complete enlightenment. That’s the way we create space in our heart. So it’s very
- [Day 283](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-283/) - If we wish to reach the highest possible destination we must cultivate the highest possible motivation for following the spiritual path. In Buddhist terminology this supreme motivation is known as bodhicitta. It is the impulse to achieve full enlightenment in order to be of the most benefit to others. Only through dedicating ourselves to working
- [Day 281](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-281/) - In the sequential approach, each link is a result of the previous one and a cause of the next. However, the overall functioning of the twelve links can be more clearly examined by dividing them into three types: the prime causes, the delusions; the karma that arises from the delusions; and the resulting suffering. According
- [Day 260](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-260/) - Each of us has been born as a human being. As such we have the potential to give meaning and purpose to our life. To take full advantage of this, we must go beyond what lower animals can do. By utilizing such a human rebirth properly and gaining control over our mind, we can sever
- [Day 280](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-280/) - A chain of interdependent origination describes the process of rebirth from one suffering state of existence into another, and it cannot be completed in one life but requires either two or three. Consider the karma we may be creating at this very moment. It might be especially virtuous, but done in ignorance of the way
- [Day 279](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-279/) - Aging and death are put together in one link symbolized by a man carrying a corpse. Aging doesn’t necessarily mean old age: there are a vast number of beings who die before any of the marks of old age—white hair, wrinkles and so forth—ever appear. Aging starts from the second moment of the consciousness joining
- [Day 278](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-278/) - Becoming generates rebirth, which is symbolized by a woman giving birth. The definition of rebirth is the union of the mental aggregates, with or without a form, in samsara, due to craving, grasping and becoming. The mental aggregates exist in the essence of the ripening aspect and are bound to samsara by delusion and karma.
- [Day 277](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-277/) - Grasping at the body generates the tenth link, becoming, which is symbolized by a pregnant woman. The definition of becoming is a deluded secondary mind that is in the nature of the ripening aspect, caused by ignorance arising through the power of karma and through the links of craving and grasping. “In the nature of
- [Day 276](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-276/) - Craving generates grasping, which is symbolized by a monkey picking fruit from a tree. Having tasted one fruit, the monkey clambers over the tree looking for more and more. Grasping is created by craving and causes us to perform nonvirtuous actions in an attempt to satisfy our greed, hatred and ignorance, bringing much suffering. For
- [Day 275](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-275/) - Contact and feeling generate craving, which is symbolized by a man drinking wine. Just as the man’s thirst is never satisfied, so the person deluded by greed is never satisfied and craves more things. This greed ruins the present life and will ruin many future lives. Generally, craving is divided into three: craving for sense
- [Day 274](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-274/) - Contact generates feeling or sensation, which is symbolized by a man with an arrow in his eye, who is suffering because of his contact with an object. Without contact there is no feeling. There are three kinds of feeling: pleasurable, painful and neutral, which can also be seen as happiness, suffering and indifference. Pleasurable feelings
- [Day 273](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-273/) - The six senses generate contact. This is symbolized by the contact of a man and a woman—the meeting of the senses with their objects. There are six types of contact, one for each of the five sense bases and one for the mental sense base. The definition of contact is one of the six sense
- [Day 272](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-272/) - Name and form generate the six sense bases, which are symbolized by an empty house with six openings, usually shown as five windows and one door. From a distance the house looks fully occupied, but it is empty. Similarly, the six sense bases are meaningless without an object. These subtle inner sense faculties are situated
- [Day 271](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-271/) - Consciousness generates name and form, which is symbolized by a man rowing a boat. Name is the four mental aggregates of feeling, discrimination, compositional factors and consciousness and form is the form aggregate—here, the fertilized egg. Only beings born in the formless realm have name but no form. Just as a rower requires a boat,
- [Day 270](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-270/) - Karmic formation generates consciousness, the third link, which is symbolized by a monkey with fruit in its hand swinging from tree to tree. This demonstrates how consciousness, bearing karmic imprints, connects past to present and present to future. Consciousness functions as the relationship between our past karmic actions and our present life’s experiences and between
- [Day 269](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-269/) - Ignorance generates karmic formation, which is symbolized by a man producing clay pots. Just as a clay pot can be fashioned into many sizes and shapes, different karmic actions bring different results. In that way, karma can either be virtuous, nonvirtuous or neutral. Karma is motivated by ignorance, and the most important point is that
- [Day 268](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-268/) - Ignorance is the root of samsara and the source of all the other links of dependent origination. In the Wheel of Life, this first link is depicted as a blind man walking with the aid of a stick. This is how we are: stumbling blindly through samsara making one mistake after another because we constantly
- [Day 267](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-267/) - You must have seen thangkas of the Wheel of Life; they’re very common. There are many details, but at the center there’s a pig with a chicken’s tail feathers in its mouth. The chicken’s beak holds the tail of a snake, while the snake is shown biting the tail of the pig. The Wheel of
- [Day 265](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-265/) - We have to understand the message of the Buddha and transform our mind from one of suffering and delusion to one of everlasting happiness. That means only creating virtue and never creating nonvirtue. We can’t expect happiness while creating the causes for suffering. That is like putting our hand in a raging fire and expecting
- [Day 264](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-264/) - Renouncing attachment to this life means renouncing the cause of suffering. It does not mean turning our back on our friends and family or discarding our material possessions. We don’t have to make a huge bonfire of our clothes or throw our books and CDs over a cliff. What it means is not having attachment
- [Day 263](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-263/) - The essential thing is to protect our karma, and there is no surer way of doing that than taking vows. We gain great benefit when we refrain from even one small nonvirtue. Say we resist the temptation to take something we really like. We have broken that cycle of want-­and-­take and we won’t have to
- [Day 262](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-262/) - There can be no liberation without the higher training of wisdom—a direct realization of emptiness—and that only comes about through the higher training of concentration. Neither of these two higher trainings is possible without the higher training of morality. We can tell from our own experiences that moral conduct is extremely important. When our mind
- [Day 261](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-261/) - How is a disciple guided through the teachings of the lamrim, the path to enlightenment? The graduated path to enlightenment is divided into three: the graduated paths of the lower capable being, the middle capable being and the higher capable being. The lower capable being has the attitude and aim to completely cut off clinging
- [Day 259](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-259/) - When the mind leaves a dead body, it enters the intermediate state, the bardo. The form of the intermediate state body is that of the next rebirth. This being has no resistance to matter, is indestructible and has many psychic powers, such as the ability to fly or do anything else it thinks of. As
- [Day 258](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-258/) - As Pabongka Rinpoche says in Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand, our dying thoughts activate the karma that will be the cause of our next rebirth, and the activators of this throwing karma are craving and grasping—the eighth and ninth links in the twelve links of dependent arising. Rinpoche says that this takes place
- [Day 257](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-257/) - In order to make our lives happy, we need to create only virtuous actions, and to do that we need to be able to judge right from wrong through analyzing every action that we do. Only with careful analysis can we judge our motivation and see whether we have a positive or a negative mind.
- [Day 256](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-256/) - Due to the seeds of delusion within us, attachment arises whenever we encounter a desirable object and aversion arises whenever we encounter an undesirable object. If we had practiced mindfulness we would have seen how our mind follows those objects and causes our various sufferings. If we could see this clearly, we would have little
- [Day 255](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-255/) - Delusions have destroyed all our happiness in the past, they are destroying it now and they will continue to destroy it for as long as we remain under their control. If we want to continuously practice Dharma without hindrances, then we need to continuously remember the shortcomings of the delusions. There is a danger that
- [Day 254](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-254/) - Seeing some kind of desirable object always involves an over-­estimation. Its good aspects are emphasized so much that we lose all judgment about it. Simultaneously, we view that object as if it were somehow self-­existent. We conceive of it as something permanent, existing self-­sufficiently the way it appears to us. We fail to see that
- [Day 253](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-253/) - The fifth factor increasing the strength of the delusions is habit. It can work this way: at one time we had a certain experience with an object. Then, when we meet a similar object, we re-­enact the first experience, and each time we repeat the action the strength of that memory increases, becoming more powerful
- [Day 252](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-252/) - The fourth cause that makes delusions arise is following false teachings: believing that someone is a special teacher and therefore listening to and following all the wrong conceptions he or she teaches. Teachings, of whatever quality, can be very interesting. But when people find things interesting, it often just means that they crave information. Of
- [Day 251](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-251/) - The third cause of delusions mentioned by Lama Tsongkhapa is influences from the outside. Negative, misleading friends who give us deluded information are included here. These are the people we know who make us confused. Therefore, whom we have for friends, with whom we stay in close contact, is very important. For instance, if all
- [Day 250](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-250/) - Most of the time, when the object is near us and the karmic imprint is in our mind, bang!—delusion arises. A good example is when we go shopping. The object is there on the shelf. Through the sense perception of our eye we come into contact with it and, before we are aware of what
- [Day 249](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-249/) - Let’s say the thought of chocolate cake comes into our mind. Why does this thought of chocolate cake come? Because our previous experience of enjoying chocolate cake has left an imprint on our consciousness. The experience itself has disappeared completely, but the imprint remains, as if we’d sealed it, stamped it, in our mind. As
- [Day 248](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-248/) - Whatever exists—good news, bad news, heaven and hell, samsara or nirvana—is a manifestation of the mind. When the mind is covered with superstitions, it creates suffering. Therefore, in order to gain release from this suffering, it is important to understand both the characteristic nature of the deluded mind and the six factors causing these superstitions
- [Day 247](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-247/) - It’s very important to recognize that all desire, hatred and other delusions and the problems they bring come from attachment and ego. Actually, of the two, attachment and ego, it’s ego that comes first. Delusion starts with ego; attachment follows. How is this? The concept of ego builds a projection of “I” and paints that
- [Day 246](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-246/) - Of the six root delusions, the final one is divided into the five extreme, or deluded, views. The first of these, the view of the changeable aggregates, is the foundation of the others. It is the view that although our five aggregates are changing all the time we don’t see them as such. We superimpose
- [Day 245](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-245/) - Doubt is the attitude that is uncertain whether things such as the four noble truths, karma or the Three Rare Sublime Ones actually exist. Doubt is a very disturbing mind because it blocks any progress on the path. Through not being sure of Buddha, Dharma and Sangha and the efficacy of relying on them, we
- [Day 244](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-244/) - Pride is a feeling of superiority, as if we are on a very high mountain looking down. We see others as somehow not as good as us and feel superior. Perhaps we feel that we are more intelligent, give more money to charity, are more handsome, speak better or come from a more powerful country.
- [Day 243](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-243/) - There are two types of ignorance: one is the thought which is unclear about relative truth and the other is the thought which is unclear about the absolute nature. That first type of ignorance is the unknowing mind, the unseeing mind. It’s like when our eyes are closed, we can’t see the object. Ignorance of
- [Day 242](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-242/) - Anger is the worst karma to have. Not only does it destroy our good-­quality peaceful joyful life right now but it also destroys our good-quality next life as well. There is a reason that we are born in an unpleasant place, isn’t there? Due to causation, the mental energy of anger irritates and results in
- [Day 241](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-241/) - According to Lord Buddha’s teachings, as long as we don’t realize that our real enemy is within us, we will never recognize that the mind of attachment is the root of all the problems our body and mind experience. If, however, we see the psychological origin of our problems and understand the nature of attachment
- [Day 240](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-240/) - Buddhist psychology describes six basic emotions that frustrate the human mind, disturbing its peace, making it restless: ignorance, attachment, anger, pride, deluded doubt and distorted views. These are mental attitudes, not external phenomena. Buddhism emphasizes that to overcome these delusions, the root of all suffering, belief and faith are not much help: we have to
- [Day 239](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-239/) - Liberation is not only for religious people. If we understand our own situation, our own lifestyle, even if we’re non-­religious we can see our own confusion, our own dissatisfaction; we can see that what we consider to be happiness, that which causes attachment to arise, doesn’t truly give us pleasure. We can also see how
- [Day 237](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-237/) - We should enjoy our material life as much as we can but at the same time understand the nature of our enjoyment—the nature of both the object we are enjoying and the mind that is experiencing that enjoyment and how the two relate. If we understand all this deeply, that is religion. If we have
- [Day 236](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-236/) - There is no use in wanting to stay in samsara and not suffer. The whole point is to try to get out of samsara. Until we do, we have to accept we are going to suffer, and when something unpleasant happens we should just think, “Of course this has happened. This is samsara! Whatever happens
- [Day 235](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-235/) - Totally ignorant of the cause of happiness and the cause of suffering, we worldly beings think we’re always working for happiness, but in reality we are constantly creating the cause of suffering. We keep ourselves totally busy, day and night, like ants frantically running around, up and down trees or whatever. Because our motivation is
- [Day 234](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-234/) - Pervasive compounding suffering is the most important suffering to understand and renounce. Even animals understand and have aversion to the suffering of suffering, and many people can see the shortcomings of the attachment that lies at the heart of the suffering of change, but pervasive compounding suffering is what really ties us to samsara and
- [Day 233](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-233/) - Lama Tsongkhapa said, “Wherever you are in samsara, you never have happiness.” It sounds depressing, doesn’t it? What he meant was that the self-­existent pleasurable experiences we think to be happiness are not really happiness, and he gave the following example: When we are hungry we are suffering, and if we don’t eat, our hunger
- [Day 232](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-232/) - The suffering of suffering is something that we all recognize and want to be free from. Humans recognize it, animals recognize it and hungry ghosts and hell beings recognize it. This level of suffering comprises all the gross and subtle physical and mental pain and anguish that we long to be rid of. Whatever we
- [Day 231](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-231/) - In the Four Noble Truths Sutra, the Buddha explains suffering in many ways—as six types, as eight types and so forth—but the main division of suffering is into three: the suffering of suffering, the suffering of change and pervasive compounding suffering. All the Buddha’s teachings on suffering are condensed into these three. When we understand
- [Day 230](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-230/) - The great enjoyment experienced by the desire realm gods is due to the positive karma they have accumulated during past lives. Unfortunately, all they can do in the god realm is experience the ripening of that positive karma. Too distracted to think of anything but pleasure, they are unable to create any new positive karma.
- [Day 229](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-229/) - As far as pleasure is concerned, the demigods are higher than humans, but lower than the gods. Demigods look like gods in that they have magnificent bodies and beautiful clothes, but their beauty cannot be compared to that of the gods. Nor can the power they have—which is vastly more than any human—be compared with
- [Day 228](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-228/) - The last of the eight types of suffering is the fact that we have this body and mind created by delusion and karma and therefore we are forever tied to suffering. The needs of this samsaric body and deluded mind will endlessly demand that we create negative karma, and because of that we suffer. Therefore,
- [Day 227](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-227/) - From the moment we wake up until the moment we fall asleep at night, and even throughout our dreams, we are driven by desire. Each of our senses is hungry for its own particular food. Our eye craves to see interesting shapes and colors; our ear wants to hear pleasing sounds; our nose actively sniffs
- [Day 226](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-226/) - We not only suffer from being unable to find the things we like but also from meeting with things we dislike. All our contact with enemies, bad food, unpleasant situations and the like brings us much distress, mental as well as physical. This type of suffering causes us great confusion throughout our life. Discontent and
- [Day 225](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-225/) - Out of the whole universe, we choose one atom—one girlfriend or one boyfriend—one tiny bit of energy, and say, “I love you.” With much attachment we put an enormous amount of energy into this one concrete object and thus from the beginning automatically set ourselves up for conflict. By building up such tremendously powerful attachment
- [Day 224](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-224/) - One day, for sure, death will happen. Life ends and there is death—it’s as simple as that—and there is nothing we can do. No matter how much fear we have, no matter how much we regret not having practiced Dharma and developed a good heart, death will happen. Whether we believe in reincarnation or not,
- [Day 223](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-223/) - When we get old, we invariably get sick. Sickness is an inseparable companion of old age. But even if we aren’t old, there are many, many illnesses and pains that we have to experience. I think everybody will agree that sickness is a suffering we all want to avoid. With any illness, our body changes.
- [Day 222](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-222/) - Although aging begins the moment after conception, this suffering relates primarily to the time when we realize we are becoming old, when we realize that our body is not immortal and that it is already starting to let us down by getting sick and losing its strength and energy. We find we need glasses and
- [Day 221](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-221/) - We do not usually think about the sufferings connected with conception and birth, but they are very real nonetheless. Because the mother’s mind and that of the baby are not the same, even she cannot fully appreciate the mental unrest of the being within her womb. But the fetus is in a situation that causes
- [Day 220](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-220/) - There are sufferings that are general to all samsaric beings and sufferings that are specific to beings of the fortunate upper realms. Without investigating, we assume that the very rich are happy and the very poor are miserable and therefore attachment to comfort and wealth and aversion to discomfort and poverty arise in our mind.
- [Day 219](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-219/) - When we meditate on the six types of suffering it is important that we draw a firm conclusion. Seeing that nothing is definite in samsara, that nothing has the ability to give us satisfaction and that due to not realizing this we jump from one samsaric body to another endlessly, we must make the determination
- [Day 218](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-218/) - We are born alone and we die alone. There is nobody else who can share our suffering at these times. We have created the karma to endure this suffering and we must do so. There is nobody to help us through conception, in our mother’s womb or when we’re being born. There is nobody who
- [Day 217](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-217/) - Always changing bodies, always changing status, we just don’t know what we will be in samsara. Numberless times we have been kings, sitting on jeweled thrones commanding great armies, and numberless times we have fallen from that great status to some miserable existence in the lower realms. Numberless times we have lived in complete luxury
- [Day 216](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-216/) - Another shortcoming of samsara is that after leaving a body we have to take rebirth again. Leaving one body, we take another, joining with the fertilized egg in the mother’s womb. This life’s mother gave us this body, just as the previous life’s mother gave us our last body. And before that there was another
- [Day 215](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-215/) - Having to take rebirth without choice in a samsaric body means that we also have to separate from that body without choice. Death happens without choice, separating from our body happens without choice, and rebirth happens without choice. This is one of the sufferings of samsara. We have taken a human body, and the body
- [Day 214](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-214/) - The main problem we all have is the suffering that comes from not attaining our various desires. These include the obvious physical necessities of food and clothing as well as such enjoyable things as a good reputation, the sound of pleasant and comforting words and the like. Some forms of suffering, such as the hunger
- [Day 213](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-213/) - Nothing is definite in samsara. There is nothing that we can say with certainty will last. Every relationship we have with a being or with an inanimate object will change and cannot last. Relationships with people change and end, possessions change and end. Even this body will let us down. This is a very simple
- [Day 212](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-212/) - Escaping samsara does not depend on escaping to another country or leaving this planet or even the galaxy. We can’t escape samsara just by going somewhere else. Samsara is not something that is outside our mind. We can go to the moon but we’ll be taking our samsara with us. Even when we die we
- [Day 211](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-211/) - The first teaching that Guru Shakyamuni Buddha gave after he attained enlightenment was on the four noble truths. The first of these is the truth of suffering, which the Buddha says must be understood. The second noble truth is the cause of suffering, which he says must be abandoned, or renounced. The third is the
- [Day 210](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-210/) - Buddhism always talks about suffering. This turns some Westerners off: “We’re happy; we’re not suffering; what’s our problem? Why should we listen to teachings on suffering?” Well, we can think that way if we like, but in fact, if we check more deeply into how our mind functions in everyday life, we’ll realize how dissatisfied
- [Day 209](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-209/) - Based on the perfect human rebirth, there are three levels of path within the lamrim, depending on the level of motivation of the practitioner. The graduated path of the lower capable being is for the person seeking only a better future rebirth. The topics within this scope include impermanence and death, the three lower realms,
- [Day 183](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-183/) - There are four nonvirtuous actions of speech, the first of which is telling lies. If we deny having experienced a particular object with our five sense consciousnesses—eye, ear, nose, tongue or body—when in fact we have, or, conversely, if we say we have when we haven’t, then that is telling a lie. However, we need
- [Day 207](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-207/) - A very good meditation is to observe everything in our mind as a projection of our karma, as a mere karmic appearance. We can do this anywhere—while we are eating, walking, talking or working in the office—and we can do it at any time, even when sleeping. Look at the flowers that we enjoy in
- [Day 206](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-206/) - There is a big difference between an intellectual understanding of karma and one based on the living experience of it. Some students have a word-­perfect understanding of the teachings on karma and some superficial faith—“It must be true because my lama said so”—but because they do not have any experiential understanding of karma, when their
- [Day 205](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-205/) - We are incredibly fortunate that we have met the teachings and have some idea of karma. Before this we stumbled along blindly, trying to be happy without any real idea of the causes of happiness and suffering and never really knowing why things went wrong, no matter what we did. Now we have the perfect,
- [Day 204](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-204/) - At present we suffer and don’t know why. We fail to see that everything we experience, both good and bad, is the result of our own karma. We can’t link the happy or miserable situation we are in with the positive or negative actions we have done in the past. Hence we blame external factors
- [Day 203](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-203/) - Understanding the karmic connection between causes and effects will give us the energy to change ourselves. Nevertheless, it is essential to approach our practice with patience and wisdom. Changing our habitual behavior is not easy. It is not like making instant coffee; it takes time. Change occurs gradually because the various negative attitudes and delusions
- [Day 202](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-202/) - There are many ways to purify the mind but the lamrim texts usually list six. They are: prostrating and reciting the holy names of the buddhas such as the thirty-­five confession buddhas, reciting purifying mantras such as the Vajrasattva mantra, making holy objects such as thangkas, statues and tsatsas, reciting prajnaparamita (perfection of wisdom) texts
- [Day 201](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-201/) - Our practice of purification cannot be perfect without the four opponent powers: the power of the object, the power of regret, the power of resolve and the power of the remedy. While any Dharma action purifies our negativities, integrating it with the practice of the four opponent powers makes it stronger. It becomes incredibly powerful.
- [Day 200](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-200/) - As Dharma students we might already be doing various purification practices as part of our commitments, but perhaps we’re not doing them with much conviction because we feel we have not created much negative karma. Pabongka Dechen Nyingpo says that this is only because we have not thought well about the subject. From beginningless lives
- [Day 199](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-199/) - It is very important to recognize how we’ve created all our own problems. Just understanding this is so important. We’ve created these problems because we’ve not been handling our body, speech and mind correctly. The result has been problems for ourselves and problems for others. We have confused ourselves and others for centuries, millennia, countless
- [Day 198](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-198/) - Once we have a deep understanding of cause and effect and see that every single action has a definite consequence, we will realize how important it is to be conscientious about everything we do. Awareness of karma brings spontaneous awareness of our own behavior. By realizing that positive actions lead inevitably to happiness and negative
- [Day 197](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-197/) - With our perfect human rebirth we can achieve three great meanings and any future life happiness, including being born with a human body that has the eight ripened qualities: long life, a handsome body, high family, great wealth, trustworthy speech, great power and fame, being male and being strong in mind and body. Lama Tsongkhapa
- [Day 196](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-196/) - The more vows we take—whether those of a lay person, monk or nun—the more we ensure ourselves of happiness and freedom. They not only help us refrain from committing negative actions; they also free us from confusion, even in this life, and assure us of good rebirths for tens of thousands of lifetimes. In our
- [Day 195](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-195/) - It is said that if we were to put all the worldly beings of all the universes into prison and blind them, this would not be as heavy as simply glancing sharply with anger at a bodhisattva. This is because of the power of bodhicitta and because the bodhisattva’s body is unbelievably precious. Conversely, looking
- [Day 194](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-194/) - In Buddhism, we feel that an action may look religious or non-­religious, but it is difficult to distinguish whether it is good or bad. The distinction of good or bad comes from our attitude. Behind each action, there is the history of the action in our mind. Every action is interdependent and it is our
- [Day 193](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-193/) - The opposite of committing the ten nonvirtuous actions is making a complete determination to practice the ten virtues: refraining from killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, lying, divisive speech, harsh words and gossip, and cultivating the virtuous minds of non-­attachment, non-­hatred and non-­ignorance. The ten virtues are the basis of all happiness, of every realization, of liberation
- [Day 192](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-192/) - We’re usually unconscious whenever we act. For example, when we hurt our loved ones, it’s mostly not deliberate but because we’re unconscious in our actions. If we were aware that every action of our body, speech and mind constantly reacts internally within us and externally with others, we’d be more sensitive and gentler in what
- [Day 191](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-191/) - Every negative action has four suffering results. The ripening result refers to the realm we are born in due to that action, which invariably means the lower realms. Then when we finally get reborn as a human, there are three other suffering results that come from that one action. The environmental result refers to the
- [Day 190](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-190/) - There are many factors that determine the strength of the karma we create and the heaviness of its result. Pabongka Dechen Nyingpo lists six: the nature of the action; the intention; the deed; the base; the frequency of the act; and the act not being purified. If all other factors are equal, then the ten
- [Day 189](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-189/) - This last nonvirtue, heresy, is the most important in many ways because from it all the others flow. Heresy is denying the existence of the four noble truths, the Three Rare Sublime Ones, reincarnation or karma. It can be thinking that the points of the Dharma that the Buddha taught are lies, or that there
- [Day 188](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-188/) - The next nonvirtue of the mind is ill will. The base is another sentient being, the disturbing thoughts are the same as for harsh speech—attachment, anger and ignorance—and the motivation is the wish to harm the other being. This could be the wish to physically hurt them or the wish that they lose their wealth
- [Day 187](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-187/) - Covetousness is the attachment that wants things. The base is the possessions of others, which can be anything that somebody else has. Traditionally, the texts mention animals, such as horses, cows or dogs. The worst form of covetousness is the desire for an arya being’s belongings. There are five points for a mind of covetousness
- [Day 186](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-186/) - Idle gossip is saying something that is meaningless—speaking without any real purpose. The base is traditionally said to be sentient beings, although it is still gossip if we are talking to ourselves with nobody listening or paying attention, or if our listener is deaf. The disturbing thought is ignorance, anger or attachment. The intention is
- [Day 185](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-185/) - The base for harsh speech is a sentient being. Driven by disturbing thoughts, wanting to hurt somebody, we speak harsh words to them. The disturbing thought is often anger but it could also be ignorance or attachment. We could, for example, be attached to a person’s possessions and cause an argument in order to get
- [Day 184](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-184/) - The base for divisive speech is any sentient being. The thought is one or more of the disturbing thoughts. The motivation is either the wish to cause a split between a couple or a group of sentient beings who are harmonious, the wish to widen the split, or the wish to maintain disharmony between a
- [Day 182](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-182/) - Sexual misconduct is defined as having any form of sex that is inappropriate and harmful in some way, such as with another person’s partner or at the wrong place or time. Like all actions, to be complete it needs the four aspects: intention, base, action and completion. The disturbing thought that causes us to commit
- [Day 181](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-181/) - As with all negative actions, stealing involves an intention, a base or object, the action itself and completion. The intention is to take something that belongs to another, caused by craving for the object and one of the three poisonous minds of ignorance, attachment or anger. Here the ignorance is not only the ignorance of
- [Day 180](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-180/) - Most people agree that killing is wrong, but in order to properly refrain from it we need to understand what killing means in respect to the ten nonvirtues. We need to know the four factors that make a complete action of killing: the intention, the base, the action itself and the completion. The intention is
- [Day 179](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-179/) - In the same way that Christianity talks about the ten commandments—the ten actions from which we should refrain—Buddhism talks about the ten nonvirtues: actions that come from ignorance, anger, the dissatisfied mind of attachment, the self-­cherishing thought and other deluded minds, minds that cause suffering for ourselves and others. There are three actions of body,
- [Day 178](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-178/) - The fourth characteristic of karma is the opposite of the previous one. Just as it is impossible to experience the result without creating the cause, it is impossible not to experience the result if we have created the cause. The result will never be lost. Even if it takes hundreds of eons, unless it is
- [Day 177](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-177/) - Karma is definite in that if we plant a rice seed we will get rice, not corn. The other side of that is that if we want corn but plant rice, we don’t get it. This third outline of karma emphasizes that it is impossible to experience the result without having created the cause. If
- [Day 176](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-176/) - The second characteristic of karma is that it is expandable, it shows great increase. For example, if we fail to purify the act of killing an insect, after fifteen days it becomes the equivalent of having killed a human being. Without purification, the potential for suffering increases hour by hour and day by day. It
- [Day 175](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-175/) - When teaching on karma we often refer to its four characteristics, the first of which is that karma is definite. Karma means action, our energy, and karma being definite means that once we have set in motion a powerful train of energy it will keep running until it is either interrupted or reaches its conclusion.
- [Day 174](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-174/) - Some people argue that karma is experienced only by those who believe in it. In other words, those who don’t believe in karma don’t experience its effects. This is completely incorrect. If we act in a certain way, we are sure to experience the appropriate result, just as surely as taking poison will make us
- [Day 173](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-173/) - The mistake made by people with no understanding of karma is to regard the external conditions as the main cause of their happiness or suffering. This is simply not so. No matter how terrible it may be, no matter how inexplicable, external factors are never the main cause. The main cause is within our own
- [Day 172](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-172/) - If we wish to follow the Mahayana path, then attaining enlightenment must be the main motivation for everything we do. However, the most important consideration within our practice at this stage is being careful of what karma we create now. We have great goals but death might have other ideas. The realizations we seek are
- [Day 171](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-171/) - If I were to try to compare the subject of karma to the kinds of things that are studied in the West, I’d say that it parallels in some ways the theory of the evolution of everything that exists. Karma encompasses everything on earth and beyond, every existent phenomenon in the universe, throughout infinite space—in
- [Day 170](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-170/) - Karma, like so many Buddhist philosophical terms, is a Sanskrit word, but we mustn’t think that because the word is foreign the idea must be complicated. Every day we eat, drink, sleep, walk and communicate with others. All that energy is karma. Simply put, whatever energy activates our body, speech and mind, that’s karma. Every
- [Day 168](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-168/) - Whatever we do that protects our mind is Dharma, and that, in essence, is taking refuge, whether or not we call ourselves Buddhist, whether or not we have taken formal refuge. When we cut through our confusion by meditating on impermanence and death, we are taking refuge. When we lessen our attachment by meditating on
- [Day 167](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-167/) - We should take refuge with an understanding of Buddha’s teaching, with clean-­clear honesty and truth, with a wisdom-­mind. We must understand the connection between Buddha and ourselves. Buddha has universal love and compassion and complete understanding of reality. We also have compassion and love for people, but it’s limited. We also have wisdom; to some
- [Day 166](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-166/) - When we take refuge we visualize our father to our right, our mother to our left, our worst enemy—the sentient being who agitates us the most—in front of us, and our dearest friend—the person to whom we are most attached—behind us. All other sentient beings surround us on all sides. This visualization is a good
- [Day 165](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-165/) - Besides the specific things we should do and avoid concerning each of the Three Rare Sublime Ones, there are six general practices, or precepts, concerning all three refuge jewels collectively. These practices are what really constitute our daily life as a Buddhist. Most of all, we should do everything with compassion. If we always keep
- [Day 164](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-164/) - The definition of conventional Sangha is four fully-­ordained members of the Sangha who are living purely in the vows but have yet to realize the absolute Dharma. They inspire and guide us on the entire path to enlightenment, so if we have taken refuge it is our responsibility to respect them. If we are very
- [Day 163](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-163/) - Because Dharma texts represent the holy mind of the Buddha, they themselves are holy. Many beings have attained high realizations and enlightenment through studying these texts, which contain the key to all attainments and happiness. When we see a Dharma book, we shouldn’t just see it as sheets of paper bound together but as the
- [Day 162](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-162/) - Respect for holy objects entails seeing them as the actual Buddha and because of that always treating them with great reverence. Statues, thangkas and tsatsas of buddhas and other holy objects are very powerful; therefore, to respect them and make offerings to them creates incredible merit, whereas to disrespect them creates very heavy negative karma.
- [Day 161](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-161/) - Once we have formally taken refuge, we assume a certain responsibility for our behavior. We should watch our mind and examine the inner processes of action and reaction: “What is my mind doing now? What impulse is arising? When I act like this, what is the result?” For example, we should observe how others react
- [Day 160](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-160/) - By taking refuge we assure ourselves of every success we wish for, and the greatest success possible is the ultimate state of full enlightenment. Until we reach that state, we will always have some stain of delusion, no matter how slight. The teachings describe being “released from bondage,” which means being freed from what binds
- [Day 159](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-159/) - By having refuge in our heart, we instantly create extensive merit, and therefore positive, happy results manifest effortlessly and continually. Every action we do becomes Dharma; it becomes an offering to the Three Rare Sublime Ones. Everything we do creates unbelievable merit. Before the monastery was built at Lawudo, I had the idea of benefiting
- [Day 158](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-158/) - At the time of death, simply having strong refuge in and remembering somebody like the Buddha or one of the other buddhas, such as Amitabha or Chenrezig, will save us from rebirth in the lower realms. Similarly, if when we’re dying we can just remember a Dharma text, such as the Heart Sutra or the
- [Day 157](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-157/) - Our refuge is a strong protection from harm, whether that harm is inflicted on us by malevolent human beings or by animals, spirits and the like. There are many stories that illustrate this. In ancient India there was a king who punished criminals by putting them in a cemetery inhabited by vicious spirits that ate
- [Day 156](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-156/) - If the merit we create by taking refuge were to take physical form, the whole of space would be unable to accommodate it; the whole universe would be too small. In fact, all the countless universes would be too small. Here, we are not talking about the benefits of the refuge vow we take with
- [Day 155](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-155/) - Because we have taken refuge, in every moment we are able to accumulate merit as vast as the sky by doing actions such as making offerings, doing prostrations and circumambulating holy objects. Such actions purify eons of negative karma, thus saving us from rebirth in the three lower realms of the hell beings, hungry ghosts
- [Day 154](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-154/) - Before we can take any Buddhist vows, we must have refuge. We can still refrain from killing, stealing and so forth without having taken refuge, but that same restraint done within a vow is much more powerful, and refuge is the gateway that leads to all this. We take refuge because we are afraid of
- [Day 153](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-153/) - The real significance of taking refuge in Dharma wisdom is that it is the entrance to the path to enlightenment. That is why, traditionally, people in Buddhist countries take refuge in Buddha, Dharma and Sangha every day. But Western people don’t need to copy this, going to the temple every day, taking refuge in Buddha,
- [Day 152](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-152/) - It’s important to take refuge strongly from our heart. If we have a two-­pointed mind, taking refuge in the Buddha but also taking refuge in a wrong founder who shows the wrong path, we can never succeed. We need to differentiate between right and wrong paths, because followers of a wrong path have no way
- [Day 151](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-151/) - The three objects of refuge are Buddha, Dharma and Sangha. Taking refuge in the Buddha involves accepting the guidance of an enlightened being as the only remedy for the confusion and dissatisfaction of our present life. If we are convinced that we are beyond hope and incapable of change, or if we think we are
- [Day 150](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-150/) - The historical Buddha is the one in whom we take refuge and is thus the cause of our own enlightenment—the causal refuge. This is true of all the buddhas, not just Shakyamuni Buddha. The end result, the resultant refuge, is our own buddhahood, and therefore the absolute Buddha is the omniscient mind—itself, ours or anybody
- [Day 149](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-149/) - Sangha is very easy to understand. Gathered here are old students and new. When it’s time for discussion, new students can sometimes feel, “Oh, this subject is impossible to understand.” Then, when the older students explain it, they think, “Oh, OK, they understand it; I guess can too.” It helps so much. So, we can
- [Day 148](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-148/) - Dharma is a Sanskrit word that means not just the teachings of the Buddha, but anything that leads us from suffering to happiness. The relative Dharma jewel is the 84,000 teachings shown by Guru Shakyamuni Buddha that explain the different levels of cessation, the five paths, the ten grounds and so forth. These are divided
- [Day 147](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-147/) - The Buddha manifests in many ways, both animate and inanimate, in order to benefit us. Where there is need for a bridge or a boat, the Buddha manifests as these things. If there is need for rain, the Buddha’s holy mind takes the form of a rain cloud. Whenever a virtuous thought arises in our
- [Day 146](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-146/) - Many people have only a superficial understanding of what the Buddha is. They read one book after another but never connect the Buddha with themselves, so it’s basically useless. If we can relate to the Buddha in a personal way that brings him close to us or even unifies him with us, that’s very practical.
- [Day 145](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-145/) - Enlightened beings understand the way people think and can take the measure of their superstitious mind. They can spontaneously adjust their approach to each person’s limitations and make sure that that person is ready before showing them their individual path. Their unobstructed vision embraces all existent phenomena, including the subtlest workings of our mind, and
- [Day 144](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-144/) - When we think of the historical Buddha’s body, it is natural to think of it as a normal human body. The pictures we see of the Buddha after his enlightenment show a monk in India on a throne or among the trees with his Sangha. He has a beautiful body, and perhaps an aura around
- [Day 143](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-143/) - Many people do not understand that it’s only the light of wisdom that can elevate them into liberation, nirvana, salvation or whatever we want to call it, so they take refuge in material things instead. They also engage in mistaken practices. In Nepal, many people believe that their religion says they have to sacrifice animals
- [Day 142](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-142/) - The fourth reason that the Buddha is a trustworthy refuge is that he works for the benefit of all sentient beings equally, regardless of the help or harm he has received from them. There is no need from our side to placate him or ingratiate ourselves with him, to win his favors or show ourselves
- [Day 141](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-141/) - The third reason that the Buddha is a trustworthy refuge is that he feels compassion for all sentient beings without exception. He has no sense of partiality at all, favoring one sentient being over another. He is completely without discrimination in his wish to help others, whether they are his immediate family or a sworn
- [Day 140](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-140/) - The second reason that Guru Shakyamuni Buddha is a trustworthy refuge is because he is extremely wise in guiding all sentient beings from suffering, no matter what the mental capacity or disposition of those beings is. If the Buddha were not completely skillful in guiding all beings, it would be impossible for him to lead
- [Day 139](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-139/) - To come to rely on the Buddha, we must investigate and see his incredible qualities. There are many ways to do this. The stories about his life, both before and after his enlightenment, are a great source of inspiration. In the ancient Indian state of Magadha, King Ajatashatru was jealous of the Buddha’s power and
- [Day 138](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-138/) - We already take refuge in food, in keeping warm, in houses, clothes and chocolate. Already, we take refuge in these things in order to be happy. So why should we take refuge again, at this time? What is so special? We should understand clean-­clear that taking refuge in chocolate or ice cream is not sufficient,
- [Day 137](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-137/) - The strength of our refuge depends on the strength of our aversion to suffering and our understanding of the qualities of the objects of refuge. Therefore, we should check up very carefully on the strength of these two causes of refuge in our mindstream. If one is weak or missing, we should study and meditate
- [Day 136](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-136/) - Having seen that we are suffering and that we need to find a way out of suffering, we seek that way. Using thorough investigation, we can see that we don’t personally have the capacity to save ourselves from suffering. We are too deluded to find our own way out of the maze of delusions. We
- [Day 135](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-135/) - Buddhist refuge is a process of turning inward that begins when we discover our own unlimited potential as human beings. This discovery generates tremendous zeal for the development of our own inborn wisdom-­energy. Complete, perfect wisdom is buddhahood. Perhaps the word “buddha” conjures up a remote and rather oriental image. But “buddha” is just a
- [Day 133](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-133/) - The cause for a perfect human rebirth in the future is ethics and generosity, and when we know that and actively work toward such a rebirth, then the lower realms cease to be our next destination and death ceases to be a thing of horror. In short, we need to practice Dharma, and do nothing
- [Day 132](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-132/) - At present our minds are clouded by false views and wrong conceptions and therefore are temporarily obscured. We do have the ability to see things clearly and accurately, but instead we are groping in the darkness of attachment, clinging to the hallucinatory world of our senses. However, we should not think that we are caught
- [Day 131](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-131/) - Unless we practice pure morality, there is no way of telling where we might be reborn or what we might be in our next life, and it is the nature of impermanence that our next life might only be a breath away. What causes are we creating at this very moment? We need to consider
- [Day 130](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-130/) - Animals are ruled by their ignorance. Whether or not hatred or greed are also present, it’s ignorance that defines the animal world. Due to their ignorance animals are trapped in fear or aggression, in hunger, cold, heat and all those other torments that make their lives miserable. No animal is free from the fear of
- [Day 129](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-129/) - Because of their scientific education and understanding of progressive evolution, Westerners often find it difficult to accept that a human being can become like an animal. They think such regression to be impossible. Actually, it’s possible. As I have said before, the sick mind can manifest at the physical level; this is the same thing.
- [Day 128](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-128/) - Hungry ghosts experience three types of obscurations. The outer obscurations are the external factors that stop them satisfying their intense hunger and thirst. These often take the form of karmically-­created guardians—fierce yamas—that protect whatever source of food or water there is and chase the weak and terrified hungry ghost away. It might be that a
- [Day 127](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-127/) - The place where hungry ghosts (pretas) live is simply unimaginable. There is no grass, no trees, no water—nothing! It is completely barren and desolate. Pabongka Rinpoche describes it as being like a red-­hot copper pot, burnt by the sun. There are frequent sandstorms in which the hot sharp sand cuts the pretas’ sensitive skin like
- [Day 126](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-126/) - The second of the suffering lower realms is the realm of the hungry ghosts. This realm is created by miserliness and attachment, and is dominated by terrible hunger and thirst. Besides a very few people who have the karma to see hungry ghosts, this realm is invisible to the human world, but the hungry ghosts
- [Day 125](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-125/) - It is very easy to become complacent. At this moment we are experiencing great comfort and ease. Our life is pleasant and our troubles are few. Like the lazy feeling we can get on a sunny day when we are picnicking by a river, it seems that life has always been like this and always
- [Day 124](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-124/) - There are also occasional hells—hellish existences that occur in this world system that can be seen by some people if they have the karma. These can be extreme suffering environments that we know about, such as deserts and swamps, or they can be “occasional” in that the beings don’t constantly experience them. It all depends
- [Day 123](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-123/) - Similar to the hot hells, there are eight cold hells, each increasing in duration and suffering from the previous one. They are: the hell of blisters; the hell of bursting blisters; the hell of a-­choo; the moaning hell; the clenched-­teeth hell; the hell of cracking like a blue lotus; the hell of cracking like a
- [Day 122](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-122/) - There are a number of neighboring hells surrounding the eight hot hells, just as suburbs surround a city center. Some beings are born straight into the neighboring hells, but generally these are places that the hell being finds itself in when its time in the hot or cold hells has finished. Having endured the most
- [Day 121](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-121/) - The first of the eight hot hells is the hell of being reborn again and again, where the being is born in a place of red-­hot iron mountains and terrible winds. Surrounded by enemies, the being takes up a weapon and fights them, but is cut into tiny pieces. Then its body is reconstituted and
- [Day 120](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-120/) - When somebody dies with an extremely negative mind and is destined to be reborn in the hell realms, they experience a terrible death. A person who is going to be born in the hot hell realms feels very cold. No matter how high the heating is turned up, no matter how many blankets they are
- [Day 119](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-119/) - Anger can easily result in a rebirth in the hell realms, especially if our anger is directed at a powerful object, such as our parents, the Three Rare Sublime Ones—Buddha, Dharma and Sangha—or, especially, our guru. Abandoning our guru as an object of respect is the heaviest downfall. Criticizing the guru is equal to criticizing
- [Day 118](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-118/) - It’s not as if someone in a place called hell built an iron house, lit a blazing fire and thought, “Aha! I am waiting for Thubten Yeshe. Soon he will die and come here. I’m ready for him!” It is not like that. Hell does not exist in that way. The reality is that at
- [Day 117](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-117/) - A hell being’s whole existence is nothing but suffering. It’s more than a human being can even imagine, and far more than the suffering of the most miserable animal or hungry ghost. The sufferings we can see in our own world—of people being killed in explosions or earthquakes, of animals being burnt to death or
- [Day 116](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-116/) - When we look at the states from which we are free we might reject certain ideas because they seem too outrageous. But can we really be so sure that what the Buddha said about the lower realms is just make-believe? We don’t know everything. We don’t remember most of what has happened to us since
- [Day 115](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-115/) - Because we have been creating negative karma all our life we are almost certain to be reborn in the suffering lower realms. We only have to observe our actions over one day to see how most of what we do is dictated by self-cherishing and clinging to the affairs of this life, and is thus
- [Day 114](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-114/) - If we examine the mental states that dominate our mind, we will see that we create a huge number of negative actions every day, many more than positive actions. Similarly, if we look back on our life and consider our previous lives as well, we will see a huge mountain of negative karma waiting to
- [Day 112](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-112/) - There is nothing to be afraid of about death. Death is not difficult: it is nothing more than the consciousness leaving the body. That’s all. The connection with the body finishes, the mind leaves the body and finds another one. On this basis, why does death appear so difficult and frightening to so many people?
- [Day 111](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-111/) - Seeing how our life is full of thousands of life-­threatening hindrances and how incredibly easy it is for death to happen, it’s a miracle that we wake each next morning. It’s as if we’re living on a thin rock overhang on top of a high mountain, with the valley way below, unaware that the overhang
- [Day 110](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-110/) - We have seen that possessions, reputation, friends, loved ones and even our body are unable to bring us any help as we die—so what else is there? Only dying with a positive state of mind can help. To die free from the three poisons, but especially without attachment, means that we can have a peaceful
- [Day 109](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-109/) - In some ways our greatest possession is our body. This is the thing that we cherish most in this life. Think of how much time, effort and money has gone into our body. We take such lavish care of it: feeding it, clothing it, giving it shelter from the weather and giving it medicine when
- [Day 108](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-108/) - All relationships are transitory, even the rather special relationships between Dharma brothers and sisters, and grasping at such relationships is obviously a great hindrance to our practice. We must understand that as soon as we have met someone, the cause for our eventually splitting up has been created. Meeting always leads to separation; if we
- [Day 107](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-107/) - The poorest beggar and the richest billionaire are exactly equal in what they can physically take into the next life—nothing. Billionaires work day and night all their life to acquire what they have; they fight competitors and make enemies, they exploit people and lie and cheat. They live in huge mansions and palaces, and every
- [Day 106](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-106/) - How do we turn our current way of living around completely? By remembering death and impermanence. Without that strong spur, it is difficult not to be lazy. We think that Dharma is a nice idea but somehow never quite get around to practicing it. As long as the world seems comfortable and the experience of
- [Day 105](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-105/) - When we consider our body, it really is an amazing machine, with the heart pumping blood all around and every organ with its separate vital function. We take for granted the miracle that is our body, and because of that we fail to see how fragile it is and how easily it can break down.
- [Day 104](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-104/) - A candle in a strong wind is in great danger of being blown out. Our human life is the same. This is a very good analogy, because our life is just like that flame, which may look bright but is easily extinguished. With negative emotions strongly in our mind, negative karma can easily ripen and
- [Day 103](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-103/) - There are other world systems where the lifespan is fixed—where the beings in that world know exactly how long they will live. The texts specifically mention the humans of the northern continent, who will definitely live for a thousand years. However, since there is no fixed lifespan in our world system we have no way
- [Day 102](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-102/) - If we understand impermanence there’s no upset, no misery; we accept death as a natural thing. Everything is transitory, momentary; nothing lasts. We cling to things because we think that they’re helpful, but we must try to ascertain whether they really help or harm our mind. Perhaps instead of inducing peace of mind they prevent
- [Day 101](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-101/) - Perhaps we feel that there is plenty of time ahead of us to practice Dharma. As we have seen, that is not the way it is at all, and, furthermore, the years we do have are filled with mundane concerns. With so much time taken up by worldly activities there is no time to practice
- [Day 100](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-100/) - There are many factors that can bring about premature death but there is nothing that can add to our lifespan. We have only so many years in this body and every second brings us closer and closer to death. Karma has determined that we have this human body with its particular attributes, and one of
- [Day 99](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-99/) - Nobody escapes death. This is demonstrated by the life of the Buddha. He was born, became enlightened, and taught for over forty years, but even he had to die because he had taken a physical body. Dying was the Buddha’s last great lesson on impermanence, showing us that death is an inevitable part of life.
- [Day 98](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-98/) - We will now look at three very important points: that death is certain, that the time of death is uncertain and that nothing can help us at death but the Dharma. These are the three “root truths” of the nine-­point meditation on death that is taught extensively in Tibetan Buddhism. It is presented with three
- [Day 97](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-97/) - Buddhist teachings explain that the most advanced Dharma practitioners feel joyful when they are dying, as if going home to see their family after a long absence or going on a picnic. Death does not bother them at all. Less accomplished practitioners are happy and comfortable at the time of death and are fully confident
- [Day 96](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-96/) - It is vital to remember impermanence and death at the beginning of our spiritual journey because it generates the energy that gets us to start our practice and allows us to continue without difficulty. Our Dharma practice begins when we see beyond the happiness of this life and start to prepare for our future lives.
- [Day 95](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-95/) - The thought of death makes us incredibly alert. If we were walking through a forest where there were tigers, our eyes would be wide open all the time. We wouldn’t daydream at all. We would think only about the tiger and would be watching and listening carefully, fearful of every noise or movement. The tiger
- [Day 94](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-94/) - There is a huge difference between the worldly person who thinks about death and the Dharma practitioner. A worldly person has no control over death or the next rebirth—it’s all under the control of delusion and karma—and so the thought of death is utterly terrifying. A Dharma practitioner has the means to ensure not just
- [Day 93](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-93/) - Death is a reality and to deny it, as many people do, is very dangerous. We live our life in a hallucination, as if we are sleeping, not seeing the reality of life. We see things that are impermanent as permanent and are shocked when death, the big impermanence, comes. Suddenly, without warning, death is
- [Day 92](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-92/) - Every second we are running toward our death and there is nothing we can do about it. We can’t stop for a second. Every second is one second closer to death. But because we don’t appreciate this, not only do we fail to prepare for death, we ensure that there will be incredible suffering in
- [Day 91](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-91/) - To avoid the lower realms we need a positive mind as we die, and we can only be assured of that if our overall mindset is strongly positive. This means we must practice Dharma diligently and continuously. An on again, off again approach to Dharma is useless. Without a deep sense of impermanence and death,
- [Day 90](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-90/) - If we do not remember impermanence and death, then even if we try to practice Dharma it doesn’t become pure Dharma. Perhaps we can overcome our reluctance to meditate and no longer postpone our practice, but somehow the energy is not there to make our practice effective. We sit down to meditate and our mind
- [Day 89](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-89/) - When we fail to remember death we are only concerned with the affairs of this life. Our life is filled with working and planning for mundane concerns, leaving no time to create any merit at all. We know logically that we must die, but that seems sometime in the future and we think there is
- [Day 88](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-88/) - Without an understanding of impermanence and death, we can work for neither our own true happiness nor that of others. Not only can we not begin to practice Dharma, it’s even very difficult to control our desire and anger. We spend our whole life doing meaningless things and never have the chance to create any
- [Day 87](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-87/) - It’s important for Dharma students to understand Lord Buddha’s scientific teachings on impermanence and death and not try to hide from or escape the reality of death. We need to face it. Of course, for people brought up the way they are these days, this topic might be a little bit too much, because in
- [Day 85](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-85/) - The great yogis of the past owned nothing yet were incredibly happy. The most famous example is Milarepa, the great Tibetan meditator who became enlightened in one brief lifetime of this degenerate age. Other than a place to meditate and a cooking pot, he had nothing—absolutely no money and not even any clothes other than
- [Day 84](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-84/) - If we check deeply to see if, since we were born until now, we’ve done anything that was really worthwhile in bringing us true happiness and a joyful life, do you think we’ll find anything? Check up. Don’t look at others; check yourself. It’s not complicated: we have our body, speech and mind; just these
- [Day 83](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-83/) - If our life lasted a long time and was always perfect and if we could be assured of finding another good rebirth easily, we could relax and think about practicing Dharma sometime in the future, but that is not the case. Life is extremely short and starts to decay from the moment of birth. Moreover,
- [Day 82](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-82/) - A perfect human rebirth needs not just a human body but the presence of the entire Buddhadharma, and this is incredibly rare. According to Buddhist cosmology, the period of the existence of a world system is divided into four great eons, each consisting of twenty intermediate eons. During the great eons of evolution, decay and
- [Day 81](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-81/) - Buddhist texts use many analogies to explain just how difficult it is to attain a perfect human rebirth, and because of that just how rare it is. The best-­known analogy is that of the blind turtle surfacing through a golden ring. Say there is a blind turtle that lives in the ocean, only coming up
- [Day 80](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-80/) - Why is this perfect human rebirth so precious? Why do so few beings enjoy such an existence? Because the causes of a perfect human rebirth are so difficult to acquire. Without creating the cause, the result cannot happen. That is the most basic fact about karma. We have created the causes for this perfect human
- [Day 79](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-79/) - If extracting the essence from our perfect human rebirth means practicing Dharma, then striving to attain bodhicitta and enlightenment is the heart of the essence. This is something we should do “all day and night.” There is not one second to waste; and with bodhicitta, every second becomes infinitely valuable. When we light a stick
- [Day 78](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-78/) - Of the three great purposes of the perfect human rebirth, the greatest meaning is the opportunity we have to attain full enlightenment. We have already seen just how rare and precious it is to have all eighteen attributes. The rarest of all is to have met a fully-­qualified Mahayana virtuous friend who can show us
- [Day 77](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-77/) - This perfect human rebirth is unbelievably useful in three ways: bringing us the temporal benefits of happiness in this and future lives; bringing us the ultimate benefits of liberation and enlightenment; and bringing us the benefit of allowing us to make every moment of this life highly meaningful. Whatever happiness we wish for can be
- [Day 76](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-76/) - The eight freedoms and the ten richnesses are not just a list of ideals that cannot be matched. We already have most if not all of them. We have already come a long way on our journey to enlightenment. We should rejoice that this is so but must never be complacent. We have created the
- [Day 75](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-75/) - The second five richnesses relate to others: being born at a time when a buddha has descended, being born when the teachings have been revealed, being born when the complete teachings exist, being born when the teachings are being followed and having the necessary conditions to practice Dharma. There are so many factors that must
- [Day 74](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-74/) - Just as there are the eight situations from which we are free that give this life great meaning, there are also ten things that we have received that enrich our life enormously. These are called the ten richnesses, or endowments. The first five are personal richnesses, things that we have within ourselves that make life
- [Day 73](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-73/) - The last freedom is the freedom to practice Dharma through not having been born a heretic. In Buddhism, heresy is the belief that something that exists does not exist. There is such a thing as karma but a heretic will deny that. Similarly, to a heretic, the Buddha, liberation, enlightenment and the other important topics
- [Day 72](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-72/) - The next freedom is the freedom to practice Dharma through not having been born a fool. Although the Tibetan, ’on pa, literally means “deaf,” it has the connotation of somebody utterly unable to understand or communicate. With this freedom, we are not just talking about people who have trouble understanding things; we are talking about
- [Day 71](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-71/) - The sixth freedom is not being born as a “barbarian,” the literal translation of the Tibetan term la lo, which refers to somebody who lives in a border region or irreligious country and therefore has no chance to hear or practice Dharma. These outliers have no understanding of what is a positive action and what
- [Day 70](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-70/) - The next four freedoms are about being free from the four types of human existence that prevent us from developing our full potential. The first of these is the freedom to practice Dharma through not having been born at a time when no buddha has descended. Even if we were born human but in a
- [Day 69](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-69/) - It is easy to see that as a hell being, hungry ghost or animal it is almost impossible to create any virtuous action. But also as a long-­life god—either in the desire realm distracted by pleasure or in the form or formless realm absorbed in concentration—it is extremely difficult to see the nature of suffering
- [Day 68](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-68/) - The third freedom is not having been born as an animal, whose main suffering is being dumb and foolish, with a mind incapable of understanding anything other than survival, although there are many other sufferings besides. The main cause of being born in the animal realm, ignorance, traps them in a life without choice. Those
- [Day 67](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-67/) - The second freedom is not having been born as a hungry ghost, whose main sufferings are hunger and thirst, caused by miserliness and desire, although they also have many other forms of suffering. Most of us have probably never been truly starving in our life. Can we remember a time when for some reason we
- [Day 66](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-66/) - Of the eight freedoms, the first is having the chance to practice Dharma through not having been born in the hell realms. For the hell being, the suffering is so intense that pain and suffering are what defines its existence. There is no space in that being’s mind for anything other than the unbearable suffering
- [Day 65](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-65/) - Lama Tsongkhapa and Pabongka Rinpoche divide the topic of the perfect human rebirth into three sections: identifying the perfect human rebirth, understanding its benefits and understanding the difficulty of obtaining it. The first part shows exactly what we have that is so precious: eight freedoms—states of existence from which we are free—and ten richnesses—qualities that
- [Day 64](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-64/) - The great meditator, Lama Tsongkhapa, who formalized the whole lamrim structure, broke the lamrim up into two: appreciation of this life of freedom and richness—the perfect human rebirth—and how to make use of this precious opportunity—the rest of the lamrim topics from impermanence and death, refuge and karma up to the point where we attain
- [Day 62](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-62/) - Because guru devotion is the most difficult realization to achieve, we need to put a lot of effort into it. Just doing the meditations a few times can’t transform our mind into the realization of seeing the guru as a buddha. We won’t feel this after doing the meditations for just a few months—or even
- [Day 61](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-61/) - In guru yoga, the essential point to understand is that all the buddhas are of one taste in the dharmakaya. The dharmakaya is the absolute guru, and this is all the buddhas. This is the very heart of guru yoga practice. Without understanding this, there’s no way to practice guru yoga comfortably. Even if we
- [Day 60](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-60/) - The tantric texts often mention that all realizations come from the guru. This is true, but we have to understand that “guru” has two different levels of meaning. The relative, objective guru is the teacher who, by communicating with us in different ways, shows us how to act so that we can discover our own
- [Day 59](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-59/) - A common problem for all of us is that our knowledge of so-­called spiritual matters is often just in our head, not in our heart. We are proud of how much we have studied and learned about the world’s religions and may even have mastered the vocabulary of their philosophy and meditational practices, yet we
- [Day 58](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-58/) - By practicing guru yoga, by seeing the totally positive qualities of the guru, we can let our negative perceptions go. Most of the time our human mind thinks, “I’m a human being; I’m like this. They are also a human being; therefore, they must be like me.” This is a misconception. By practicing guru yoga,
- [Day 57](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-57/) - In the practice of guru devotion according to the Mahayana sutra, there is no instruction to stop the ordinary appearance of the guru and there is no mention of visualizing the guru as the deity. This is mentioned only in the guru yoga practice of tantra. The teachings of Mahayana sutra mention that we use
- [Day 56](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-56/) - When we offer even a glass of water to our guru, we should make the offering by thinking that the guru is all the buddhas and bodhisattvas of the ten directions. Since making an offering to even a pore of the guru creates more merit than making offerings to all the buddhas of the three
- [Day 55](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-55/) - Many people think that to serve the guru we have to be with the guru. This is not so. It doesn’t matter whether we’re living in the guru’s house or on the other side of the world. We could be on the moon or the sun and still be serving the guru by keeping purely
- [Day 54](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-54/) - With guru devotion, seeing the guru as a buddha, we are able to devote ourselves correctly to the virtuous friend with thought, and then naturally we devote ourselves correctly with action. We are able to follow the guru’s advice easily and joyfully, practicing the teachings according to our guru’s instructions, which is the best way
- [Day 53](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-53/) - We are going around and around and are so lost. We don’t know what we want to do and don’t know what we want to understand. We are lost. Since countless lives we are lost but still we think we are not lost. “I know exactly what I want because I want chocolate.” The fact
- [Day 52](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-52/) - Another kindness of the guru is in making us happy and inspiring us to practice Dharma through gifts of food, clothing and other material things. Because we like material things more than Dharma, the guru is able to guide us into the Dharma by providing us with material enjoyments; in this way we continue to
- [Day 51](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-51/) - Having experiences or realizations of the path to enlightenment depends on receiving the blessings of the guru within our own mental continuum. The clear, strong feeling in our heart and deep benefit to our mind are what is meant by the blessings of the guru. Without a guru, we can’t achieve realizations. This is why
- [Day 50](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-50/) - If we had cancer and were afraid of dying, we would find the situation unbearable. Day and night we would look for help. If we found a doctor who could cure our cancer we would regard that person as very kind and precious, and consider the rest of our life to be a gift from
- [Day 49](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-49/) - Guru Shakyamuni Buddha taught Dharma in Rajgir and many other places but we didn’t have the fortune to be his direct disciples and hear teachings directly from Buddha, achieve realizations of the path and become enlightened along with his other disciples. We were left out; we didn’t have the karma to be subdued by Guru
- [Day 48](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-48/) - A second way to think about how the guru is kinder and more precious than the buddhas is to think that the numberless buddhas can’t guide us in the aspect of buddhas because we don’t have the karma to see them; only our present gurus can guide us. Without them we’d be without a guide,
- [Day 47](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-47/) - There are two ways to think about how the guru is kinder and more precious than the buddhas. One is to think that our present virtuous teacher, who appears in an ordinary aspect, is a manifestation of the absolute guru and everything—including Buddha, Dharma and Sangha—comes from the absolute guru. Our gurus are the absolute
- [Day 46](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-46/) - From the practical point of view, when the teacher gives us some kind of knowledge, some kind of instruction that we can check out, something so truthful, something that touches our heart, and this initiative somehow puts us into the right direction, we feel their great kindness in touching our mind in such a way
- [Day 45](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-45/) - Even if the sun is shining and we have dry grass or tinder, without a magnifying glass we can’t start a fire. When sunbeams hit tinder through a magnifying glass, however, fire comes effortlessly. In a similar way, the blessings of all the buddhas, who are like the sun, come through the guru, who is
- [Day 44](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-44/) - There are many quotations from Guru Shakyamuni Buddha and Buddha Vajradhara explaining how, in order to guide sentient beings in the future, they would manifest in the forms of virtuous friends and in various other forms. Such stories and quotations give us more feeling and make it easy for us to generate devotion, the root
- [Day 43](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-43/) - During our beginningless lifetimes until now, all the virtuous teachers we have met—those who gave us ordinations, initiations and teachings—are one being, the absolute guru, who has manifested in various aspects, with different names and forms. When the sun or moon rises, billions of reflections spontaneously arise in all the bodies of water on the
- [Day 42](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-42/) - When I introduce the concept of the buddhas and bodhisattvas working for sentient beings to my students I normally recommend that they first use their own experience of compassion as an example, as this makes it easy to understand. When we feel compassion for someone, we want to help, not harm them. In other words,
- [Day 41](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-41/) - We can use the stories of present and past great yogis to show how there is nothing to trust in our own view. When sentient beings look at a buddha, even a buddha will appear in many different ways in accord with the level of mind of each individual being. Some will even see an
- [Day 40](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-40/) - There is nothing to trust in our own view is the most important outline in guru yoga practice; meditating on this topic is like dropping an atomic bomb on our superstitious thoughts that see faults in the guru. It is the most powerful outline for the mind because it stops the arising of wrong conceptions,
- [Day 39](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-39/) - The great meditator Gen Jampa Wangdu told me the following story about two disciples of a teacher in Tibet, which shows how the way the guru appears depends on the mind training of the disciple. When the two disciples returned exhausted to their monastery from their home, which was very distant, their teacher greeted them
- [Day 38](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-38/) - The second technique that enables us to see the guru as a buddha is to use any faults we see in the guru to increase our devotion and thus achieve realizations of the path to enlightenment. When we see a fault in our guru we can remember that a buddha manifests various forms and does
- [Day 37](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-37/) - There are two techniques we can use to enable us to see the guru as a buddha. The first is to train our mind to focus on the good qualities of the guru. Lama Tsongkhapa suggests that we use ourselves as an example. Even though we have many faults, focusing strongly on even one good
- [Day 36](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-36/) - The basic reason that we are able to see the guru as a buddha is that the nature of our mind is such that we can train it in any way we wish. As Shantideva says, there is nothing that the mind cannot be trained to become. In other words, the mind is a causative
- [Day 35](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-35/) - Devotion is the basis of generating all realizations. Pabongka Rinpoche says that even if the instructions we receive are mistaken, if we believe in them, we can still achieve some small common attainments. The story of the old woman and the dog’s tooth supports this. An old Tibetan woman wanted very much to have a
- [Day 34](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-34/) - The fundamental reason that we need to look at our guru as a buddha is connected with the purpose of our life, which is to benefit other sentient beings. Benefiting other sentient beings doesn’t mean bringing them just the happiness of this life by giving them money, food, shelter or medicine; it means bringing other
- [Day 33](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-33/) - Training our mind in devotion to the guru means using quotations and logical reasoning to prove to the mind that does not see the guru as a buddha that the guru is a buddha. It means training our mind in this meditation. Our ultimate goal is to bring all sentient beings to enlightenment. To succeed
- [Day 32](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-32/) - We know about these eight benefits and eight shortcomings from our own experience; they describe the failures and successes in our own life. For example, we may try to do retreat, but after some time many disturbances arise and we fail to complete it. Or we may be living in ordination with the great ambition
- [Day 31](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-31/) - The final disadvantage of making mistakes in our devotion to the virtuous friend is that in all our future lives we will lack a virtuous friend. Even if the country where we live has thousands of qualified teachers—Tibet or India, for example—we won’t be able to find a guru. We will never meet a virtuous
- [Day 30](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-30/) - After we have established a Dharma connection with a teacher—even if we have received only the oral transmission of a few syllables of a mantra or one verse of a teaching with the recognition of a guru-­disciple relationship—there is no doubt that the heaviest negative karma is criticizing or renouncing the guru. One after another,
- [Day 29](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-29/) - It is very easy for the fortune of those who have degenerated or broken samaya with their guru to go lower and lower. There is then more possibility of them receiving harm from the elements, nonhuman beings, such as spirits, and even human beings. They may also die by suicide. Even if there’s no one
- [Day 28](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-28/) - A further shortcoming of incorrect devotion is that we will be unable to achieve new scriptural understanding and realizations, and even those qualities we have generated within our mind will degenerate. In this way, incorrect practice of guru devotion is most harmful for the development of our mind. Our previous experiences of compassion, emptiness, renunciation,
- [Day 27](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-27/) - As a result of having criticized, become angry at or made some other mistake in relation to our guru, as long as we don’t confess our mistake or revive the samaya, even attempting to practice tantra for many years by undergoing hardships such as forgoing food and sleep will be like attaining hell and the
- [Day 26](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-26/) - When we have made mistakes in our guru devotion practice, even though we practice tantra, we can never achieve enlightenment. No matter how well we understand the tantric path and no matter how many eons we meditate on it, we can never achieve the sublime realization. Until we purify the negative karma accumulated in relation
- [Day 25](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-25/) - Even if we have been angry at a virtuous friend, criticized or given them up, harmed their holy body, gone against their advice or disturbed their holy mind, we can definitely purify the negative karma we have created to be born in hell. It’s not that the negative karma is so heavy that it can
- [Day 24](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-24/) - Each moment of anger toward our guru destroys merit for eons equal in number to the moments of our anger, and will cause us to be reborn in the hells and suffer for the same number of eons. The most dangerous thing is generating anger or heresy toward our guru. The longer we have to
- [Day 23](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-23/) - Having established a Dharma connection and accepted a guru-­disciple relationship, if we then criticize or give up that guru, we incur the same heavy negative karma as having criticized or given up all the buddhas. The Tibetan term, nyä mö, has two aspects: the heavier aspect is giving up, or abandoning, the guru as an
- [Day 22](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-22/) - After meeting a virtuous teacher who reveals the unmistaken path, if we devote ourselves to them correctly, we gain all the eight benefits mentioned in the texts. Thus we can easily see that if we don’t rely upon a virtuous friend at all, we don’t receive those eight benefits, which itself is a powerful shortcoming.
- [Day 21](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-21/) - As a result of carrying out our guru’s advice and serving them, all our wishes for temporary and ultimate happiness are quickly fulfilled. Correctly devoting ourselves to the guru establishes the root of all future happiness, including enlightenment. Everything—the works for self and other sentient beings—succeeds and we quickly become enlightened. In short, all the
- [Day 20](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-20/) - When we correctly devote ourselves to the guru, all the heavy negative karma to be reborn in the lower realms, such as the five uninterrupted negative karmas, can be completely purified in the shortest time—even in an instant. Instead of our having to be born in the lower realms and experience there the heaviest suffering
- [Day 19](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-19/) - Guru devotion in our future lives could be easy—with our easily meeting a perfect guru and succeeding in our guru devotion practice—or difficult—with our not even finding a guru or making many mistakes when we do. How perfectly we can practice guru devotion in our future lives depends on how skillful we are at devoting
- [Day 18](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-18/) - Kadampa Geshe Chayulwa was an incomparable practitioner and disciple who correctly devoted to the virtuous friend, following the guru perfectly. If he was doing his mandala offering, piling up the mandala to create merit, and his guru called him, the moment he heard his guru’s voice, he would immediately stop his mandala offering and run
- [Day 17](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-17/) - When we follow the virtuous friend correctly, even if we don’t meditate much, realizations will be generated spontaneously, effortlessly. The quickest way to achieve realizations is to do what most pleases the holy mind of the virtuous friend, which means following their advice. We normally have such questions as “How can I gain realizations quickly?”
- [Day 16](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-16/) - As we understand what is to be practiced and what is to be abandoned, we are able to give up wrong conduct. Either because we follow our teacher’s example or because we practice correct devotion from our own side, all our disturbing thoughts and negative actions are naturally stopped. When we are following a guru,
- [Day 15](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-15/) - By correctly devoting ourselves to our virtuous friend through thought and action, allowing ourselves to be under the control of the virtuous friend, then we won’t be harmed by maras or evil friends. Because of our strong devotion, we purify inconceivable obscurations and past negative karma and accumulate extensive merit; non-­human beings, such as the
- [Day 14](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-14/) - Just as a mother is very happy when she sees someone helping her beloved child, all the buddhas are pleased when we devote ourselves correctly to our virtuous friend. Even though the person doesn’t actually help the mother, she is still extremely pleased that her child is receiving help. Similarly, if we correctly follow our
- [Day 13](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-13/) - Whenever we are able to offer service to our guru we are fortunate beings, because everything we do, from morning to night, is following the guru’s advice. On this basis we accumulate unbelievable merit. If we are working at a job that the guru has given us—whether cleaning toilets, building houses or even running a
- [Day 12](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-12/) - We become closer to enlightenment not only by practicing the advice given us by our guru but even by making offerings to our guru, showing them respect and serving them. This is because in order to achieve enlightenment we need to accumulate extensive merit and the supreme merit field is the virtuous friend. If we
- [Day 11](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-11/) - Without a guru, there is no way we can end our samsara. If we never meet a guru, the time of our achieving enlightenment will never come. But if we rely upon a guru who shows the infallible path, our own samsara, even though it is beginningless, can have an end. By meeting a guru
- [Day 10](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-10/) - Our practice of guru devotion in this life is incredibly important because the greatest profit and the greatest loss are related to correctly devoting ourselves to the virtuous friend and to making mistakes in relation to the virtuous friend respectively. If we are careful to correctly devote ourselves to the virtuous friend from the very
- [Day 8](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-8/) - To achieve enlightenment, we have to complete the realizations of the graduated path. There are many levels of realizations that we have to receive and there are many delusions that we have to eliminate. So, to be able to make this aim successful, it is not sufficient to have a teacher who knows just one
- [Day 7](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-7/) - The main reason that religion in both the East and the West has degenerated so much nowadays is the rarity of meeting good spiritual examples. If people never meet highly realized beings they have no way of knowing the limitless possibilities of their own human consciousness. It is not enough that there are texts recording
- [Day 6](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-6/) - The moment we establish Dharma contact with someone with the recognition of a guru-­disciple relationship, that person becomes the most powerful object in our life, more powerful than numberless buddhas. Once we recognize someone as our guru, as the person we will rely upon to guide us to the happiness of future lives, liberation and
- [Day 5](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-5/) - Why do we need a guru? Because in order to cure our diseased minds, we need the help of someone who knows how to do it. Since it is extremely difficult to understand how the mind works, we need the guidance of an expert in this area. Furthermore, gaining liberation, or inner freedom, is not an
- [Day 3](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-3/) - Going through the main points of the lamrim outline gives us a wonderful overview of the Buddha’s teaching. From it we can see the full array of subjects dealt with by Buddhism and understand the path that all the buddhas followed on their way to enlightenment. Also, as we look at the various divisions of
- [Day 2](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-2/) - The lamrim reveals our ignorance, desire, hatred and ego and demonstrates how these negative minds result in complications and misery. Each lamrim meditation is an antidote to a certain delusion and helps us eliminate it. I tell you, Buddhism is something really scientific and practical, and the lamrim is like an apple, ready to eat—we
- [Day 1](https://lamrimyear.com/lesson/day-1/) - The full responsibility of each of us is to free every sentient being from suffering and its cause and bring them to enlightenment, by ourselves alone. In order to do this, we first need to attain enlightenment ourselves; we need to achieve the omniscient mind that sees all sentient beings directly. Then we can read
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## Course Notes

- [Day 1](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-1-196/) - Notes: To free all beings from suffering we must first achieve enlightenment ourselves Every topic in the lamrim needs to be practiced, and in the right order This is the only way to achieve realizations and complete the Mahayana path
- [Day 171](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-171-14/) - Notes:
- [Day 170](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-170-14/) - Notes: This was a helpful explanation of Karma
- [Day 1](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-1-195/) - Notes: Right order - some put guru/spiritual mentor last. Long run to obtain enlightenment - what can we do in the meantime while working on getting to enlightenment.
- [Day 260](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-260-11/) - Notes: I like this teaching a lot! Will return to it again and again,
- [Day 259](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-259-10/) - Notes: I have never heard of this and find it a little much.
- [Day 241](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-241-13/) - Notes:attachment is the problem
- [Day 1](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-1-194/) - Notas:El lamrim es el método que nos permite llegar a la iluminación y así poder ayudar a otros seres a qué también accedan a ella.
- [Day 257](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-257-12/) - Notes: I’m not sure about this statement: “It is intention that makes an action virtuous or nonvirtuous, not its outward appearance.”
- [Day 23](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-23-49/) - Notes:im not sure i get this one.2 aspects: abandoning the guru, VS criticizing the guru.abadon means to give up, but perhaps we have a teacher for a bit then that teachers leaves...i still have devotion but am confused . if a teacher doesnt "speak" to us and we decide not to continue study, how
- [Day 4](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-4-138/) - Notes: By being educated in this practice from the very beginning, we don’t make mistakes.this is crucial as if one make mistake in the beginning, there is a danger one will turn away from Buddhism.
- [Day 2](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-2-137/) - Notes: Unlike teachings taught in other buddhist traditions, which can be heavy and profound for beginners, Lama Atisha and Lama Tsongkhapa put in clear order the dharma in simple explanation, even beginners can comprehend them and put into practice and even share with others.
- [Day 1](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-1-193/) - Notes: The most important point for me- practice the Lamrim topics in the right order. Best is to fully understand the earlier outline before embarking on the next outline.
- [Day 166](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-166-15/) - Notes: This teaching was powerful for me to see that Norma, whom I imagine as my enemy right now, also suffers and deserves compassion.
- [Getting Started](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/getting-started-73/)
- [Day 20](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-20-47/) - Notes: any problem obstacle that comes to us while we are doing guru work, is karma being cleared.the heavier the karma the more the purification. it can prevent us from being born in lower realms
- [Getting Started](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/getting-started-72/) - Notes: đã đăng ký từ ngày 21/8 khi vào website của hongnhu, khi đang nghe giảng của thầy Thích Hạnh Tấn giảng Lamrim, khi đi tìm các bài giảng về Lamrim để tìm hiểu tổng quan Lamrim để sắp xếp theo học chỉnh chu hơn.
- [Day 12](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-12-61/) - Notes:The guru is the supreme field through which we accumulate extensive meritSimply offering one glass of water to the guru creates unimaginable meritWe also collect merit by offering to the pores of the guru and by supporting a center
- [Day 2](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-2-136/) - Notes: find different guided meditations or ideas/ways to react to different situations/days/problems. Until meditation can be a general good, don’t just use it generally, use it specifically depending on the context in which you’re doing it.
- [Day 13](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-13-51/) - doing work dedicated to our teacher helps us accumulate good merit and helps us feel sustained, too
- [Day 9](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-9-75/) - Notes: guru quality: knowledge of the path, have bodhichita disciple quality : impartial, intelligent, hardworking, listen & respectful.
- [Day 3](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-3-163/) - Notes: we need to practice to be enlightened to free all sentient beings free of samsara. Lamrim outlined all the budha teaching we need diligent & prese
- [Day 1](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-1-192/) - Notes:day 1 in Pekanbaru on pilgrimage with GTZ. Today is a new day and Lama Tsongkhapa lam rim is very much at the forefront of my thinking. Lama Atisha and Lama Serlingpa’s teaching are inspiring
- [Day 161](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-161-12/) - Notes: This part really spoke to me with my situation with Norma. In ordinary friendships we often confuse attachment with affection. For instance, my friend might show his apparent affection for me by suggesting that we go out drinking together. If I decline, he might think me unfriendly and feel rejected, so I give in.
- [Day 5](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-5-106/) - To slow down and think and see deeper the role our mind plays in our life.
- [Day 3](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-3-162/) - Follow the outline and patience and persistence
- [Getting Started](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/getting-started-71/) - Continuous development!
- [Day 1](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-1-191/) - Notes: 1: To not pick the good and pleasant teachings and overlook the parts we don't like - needs to taking as a whole. 2: steady, daily practice.3: practice in order 4: need to see the real nature of suffering
- [Day 4](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-4-137/) - Proper Guru Devotion is the ROOT
- [Day 2](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-2-135/) - Notes:The lamrim reveals our ignorance, desire, hatred and ego and demonstrates how these negative minds result in complications and misery. Each lamrim meditation is an antidote to a certain delusion and helps us eliminate it.
- [Day 11](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-11-58/) - Notes:In our daily life we become closer to enlightenment each time we are able to carry out a piece of advice given to us by our virtuous friend, each time we are able to practice the teachings. If we are aware of this benefit we will see that we are gaining inconceivable merit all the
- [Day 6](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-6-103/) - Notes: merit or suffering? i need to understand this better.knowing someone is our teacher, even from past lives, is important. we establish the dharma connection this way? recognitiong
- [Day 5](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-5-105/) - Notes:everything comes from mind
- [Day 4](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-4-136/) - Notes:absolutely lovely.. the root
- [Day 158](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-158-11/) - Notes: This teaching was really powerful. It made me really connect with the importance of taking refuge in Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha. Especially at the time of death so I don't get a lower rebirth.
- [Day 208](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-208-13/) - Notes:
- [Day 10](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-10-47/) - Notes: If we devote correctly from the beginning we will have fewer shortcomings later We must understand, study and practice the guru devotion teachings as well as we can Knowing the benefits of correct devotion inspires us to take great care in our practice
- [Day 9](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-9-74/) - Notes:From the disciple’s side, we have to have firm devotion, enjoy meditation and like virtue very muchWhen we make a tsa tsa from a perfect mold, the image of a buddha comes out easily and perfectly in the clay, without any details missing. In a similar way, enlightenment comes easily and perfectly to a qualified disciple. If we’re
- [Day 156](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-156-11/) - Notes: this spoke to me. We create inconceivable merit simply through the everyday refuge we hold in our heart Any practice we do with a mind of refuge will definitely bring a huge positive result Taking refuge is the most helpful, beneficial and important thing we can do in this life
- [Day 155](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-155-10/) - Notes: This part was powerful for me: Because we have taken refuge, in every moment we are able to accumulate merit as vast as the sky by doing actions such as making offerings, doing prostrations and circumambulating holy objects. Such actions purify eons of negative karma, thus saving us from rebirth in the three lower
- [Day 4](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-4-135/) - Osservazione, Pazienza, Nota:
- [Day 7](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-7-94/) - Notes: Religion has degenerated because of the rarity of meeting highly realized beings We need the example of someone who has developed beyond what we think is possible Seeing the great qualities of others gives us faith that we can have the same attainments we don't meet of good spiritual examples that often anymore. It
- [Day 6](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-6-102/) - Notes:So, it’s a mental thing. The power is created by our making that decision to recognize someone as our guru and then making Dharma contact with that recognition. The power comes from the Dharma contact, not from whether or not the person is an enlightened being. If we are careful and practice guru devotion well,
- [Day 5](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-5-104/) - Notes:In order to cure our diseased minds, we need expert guidance in how the mind worksAll the confusion of the world, from society to the individual, is created by the mindWe need an experienced teacher to help us develop tranquility and loving kindnessI need to talk to Dana about her role, Is she my guru?
- [Day 154](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-154-11/) - Notes: I really appreciated this teaching especially, this section: Even if we do no other practice at all but just live purely in the vows, it makes our life very rich and very meaningful. It means that, depending on the number of vows we have taken, we have stopped giving those harms to all other
- [Day 4](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-4-134/) - Notes:all the realizations of the graduated path to enlightenment grow from stable devotion to the guru. If there is no root, nothing can grow. If we have the stable root of guru devotion, all realizations come quickly.Therefore, the teaching on how to devote to the virtuous friend is the most important one, more important than
- [Day 3](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-3-161/) - Notes: When we first encounter the lamrim teachings, neither the teachings themselves nor the outline make much sense to us. But as we continue to practice analytical meditation on the various topics and gain experience of them, even just remembering the outline will give us a fantastic feeling. The entire path, everything the Buddha taught, will
- [Day 2](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-2-134/) - Notes:Don’t believe in something supernatural up there. If we act in a certain way, meditate on certain things, we turn our wisdom on. Each lamrim meditation is like a switch—when we have a particular problem, we turn on the relevant switch and there is light. If we have another problem, we turn on a different
- [Day 1](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-1-190/) - Notes:For example, without meditating on samsara as only in the nature of suffering, without feeling as if we’re caught in a fire or trapped in a tank of raw sewage or sitting naked in a thorn bush, we can’t develop total aversion to samsara or renunciation of it. Without that, we can’t realize compassion for
- [Day 172](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-172-14/) - Being aware of the karma we create is our most important practice
- [Day 145](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-145-13/) - Notes: This was a very powerful teaching today. It reminded me of my first teaching by Lama Zopa Rinpoche where I experienced the powerful nuclear energy that he sent to my heart. Before the teaching, I had sent him two letters and did not get a response. As I reflect on this teaching, I feel
- [Jour 5](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/jour-5/) - Notes:toutes les confusions du monde émergent de l’esprit
- [Day 201](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-201-15/) - Notes: Review results
- [Day 138](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-138-10/) - Notes: An important teaching to remember
- [Day 8](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-8-69/) - Notes:
- [Day 6](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-6-101/) - Notes: The Virtuous Friend as a Powerful Object Key message: The virtuous friend is considered the most powerful object in our life because our spiritual progress depends upon the guidance, teachings, and inspiration we receive through that relationship. By relating to a qualified teacher with respect and gratitude, we create the conditions for realizations to arise.
- [Day 193](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-193-12/) - Notes: Review and revise my numbers list if needed.
- [Day 5](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-5-103/) - Notes: Day 5: The Guru as an Antidote to ConfusionKey message: Our ordinary mind is clouded by ignorance, attachment, and habitual patterns. A qualified spiritual teacher helps us recognise these distortions and guides us towards wisdom and understanding.The role of the guru is not to think for us, but to help us see more clearly. Through
- [Day 4](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-4-133/) - Notes: Guru Devotion Key message: The spiritual teacher is the foundation of progress on the path because it is through the teacher that we receive the Dharma. Developing a healthy relationship with a qualified teacher opens our mind to the teachings and creates the conditions for realizations to arise. Guru devotion is not primarily about the
- [Day 3](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-3-160/) - Notes: The Importance of Lamrim RealizationsKey message: The greatest use of our precious human life is to develop the realizations of the Lamrim. Wealth, reputation, possessions, and worldly achievements cannot accompany us at death, but the positive qualities we cultivate in our mind continue with us.The Lamrim provides a complete path to enlightenment, and each realization—from
- [Day 17](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-17-49/) - Notes: The quickest way to achieve realizations is to do what most pleases the holy mind of the virtuous friend, which means following their advice.
- [Day 16](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-16-42/) - Notes: three doors = body, speech and mind.
- [Day 135](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-135-18/) - Notes: This teaching really spoke to me.
- [Day 6](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-6-100/) - Notes: how would I find a guru? How would I connect (Dharma style) with my guru?
- [Day 3](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-3-159/) - Notes: dangerous trope, victory comes for overcoming difficulty. Understanding comes from analysis. Sometimes, we just need the right key and difficult things become simple, no need for many words. Advanced practical wisdom over science.
- [Day 1](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-1-189/) - Notes: actualising the path, by meditating on the entire breadth of topics, not cherry-picking, to apply the teachings to our life with emotion and devotion.
- [Editor’s Preface](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/editors-preface-36/) - Notes: daily quote and readings from the lamrim teachings of Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Edited by Alison Murdoch (UK).
- [Getting Started](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/getting-started-70/) - Notes: one-year study program on Lamrim by Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive in 2021. Quote + text + recaps + references. Recite a Lamrim overview, such as The Foundation of All Good Qualities. Support people at all stages on the Buddhist Path, to gain lasting realisations and create the cause for peace and happiness among all
- [Day 337](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-337-8/) - Notes: The best Dharma practice is Bodhicitta. What does Bodhicitta mean? It means that our aspiration is to achieve enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings :)
- [Day 336](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-336-7/) - Notes: we need a valid aspiration to engaging in the activities of a Bodhisattva; that leads to keep the commitment until fully enlightened.
- [Day 2](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-2-133/) - Notes:Making Life Meaningful Day by Day Key message: The purpose of studying and practicing the Lamrim is to transform the mind. Dharma is not merely intellectual knowledge; it is a practical method for reducing suffering and cultivating inner peace. The teachings help us recognize and gradually overcome ignorance, attachment, anger, and self-centredness. The Lamrim
- [Day 1](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-1-188/) - Notes: Key message: The purpose of our spiritual practice is not only to free ourselves from suffering, but ultimately to help all beings become free from suffering. To do this, we must first attain enlightenment ourselves. The Lamrim (“Stages of the Path”) is the complete roadmap to enlightenment. Lama Zopa Rinpoche emphasizes that every
- [Day 107](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-107-15/) - Notes: When we die, there is no choice but to leave everything behind All we take with us is the negative karma we created in acquiring our possessions
- [Day 106](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-106-17/) - Notes: we can die at any moment. Until that truth becomes a reality in our life we will face difficulties all the time when we want to be virtuous. Laziness and self-­interest will always obscure what is important.
- [Day 102](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-102-15/) - Notes: That worried mind itself almost kills us
- [Day 4](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-4-132/) - Dharma practice = the application of Buddhist teachings in daily life to transform the mind and alleviate suffering Guru devotion is called the root of the path because all realizations grow from it If there is no root, nothing can grow
- [Day 171](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-171-13/) - Notes: Come back to this when working on SAFE 4 Wk 8 reflection.
- [Day 49](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-49-30/) - Notes: We didn’t have the karma to hear teachings directly from Guru Shakyamuni Buddha If we hadn’t met our present gurus we would be completely ignorant The kindness of the gurus who guide us exceeds even that of Guru Shakyamuni Buddha
- [Day 48](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-48-24/) - Notes: Since only our guru can guide us, they are kinder and more precious than all the buddhas Numberless buddhas in countless universes have failed to subdue us in the past Even though we are so pitiful, our guru has shown us the complete and unmistaken path
- [Day 47](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-47-29/) - Notes: Here it helps to understand the meaning of “unified primordial savior,” an expression found in one of the requesting verses in Guru Puja. It describes the all-­pervasive Vajradhara. If we keep in mind the real meaning of guru, we can see all our past-­life gurus as just one. All our gurus—those who gave us vows
- [Day 2](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-2-132/) - Notes: - desire, ignorance, hatred and ego result in misery and complications. - a meditation in the morning sets the right tone for our day - good intention and motivation to help others - put energy in things that make us happy - focus on that - with lamrim, we can find the right meditations
- [Day 139](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-139-12/) - from commentary on “the foundation of all good qualities” prayer TADYATHA OM MUNÉ MUNÉ MAHAMUNAYÉ SOHA or OM MUNÉ MUNÉ MAHAMUNA-YE SVAHA Visualize a white cloud in the space in front of you at the level of your forehead. On that is a large throne upon which is seated Guru Shakyamuni Buddha in his usual
- [Day 78](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-78-19/) - Notes nice
- [Day 162](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-162-12/) - Notes: Remember this for my Chenrezig statue.
- [Day 2](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-2-131/) - Notes: In the lamrim we deal with reality, and reality speaks to us. The lamrim reveals our ignorance, desire,hatred & ego and demonstrates how these negative minds result in complications and misery. Each lamrim meditation is an antidote to a certain delusion and helps us eliminate it.
- [Day 1](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-1-187/) - Day 1: To reach enlightenment ourselves, we need to actualize the path, which doesn't happen without cause and conditions.
- [Day 45](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-45-28/) - Notes: The guru is like a magnifying glass that creates fire from the rays of the sun Just as a rope can rescue us from a fiery pit, the guru can rescue us from samsara If we practice correct devotion there is no doubt we will be saved from suffering
- [Day 155](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-155-9/) - Notes: Meditating on the qualities of the Three Rare Sublime Ones and the benefits of refuge prior to doing any purification practice makes our practice much more powerful.
- [Day 133](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-133-15/) - In short, we need to practice Dharma, and do nothing else but practice Dharma. Effectively, this means never harming others again and, if possible, helping them. On top of this we must do whatever we can to destroy the negative imprints on our mindstream, which can ripen at any moment, whenever the conditions come together.
- [Day 44](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-44-32/) - Notes: Buddha Vajradhara promised to manifest in forms that included the virtuous friend Shakyamuni Buddha also said that he would reappear in the form of spiritual masters For people with great merit, hearing these quotations proves that the guru is a buddha
- [Day 126](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-126-13/) - Notes:
- [Day 254](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-254-13/) - 笔记：我们的内心世界不断受到执着和仇恨这两种极端的冲击，失去平衡。喇嘛耶喜看到心仪之物，我们往往将其视为永恒不变，并夸大其优点。捐赠者我们可能觉得合作伙伴突然很感兴趣，然后又觉得他/她感到惊讶。受蒙蔽的头脑会错误地把事物非黑即白地划分开来。轮回的演变2妄念的成因2.6 错误的理解
- [Day 254](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-254-12/) - 笔记：我们的内心世界不断受到执着和仇恨这两种极端的冲击，失去平衡。 喇嘛耶喜 看到心仪之物，我们往往将其视为永恒不变，并夸大其优点。 捐赠者我们可能觉得伙伴突然很感兴趣，然后又觉得他/她令人惊讶。 受蒙蔽的头脑会错误地把事物非黑即白地划分开来。 轮回的演变 2妄念的成因 2.6 错误的理解
- [Day 254](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-254-11/) - 笔记：我们的内心世界不断受到执着和仇恨这两种极端的冲击，失去平衡。 喇嘛耶喜 看到心仪之物，我们往往将其视为永恒不变，并夸大其优点。 捐赠者我们可能觉得伙伴突然很感兴趣，然后又觉得他/她令人惊讶。 受蒙蔽的头脑会错误地把事物非黑即白地划分开来。 轮回的演变 2妄念的成因 2.6 错误的理解
- [Day 253](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-253-11/) - 笔记：我们反复进行的任何行为，无论是积极的还是消极的，都会积累相应的能量。喇嘛耶喜习惯会形成一些联想，使我们的思维自动倾向于错误的感觉。当一次经历反复出现时，它留下的印记就会越来越深。当我们沉迷于幻想的事物时，很明显，我们失去了自由。轮回的底座2妄念的成因2.5 习性
- [Day 252](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-252-10/) - 笔记：我们抓住的每一条错误信息都会使我们的妄想更加根深蒂固。喇嘛耶喜当我们听到信并追随假教师的错误观念时，就会产生错误的感觉。如果我们缺乏智慧和知识，就会欣然接受垃圾信息。西方流行文化旨在唤起欲望、迷信和混乱。轮回的演变2妄念的成因2.4 追随错误的教义
- [Day 251](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-251-11/) - 笔记：朋友的影响力非常强，很容易导致妄想的产生。喇嘛耶喜了解我们的人生，就可以了解我们如何选择朋友的重要性。和那些传递公开信息的人在一起，不如和那些为我们带来智慧的人在一起。西方人的思维方式非常怀疑，但也可能缺乏情绪化且缺乏批判性思维。轮回的演变2妄念的成因2.3 分心
- [Day 250](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-250-10/) - 笔记：我们把幻想投射到物体上，最终却感到痛苦和不满。喇嘛耶喜当物体靠近我们时，且业力印记在我们心中时，念念就会产生。在西方，一切都被夸大其词，吸引着那些被蒙蔽的心灵。当妄念与欲望对象建立联系时，更多的妄念就会不断产生。轮回的底座2妄念的成因2.2 对象
- [Day 249](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-249-12/) - 笔记：妄念的根本原因是过去不善行为在意识中留下的业力印记。喇嘛耶喜之所以会想到巧克力蛋糕，是因为之前的经历在脑海中留下了印记。我们经历的每一种心理体验都会被写入我们的大脑，永不丢失。当这种印记与合作事业相遇时，巧克力蛋糕就出现在我们面前了。轮回的演化2 妄念的成因2.1 根基
- [Day 249](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-249-11/) - 笔记：妄念的根本原因是过去不善行为在意识中留下的业力印记。喇嘛耶喜之所以会想到巧克力蛋糕，是因为之前的经历在脑海中留下了印记。我们经历的每一种心理体验都会被写入我们的大脑，永不丢失。当这种印记与合作事业相遇时，巧克力蛋糕就出现在我们面前了。轮回的演化2 妄念的成因2.1 根基
- [Day 248](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-248-10/) - 笔记：人类的问题可以通过智慧来解决。喇嘛耶喜了解妄想的本质和原因，能使我们的思想变得清晰明了。我们可以通过精神自律和自我意识来学会控制自己的思想。这是解决问题并获得真正安心的最有效方法。轮回的演变2妄念的成因
- [Day 247](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-247-10/) - 笔记：我们所有问题的根源都在于我们自身错误的思维投射。 喇嘛耶喜 妄想始于自我，自我构建了被污染的“我”的投射。 一旦我们的自我意识发出“我”的声音，我们就会觉得自己与他人分离，并且比他人更重要。 这就是轮回一切问题的根源，而所有这些问题都可以追溯到无明。 轮回的演化 1 根本妄念 1.7 其发展阶段
- [Day 247](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-247-11/) - 笔记：我们所有问题的根源都在于我们自身错误的思维投射。 喇嘛耶喜 妄想始于自我，自我构建了被污染的“我”的投射。 一旦我们的自我意识发出“我”的声音，我们就会觉得自己与他人分离，并且比他人更重要。 这就是轮回一切问题的根源，而所有这些问题都可以追溯到无明。 轮回的演化 1 根本妄念 1.7 其发展阶段
- [Day 246](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-246-10/) - 笔记：持有任何妄想都是错误的观念，都会导致痛苦。喇嘛梭巴仁波切最根本的错觉观点是一个永恒的“我”强加于集合体之上。其他一些错误的观念使我们引向永恒主义或虚无主义，并造成巨大的冲突。第五种妄见是任何错误的观点，尤其是不相信业力和空性。轮回的底座1根本妄念1.6 五种妄念
- [Day 245](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-245-10/) - 笔记：怀疑会消耗我们的精力和决心，并造成极大的混乱。喇嘛梭巴仁波切怀疑是对佛法关键方面抱有免费承诺。它源于无知，而阻碍了我们在道路上取得任何成果。反驳、质疑、调查得出的正确结论是非常好的。轮回的底座1根本妄念1.5 怀疑
- [Day 244](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-244-11/) - 笔记：骄傲是一种偏见的、膨胀的、不切实际的态度。喇嘛梭巴仁波切骄傲是一种自豪感，我们通常没有意识到它的负面意义。当我们自豪自满的时候，佛法教义很难为我们的心灵带来益处。控制骄傲最简单的方法就是对自己的成就保持务实的态度。轮回的底座1根本妄念1.4 傲慢
- [Day 243](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-243-9/) - 笔记：无明是对业力、四圣谛和皈依无所不知。无知会导致对相对真理和绝对真理的误解。无知是所有痛苦的根源。轮回的底座1根本妄念1.3 无明
- [Day 242](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-242-11/) - 笔记：每一次不受控制的愤怒都会在内心积聚愤怒的能量。愤怒不仅会破坏我们当前快乐的生活，还会影响我们未来美好生活的质量。即使是一瞬间的愤怒也可能破坏一段长期的关系。我们需要用尽一切可能的方法来控制和克服这种焦虑情绪。轮回的底座1根本妄念1.2 愤怒
- [Day 241](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-241-12/) - 笔记：如果我们能从佛法学习中学到一件事，那应该是：世间一切问题都源于执着。喇嘛耶喜执着是我们身体力行所经历的一切问题的根源。通过了解依恋心理学，我们将学会控制自己的思想。如果我们仔细研究，就会发现执念是地球上最大的问题。轮回的底座1根本妄念1.1 执着
- [Day 240](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-240-13/) - 笔记：如果我们不了解心理根源问题，就永远无法解决问题。喇嘛耶喜有六种基本情绪会扰乱人类的心绪，破坏内心的平静。通过研究我们的内心，我们发现我们的焦虑源于自我。解决之道冥想：完全意识到我们正在做什么、为什么做以及如何做。
- [Day 239](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-239-11/) - 笔记：如果我们想要获得幸福，就必须依靠自己的生活。喇嘛耶喜正是我们自身的无知和贪婪态度，才造成了我们的困惑和不满。冥想能帮助我们理解事物的本质，并减少期望。一旦我们培养了对轮回之路的放弃之心，我们就走上学脱。轮回的演变
- [Getting Started](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/getting-started-69/) - Notes: 1. Follow the 365-day outline (reading) and interdependent elements of the Lamrim Year 2. Do the day's meditation 3. Check email with teachings and resources related to the topic 4. Sources are listed on the LYWA website. 5. Rinpoche recommends reciting at least one complete lamrim overview each day, found in the lamrim section of the
- [Day 144](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-144-12/) - Notes: Look up the symbolism of Buddha’s body.
- [Day 112](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-112-18/) - Notes: It is not death itself but the mind’s projections about death that make us afraid Death becomes terrifying when we are unable to let go of the things of this life
- [Day 107](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-107-14/) - Notes:Bäm!
- [Day 26](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-26-48/) - Notes: 4/16/2026 No matter how much we practice tantra, if we have criticized our master from the heart we won’t achieve any realizations in this life - Lama Zopa Rinpoche If we confess and purify, it changes the situation. The whole point is that it is different if we change our attitude, confess our mistake
- [Day 40](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-40-44/) - Notes: There is nothing to trust in our own view is the most important outline in guru yoga practice; meditating on this topic is like dropping an atomic bomb on our superstitious thoughts that see faults in the guru. It is the most powerful outline for the mind because it stops the arising of wrong conceptions,
- [Day 39](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-39-35/) - Notes: The way the guru appears depends on the mind training of the disciple Two disciples interpreted the same action of their guru in completely different ways Realizations come when we look at the good qualities of the guru and ignore their faults
- [Day 38](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-38-46/) - Notes: This technique also causes us to remember the special kindness of our gurus, because without depending on these ordinary aspects, no buddhas can guide us to enlightenment. We then appreciate the faults in the human aspect of each of our gurus. During a Guru Puja commentary in Dharamsala in 1985, His Holiness the Dalai Lama touched
- [Day 25](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-25-52/) - Notes: 4/15/2026 No matter what heavy negative karma we have created, we can purify it - Lama Zopa Rinpoche Even if we have been angry at a virtuous friend, criticized or given them up, harmed their holy body, gone against their advice or disturbed their holy mind, we can definitely purify the negative karma we
- [Day 25](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-25-54/) - Notes: 4/15/2026 No matter what heavy negative karma we have created, we can purify it - Lama Zopa Rinpoche Even if we have been angry at a virtuous friend, criticized or given them up, harmed their holy body, gone against their advice or disturbed their holy mind, we can definitely purify the negative karma we
- [Day 25](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-25-53/) - Notes: 4/15/2026 No matter what heavy negative karma we have created, we can purify it - Lama Zopa Rinpoche Even if we have been angry at a virtuous friend, criticized or given them up, harmed their holy body, gone against their advice or disturbed their holy mind, we can definitely purify the negative karma we
- [Day 134](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-134-13/) - Notes: I want to look into this: “…the Vajrayana practice, the lightning-­fast way to attain full enlightenment…”
- [Day 133](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-133-14/) - Notes: This was really helpful for me. I need to return to it!
- [Day 35](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-35-34/) - Notes: The story of the old woman and the dog’s tooth supports this. An old Tibetan woman wanted very much to have a relic of the Buddha, so she asked her son to bring one back from India. He forgot, but on his way home he saw a dead dog by the side of the road
- [Day 98](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-98-17/) - Notas: MEDITACIÓN DE 9 PUNTOS EN LA
- [Day 97](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-97-20/) - Notas: REGALAR TODAS LOS LIBROS Y ARTICULOS DE DHARMA A LOSELING Y A O SELING
- [Day 31](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-31-34/) - Notes: If we devote incorrectly we won’t find a guru in future lives and will remain in samsara Because karma is expandable, the negative results will continue for many future lifetimes By generating strong regret, the thought not to repeat our mistakes will naturally arise
- [Day 30](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-30-28/) - Notes: Criticizing or renouncing the guru will cause us to wander endlessly in the lower realms The Buddha was unwilling to describe the terrifying results of such karma to Vajrapani Even spending time with someone who has criticized the guru brings disastrous results
- [Day 96](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-96-17/) - Notas:RECORDAR A DIARLA MUERTE Y LA IMPERMANENCIA
- [Day 28](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-28-30/) - Notes: Incorrect practice of guru devotion blocks new realizations and harms the old When guru devotion is weak or absent, we have no feeling for the rest of the path If we fail to devote correctly there will be no development in any of our practices
- [Day 26](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-26-47/) - Notes: If we confess and purify, it changes the situation. The whole point is that it is different if we change our attitude, confess our mistake and attempt not to make the mistake again. Otherwise, if we don’t change our attitude and don’t try not to repeat the mistake, no matter how much we practice tantra
- [Day 89](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-89-22/) - Notas:Es fundamental tener presente la IMPERMANEMCIA Y LA MUERTE
- [Day 85](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-85-16/) - Notas:Las mayores riquezas son: RENUNCIA BODHICHITA
- [Day 89](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-89-21/) - The Dharma is postponed through not remembering impermanence and death,
- [Day 88](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-88-18/) - Notes: I was able to generate and keep the energy I felt with Lama Zopa in Portland.
- [Day 89](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-89-20/) - Notes: there is always one more samsaric project to finish before we can find the time to practice Dharma. While it is there, waiting for our attention, we cannot focus on the Dharma, so just this one more! When we find we have no time to practice Dharma, It is purely the fault of not
- [Day 23](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-23-48/) - Notes: Criticizing or giving up the guru is as harmful as criticizing or giving up all the buddhas This is because our guru and even our everyday teacher is the essence of all the buddhas By practicing devotion we can stop our habitual negative thoughts toward the guru
- [Day 22](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-22-39/) - Notes: If we devote ourselves incorrectly to the virtuous friend we incur eight disadvantages We need to understand these disadvantages to face and stop our wrong conceptions A small mistake made in relation to the guru becomes a great obstacle to our happiness
- [Day 21](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-21-34/) - Notes: Correctly devoting ourselves to the guru establishes the root of all future happiness All success in doing retreat, studying or living in ordination depends on guru devotion Perfect guru devotion gave teachers such as Lama Atisha their capacity to benefit others
- [Day 20](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-20-46/) - Notes: Guru devotion can purify our heaviest negative karmas in the shortest time Correct devotion to the virtuous friend is the most powerful method of purification The more problems we experience doing the guru’s work, the greater the purification
- [Day 239](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-239-10/) - 笔记：如果我们想要获得幸福，就必须依靠自己的生活。喇嘛耶喜正是我们自身的无知和贪婪态度，才造成了我们的困惑和不满。冥想能帮助我们理解事物的本质，并减少期望。一旦我们培养了对轮回之路的放弃之心，我们就走上学脱。轮回的演变
- [Day 266](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-266-12/) - 笔记：如果我们不了解心灵的本质，我们甚至无法治愈自身的痛苦。 喇嘛耶喜 如果我们不了解并解决自身的问题，就无法帮助他人。 扩展爱与慈悲的途径，首先是了解和爱自己。 当我们看到自身的问题时，自然而然就会对一切众生产生爱与慈悲。 轮回的演变 总结
- [Day 265](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-265-10/) - 笔记：就像用手揉面团一样，我们完全可以随心所欲地改变我们的思想。 喇嘛梭巴仁波切 将我们的心境从痛苦转变为快乐的方法，就是只创造美德。 通过对苦难有非常清晰的认识，我们就能知道如何避免苦难。 心智不过是能量，我们可以随心所欲地进行任何方式的转化，没有限制。 轮回的演变 总结
- [Day 118](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-118-15/) - Notes: This raises the question of whether the other realms are real or not. I need to visit this topic in more depth to form an opinion.
- [Day 19](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-19-37/) - Notes: Our future practice of guru devotion depends on how skillfully we devote in this life For example, in Dharamsala in India, many people never come to listen to the Dharma We should rejoice at our good fortune and make best use of this precious opportunity For example, in Dharamsala in India, where His Holiness
- [Day 18](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-18-45/) - Notes: We think that we can attain realizations only by doing formal meditation, with our eyes closed, but it’s not like that. In his great commentary, Pabongka Rinpoche has cited many stories of guru devotion, correctly devoting to the virtuous friend, that illustrate how many practitioners have achieved realizations by actively serving their guru rather than
- [Day 82](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-82-20/) - Notes:Beeindruckend
- [Day 17](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-17-48/) - Notes: When we follow the virtuous friend correctly, even if we don’t meditate much, realizations will be generated spontaneously, effortlessly. The quickest way to achieve realizations is to do what most pleases the holy mind of the virtuous friend, which means following their advice.
- [Day 16](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-16-41/) - Notes: When we are following a guru, we allow ourselves to be under their control instead of that of our delusions.
- [Day 15](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-15-50/) - Notes: Generally speaking, someone with a lot of merit has much power and cannot be harmed by others, even though others might dislike the person and want to harm them. Such a practitioner has much success in their practice, in achieving realizations. However, when our level of merit becomes low because we create some heavy negative
- [Day 264](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-264-9/) - 笔记：每一天，每一小时，每一分钟，我们的幸福或痛苦都取决于我们如何思考。 喇嘛梭巴仁波切 如果我们放下对今生的执着，世间所有的财富都无法影响我们。 我们可以选择摆脱依恋生活中痛苦的摇摆不定。 当我们把佛法融入生活时，我们的幸福感会越来越强。 轮回的演变总结
- [Day 11](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-11-57/) - Notes: Relying on a guru who shows the infallible path means our own samsara can have an end All the activities we do for the guru accumulate merit and purify our negative karma Every time we follow the guru’s advice we become closer to enlightenment
- [Day 10](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-10-46/) - Notes: Practicing guru devotion correctly in this life determines whether or not we meet a virtuous friend in our future lives and whether or not that virtuous friend will be perfectly qualified.
- [Day 7](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-7-93/) - Notes:If people never meet highly realized beings they have no way of knowing the limitless possibilities of their own human consciousness. It is not enough that there are texts recording the deeds and accomplishments of past masters
- [Day 8](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-8-68/) - Notes:
- [Day 6](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-6-99/) - Notes:The meeting of two atoms to produce nuclear power can be constructive, as in medical treatment and the generation of electricity, or destructive, as in an atomic bomb. The meeting of a guru and disciple is similar. If we are careful and practice guru devotion well, we can accumulate the greatest merit in the shortest
- [Day 5](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-5-102/) - Notes: This is thought-provoking - However, if we think of all our life’s experiences, how convinced are we that they have all come from the mind? In order to really understand how this is true, we need someone with the right kind of knowledge to explain it to us. In other words, we need a guru.
- [Day 3](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-3-158/) - Notes: Patience is one of the 6 perfections. It needs to be developed.
- [Day 2](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-2-130/) - Notes: It sounds so simple, yet I know it requires such devotion. I hope I can not only find, but also continue with that sense of unconditional devotion.
- [Day 1](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-1-186/) - Notes: It is clear to me that I have the tools, ie, books, teachers, and the motivation to complete this Lamrim training; however, my fault has been to keep looking for new books to read rather than focusing on one method and tool. Now is the time to become more focused and to really make
- [Editor’s Preface](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/editors-preface-35/) - Notes: So, as I mentioned in my previous note, as continuity is the key, the burning desire, determination, and dedication to just do it, whether tired, busy, or lazy, are crucial. Where can this determination come from?
- [Getting Started](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/getting-started-68/) - Notes: If continuity is the most important thing, then I imagine that renunciation is the driving force that provides the fuel for that continuity.
- [Day 75](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-75-24/) - Notes:wow
- [Day 327](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-327-11/) - AnMit der Haltung der Erleuchtung ist es möglich, unser alltägliches westliches Leben in den transzendentalen Bodhicitta-Pfad zur Erleuchtung zu verwandeln. - Lama Yeshemerkungen: Jeden Morgen sollten wir uns eine starke Motivation geben, unser Leben anderen zu widmen. Mit dieser starken Motivation wird selbst das Leben eines Müllmanns sinnvoll. Die Kontrolle von Wahnvorstellungen und der Dienst
- [Day 4](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-4-131/) - Notes:guru devotion comes first
- [Day 263](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-263-8/) - 笔记：誓言赋予我们责任；它们增强了我们的决心。 喇嘛梭巴仁波切 最重要的是守护我们的业力，而发誓是守护业力的最佳途径。 除了誓言之外，我们还必须培养远离不道德行为的坚定决心。 我们所立的誓言会增强我们的意志力，帮助我们避免伤害他人。 轮回的演化 5 解脱之道 5.3 更高层次的道德修炼
- [Day 262](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-262-9/) - 笔记：道德是解放的根本原因。 喇嘛耶喜 道德是专注和智慧这两种更高层次修炼的先决条件。 缺乏良好的道德操守，我们的心灵就像随风飘荡的鸟儿或摇曳的灯光。 即使是初学者，我们也可以通过受持解脱誓言来训练道德。 轮回的演化 5 解脱之道 5.3 更高层次的道德修炼
- [Day 261](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-261-10/) - 笔记：若不修习戒、禅、智这三项高级修行，便无法从轮回中解脱。 喇嘛梭巴仁波切 能力较低的人追求来世的幸福，并践行十德。 中等能力者以脱离轮回为目标，修习三种高级修行方法。 更高境界的人只为他人服务，并奉行六度。 轮回的演化 5 解脱之道 5.2 三项高级训练
- [Day 103](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-103-16/) - Notes: “…go to bed with the thought that we have no idea whether we will wake up the next morning…” What a mindset to strive for! Hard to imagine ever achieving it.
- [Day 66](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-66-26/) - Notes: I had a very powerful experience with in my heart connecting it to the energy beam Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave me years ago. Contemplating that I have this perfect human rebirth, I am not in the hell relms, and have the conditions to practice are amazing. Wow! Wow! Wow!
- [Day 60](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-60-31/) - Notes:nochmal lesen
- [Day 97](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-97-19/) - Notes: Interesting idea to give away all your possessions before you die. If able, I would like to do that.
- [Day 260](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-260-10/) - 笔记：人类之美在于我们内在蕴藏着获得解放的能力——我们生来就具备这种能力。 喇嘛耶喜 我们人类的重生赋予我们彻底斩断一切痛苦根源的潜力。 它赋予我们宝贵的能力和责任去审视自己的行为。 这是我们把一切都转化为通往觉悟的和平之路的机会。 轮回的演变 5 解脱之道 5.1 终止轮回的肉身重生
- [Day 259](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-259-9/) - 笔记：中间状态的身体取决于来世的身体，而来世的身体又取决于今生是如何度过的。 喇嘛梭巴仁波切 死后，心识进入中间阶段，拥有与下次转世相似的身体。 中阴期或称中阴阶段，持续七至四十九天。 转世的起因是对未来父母之一的执着，其次是愤怒。 轮回的演化 4 业力、死亡与重生 4.3 中间状态
- [Day 335](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-335-9/) - Notes: The Bodhisattva practices the six perfections. The first three of them are giving, spiking kind words, and teaching of the level of disciples so that they approach the Dharma and practice it.
- [Day 334](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-334-12/) - Notes: Experiencing emptiness gives us the tool to overcome duality.
- [Day 258](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-258-10/) - 笔记：当今生结束，我们的意识将不由自主地被业力之风吹向来世。 喇嘛梭巴仁波切 我们临终前的念头会激活因果业力，这将导致我们下一次转世。 业力的产生取决于我们临终前的念头是善念还是恶念。 如果我们带着愤怒或强烈的执念死去，我们将只会投生到恶道。 轮回的演变 4 业力、死亡与重生 4.2 死亡时会发生什么
- [Day 257](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-257-11/) - 笔记：我们所有的幸福和痛苦都源于我们的意图。 喇嘛梭巴仁波切 为了获得幸福，我们必须不断分析我们所有行为背后的动机。 心业是行动前的意图，而意业则是完成行动的因素。 决定行为善恶的是意图，而非其外在表现。 轮回的演化 4 业力、死亡与重生 4.1 心业与意业
- [Day 62](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-62-28/) - Analyzing the "Portland Proof"Rinpoche suggests using "reasoning and personal experience" for analytical meditation.• The Logic: During your morning meditation, spend time analyzing the 2018 energy beam experience. Think: "An ordinary person cannot transmit nuclear energy to another's heart. This experience proves my Guru’s mind is the Dharmakaya." * The Stabilization: Once that logic makes you
- [Day 58](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-58-24/) - Notes: pensiamo: io sono un essere un umano, anche lui è come me un essere umano. Ma praticando il Guru Yoga vediamo che è inseparabile dalle qualità di compassione e saggezza della divinità; e poi ci accorgiamo che anche noi siamo inseparabili da quelle qualità. Un altro modo di vederla è come quando i ns
- [Day 333](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-333-8/) - Notes: Meditation leads to understand the ego; without subduing the irritated and shake mind is impossible to experience emptiness.
- [Day 332](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-332-10/) - Notes: Perseverance is very important for our dharma practice and enable us to rejoice in virtue with enthusiasm.
- [Day 1;](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-1-185/)
- [Day 54](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-54-28/) - Notes: i sinceri praticanti vedono ogni singolo consiglio dato dal Guru, come un gioiello che esaudisce i desideri, perché permette di purificare una enorme quantità di karma negativo ed accumulare una grande quantità di meriti.In questo modo è facile dedicarsi al Guru con l'azione.Gli esseri più fortunati sono quelli che hanno grande devozione al Guru,
- [Day 50](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-50-22/) - Notes: la gentilezza del ns guru è paragonabile a quella di un medico che ci guarisce dal cancro.
- [Day 49](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-49-29/) - Notes: Non abbiamo avuto il karma di ascoltare direttamente gli insegnamenti da Guru Buddha Shakyamuni, dai grandi Pandita indiani dagli yogi tibetani ... siamo stati lasciati da parte Se i ns Guru attuali non ci avessero guidato saremmo stati persi. Il Guru perciò è più gentile persino di Buddha Shakyamuni che per noi è il
- [Day 48](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-48-23/) - Notes: i Buddha non possono guidarci direttamente a causa del ns karma. Innumerevoli esseri sono entrati nel sentiero e si sono illuminati in passato, noi siamo come l'alunno buttato fuori dalla scuola perché senza speranze. Nonostante il ns stato pitiful, i ns Guru si sono presi cura di noi e nel loro complesso ci hanno
- [Day 47](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-47-28/) - Notes: All our Gurus of all our lifes are the absolute guru, from which everything arise, including Buddha Dharma and Sangha, the primordial Dharmakaya. They have guided us in past lifes, guide us in present life and will guide us in future lifes. They are one: the primordial unified savior, the all-pervasive Vajradhara.
- [Day 51](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-51-30/) - Notes: The clear strong feeling in our heart and deep benefit to our mind are what is meant by blessings of the guru. Anche dalla ns esperienza possiamo vedere che se abbiamo una forte devozione riusciamo a "sentire" vividamente qualunque soggetto su cui meditiamo. Le benedizioni del Guru sono come la pioggia che ammorbidisce il
- [Day 51](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-51-31/) - Notes: The clear strong feeling in our heart and deep benefit to our mind are what is meant by blessings of the guru. Anche dalla ns esperienza possiamo vedere che se abbiamo una forte devozione riusciamo a "sentire" vividamente qualunque soggetto su cui meditiamo. Le benedizioni del Guru sono come la pioggia che fertilizza il
- [Day 52](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-52-24/) - Notes: Uno degli aspetti della gentilezza del Guru è quello di donarci cose materiali per renderci felici e avvicinarci al Dharma, dato che siamo più attratti dalle cose materiali che dal Dharma :) Si può riflettere su questo punto in generale e ricordando esempi della gentilezza di ognuno dei ns guru.
- [Day 53](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-53-26/) - Notes: siamo persi ma non vogliamo ammetterlo. Ma quando realizziamo che siamo persi nel samsara e che il Guru mostra il metodo per cui noi "insignificanti principianti" possiamo ottenere le qualità illuminate in uno schiocco di dita, generiamo gratitudine e rispetto: "Tu sei il più prezioso fenomeno. Mi prostro ai tuoi piedi vajra. Sei la
- [Day 9](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-9-73/) - Notes: pabongka: five qualities that a disciple should have. A good disciple is impartial, intelligent and hardworking, has great respect for their guru and listens carefully to their guru’s instructions. we have to have firm devotion, enjoy meditation and like virtue very much - Lama Zopa Rinpoche
- [Day 59](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-59-26/) - Notes: When Lama Zopa used that energy beam to my heart, he moved my spiritual understanding in my head into my heart. That beam was a blessing that opened my wisdom eye. Wow! He created the link between my consciousness and the experience of transcendence. He transcendenced everything I knew about reality. Wow! Wow! Wow!
- [Day 256](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-256-10/) - 笔记：如果我们疏于守护自己的心灵，就既无法关闭痛苦之门，也无法开启幸福之门。 喇嘛梭巴仁波切 由于我们内心深处存在着妄念的种子，所以才会不断产生令人不安的情绪。 缺乏正念，这些情绪会引发一系列负面行为。 正念就像一个守卫，阻止妄念窃贼偷走我们的幸福。 轮回的演变 3 妄想的弊端
- [Day 255](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-255-10/) - 笔记：真正的敌人是我们的妄想。 喇嘛梭巴仁波切 要修习佛法，我们需要不断牢记妄念的弊端。 妄想是我们问题的根源，它永远都会剥夺我们的幸福。 如果我们能看到妄想造成的危害，我们只会想着如何消除它们。 轮回的演变 3 妄念的弊端
- [Day 6](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-6-98/) - Notes: this part is quite not clear for me, I will have to clarify it rereading it and meditating on it
- [Day 6](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-6-97/) - Notes: this part is quite not clear for me, I will have to clarify it rereading it and meditating on it
- [Day 55](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-55-24/) - Notes: I can serve the guru from the other side of the world, by keeping my precepts and vows taken pure, by following the guru's practice advice (i.e. meditation on green Tara), general advice (purchase of green Tara Thangka) and by attending his teachings
- [Day 240](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-240-12/) - Notes: The six basic emotion that frustrate the human mind, ignorance(not knowing), attachment (holding on to tightly ), anger, pride, deluded doubt, and distorted view(wrong perspectives)
- [Day 331](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-331-9/) - Notes: With patience we can overcome delusions, anger, irritation and so on, and gain peace and understanding.
- [Day 330](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-330-9/) - Notes: How powerful is taking refuge in the triple gems, the five lay vows and the eight Mahayana precepts (the latter every new and full moon). They give a guide line for present and future rebirth until full enlightenment.
- [Day 253](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-253-10/) - 笔记：我们反复进行的任何行为，无论是积极的还是消极的，都会积累相应的能量。 喇嘛耶喜 习惯会形成一些联想，使我们的思维自动倾向于错觉。 当一种经历反复出现时，它留下的印记就会越来越深。 当我们沉迷于幻想的对象时，很明显，我们失去了自由。 轮回的演化 2 妄念的成因 2.5 习性
- [Day 53](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-53-25/) - Notes: When realising we are on the right path, guru devotion will naturally arise
- [Day 81](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-81-18/) - Notes: I’ve heard thi story many times but this was the first time reading an explanation of the symbolism.
- [Day 19](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-19-36/) - Notes:vähän helpompi ottaa vastaan näitä guru opetuksia nyt
- [Day 19](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-19-35/) - Notes:vähän helpompi ottaa vastaan näitä guru opetuksia nyt
- [Day 252](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-252-9/) - 笔记：我们抓住的每一条错误信息都会使我们的妄想更加根深蒂固。 喇嘛耶喜 当我们听信并追随假教师的错误观念时，就会产生错觉。 如果我们缺乏辨别智慧和知识，就会欣然接受垃圾信息。 西方流行文化旨在唤起欲望、迷信和混乱。 轮回的演变 2 妄念的成因 2.4 追随错误的教义
- [Day 24](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-24-52/) - Notes: Generating anger or heresy toward the guru creates the greatest of all obstacles and results in the heaviest suffering
- [Day 23](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-23-47/) - Notes: The Tibetan term, nyä mö, has two aspects: the heavier aspect is giving up, or abandoning, the guru as an object of respect of our body, speech and mind; the other aspect is criticizing the guru and generating anger, heresy and other negative thoughts.
- [Day 22](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-22-38/) - Notes: If we do a lot of Dharma practice—studying, doing preliminaries or retreat, reciting many mantras—but continuously make mistakes in our devotion and displease our virtuous friend, we create a great obstacle. There is no greater obstacle than this.
- [Day 251](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-251-10/) - 笔记：朋友的影响力非常强大，很容易导致妄想的产生。 喇嘛耶喜 审视我们的人生，就能明白我们如何选择朋友的重要性。 与其和那些传递混乱信息的人在一起，不如和那些能给我们带来智慧的人在一起。 西方人的思维方式非常怀疑，但也可能过于情绪化且缺乏批判性思维。 轮回的演变 2 妄念的成因 2.3 分心
- [Day 250](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-250-9/) - 笔记：我们把幻想投射到物体上，最终却感到痛苦和不满。 喇嘛耶喜 当对象靠近我们，且业力印记在我们心中时，妄念便会产生。 在西方，一切都被夸大其词，以便吸引那些被蒙蔽的心灵。 当妄念与欲望对象建立联系时，更多的妄念就会不断产生。 轮回的演化 2 妄念的成因 2.2 对象
- [](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-7-92/) - You now, people will be telling you to have faith and believe until you actually develop a sense of conviction and certainty. Then theylll be telling you to be critical, not believe everything, questionnyourself, because they’re afraid - they don’t understand it. But faith, trust, believe are signs of vulnerability- they van be of nativity,
- [Day 44](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-44-31/) - I keep a journal of everyday's reflection, read the corresponding teaching from Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand I mention this, as I am keeping notes and reflecting on these Teachings every morning.
- [Day 40](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-40-43/) - Notes: There is nothing to trust in our own view - questa è la più importante outline della devozione al G.! La ns mente è coperta da così tanti strati di allucinazioni! Come percepiamo il G. dipende da come lo guardiamo, dalle ns proiezioni Il modo in cui percepiamo la realtà è determinato dal nostro
- [Day 39](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-39-34/) - Notes:
- [Day 24](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-24-51/) - Notes:Unbedingt meditieren!
- [Day 40](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-40-42/) - Notes: nothing is definite in our own view
- [Day 329](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-329-9/) - Notes: Generosity isn’t simple to adopt; it could be a tricky manifestation. Giving without understanding how and why we give leads to harm others.
- [Day 328](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-328-9/) - Notes: The path to enlightenment is a daily activity: meditation and the practice of the six perfections.
- [Day 38](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-38-45/) - Notes: Metodo 2
- [Day 37](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-37-34/) - Notes: Metodi. Metodo 1
- [Day 36](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-36-35/) - Notes: perché è possibile riuscirci
- [Day 34](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-34-36/) - Notes: perché addestrarsi 2
- [Day 33](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-33-35/) - Notes: perché addestrarsi a vedere il Guru come Buddha
- [Day 35](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-35-33/) - Notes: come funziona
- [Day 39](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-39-32/) - Notes:Summary of Day 39: The Power of InterpretationThe teaching for Day 39 provides a practical, real-world example of how “Pure Appearance” (from Day 35) works in daily life. It emphasizes that the guru’s actions are like a blank canvas, and the disciple’s mind is the projector that determines the meaning.• The Story of the Cold
- [Day 39](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-39-33/) - Notes: The teaching for Day 39 provides a practical, real-world example of how "Pure Appearance" (from Day 35) works in daily life. It emphasizes that the guru’s actions are like a blank canvas, and the disciple’s mind is the projector that determines the meaning. • The Story of the Cold Tea: Gen Jampa Wangdu’s
- [Day 365](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-365-8/) - Notes: After all these teachings, it’s now important to integrate them within ourselves Experience and actualization are very different from intellectual understanding Step by step, topic by topic, we need to move beyond words and gain realizations
- [Day 40](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-40-41/) - Notes: uhhhhhh
- [Day 62](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-62-27/) - Notes: Need to learn meditations on guru devotion to be able to apply this teaching!
- [Day 64](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-64-27/) - Der große Meditierende Lama Tsongkhapa, der die gesamte Lamrim-Struktur systematisierte, unterteilte den Lamrim in zwei Teile: die Wertschätzung dieses Lebens voller Freiheit und Möglichkeiten – der vollkommenen menschlichen Wiedergeburt – und die Frage, wie man diese kostbare Gelegenheit nutzt, nämlich durch die übrigen Lamrim-Themen von Vergänglichkeit und Tod, Zuflucht und Karma bis zu dem Punkt,
- [Day 19](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-19-34/) - wir haben dank unseres karmas die möglichkeit dharma zu praktizieren, wir
- [Day 364](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-364-7/) - Notes: The mind is like a TV and what appears to us depends on the channel we choose Everything depends on how we use our mind—it’s completely in our hands We mustn’t waste this opportunity to lead every sentient being to enlightenment
- [Day 363](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-363-8/) - Notes: Our ignorance of the way things exist is our worst enemy, the creator of our samsara Due to this fundamental delusion we create the karma that perpetuates our suffering By destroying our false concept of self, we develop the Mahayana attitude of selflessness
- [Day 20](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-20-45/) - Notes: Guru devotion can purify our heaviest negative karmas in the shortest time Correct devotion to the virtuous friend is the most powerful method of purification
- [Day 362](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-362-7/) - Notes: It is extremely important that we discover the scientific law of the universe for ourselves If not, we’ll be dominated by extreme feelings caused by mistaken, dualistic perception The sole purpose of everything the Buddha taught was for us discover reality, emptiness
- [Day 36](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-36-34/) - Notes: Based on the text of Lamrim Year, here is the summary and integration guide for Day 36. Summary of Day 36: Training the Mind to See the Buddha Day 36 shifts the focus from why we should see the guru as a Buddha to the logical reality that we can actually train our minds
- [Day 35](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-35-32/) - Notes: Our discussion for Day 35 centered on the profound concept that "Pure Appearance" and spiritual blessings are not inherent in external objects, but are created by the quality of our own devotion and perception. Here is a summary of the key points we covered: 1. The Core Principle: Mind as the Creator The teaching
- [Day 6](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-6-96/) - Notes:Welche Fehler kann man denn machen in der Guru Beziehung?
- [Day 361](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-361-8/) - Notes: We can practice mindfulness of the merely labeled I, action and object in any situation Another powerful and effective meditation is to view everything in daily life as a dream A third technique is to see ignorance as a magician who’s creating illusions for our senses
- [Day 248](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-248-9/) - 笔记：人类的问题可以通过人类的智慧来解决。 喇嘛耶喜 了解妄想的本质和原因，能使我们的思想变得清晰明了。 我们可以通过精神自律和自我意识来学会控制自己的思想。 这是解决问题并获得真正安心的最有效方法。 轮回的演变 2 妄念的成因
- [Day 360](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-360-8/) - Notes: The simple way to understand emptiness is to not believe what our senses tell us We experience emptiness as soon as we realize our view of the world is a hallucination Through continuously investigating our beliefs, we can study emptiness all day long
- [Day 25](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-25-51/) - Notes:How is this different to confessing sins in the catholic Church? You confess your sins, given a task or two and you start with a clean slate!
- [Day 18](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-18-44/) - Praktizierende haben Verwirklichungen erlangt, indem sie ihrem Guru aktiv dienten, statt nur auf dem Meditationskissen zu sitzen. Ein Beispiel dafür ist Geshe Chayulwa, ein außergewöhnlicher Praktizierender, der seinem Guru vollkommen folgte. Er erlangte den großen Pfad des Verdienstes, während er die Stufen mit dem Müll seines Gurus hinunterging. Es ist daher ein Irrtum zu glauben,
- [Day 17](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-17-47/) - Auch wenn ein Mensch sehr unklug sein mag, hat er doch das Wichtigste im Leben, wenn er eine unerschütterliche Hingabe besitzt. Es wirkt vielleicht etwas seltsam zu sagen, dass echte Einsichten mehr von der Hingabe an den Guru abhängen als davon, die Lehren nur zu verstehen. guru devotion ist der Schlüssel zu einem schnellen und
- [Day 359](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-359-7/) - Notes: To realize the true nature of the self we first have to recognize the mind of ignorance We start with analytical meditation on how and where the truly existing self appears to us When we get an effortless feeling of the emptiness of the self, we concentrate on that
- [Day 246](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-246-9/) - 笔记：持有任何妄想都是错误的观念，会导致痛苦。 喇嘛梭巴仁波切 最根本的错觉观点是将一个永久的“我”强加于集合体之上。 其他一些错误的观念会将我们引向永恒主义或虚无主义，并造成巨大的冲突。 第五种妄见是任何错误的观点，尤其是不相信业力和空性。 轮回的演化 1 根本妄念 1.6 五种妄念
- [Day 33](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-33-34/) - Notes: this is one to re-read
- [Day 7](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-7-91/) - Notes: Tää oli ensimmäinen mun järkeen käypä opetus. Ei tullut ahdistusta.
- [Day 16](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-16-40/) - Wenn wir einem Guru folgen, überlassen wir ihm die Führung, statt unseren Verblendungen zu folgen. Wir lassen weltliche Anhaftungen hinter uns. Schüler werden ihrem Lehrer ähnlich und folgen ihm auf seinem Weg. Sie bestehen aus vier Paaren von Anhaftung und Ablehnung: Gewinn ↔ Verlust (gain loss) Lob ↔ Tadel (praise blame) Ruhm /
- [Day 15](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-15-49/) - Merit heißt auf Deutsch meist Verdienst oder positives Verdienst. Gemeint ist damit positive innere Kraft, die wir durch gutes Handeln aufbauen. Einfach erklärt: Wenn wir gute Absichten haben anderen helfen ethisch handeln Achtsamkeit, Mitgefühl oder Weisheit üben … dann sammeln wir Merit. Im buddhistischen Sinn bedeutet Merit: positives
- [Day 358](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-358-8/) - Notes: There is a real danger of confusing meditation on space with meditation on emptiness When space appears to us we must recognize that it’s a merely labeled hallucination Space is totally empty: there is no real space existing from its own side
- [Day 357](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-357-8/) - Notes: The truly existent year we believe in is a complete hallucination, made up by our mind “Year” is merely imputed by our mind on the base—twelve months That real year, the object to be refuted, is totally empty, nonexistent and a mere concept
- [Day 356](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-356-8/) - Notes: Mind is a phenomenon with no form, shape or color that functions like a mirror We believe there’s a real mind but it exists only in name, merely labeled by thought The formless, colorless base and the label “mind” are two distinct phenomena
- [Day 327](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-327-10/) - Notes: Establishing a motivation at the beginning of our day, makes the difference. With a strong motivation we turn a problem into an opportunity.
- [Day 326](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-326-8/) - Notes: The ego is our personal thief who steals our happiness.
- [Day 325](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-325-9/) - Notes: Recognising the good side of a problem that occurs us, is an important achievement.
- [Day 355](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-355-7/) - Notes: Problems arise because we look at things in a way that is opposite to how they exist A table exists in mere name, in dependence upon the collection of its parts The table is a dependent arising that is also empty of existing from its own side
- [Day 23](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-23-45/) - To disrespect the guru is to disrespect all the buddhas - Lama Zopa Rinpoche Having established a Dharma connection and accepted a guru-­disciple relationship, if we then criticize or give up that guru, we incur the same heavy negative karma as having criticized or given up all the buddhas. The Tibetan term, nyä mö, has two
- [Day 23](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-23-46/) - To disrespect the guru is to disrespect all the buddhas - Lama Zopa Rinpoche Having established a Dharma connection and accepted a guru-­disciple relationship, if we then criticize or give up that guru, we incur the same heavy negative karma as having criticized or given up all the buddhas. The Tibetan term, nyä mö, has two
- [Day 354](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-354-8/) - Notes: The outside world is neither solid nor substantial—it’s just the creation of our own mind We believe that satellites truly exist, but “satellite” is only a name made up by its inventor Everything that appears to us is a manifestation of mind
- [Day 22 Guru Devotion](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-22-37/) - If we are not careful, the guru, like electricity, can be dangerous - Lama Zopa Rinpoche After meeting a virtuous teacher who reveals the unmistaken path, if we devote ourselves to them correctly, we gain all the eight benefits mentioned in the texts. Thus we can easily see that if we don’t rely upon a
- [Day 22 Guru Devotion](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-22-guru-devotion/) - If we are not careful, the guru, like electricity, can be dangerous - Lama Zopa Rinpoche After meeting a virtuous teacher who reveals the unmistaken path, if we devote ourselves to them correctly, we gain all the eight benefits mentioned in the texts. Thus we can easily see that if we don’t rely upon a
- [Day 353](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-353-8/) - Notes: Logical reasoning is important but can sometimes get in the way of our understanding Instead, we can simply observe how everything is dependent on causes and conditions Many great masters claim that dependent arising is the best way to understand reality
- [Day 352](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-352-8/) - Notes: We can begin to change our habitual view of ego by weakening our misconceptions Our goal is to be like the magician who sees his own illusions without believing in them As soon as we loosen our concrete conceptions we will experience a taste of freedom
- [Day 4](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-4-130/) - Notes:Mieli haraa vastaan. En koe et tarviin opettajaa
- [Day 20](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-20-43/) - Thinking of the guru immediately protects us from having to experience rebirth in the lower realms- Lama Zopa Rinpoche When we correctly devote ourselves to the guru, all the heavy negative karma to be reborn in the lower realms, such as the five uninterrupted negative karmas, can be completely purified in the shortest time—even in an instant.The
- [Day 20](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-20-44/) - Thinking of the guru immediately protects us from having to experience rebirth in the lower realms- Lama Zopa Rinpoche When we correctly devote ourselves to the guru, all the heavy negative karma to be reborn in the lower realms, such as the five uninterrupted negative karmas, can be completely purified in the shortest time—even in an instant.The
- [Day 351](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-351-9/) - Notes: We are born with the mistaken conviction that our I is independent and self-­sufficient If the I were separate from the body, it makes no sense to say “I am eating or sitting” It is similarly illogical for our mental activities to be owned by a separate I or self
- [Day 324](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-324-9/) - Notes: The five powers: motivation, acquaintance (knowledge), the white seed, destruction and prayer. These are tools that help us to destroy our self centred attitude and develop Bodhicitta.
- [Day 323](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-323-10/) - Notes: Welcoming an illness is imperative; we should recognise the gift of being the antenna of the illness of others and experience their pain and benefit them. This is the Bodhisattva path.
- [Day 350](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-350-10/) - Notes: There is not one part of our body or mind that we can point to and say, “This is I” It would be nonsensical to identify the I with every passing thought or atom in our body A systematic investigation of our aggregates shows us there is no independently existing I
- [Day 18](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-18-43/) - Notes: He attained the great path of merit while going down the steps with his guru’s garbage
- [Day 17](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-17-46/) - Notes: The quickest way to achieve realizations is to do what most pleases the holy mind of the virtuous friend, which means following their advice. At other times, when we have more devotion and really feel the kindness of the guru from our heart, any meditation we try is very effective and very powerful.
- [Day 16](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-16-39/) - Notes: When we are following a guru, we allow ourselves to be under their control instead of that of our delusions. …teachers’ disciples will also continuously attempt to practice virtue and not spend much time on the pleasures of this life. Good disciples will automatically be like their teacher, renouncing even small vices. In this
- [Day 15](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-15-48/) - Notes: Generally speaking, someone with a lot of merit has much power and cannot be harmed by others, even though others might dislike the person and want to harm them. Correctly devoting to the guru with thought and action protects us from harm A person with a lot of merit has much power and cannot
- [Day 14](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-14-46/) - Notes: the guru is the embodiment of all the buddhas. In order to subdue our mind, all the buddhas manifested in this particular aspect, in accord with our karma or, in other words, our merit. Offering the guru even one cup of tea is like having actually made offering to all the buddhas, but
- [Day 13](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-13-50/) - Notes: Whenever we are able to offer service to our guru we are fortunate beings, because everything we do, from morning to night, is following the guru’s advice. On this basis we accumulate unbelievable merit. No matter how hard the work, our motivation for doing it will easily become Dharma. Otherwise, if we don’t
- [Day 17](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-17-45/) - The skillful way to meditate on lamrim and complete the lamrim realizations is to realize guru devotion - Lama Zopa Rinpoche When the water of devotion to the guru has dried up, our mind is like a rock. Our meditation doesn’t touch our heart and isn’t really effective for our mind. At other times, when
- [Day 9](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-9-72/) - : impartial, intelligent, hardworking and respectful and listens
- [Day 6](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-6-95/) - quality of our guru devotion will determine merit or suffering
- [Day 349](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-349-9/) - Notes: An independent I would have to be either one with the aggregates or separate from them As we meditate on these two possibilities, the false I will begin to fade away With perseverance we will achieve a subtle realization of both absolute and relative truth
- [Day 5](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-5-101/) - Notes:Liberation is from the mind, depends on the mind. Robina is perfect for this!
- [Day 4](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-4-129/) - Notes: Guru devotion! root of the path, virtuous friend.
- [Day 3](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-3-157/) - Notes: All yougis followed outlines in their practice. Analytical meditations on topics.
- [Day 2](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-2-129/) - Notes: each meditation is antidote to delusion. We rarely study our mind.
- [Day 16 Guru Devotion](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-16-38/) - When we correctly devote ourselves to the guru we cannot be led in the wrong way - Lama Zopa Rinpoche As we understand what is to be practiced and what is to be abandoned, we are able to give up wrong conduct. Either because we follow our teacher’s example or because we practice correct devotion
- [Day 16 Guru Devotion](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-16-guru-devotion/) - When we correctly devote ourselves to the guru we cannot be led in the wrong way - Lama Zopa Rinpoche As we understand what is to be practiced and what is to be abandoned, we are able to give up wrong conduct. Either because we follow our teacher’s example or because we practice correct devotion
- [Day 22](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-22-36/) - Notes: Always act from the intention of Bodhicitta Act with a reflective mind and to the best benefit Purif
- [Day 348](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-348-9/) - Notes: If our understanding of emptiness contradicts dependent arising, it is mistaken Unless we understand the conventional existence of the vase we will fall into nihilism The middle way avoids both extremes through unifying emptiness and dependent arising
- [Day 15](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-15-46/) - Having wholehearted devotion enables us to conquer all our enemies - Lama Zopa Rinpoche By correctly devoting ourselves to our virtuous friend through thought and action, allowing ourselves to be under the control of the virtuous friend, then we won’t be harmed by maras or evil friends. Because of our strong devotion, we purify inconceivable obscurations and
- [Day 15](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-15-47/) - Having wholehearted devotion enables us to conquer all our enemies - Lama Zopa Rinpoche By correctly devoting ourselves to our virtuous friend through thought and action, allowing ourselves to be under the control of the virtuous friend, then we won’t be harmed by maras or evil friends. Because of our strong devotion, we purify inconceivable obscurations and
- [Day 347](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-347-9/) - Notes: The merely labeled I and action arise in dependence on the valid base and what it does In the first moment the labeling thought merely imputes the I and the action on the base In the second moment our negative imprints cause the I to appear back as truly existing
- [Day 19](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-19-33/) - Notes:continue to practice and realize how in future lives it will be easier to practice and meet a qualified guru and achieve enlightenment.
- [Day 18](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-18-42/) - Notes:I have a guru and since I’m not in his presence I can still follow the guru by practicing daily with each activity a virtuos act in body speech and mind. daily guru practice. Ie VAJRAYOGINI. I am in VAJRAYOGINI pure land, all sentient being are Dhaka’s and Dakinis , All sound is the dharma.
- [Day 322](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-322-8/) - Notes: when we shatter the concept of who we are (never the same person from moment to moment), the illusion of our ego collapses.
- [Day 14](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-14-45/) - Notes: i recall chasing Danielle in through battry park, telling her i love her. She called me a joke. i thought that came from Maureen. When i reflect of the man ways i tried to please numerous people over my life, the thread under it all is knidness. giving to get, yes, bjt beneath
- [Day 346](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-346-9/) - Notes: Our hallucination of a self-­existent I is like a thief who sneaks up when we’re off guard The best moment to examine this fantasy is when we are in a heightened emotional state Through observation we will discover that the self we believed in has no basis at all
- [Day 345](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-345-9/) - Notes: “Thubten Yeshe” only came into existence when a body was given that name The relative reality of Thubten Yeshe—and of all phenomena—is nothing but the name Nagarjuna didn’t teach that relative phenomena don’t exist; he taught how they exist
- [Day 1](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-1-184/) - Notes:the path
- [Day 13 Guru Devotion](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-13-48/) - Fulfilling the guru’s wishes is the best cause for our own success - Lama Zopa Rinpoche Remember the benefits explained in the sutra and tantra teachings. any work we do for the guru becomes very effective for our mind, just like reading scriptures or doing meditation, and even enjoyable, we are confident of the result
- [Day 13](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-13-49/) - Fulfilling the guru’s wishes is the best cause for our own success - Lama Zopa Rinpoche Remember the benefits explained in the sutra and tantra teachings. any work we do for the guru becomes very effective for our mind, just like reading scriptures or doing meditation, and even enjoyable, we are confident of the result
- [Day 3](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-3-156/) - Notes:mikä on Lamrim outline?
- [Day 245](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-245-9/) - 笔记： 怀疑会消耗我们的精力和决心，并造成极大的混乱。 喇嘛梭巴仁波切 怀疑是对佛法关键方面抱有不确定态度。 它源于无知，并阻碍我们在道路上取得任何成果。 相反，质疑、调查并得出正确结论是非常好的。 轮回的演化 1 根本妄念 1.5 怀疑
- [Day 18](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-18-41/) - Notes: I can gain realisations by offerin
- [Day 18](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-18-40/) - Notes:It is important to follow our guru perfectly. I can achieve realizations not only through formal meditation but also doing mundane this for our guru. So whenever a guru gives you instructions, do your best to follow them perfectly.
- [Day 12](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-12-59/) - The merit we accumulate in an instant by making offerings to our guru is unimaginable - Lama Zopa Rinpoche We become closer to enlightenment not only by practicing the advice given us by our guru but even by making offerings to our guru, showing them respect and serving them. This is because in order to
- [Day 12](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-12-60/) - The merit we accumulate in an instant by making offerings to our guru is unimaginable - Lama Zopa Rinpoche We become closer to enlightenment not only by practicing the advice given us by our guru but even by making offerings to our guru, showing them respect and serving them. This is because in order to
- [Day 67](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-67-29/) - Notes: can a hungry ghost have human shape?
- [Day 344](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-344-10/) - Notes: Investigating our concept of self is the first step to experiencing emptiness When we’ve concluded there’s no independent self, we meditate by letting go into that By listening to teachings correctly it’s possible to completely lose our concrete sense of I
- [Day 321](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-321-9/) - Notes: Our personal reality generate by our fantasy is the result of a sick mind; the intellect labelling of who we are leads us to grasping to an artificial and confused dissatisfaction.
- [Day 320](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-320-8/) - Notes: How wonderful it would be if I were able to contemplate the misery of pride in myself. I WILL do this every time I feel a strange happiness arising when Trump or other unkind humans have trouble time.
- [Day 11](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-11-55/) - Pleasing the guru by fulfilling their wishes is itself the quick path to enlightenment - Lama Zopa RinpocheWithout a guru, there is no way we can end our samsara. By meeting a guru and following their advice, we will quickly achieve enlightenment.When we meditate on this first benefit, we should relate it to every single activity
- [Day 11](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-11-56/) - Pleasing the guru by fulfilling their wishes is itself the quick path to enlightenment - Lama Zopa RinpocheWithout a guru, there is no way we can end our samsara. By meeting a guru and following their advice, we will quickly achieve enlightenment.When we meditate on this first benefit, we should relate it to every single activity
- [Day 17](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-17-22/) - Notes:Part of guru devotion is serving the guru, such as working for them, volunteering for a centreAlso following the guru's advice, but how to follow if we don't have 1-2-1 sessions?I suppose the main advise is to practice Bodhicitta and to check your mind at all times Another virtous activity that would make me feel close
- [Day 8](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-8-67/) - Notes: in todays lamrim day 8 , Ripoche speaks of words and phrases that i do not know or understand : what is the lower path? What is The lower realms , What does samsara mean?, What does nirvana mean ? Does it mean the same to each person? this has not yet been explained
- [Day 343](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-343-10/) - Notes: Our first task is to recognize the object of refutation—the sense of I we carry around We must be constantly on the alert for this instinctive feeling of a real, solid I This deluded sense of I is the fundamental driving force in samsaric existence
- [Day 16](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-16-37/) - Notes: I liked this teaching and hope to slowly stop my small vice of always eating something sweet after a meal.
- [Day 11](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-11-54/) - Notes: Each piece of advice that we follow brings powerful purification because the virtuous friend is the most powerful object in our life. We should remember all the practices and advice the guru has given us and relate our meditation to them.
- [Day 10](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-10-45/) - Notes: Practicing guru devotion correctly in this life determines whether or not we meet a virtuous friend in our future lives and whether or not that virtuous friend will be perfectly qualified.
- [Day 342](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-342-9/) - Notes: Prasangika Madhyamaka is the right view that alone eliminates the root of ignorance Lama Tsongkhapa’s teachings on emptiness and dependent arising are particularly clear We mustn’t waste this extraordinary opportunity to realize ultimate reality in this life
- [Day 8](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-8-66/) - Notes: There are many levels of realizations that we have to receive and there are many delusions that we have to eliminate
- [Day 6](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-6-94/) - Notes: If we are careful and practice guru devotion well, we can accumulate the greatest merit in the shortest time, but if we are not careful and make even a small mistake in our practice of guru devotion, we can experience the heaviest suffering for the longest time.
- [Day 5](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-5-100/) - Notes: The guru is the antidote to the confused mind. In order to cure our diseased minds, we need expert guidance in how the mind works All the confusion of the world, from society to the individual, is created by the mind
- [Day 4](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-4-128/) - Notes: the teaching on how to devote to the virtuous friend is the most important one,
- [Day 319](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-319-10/) - Notes: Understanding Dharma beyond the intellectual level, helps a lot. Practicing Dharma instead thinking on it is the key solution of all our inner and outer conflicts.
- [Day 318](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-318-9/) - Notes: Blaming our self centred I is a technic that helps us to eliminate ignorance and destroy the self centred thoughts that arise.
- [Day 244](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-244-10/) - 笔记：骄傲是一种消极的、膨胀的、不切实际的态度。 喇嘛梭巴仁波切 骄傲是一种优越感，我们常常意识不到它的负面含义。 当我们骄傲自满时，佛法教义很难对我们的心灵产生益处。 控制骄傲最简单的方法就是对自己的成就保持务实的态度。 轮回的演化 1 根本妄念 1.4 傲慢
- [Day 243](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-243-8/) - 笔记： 无明是对业力、四圣谛和皈依之处缺乏了解。 无知会导致对相对真理和绝对真理的误解。 无知是所有痛苦的根源。 轮回的演化 1 根本妄念 1.3 无明
- [Day 1](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-1-183/) - Notes ? - bring them to enlightenment, by ourselves alone
- [Day 9](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-9-70/) - From the disciple’s side, we have to have firm devotion, enjoy meditation and like virtue very much - Lama Zopa Rinpoche In Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand, Pabongka Dechen Nyingpo mentions five qualities that a disciple should have. A good disciple is impartial intelligent hardworking has great respect for their guru and listens carefully to their
- [Day 9](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-9-71/) - From the disciple’s side, we have to have firm devotion, enjoy meditation and like virtue very much - Lama Zopa Rinpoche In Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand, Pabongka Dechen Nyingpo mentions five qualities that a disciple should have. A good disciple is impartial intelligent hardworking has great respect for their guru and listens carefully to their
- [Day 341](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-341-8/) - Notes: Emptiness and voidness are terms that both refer to the ultimate nature of reality The ego’s misconception of reality is the root of all suffering and must be eliminated Our highest goal is to be free of all bondage, which demands a revolution in our mind
- [Day 15](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-15-45/) - Notes: This section was very powerful for me because I was lazy in my practice during the winter break and now we have a lot of problems, fights, and not much money. 'Generally speaking, someone with a lot of merit has much power and cannot be harmed by others, even though others might dislike the
- [Day 8](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-8-63/) - A spiritual friend needs to be wise in leading the disciple on the path to future lives’ happiness, to a perfect human rebirth and then to nirvana and full enlightenment - Lama Zopa RinpocheUnderstanding refuge and karma is among the most important things. If the teacher doesn’t have that basic understanding of the teachings on
- [Day 8](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-8-65/) - A spiritual friend needs to be wise in leading the disciple on the path to future lives’ happiness, to a perfect human rebirth and then to nirvana and full enlightenment - Lama Zopa RinpocheUnderstanding refuge and karma is among the most important things. If the teacher doesn’t have that basic understanding of the teachings on
- [Day 8](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-8-64/) - A spiritual friend needs to be wise in leading the disciple on the path to future lives’ happiness, to a perfect human rebirth and then to nirvana and full enlightenment - Lama Zopa RinpocheUnderstanding refuge and karma is among the most important things. If the teacher doesn’t have that basic understanding of the teachings on
- [Day 7](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-7-90/) - There is the need for an organic, living kind of force to come in touch with our heart - Lama YeshehA kind and learned friend is important for connection and acknowledgement that i too can achieve my best intentions and awareness on the path to enlightenment. Recongnizing the kindness of a friend, like Shar, Lama
- [Day 4](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-4-77/) - Notes:Om Mani Padme HumArahant - Bậc vô nhiễm
- [Day 14](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-14-44/) - Wenn wir dem Rat unseres Gurus richtig folgen, sind alle Buddhas überaus zufrieden mit uns. Wenn wir unserem tugendhaften Freund richtig folgen, werden alle Buddhas in seinem Körper verweilen. Eine einzige Tasse Tee dem Guru zu geben ist vorteilhafter, als sie allen Buddhas anzubieten.
- [Day 317](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-317-7/) - Notes: Understanding the nature of our unclear mind, leads us to understand the nature of clear mind. Never avoid to look face to face our undesirable thoughts; better looking them :)
- [Day 316](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-316-9/) - Notes: Our reaction makes the difference in how we interpret facts; good or bad and so on. This means that only by labelling (mental construction) we keep suffering :)
- [Day 6](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-6-92/) - The moment we establish Dharma contact with someone with the recognition of a guru-­disciple relationship, that person becomes the most powerful object in our life, more powerful than numberless buddhas. Once we recognize someone as our guru, as the person we will rely upon to guide us to the happiness of future lives, liberation and
- [Day 13](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-13-47/) - Notes: If we only work for ourselves, we easily feel unmotivated, only interested in money, loose energy and get bored. If we work for the greater good, with the guru in mind, we have energy and great strength to carry out any work needed.
- [Day 340](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-340-10/) - Notes: The ignorance that grasps at things as self-­existent is the source of all our problems Wisdom destroys ignorance by recognizing that there is no inherently existent I To realize emptiness we must purify and create merit, practice guru devotion and study
- [Day 315](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-315-9/) - Notes: Tonglen is a powerful tool to purify ourselves and all sentient beings, and trains the mind in relative bodhicitta.
- [Day 17](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-17-44/) - Notes:meditating and devotion to the guru and the importance of following the gurus teachings is that which needs to be strengthened. Gratitude that I have met a reliable guru is necessary to follow and have devotion in order to obtain enlightenment and benefits all sentient beings
- [Day 6](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-6-93/) - The moment we establish Dharma contact with someone with the recognition of a guru-­disciple relationship, that person becomes the most powerful object in our life, more powerful than numberless buddhas. Once we recognize someone as our guru, as the person we will rely upon to guide us to the happiness of future lives, liberation and
- [Day 5](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-5-97/) - Side Note:I recall Khenpo's advice on the time rewuired for preliminary practice. Not exactly but somehwere around 4 years.I sensed my amazement, but not my ignorance.I anticipated immediate progress rather than graduated motivaton and commitment to practice of Dharma.I did not appreciate Shunyata: emptinessGuru Devotion:The Wisdom Mind manifests in front of me as a the
- [Day 1](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-1-181/) - Auf dem Lam-Rim-Weg können wir Erleuchtung erreichen – doch nur, wenn wir schrittweise vorgehen. Jeder Schritt zählt: Wir müssen alle Themen sorgfältig, nacheinander bearbeiten und darüber meditieren, auch jene, die uns unangenehm sind, wie Tod, Impermanenz und Samsara.Indem wir über Samsara meditieren, entwickeln wir eine gesunde Abneigung gegenüber dem leidvollen Leben und den Höllenwelten. Die
- [Day 1](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-1-182/) - Notes:first day ok
- [Day 12](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-12-58/) - Der Guru ist das höchste Feld, durch das wir großen Verdienst sammeln können. Schon das einfache Anbieten eines Glases Wassers an den Guru erzeugt unvorstellbaren Verdienst. Ebenso sammeln wir Verdienst, indem wir dem Guru dienen, ihm nahe sind oder ein spirituelles Zentrum unterstützen.
- [Day 11](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-11-53/) - Wenn wir uns auf einen Guru verlassen, der den unfehlbaren Pfad zeigt, kann unser eigenes Samsara ein Ende finden. Alle Handlungen, die wir für den Guru ausführen, sammeln Verdienst und reinigen unser negatives Karma. Jedes Mal, wenn wir dem Rat des Gurus folgen, kommen wir der Erleuchtung einen Schritt näher.
- [Day 10](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-10-44/) - Wenn wir uns von Anfang an auf richtige Weise hingeben, schaffen wir ein stabiles Fundament und vermeiden viele spätere Hindernisse. Deshalb ist es wichtig, die Lehren zur Guru-Hingabe so gut wie möglich zu verstehen, zu studieren und in die Praxis umzusetzen. Das Bewusstsein für die Vorteile einer korrekten Hingabe inspiriert uns, unsere Praxis mit
- [Day 9](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-9-69/) - Der Erfolg ist abhängig von beiden Parteien, dem Guru und dem Schüler/der Schülerin. Es braucht Inneren Willen & Motivation, Bereitschaft zu Lernen und Folgen. Das Erlangen der Erleuchtung durch den Schüler hängt sowohl vom Guru als auch vom Schüler selbst ab. Ein guter Schüler ist unparteiisch, intelligent, fleißig und respektvoll und hört aufmerksam auf die
- [Day 8](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-8-62/) - Mittlere Wesen:„Ich möchte frei vom Leiden sein.“ → Befreiung, Nirvana Höhere Wesen:„Ich möchte Erleuchtung erlangen, um allen Wesen zu helfen.“ → Buddhaschaft Wenn unser Ziel die Erleuchtung ist, brauchen wir einen Lehrer mit vielen Ebenen der Verwirklichung.Ein solcher Lehrer hat den spirituellen Weg selbst tiefgehend praktiziert und verwirklicht. Dadurch kann er uns sicher
- [Day 7](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-7-89/) - Das Problem mit vielen Religionen ist, dass zu wenige Menschen den Lehren wirklich folgen und die Reinheit des Herzens sowie Mitgefühl (Compassion) leben. Deshalb haben sich viele Menschen von Religionen abgewendet und suchen nach sinnvolleren Wegen, ihr Leben zu gestalten. Wenn wir unser volles Potenzial erkennen wollen, brauchen wir eine Person, die ihr eigenes
- [Day 6](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-6-91/) - Der Guru wird zum wichtigsten „Objekt“ unseres Lebens, weil Vertrauen und Hingabe unser Denken, Handeln und spirituelles Wachstum prägen. Die Verbindung zum Dharma entsteht durch den Guru, indem wir als Schüler seine Lehren empfangen und anwenden. Die Qualität unserer Hingabe bestimmt, ob sie uns Glück oder Leid bringt – reine, vertrauensvolle Hingabe erzeugt Verdienst,
- [Day 5](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-5-99/) - Der Guru ist das Gegenmittel zu unserem getäuschten Geist. Mit seiner Weisheit, Klarheit, Erfahrung und seinem Wissen kann er uns auf dem spirituellen Weg führen und helfen, unsere falschen Vorstellungen zu erkennen und zu überwinden. Oft glauben wir, wir wüssten schon alles, und neigen dazu, äußeren Umständen oder Institutionen die Schuld für die Probleme
- [Day 314](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-314-9/) - Notes: Training to give away our possessions by meditating on multiplying them and sending them to all beings, gives great joy and pleasure.
- [Day 4](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-4-127/) - Guru-Devotion wird als die Wurzel des Pfades bezeichnet, weil alle spirituellen Erkenntnisse daraus wachsen. Wenn wir Hingabe und Vertrauen gegenüber unserem spirituellen Lehrer entwickeln, entsteht die Grundlage für alle weiteren Fortschritte auf dem Weg. Sie steht am Anfang des Lam-Rim, damit wir unsere spirituelle Praxis von Anfang an richtig beginnen und Fehler vermeiden. Indem
- [Day 313](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-313-9/) - Notes: Tonglen is a powerful tool that leads us into the path of liberation from attachment. Putting ourselves in others shoes gives us a inner evolution that solves our problems.
- [Day 3](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-3-155/) - Es ist wichtig, dem Lam-Rim-Outline zu folgen und sich bewusst einzuprägen. Jeder Schritt auf diesem Weg braucht Geduld und Achtsamkeit. Am Anfang mag vieles wenig sinnvoll erscheinen, vielleicht fühlt es sich sogar verwirrend oder herausfordernd an. Doch wenn wir beständig üben und die Lehren in unseren Alltag integrieren, beginnen wir, die feinen Veränderungen in Geist und
- [Day 2](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-2-128/) - Lama Yeshe lehrt, dass wir uns auf dem Lam-Rim-Pfad auf die Realität fokussieren. Dieser Weg zeigt uns unsere Ignoranz, unser Ego und unseren Hass – all das, was zu Leid führt. Wenn wir uns zum Beispiel über andere ärgern, schaden wir in erster Linie uns selbst. Die Wurzel dieses Ärgers liegt oft in unseren Erwartungen
- [Day 339](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-339-8/) - Notes: The vast mind of bodhicitta is the key to unlocking the great secret of happiness Everything we do with bodhicitta, every prayer and mantra, benefits every sentient being Just having the aspiration to develop bodhicitta is incredible and mind-­blowing
- [Day 5](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-5-98/) - Side Note:I recall Khenpo's advice on the time rewuired for preliminary practice. Not exactly but somehwere around 4 years.I sensed my amazement, but not my ignorance.I anticipated immediate progress rather than graduated motivaton and commitment to practice of Dharma.I did not appreciate Shunyata: emptinessGuru Devotion:The Wisdom Mind manifests in front of me as a the
- [Day 4](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-4-121/) - Notes:Guru devotion is the root of the pathReview Guided Imagery for shinning lights. Red, Yellow, Blue
- [Day 3](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-3-104/) - Notes:Om Mani Padme HumOm Mani Padme Hum2
- [Day 2](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-2-75/) - Notes:Om Arolik SvahaOm Arolik SvahaOm Arolik Svaha 2
- [Day 312](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-312-8/) - Notes: Cherishing others helps us to purify our darkness, obscuration and ignorance. Each person is precious and gives us the opportunity to learn about compassion and loving kindness.
- [Day 311](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-311-10/) - Notes: How much more beyond my navel; there’s a relation between every single person and things, known and unknown that I share.
- [Day 338](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-338-8/) - Notes: Bodhicitta is not only the vehicle to enlightenment but also great psychology We can’t create peace in the outside world until we create peace within ourselves If all beings in the world had bodhicitta there would be no war
- [Getting Started](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/getting-started-67/) - Notes:recite one complete lamrim overview each day Overviews can be found in the lamrim section of the FPMT website at www.fpmt.org. Rinpoche’s advice is to do effortful meditation on the lamrim again and again until stable realizations are achieve
- [Day 7](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-7-88/) - I would not be and have stuck with being a Buddhist if not for meeting the amazing people and highly realised masters I have met and experienced the energy of. Their example is actually from where my faith arises. The incredibly subtle yet incredibly powerful experiences I have had being in their presence…the proof that
- [Day 3](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-3-152/) - Notes:The lamrim outline gives us an overview of all the Buddha’s teachingsAll the great meditators of the past used this outline to quickly gain realizationsWe need to be patient: with perseverance we will definitely make progress.I recognize my mind as primarily untrained. An untrained mind is like a lion without a forest.The forest of my
- [Day 337](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-337-7/) - Notes: Bodhicitta is the most perfect, uncomplicated meditation and path If we don’t change our attitude, all our other practices are a joke Dharma doesn’t consist of religious-­looking activities—the best practice is bodhicitta
- [Day 9](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-9-68/) - Notes: ...
- [Day 4](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-4-126/) - Notes:I do not like the guru idea , and 4ather grew up patiently lear
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- [Getting StartedB](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/getting-started-45/) - Notes:Thank for today.Lần 2
- [Day 1](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-1-115/) - Notes:cảm ơn anh điều phục tâm mình, hỗ trợ chính anh và hỗ trợ emNay cập Nhật file audio nên em có thể vừa nghe vừa nhìn chữ
- [Day 2](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-2-127/) - Notes:The lamrim reveals our ignorance, desire, hatred and ego and demonstrates how these negative minds result in complications and misery. Each lamrim meditation is an antidote to a certain delusion and helps us eliminate it.《道次第》（Lamrim）揭示了我们的无明、贪欲、嗔恨和我执，并清楚地说明这些负面的心态如何导致种种困扰与痛苦。每一个道次第的禅修，都是针对某一种烦恼的对治法，帮助我们将其消除。我告诉你，佛教是一门非常科学、非常实用的学问，而道次第就像一个苹果，已经洗好、切好，随时可以食用——我们只要直接“吃”，就能得到滋养。如果我们每天早晨，带着正确的理解和强烈的利他动机，做一段简短的禅修，我真心相信，我们一整天都会进展得非常顺利。就是这么简单。平常，我们为了让自己快乐，究竟花费了多少精力？比如，我们花了好几个月、好几年在学校里学习各种知识，却不把精力投入到真正能让我们获得快乐的事情上。这实在是太愚蠢了。然而，我们是可以改变自己的思维方式，进而改变整个人生的，这正是佛法的美妙之处——它教导我们如何将生命从负面转为正面。不要相信有什么超自然的力量在某个“上方”。当我们以某种方式去行动、对某些法义进行禅修时，我们的智慧就会被开启。每一个道次第的禅修，就像一个开关——当我们遇到某一种问题时，就打开相应的开关，光明便会出现；遇到另一个问题，就打开另一个开关。只要按对按钮，佛法之光就会亮起，灾难性的处境也就随之消失。这是非常科学的，因此我们完全做得到。道次第揭示我们的烦恼，并提供消除烦恼的禅修方法佛教是一种现实而科学的改变思维方式的方法每一个道次第的禅修，都是为了生起智慧、消除痛苦而设计的
- [Day 336](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-336-6/) - Notes: When we take the bodhisattva vows we commit to leading all beings to enlightenment First we take the wishing vow, which is an aspiration, and then the entering vow Aspirational bodhicitta leads to the mind of engaging bodhicitta, which creates infinite merit
- [Day 16](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-16-36/) - Notes:Guru Devotion continues. Know one is following the right Guru by seeing the Guru is virtuous day and night. See this one follows the Guru’s advice. Are my negative action diminishing and virtue increasing. Ask oneself each evening reflect and purify negativities and rejoice in positive actions.
- [Day 335](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-335-8/) - Notes: The four means of drawing disciples to the Dharma are for ripening the minds of others The first three are giving, speaking kind words and teaching to the level of the student The fourth is practicing what we teach so that we become an inspiring example for others
- [Day 7](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-7-87/) - Notes:someone who has reached beyond selfishness, who has transcended the petty concerns of this world while still living in the world - someone I would actually respect & trust!
- [Day 5](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-5-96/) - Systems theory; if the mind creating actions is negative the actions are negative and vice versa; and the systems we live in are created by all our afflicted minds; if we clean our mind we put less neg into the system; we need guru to guide us to less afflict
- [Day 365](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-365-7/) - Notes: You’ve spent quite a lot of time with me now, listening to my explanations of Lama Tsongkhapa’s approach to both the fundamental human problem and your individual ones. After all these months, you need to come to a conclusion from what you’ve read and heard; you need to integrate the teachings within yourself. Listening
- [Day 310](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-310-9/) - Notes: Again, it’s all about be aware of our motivations! Selfishness is all about worldly concerns for ourself; nothing to do for the concern of others.
- [Day 309](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-309-8/) - Notes: How can I get rid of self centred thoughts? By keep focused in the present my dear :)
- [Day 334](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-334-11/) - Notes: As long as we have a dualistic view we will have conflict in our mind The experience of emptiness is the total unity of absolute reality, beyond any duality Dharma wisdom is the inner understanding of reality that leads us beyond ignorance
- [Day 242](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-242-10/) - 笔记：每一次不受控制的愤怒都会在内心积聚愤怒的能量。 愤怒不仅会摧毁我们当下快乐的生活，还会影响我们未来美好生活的质量。 即使是一瞬间的愤怒也可能破坏一段长期的关系。 我们需要用尽一切可能的方法来控制和克服愤怒这种情绪。 轮回的演化 1 根本妄念 1.2 愤怒
- [Day 6](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-6-90/) - Notes: The power comes from the Dharma contact, not from whether or not the person is an enlightened being.
- [Day 333](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-333-7/) - Notes: We need to meditate because our mind is so gross and our memory so poor Meditation techniques eliminate the deluded mental activity that shakes our mind Without subduing the gross symptoms of ego it’s impossible to realize emptiness
- [Day 241](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-241-11/) - 笔记：如果我们只能从佛法学习中学到一件事，那应该是：世间一切问题都源于执着。 喇嘛耶喜 执着是我们身心所经历的一切问题的根源。 通过了解依恋心理学，我们将学会控制自己的思想。 如果我们仔细探究，就会发现执念是地球上最大的问题。 轮回的演化 1 根本妄念 1.1 执着
- [Day 364](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-364-6/) - Notes: The mind is like a TV and what appears to us depends on the channel we choose Everything depends on how we use our mind—it’s completely in our hands We mustn’t waste this opportunity to lead every sentient being to enlightenment
- [Day 6](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-6-89/) - Notes: Does the relationship need to be two sided? It automatically is, due to dependent arising How do I know how to properly practice guru devotion? How do I know someone is my guru? Can I have more than one guru?
- [Day 5](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-5-95/) - Notes: Can I operate on myself unassisted?
- [Day 15](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-15-44/) - Notes:guru devotion. Build merit through devotion or not depending on our devotion to the guru. Protect one’s mind inner and outer from harmful spirits and human beings intended to distract disrupt and disturb our minds, build guru devotion to protect us from all negativity is a powerful antidote on the path. I need all the
- [Day 363](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-363-7/) - Notes: Our ignorance of the way things exist is our worst enemy, the creator of our samsara Due to this fundamental delusion we create the karma that perpetuates our suffering By destroying our false concept of self, we develop the Mahayana attitude of selflessness
- [Day 308](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-308-8/) - Notes: A narrow mind perceives only illusory comprehension of equanimity; it doesn’t see suffering in others, only in its self.
- [Day 332](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-332-9/) - Notes: Perseverance is the mind that rejoices in virtue with enthusiasm and great energy It overcomes the three types of laziness: procrastination, attachmentand discouragement The perfection of perseverance enables us to work tirelessly for others with great joy
- [Day 1](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-1-180/) - Notes: 我们每一个人的全部责任，是仅凭自己之力，令一切有情众生解脱痛苦及其因，并引导他们走向究竟的觉悟。为了做到这一点，我们首先必须自己成就觉悟；也就是说，我们需要证得遍知的智慧之心，能够直接了知一切众生。如此一来，我们才能如实洞察众生各自的心识，了知他们的种种特性、心识层次与业力，并清楚知道哪一种方法最适合每一个众生，从而引导他们从快乐走向快乐，最终成就圆满的觉悟。 为了自己证得觉悟，我们必须将道次第真实地修行出来，而这并非无因无缘就能发生。也就是说，我们必须依次第实修通往觉悟之道，依循渐次趣入觉悟的修行体系——道次第（lamrim）。这是完成整个修行之道的唯一方式。而要生起真实的证悟，道次第中的各个修行步骤，必须依照正确的顺序来实践。 如果只是挑选自己喜欢的部分来禅修，而刻意回避不喜欢的内容——例如三恶道的痛苦、无常与死亡、轮回及生命的苦性——不愿意去思惟或修习那些令自己感到不舒服的教法，不将这些教法真正落实于修行中，而只专注于听起来美好、令人愉悦的部分，那么我们不可能真正生起任何证悟。 举例来说，若不观修轮回本质唯是痛苦，若没有强烈的感受——仿佛被火焰包围、困在满是污秽的粪池中，或赤身坐在荆棘丛里——我们便无法对轮回生起彻底的厌离心，也无法生起真正的出离心。没有出离心，就无法圆满成就对一切有情的慈悲心与菩提心，因此也无法进入大乘修道之门。换言之，我们必须依次第圆满成就通往觉悟之道的种种证悟。 要点总结： 若要解脱一切众生之苦，首先必须自己成就觉悟 道次第（lamrim）中的每一个主题都必须修行，并且要依正确次第 这是生起证悟、圆满完成大乘修行之道的唯一方式
- [Day 4](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-4-125/) - Notes: Benefits are avoid mistakes receive blessings stop obstacles
- [Day 4](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-4-124/) - Notes: Guru devotion is called the root of the path because all realizations grow from it It comes at the beginning of the lamrim so we can start our spiritual life without mistakes Guru devotion is the most important of all teachings and is the source of all happiness
- [Day 4](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-4-123/) - Notes:Understand this lesson took time. At first I did not know who the Guru was. There is now no doubt. Seeing the Buddha in my Teachers is Guru devotion.
- [Day 331](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-331-8/) - Notes: Happiness and peace in daily life depend on our understanding and practice of patience The three types are: not retaliating, bearing hardships and gaining certainty about the Dharma The peace of this planet is entirely our responsibility; it depends on our practicing patience
- [Day 240](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-240-11/) - 笔记： 如果我们不了解问题的心理根源，就永远无法解决问题。 喇嘛耶喜 有六种基本情绪会扰乱人类的心绪，破坏内心的平静。 通过探究我们的内心，我们发现我们的躁动不安源于自我。 解决之道在于冥想：完全觉察我们正在做什么、为什么做以及如何做。
- [Day 361](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-361-7/) - Notes: We can practice mindfulness of the merely labeled I, action and object in any situation Another powerful and effective meditation is to view everything in daily life as a dream A third technique is to see ignorance as a magician who’s creating illusions for our senses Thinking of when I'm giving medicine and being
- [Day 2](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-2-126/) - Notes:. If we act in a certain way, In this sentence. I ask ..in what way should I act?. Is the answer simply to act in a way to help others?
- [Day 3](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-3-154/) - Notes: Patience, this is the key take away from this, the third contemplation.
- [Day 330](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-330-8/) - Notes: The three types of morality are avoiding nonvirtue, ripening the mind and working for others Living in morality is the ground from which all other positive actions can arise The key to observing morality is the various sets of vows that we can take
- [Day 329](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-329-8/) - Notes: The Buddha emphasized the psychological rather than the external aspect of generosity Genuine giving decreases our delusions and is done with a mind free from attachment We should carry out the three kinds of charity as often and as best as we can
- [Day 14](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-14-43/) - Notes:cont. important Guru Devotion. the Guru is more important then the Buddha because the guru is my teacher and I am the student of the guru. I see without the Guru there is no path for me to enlightenment. If I give offerings to the guru all the Buddhas receive the offering through my Guru
- [Day 41](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-41-32/) - Notes: a good lesson to remember when there is a spider on the wall, or a snake in the yard, or a person who is harassing me in traffic or someone who is angry with me
- [Day 4](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-4-122/) - The stable root of guru devotion - I don’t have much - I need to cultivate and develop proper understanding of it and get past my wired struggles with it - I need to get some realisation of it
- [Day 3](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-3-153/) - It’s an iterative process “…everything the Buddha taught will com home to us” - beautiful
- [Day 2](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-2-125/) - Lam Rim is a suite of solutions to every specific existential problem we face - a solution specific to every problem. Amazing
- [Day 2](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-2-124/) - Notes: Lamrim meditation can generate wisdom
- [Day 360](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-360-7/) - Notes: The simple way to understand emptiness is to not believe what our senses tell us We experience emptiness as soon as we realize our view of the world is a hallucination Through continuously investigating our beliefs, we can study emptiness all day long Even though this is put simply I still don't feel as
- [Day 328](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-328-8/) - Notes: Having developed the mind of bodhicitta, our next step is to actualize the six perfections The practice of each perfection must include all the others, especially wisdom If we practice properly we can definitely attain everlasting peaceful enlightenment
- [Day 1](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-1-33/) - Notes: Meditate on samsara. Develop total aversion to samsara or renunciation of it.We wan to realize compassion for other sentient beings or bodhicitta, and therefore we want to enter the Mahayana path.We have to achieve the realizations of the graduated path to enlightenment.
- [Getting Started](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/getting-started-66/) - Notes:
- [Day 1](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-1-39/) - ognuno ha la responsabilità di liberare tt gli esseri e condurli alla Ill. per qsto dobbiamo prima raggiungerla noi stessi per poter vedere le menti degli esseri e sapere come guidarli.A questo scopo dobbiamo praticare il LR nella sequenza corretta e tutto.es. se non realizziamo che il S. è come stare in un fuoco, in
- [Day 1](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-1-179/) - Notes: Right Path - Right Steps - Right Order = causes & conditions for enlightenment Goal: to free all sentient beings from suffering & causes by bringing them to enlightment Prereq: reach enlightenment ourselves (me, the individual) - series of realizations
- [Day 39](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-39-31/) - Notes: This is SO important. I will keep missing this opportunity to understand this teaching if I don’t keep up my practice. Sometimes the guru is right there teaching me something that I miss because of my wrong view. Without remembering this story about the old teacher and the 2 monks, I will keep seeing
- [Day 40](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-40-40/) - Notes: How I see is dependent on my practice. If I let my practice slip, I will fall into seeing with a wrong view.
- [Day 4](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-4-120/) - Notes: all realisations grow from the stable root of the guru devotion. being introduced to guru devotion allows me to be cautious of my mistakes. Correct devotion to the guru devotion is a required. guru devotion is the root of all happiness up until enlightenment, all realisations grow from it, and it is the most impirtwnt of
- [Day 3](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-3-151/) - Notes: Lamrim outline is overview of Buddhist teachings. Everything the Buddha taught is in there.
- [Day 1](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-1-178/) - Notes: These notes - the review of the lesson will be kept in my Lamrim Year diary. My practice and my motivation is to be diligent in making this a daily meditation - to use this time to dive deeper into the Path, to include this time into the practices I already engage in.
- [Day 1](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-1-70/) - Notes:Need to remind myself what my ultimate commitment is.The purpose of attaining enlightenment.
- [Day 359](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-359-6/) - Notes: To realize the true nature of the self we first have to recognize the mind of ignorance We start with analytical meditation on how and where the truly existing self appears to us When we get an effortless feeling of the emptiness of the self, we concentrate on that I don't feel I understand
- [Getting Started](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/getting-started-65/) - Notes:
- [Day 1](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-1-177/) - Nie da się inaczej, niż krok za krokiem. Po kolei.
- [Day 327](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-327-9/) - Notes: Every morning we should make a strong motivation to dedicate our life for others With this strong motivation, even a garbage collector’s life becomes meaningful Controlling delusions and serving others is the most practical path in the modern world
- [Day 12](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-12-57/) - Notes:Offerings of service, practice or monetary gifts earn merit that’s needed to obtain enlightenment. Remember intention at the beginning and dedication at the end of offerings to seal the deal…merit.
- [Day 13](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-13-46/) - Notes:I can serve the Guru and dedicate to the Guru following the teachings of the Guru. Intention, practice and dedication will earn merit that’s needed to reach enlightenment along with purification.Remember to give service to others and gi
- [Editor’s Preface](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/editors-preface-34/) - Notes: I am inspired by the person who compiled this book’s practice and dedication to the Dharma as a lay person.
- [Day 358](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-358-7/) - Notes: There is a real danger of confusing meditation on space with meditation on emptiness When space appears to us we must recognize that it’s a merely labeled hallucination Space is totally empty: there is no real space existing from its own side It is only labelled by the mind. What exists beyond labels...
- [Day 326](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-326-7/) - Notes: Life becomes truly worthwhile when we abandon ego and dedicate ourselves to others It’s the motivation behind our actions that counts, not their external appearance Our real enemy is the self-­cherishing thought in our mind, which steals our happiness
- [Day 1](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-1-176/) - Notes: To free all beings from suffering we must first achieve enlightenment ourselves Every topic in the lamrim needs to be practiced, and in the right order This is the only way to achieve realizations and complete the Mahayana path
- [Day 238](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-238-10/) - 笔记：既然我们不喜欢问题，那就别无选择：我们只能修习佛法。 喇嘛梭巴仁波切 唯有修习佛法才能终结我们无始无终的轮回。 死亡随时可能降临，除佛法之外的一切都是毫无意义的。 反思我们过去无数的苦难将激励我们修习佛法。 轮回之苦 总结
- [Day 237](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-237-9/) - 笔记：无需进行彻底的外部变革——我们只需要进行内部变革。 喇嘛耶喜 我们应该享受物质生活，同时也要了解我们享受的本质。 唯物主义是一种狭隘的思维方式，它执着于外在事物而非内在事物。 我们可以通过观察不满心态的本质来找到我们所寻求的所有答案。 轮回之苦 总结
- [Day 11](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-11-52/) - Notes: follow a qualified guru and practice his teachings . Eventually one will achieve enlightenment by gaining merit and purifying negatives. Guru devotion is that important that these teachings continue in these beginning weeks of the Lam Rim. Dedicate one’s merits to the Guru for the benefit of All sentient beings.
- [Day 11](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-11-51/) - Notes: follow a qualified guru and practice his teachings . Eventually one will achieve enlightenment by gaining merit and purifying negatives. Guru devotion is that important that these teachings continue in these beginning weeks of the Lam Rim. Dedicate one’s merits to the Guru for the benefit of All sentient beings.
- [Day 10](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-10-43/) - Notes:Guru Devotion is a essential first step taught by Tsongkapa in order to attain temporary and future wishes to attain enlightenment.Practice Guru devotion daily and benefit oneself and others in this life and the next ones until enlightenment.Prepare and seek a good rebirth to be reborn in a body and family that can continue on
- [Day 357](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-357-7/) - Notes: The truly existent year we believe in is a complete hallucination, made up by our mind “Year” is merely imputed by our mind on the base—twelve months That real year, the object to be refuted, is totally empty, nonexistent and a mere concept "Time is a social construct" comes to mind. It's true! It's
- [Day 325](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-325-8/) - Notes: Transforming problems can be as effortless as an experienced rider managing a horse When we spontaneously see the good in problems, nothing can disturb our mind Through gradual training, even great disasters can be used in our Dharma practice
- [Day 1](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-1-175/) - I am already thinking if we could compile such a treasure in Tibetan, it would be surely helpful to many Tibetans to understand the path better.
- [Editor’s Preface](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/editors-preface-33/) - Notes: It is so inspiring to learn how much effort is put behind this accessible treasure. I have to add Simran Sahni, for adding the link in our GDD retreat WhatsApp group and Alison and team for bringing out such a wonderful idea for us to practice on daily basis. And of course the great
- [Day 9](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-9-66/) - Notes:daily Guru devotion.listen and pay unbiased attention meditate on the Guru
- [Day 8](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-8-18/) - Notes:I like this note:to save us from the lower realms the teacher must also show us teachings of the lower realms
- [Editor’s Preface](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/editors-preface-32/) - Notes: feeling over8uhhwhelmed by the extense of this year-long teaching. The best way to eat a large pie, is one bite of a time. first i get to address my alcholism. the rest... well the rest will fall into place. The best committment i can make it: DHARMA FIRST.
- [Day 1](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-1-174/) - Notes: a graduated path requires and is based on causes and conditions. May i choose the right path, even when it it difficult, even when i don't want to practice. This is a good a positive practice for 2026
- [Day 1](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-1-173/) - Notes: Gah! I really struggle with abandoning the pleasure garden aspect of Samsara. The importance of going through LR in order giving equal time and space to each topic is helpful in correcting this for me, so necessary
- [Day 356](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-356-7/) - Notes: Mind is a phenomenon with no form, shape or color that functions like a mirror We believe there’s a real mind but it exists only in name, merely labeled by thought The formless, colorless base and the label “mind” are two distinct phenomena The thing is the thing (base), and the label is the
- [Day 8](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-8-61/) - Notes:I like this note:to save us from the lower realms the teacher must also show us teachings of the lower path.
- [Day 7](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-7-19/) - Notes: we need examples of someone who has developed beyond what we think is possible.Seeing great qualities of others gives us the faith that we can have the same
- [Day 5](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-5-94/) - Notes:my life originated in the mind. Your life originates(d) in the mind.
- [Day 4](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-4-119/) - Notes:how can I practice guru devotion by meditation on the guru. Yoda: do or don’t do. There is no
- [Day 4](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-4-23/) - Notes:how can I practice guru devotion by meditation on the guru. Yoda: do or don’t do. There is no
- [Day 324](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-324-8/) - Notes: The five powers are a fundamental Buddhist practice for making life meaningful They are the powers of motivation, acquaintance, the white seed, destruction and prayer By practicing these five powers we can use every experience in life to develop bodhicitta
- [Getting Started](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/getting-started-64/) - I am interested to learn more about Lamrim. I hope I can continue to do so regularly.
- [Day 3](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-3-150/) - Notes:the outline, makes it easy for me to bring to mind the important practices to remember. Thank you. I see the value in the Buddhist methods of outlines. Ummm something to think how I communicate and listen.. Save us both from too many words that can create confusion. (Past notes from ‘24)2025. I liked my
- [Day 3](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-3-69/) - Notes:the outline, makes it easy for me to bring to mind the important practices to remember. Thank you. I see the value in the Buddhist methods of outlines. Ummm something to think how I communicate and listen.. Save us both from too many words that can create confusion. (Past notes from ‘24)2025. I liked my
- [Day 2](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-2-17/) - Notes:Lamrim reveals desires, hatred, ignorance, ego and how these negative minds result in complications and misery.intention: when triggered, can I identify which one of the above negativities created my duka, dissatisfaction, suffering (mental or physical). Stay present.’24day one 1 seemed a harsh reality. Day 2 seemed more positive and gives me hope ‘25
- [Day 1](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-1-34/) - Notes:without meditating on samsara as having the nature of suffering we cannot develop total aversion to suffering or renounce samsara. We cannot recognize compassion.Total aversion… seems harsh. We’ll see. 🤔
- [Day 9](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-9-67/) - Notes:daily Guru devotion. listen and pay unbiased attention meditate on the Guru
- [Day 355](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-355-6/) - Notes: Problems arise because we look at things in a way that is opposite to how they exist A table exists in mere name, in dependence upon the collection of its parts The table is a dependent arising that is also empty of existing from its own side
- [Day 2](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-2-103/)
- [Getting Started](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/getting-started-63/) - Notes: Idea of thinking every day Reciting à la main every day
- [Day 323](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-323-9/) - Notes: When we fall ill, we can use our illness to develop the ultimate good heart of bodhicitta We accomplish this by making prayers to experience our disease on behalf of others Our main goal in life isn’t to be healthy or have a long life but to benefit other beings
- [Day 354](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-354-7/) - Notes: The outside world is neither solid nor substantial—it’s just the creation of our own mind We believe that satellites truly exist, but “satellite” is only a name made up by its inventor Everything that appears to us is a manifestation of mind "what then does not come from mind?" a good question indeed and
- [Day 322](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-322-7/) - Notes: It’s vital to understand how we cling to a non-­existent self-­pity image of ourselves Believing that we are the same person today as we were yesterday is nonsensical Our samsaric mandala will collapse when we shatter the concepts and illusions of ego
- [Day 353](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-353-7/) - Notes: Logical reasoning is important but can sometimes get in the way of our understanding Instead, we can simply observe how everything is dependent on causes and conditions Many great masters claim that dependent arising is the best way to understand reality A way of understanding karma.
- [Day 321](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-321-8/) - Notes: Most problems, such as emotional upset and anxiety, come from the way we think As we grow up, our ego creates our problems by intellectualizing and grasping Human problems are the unnatural and unrealistic consequence of a sick mind
- [Day 320](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-320-7/) - Notes: Problems can help us eliminate pride, the source of endless difficulties Acknowledging our problems destroys pride and allows compassion to arise Contemplating our mistakes and lack of knowledge can also stop pride
- [Day 352](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-352-7/) - We can begin to change our habitual view of ego by weakening our misconceptions Our goal is to be like the magician who sees his own illusions without believing in them As soon as we loosen our concrete conceptions we will experience a taste of freedom We must understand that we cannot banish our habitual,
- [Day 307](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-307-9/) - Notes: Relative and ultimate Bodhicitta are both necessary.
- [Day 306](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-306-9/) - Notes: Exchanging self and others is the most powerful thing to do for give rise to Bodhicitta.
- [Day 351](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-351-8/) - Notes: We are born with the mistaken conviction that our I is independent and self-­sufficient If the I were separate from the body, it makes no sense to say “I am eating or sitting” It is similarly illogical for our mental activities to be owned by a separate I or self I do not understand
- [Day 319](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-319-9/) - Notes: True Dharma practitioners welcome trouble because it tests us and keeps us real In painful situations, as when the Tibetans fled into exile, the teachings help enormously Difficult experiences help us develop a deeper understanding beyond the intellectual
- [Day 349](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-349-8/) - Notes: An independent I would have to be either one with the aggregates or separate from them As we meditate on these two possibilities, the false I will begin to fade away With perseverance we will achieve a subtle realization of both absolute and relative truth {Then, as we try to pinpoint this false I
- [Day 348](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-348-8/) - Notes: If our understanding of emptiness contradicts dependent arising, it is mistaken Unless we understand the conventional existence of the vase we will fall into nihilism The middle way avoids both extremes through unifying emptiness and dependent arising I do not fully follow this and need some clarification... furthermore, I am in a deep state
- [Day 318](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-318-8/) - Notes: One of the key Mahayana trainings is to put all the blame on the self-­cherishing thought In this way our problems become weapons to eliminate ignorance and negative karma This is the deep essential psychology that will destroy the self-­cherishing thought
- [Day 347](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-347-8/) - Notes: The merely labeled I and action arise in dependence on the valid base and what it does In the first moment the labeling thought merely imputes the I and the action on the base In the second moment our negative imprints cause the I to appear back as truly existing
- [Day 317](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-317-6/) - Notes: We shouldn’t turn away from problems but instead stare them right in the face We can discover the clean-­clear mind by understanding the nature of the unclear mind By changing our attitude we make our mind healthy and find meaning in life
- [Editor’s Preface](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/editors-preface-31/) - Notes:wow do I need the complete book? As I mark - can I go back?
- [Day 1](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-1-172/) - Notes:
- [Getting Started](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/getting-started-62/) - Notes: should I get the book or ebook?
- [Day 346](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-346-8/) - Notes: Our hallucination of a self-­existent I is like a thief who sneaks up when we’re off guard The best moment to examine this fantasy is when we are in a heightened emotional state Through observation we will discover that the self we believed in has no basis at all
- [Day 316](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-316-8/) - Notes: Mind training can transform everything we encounter into a step on the path It gives us techniques to see anybody who provokes us as a precious jewel or teacher Lojong overturns our habitual selfish traits and trains our mind in working for others
- [Day 315](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-315-8/) - Notes: The technique of tonglen involves breathing out positivity and breathing in negativity After each cycle of nine rounds, focus strongly on purification and bliss Each time we do this practice it brings all beings and ourselves closer to enlightenment
- [Day 345](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-345-8/) - Notes: “Thubten Yeshe” only came into existence when a body was given that name The relative reality of Thubten Yeshe—and of all phenomena—is nothing but the name Nagarjuna didn’t teach that relative phenomena don’t exist; he taught how they exist I agree with this and comprehend it intellectually but I know this isn't enough and
- [Day 314](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-314-8/) - Notes: To undermine attachment, we transform our body into beautiful gifts for others We can also meditate on multiplying our possessions and sending them to all beings This is a gradual training in how to give things away with great joy and pleasure
- [Day 305](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-305-7/) - Notes: Bodhicitta is the mind that combine wisdom and compassion to attain enlightenment and be totally of benefit of all sentient beings. Until then we are limited, but I would say, on the right path.
- [Day 304](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-304-11/) - Notes: With loving kindness and great compassion we determinate the sixth step; it’s called Special Attitude and leads to voluntarily taking the responsibility for all sentient beings.
- [Day 303](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-303-8/) - Notes: Great compassion for all beings is the fifth stamp and brings peace and happiness in our heart.
- [Day 302](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-302-8/) - Notes: The fourth step is developing sympathetic feelings for others.
- [Day 301](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-301-7/) - Notes: Repaying the kindness we received is the third step. We must develop a heartfelt determination to lead all beings from suffering to enlightenment.
- [Day 300](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-300-9/) - Notes: The second step is using the essence of the mother to expand out the kindness we received and spread it to all sentient beings.
- [Day 299](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-299-8/) - Notes: Using the image of a mother by intuitively see every being we encounter (in the air, ground and sea), is a step seriously important.
- [Day 5](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-5-93/) - Notes: How convinced are we that everything is a creation of the mind? We need constant reminders. The mind is very complicated. Liberation and wisdom (knowing the right thing to do) are very complicated. We need a guru to cure us through their knowledge/blessing and to imbue us with good qualities (e.g. tranquility) by shining
- [Day 344](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-344-9/) - Notes: Investigating our concept of self is the first step to experiencing emptiness When we’ve concluded there’s no independent self, we meditate by letting go into that By listening to teachings correctly it’s possible to completely lose our concrete sense of I
- [Day 313](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-313-8/) - Notes: Exchanging self and others is the inner revolution that will help solve all our problems We start by taking on our own suffering, then gradually take on the suffering of others This trains our mind to handle negativity and to cherish others more than ourselves
- [Day 298](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-298-9/) - Notes: How powerful is a mind in equilibrium? Vary powerful. When we start to have a taste of equanimity, when we generate a felling of equality in our heart, our mind changes radically the reality in which we live.
- [Day 297](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-297-8/) - Notes: What’s the difference between friends, enemies and strangers if not the unreasonable response of a deluded mind?
- [Day 296](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-296-9/) - Notes: Equanimity makes the difference between being attached to something or being free from bias; its a state of mind.
- [Day 236](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-236-9/) - 笔记：火的本质是燃烧；轮回的本质是苦难。 喇嘛梭巴仁波切 只要我们身处轮回之中，痛苦就不可避免。 如果我们认为悲惨的处境是不公平的，只会加倍加剧痛苦。 为自己的苦难负责，会增强我们摆脱轮回的决心。 轮回之苦 总结
- [Day 343](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-343-9/) - Notes: Our first task is to recognize the object of refutation—the sense of I we carry around We must be constantly on the alert for this instinctive feeling of a real, solid I This deluded sense of I is the fundamental driving force in samsaric existence
- [Day 312](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-312-7/) - Notes: Cherishing even one living being will purify our obscurations and accumulate merit There is nothing more important than cherishing the numberless living beings Each person is so precious because through cherishing them we find peerless happiness
- [Day 295](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-295-7/) - Notes: Bodhicitta should be the main refuge and heart practice in the present and future lives.
- [Day 294](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-294-8/) - Notes: Bodhicitta is the key word to achieve full enlightenment, and gives us the energy and qualities to turn every action into a Dharma action.
- [Day 342](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-342-8/) - Notes: Prasangika Madhyamaka is the right view that alone eliminates the root of ignorance Lama Tsongkhapa’s teachings on emptiness and dependent arising are particularly clear We mustn’t waste this extraordinary opportunity to realize ultimate reality in this life
- [Day 235](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-235-9/) - 笔记：我们成了金钱的奴隶，工作的奴隶，以及对今生执着的奴隶。 喇嘛梭巴仁波切 我们日夜忙碌，却反而制造了更多痛苦的根源。 一个只为今生而工作的亿万富翁，其动机与昆虫并无二致。 即使摆脱痛苦也是不够的：我们必须达到完全觉悟。 轮回之苦 总结
- [Day 1](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-1-170/) - Notes:The full responsibility... by ourselves aloneEvery topic in the lamrim needs to be practiced, and in the right order (not just what is agreeable) - need a systematic approach. Hence Lam Rim year.
- [Day 293](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-293-8/) - Notes: Bodhicitta has the effect of controlling outer disturbances because it destroys our inner hindrances.
- [Day 292](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-292-8/) - Notes: Bodhicitta is the response of all our suffering, because with the profound compaction and loving kindness for others, we overcome many worldly problems.
- [Day 291](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-291-11/) - Notes: Bodhicitta prevents us from following harmful minds because it destroys our self-cherishing, the root of the problem.
- [Day 311](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-311-9/) - Notes: Every happiness and benefit we have ever experienced has come from others When we check up we’ll see it’s impossible to live without the kindness of others To forget the kindness of others is a mistaken and unrealistic mental attitude
- [Day 1](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-1-171/) - Notes:The full responsibility... by ourselves aloneEvery topic in the lamrim needs to be practiced, and in the right order (not just what is agreeable) - need a systematic approach. Hence Lam Rim year.
- [Day 234](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-234-11/) - 笔记：如果不了解普遍存在的、相互叠加的苦难，我们就无法知道我们的问题从何而来。 喇嘛梭巴仁波切 我们最需要理解和摒弃的是普遍存在的、不断叠加的痛苦。 在妄念和业力的控制下，我们生生世世地延续着痛苦。 拥有这样一具被污染的身体，就像生活在垃圾桶或化粪池里一样。 轮回之苦 3 三种苦 3.3 遍在的复合苦
- [Day 233](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-233-10/) - 笔记：我们认为一切的快乐，实际上都会导致痛苦。喇嘛耶喜我们亲身所体验到的愉悦感并不是真正的幸福。当我们的饥饿感开始消退的时候，我们就叫幸福。我们常常把愉悦感视为真正的幸福，但实际上它却会带来痛苦。轮回之苦3 明显苦3.2 变化之苦
- [Day 341](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-341-7/) - Emptiness and voidness are terms that both refer to the ultimate nature of reality But not to go too in the extreme over estimation of Nihilism. Nor to an underestimation where everything has profound meaning...(maybe a problem of mine?) The ego’s misconception of reality is the root of all suffering and must be eliminated
- [Day 290](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-290-9/) - Notes: Having Bodhicitta signifies have great concern for the welfare of all beings, and many times out of compassion, we would cry for them.
- [Day 289](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-289-8/) - Notes: Bodhicitta is the only great project we should determinate to do in our life.
- [Day 288](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-288-7/) - Notes: The arhats in their state of equipoise lack of the strong aim of Bodhicitta because they have transcended suffering. That’s why other being can progress from hello to enlightenment.
- [Day 310](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-310-8/) - Notes: The self-­cherishing mind is the root of all human problems and bodhicitta is its antidote Our life experiences show how self-­cherishing causes all our confusion and frustration In contrast, the Buddha gave up self-­attachment and attained all the sublime realizations
- [Day 340](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-340-9/) - Notes: The ignorance that grasps at things as self-­existent is the source of all our problems Wisdom destroys ignorance by recognizing that there is no inherently existent I To realize emptiness we must purify and create merit, practice guru devotion and study
- [Day 309](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-309-7/) - Notes: Every tiny bit of suffering we have ever experienced is due to the self-­cherishing attitude Self-­cherishing is a butcher that slaughters our freedom and leads us to the lower realms As long as we harbor self-­cherishing we will never gain any lamrim realizations
- [Day 287](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-287-8/) - Notes: Having trust in the Three Rare Sublime Ones is the main path to develop Bodhicitta and become a Bodhisattva.
- [Day 286](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-286-8/) - Notes: Bodhicitta is the right attitude to achieve enlightenment. If we are only concerned for ourselves we’re not practicing the Mahayana path.
- [Day 339](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-339-7/) - Notes: The vast mind of bodhicitta is the key to unlocking the great secret of happiness Everything we do with bodhicitta, every prayer and mantra, benefits every sentient being Just having the aspiration to develop bodhicitta is incredible and mind-­blowing I aspire to awaken the mind from this deep sleep of falsehood and ignorance and
- [Day 308](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-308-7/) - Notes: A mind that discriminates between self and others is unrealistic, unbalanced and extreme It is as illogical as helping one hungry, thirsty person and rejecting another Even ordinary, nonreligious people can easily see this kind of mind is ridiculous
- [Day 285](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-285-9/) - Notes: The though of Bodhicitta is unbelievable; it give us piece and understanding of the meaning of our life. Cherishing others rather than only us is the door of happiness and enlightenment.
- [Day 338](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-338-7/) - Notes: Bodhicitta is not only the vehicle to enlightenment but also great psychology Emaho! True. I am beginning to see more and more how my self cherising mind (which is deeply ingrained and habituated) is the root of all trouble. If I take something personally instead of realising that it is not personal and getting
- [Day 232](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-232-10/) - 笔记：任何明显给我们带来不快乐的事物都可以归类为苦难中的苦难。 喇嘛梭巴仁波切 我们都认识到痛苦，也都渴望摆脱痛苦。 无论我们审视社会的哪个方面，都会发现存在着数不胜数的难题。 一旦我们理解了这一点，仅仅是阅读报纸就能激励我们放弃轮回。 轮回之苦 3 三种苦 3.1 苦的苦
- [Day 307](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-307-8/) - Notes: Transforming our experience with the two bodhicittas brings rapid progress on the path Ultimate bodhicitta realizes emptiness whereas relative bodhicitta does not Lama Tsongkhapa emphasized the importance of understanding each in sequence
- [Day 284](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-284-9/) - Notes: Bodhicitta is the key word to achieve full enlightment: opening our heart is the most practical Dharma path.
- [Day 283](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-283-8/) - Notes: The best way to be happy is to cultivate Bodhicitta. It means that dedicate ourself to the welfare of others attracts all the good things in life.
- [Day 282](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-282-9/) - Notes: The twelve links show us the complexity of samsara, but also the way out. Everything comes from our mind.
- [Day 281](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-281-9/) - Notes: In my opinion, the most important thing to do to avoid suffering, is to live the present and be aware of what we are thinking, saying, and doing.
- [Day 280](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-280-9/) - Notes: Unless we tame our mind, we will go from one suffering existence to another, and that's is a painful thought and vision. I do my best to follow a virtue path.
- [Day 306](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-306-8/) - Notes: Equalizing and exchanging self and others is a method emphasized by Shantideva This thought is very powerful and practical; it automatically destroys the ego There is a huge difference between giving a cup of tea with selfishness or with bodhicitta
- [Day 305](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-305-6/) - Notes: At the moment, our mind, wisdom and actions are too limited to help all living beings Only when we complete the highest level of the path can we truly help others Bodhicitta is the mind that combines attaining enlightenment with the welfare of others
- [Day 335](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-335-7/) - Notes: The four means of drawing disciples to the Dharma are for ripening the minds of others The first three are giving, speaking kind words and teaching to the level of the student The fourth is practicing what we teach so that we become an inspiring example for others I am not at the stage for this advice to be
- [Day 279](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-279-8/) - Notes: The circle of death and birth is endless until we became aware of the cause of rebirth.
- [Day 278](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-278-8/) - Notes: Rebirth is a direct consequence of grasping on a human rebirth at the moment of death. There’re four kind of rebirth in samsara and all of them lead to suffering.
- [Day 277](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-277-12/) - Notes: Craving, grasping and becoming arise as a set of links at the time of death; that’s why I aim to let go every attachments and to reborn in Amitabha’s Pure Land.
- [Day 304](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-304-10/) - Notes: The special attitude takes sole and full responsibility for the happiness of all beings We should always remember the vital extra phrase “by myself alone” The special attitude is no longer a wish but has become a complete determination
- [Day 334](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-334-10/) - Notes: As long as we have a dualistic view we will have conflict in our mind The heartbeat is a duality...somewhere inbetween the on and off lays eternity... The experience of emptiness is the total unity of absolute reality, beyond any duality My prayer is to reach that intersection once more (and to sucessfully let
- [Day 303](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-303-7/) - Notes: Compassion, the wish that others be free of suffering, is the source of all happiness Mahayana great compassion is the wish to free every sentient being by ourselves Directly or indirectly, our compassion brings peace and happiness to all living beings
- [Day 276](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-276-9/) - Notes: Now I see! As soon i cling on a thought (some speak about dinner) I imagine something to eat although I’ve already eaten. That’s so painfully ignorant Denise!
- [Day 275](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-275-8/) - Notes: Now I’m glad to understand the wish that I experienced two weeks ago about perceiving the deep aim to disappear as a human being, to not reincarnate again in the samsara, but to aim for a life of devotion to the Dharma.
- [Day 302](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-302-7/) - Notes: Love means wishing that others be happy Loving kindness is developed through seeing how we and others suffer from delusions Our own experience becomes the basis for developing sympathetic feelings for others
- [Day 274](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-274-9/) - Notes: The object seen has no inherently existence: the flower is beautiful, ugly or indifferent to us depending on the label we put on. Pleasant feelings give rise to attachment, unpleasant to aversion and hatred, neutral feelings to indifference and ignorance.
- [Day 273](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-273-8/) - Notes: The six senses haven’t thoughts. When I see I just see, but the mind labels what I see: it’s pleasant, unpleasant, neutral.
- [Day 332](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-332-8/) - Notes: Perseverance is the mind that rejoices in virtue with enthusiasm and great energy It overcomes the three types of laziness: procrastination, attachment and discouragement The perfection of perseverance enables us to work tirelessly for others with great joy
- [Day 301](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-301-6/) - Notes: If our mother were stumbling toward a precipice it would be shameful not to rescue her All our kind mother sentient beings, crazy with delusions, are dependent on our help We must develop the heartfelt determination to lead them from suffering to enlightenment
- [Day 331](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-331-7/) - Happiness and peace in daily life depend on our understanding and practice of patience The three types are: not retaliating, bearing hardships and gaining certainty about the Dharma The peace of this planet is entirely our responsibility; it depends on our practicing patience
- [Day 300](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-300-8/) - Notes: There are four outlines to guide our reflection on the kindness of the mother Our mother gave us our body, kept us safe, educated us and bore many hardships for us Using our current mother as the template, we then expand out to all sentient beings
- [Day 299](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-299-7/) - Notes: We need to recognize that all sentient beings have been our mother countless times Because our lives have been numberless, our mothers have also been numberless When we intuitively see every being we encounter as our mother, this step is complete
- [Day 330](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-330-7/) - Notes: The three types of morality are avoiding nonvirtue, ripening the mind and working for others Living in morality is the ground from which all other positive actions can arise The key to observing morality is the various sets of vows that we can take
- [Day 298](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-298-8/) - Notes: All beings are equal in wanting to find happiness and be free of suffering We should generate a feeling of equality using logic, and then rest in that feeling With our first small taste of equilibrium, we’ve started to realize the peaceful mind
- [Day 329](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-329-7/) - Notes: The Buddha emphasized the psychological rather than the external aspect of generosity Genuine giving decreases our delusions and is done with a mind free from attachment We should carry out the three kinds of charity as often and as best as we can
- [Day 272](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-272-9/) - Notes: The six sense basis are subtle inner sense faculties and everything we experience depends on our mind (what we put on)
- [Day 297](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-297-7/) - Notes: To develop equilibrium, we visualize friends, enemies and strangers around us We reflect on how we feel about them and check up whether we’re being realistic The more we do this, the more we’ll see there’s no reason to make these distinctions
- [Day 231](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-231-11/) - 笔记：《四圣谛经》将所有有关苦行的教义浓缩为清晰类型。普遍存在的重型疼痛是其他几种疼痛的基础。当我们理解了三个层次的痛苦时，我们自然会寻求解脱。轮回之苦3 产权纠纷
- [Day 230](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-230-12/) - 笔记：诸神给予的巨大喜悦，实则是一个陷阱，会将人引向地狱。 喇嘛梭巴仁波切 转生天界会耗尽我们所有的善业，导致巨大的痛苦。 色界诸神已证得三摩地，但尚未走上证悟之路。 冥想虚无只会滋生无明，导致更加粗鄙的轮回。 轮回之苦 2 上界之苦 2.3 天界之苦
- [Day 328](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-328-7/) - Notes: Having developed the mind of bodhicitta, our next step is to actualize the six perfections The six paramitas is another name I"m quite sure...taken from wikipedia "giving, ethical discipline, patience, vigorous effort, meditation, wisdom (prajñā)." I hope my bodhicitta is growing and I hope it continues to grow... The practice of each perfection must include all the others,
- [Day 296](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-296-8/) - Notes: Buddhism offers us practical mind training methods that we can check out for ourselves The essential foundation is equanimity: an unbiased attitude toward all other beings Equanimity is a state of mind attained through effort and constant familiarity
- [Day 271](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-271-9/) - Notes: Name and form refers to the coming together of the five aggregates and is symbolised by a man rowing the boat. Without the five aggregates there would be no person.
- [Day 270](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-270-8/) - Notes: Consciousness is created by billions of karmic imprints and is symbolised by a monkey carrying fruit and swinging from tree to tree.
- [Day 269](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-269-7/) - Notes: Karmic formation is created by ignorance and is symbolised by a man producing clay pots.
- [Day 113](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-113-15/) - Notes: This life is as brief as a flash of lightning, yet we waste it on trivial sense pleasures To make deep changes in our life, we need a profound understanding of its transience Understanding impermanence completely destroys our delusions and brings real peace
- [Day 112](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-112-17/) - Notes: It is not death itself but the mind’s projections about death that make us afraid Death becomes terrifying when we are unable to let go of the things of this life Instead of being afraid because of our delusions, we should be afraid of our delusions
- [Day 111](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-111-18/) - Notes: It’s a miracle that we wake each morning after going to sleep the night before If we realized the preciousness of our human body we would never waste even one second It’s very important to reflect again and again on the nine points of this meditation
- [Day 110](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-110-17/) - Notes: There is no other question we need to ask ourselves other than, “Do I want to have a happy or a miserable death?” If we can truthfully answer that question, then all the other questions we face in life will fall away and the only priority in everything we do will be to ensure
- [Day 109](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-109-17/) - Notes: Our body is our greatest possession and the thing we cherish most in this life Any day now this body that we worship will be a corpse or a pile of ash The body is nothing more than a temporary guesthouse for the mind Impermanence and death3 The nine-­point meditation on death3.3 Nothing
- [Day 108](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-108-18/) - Notes: All relationships are transitory, and grasping at them is a great hindrance to our practice At the time of death our friends can’t help us and may even create great problems We should prepare ourselves now for the inevitable separation from our loved ones Impermanence and death3 The nine-­point meditation on death3.3 Nothing
- [Day 107](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-107-13/) - Notes: The possessions of even the richest billionaire are worthless at the time of death When we die, there is no choice but to leave everything behind All we take with us is the negative karma we created in acquiring our possessions Impermanence and death3 The nine-­point meditation on death3.3 Nothing can help except
- [Day 106](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-106-16/) - Notes: How do we turn our current way of living around completely? By remembering death and impermanence. Without that strong spur, it is difficult not to be lazy. We think that Dharma is a nice idea but somehow never quite get around to practicing it. As long as the world seems comfortable and the experience
- [Day 105](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-105-14/) - Notes: We take our amazing body for granted and fail to see how easily it can break down Our life depends entirely on our breath, which can be stopped at any time There are many conditions that can destroy this fragile machine that is our body
- [Day 104](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-104-17/) - Notes: Our life is like a candle in a strong wind, which may look bright but is easily extinguished We can die from any cause and there are potential causes everywhere we look Considering the risks we face every day, we should be amazed we have lived this long
- [Day 103](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-103-15/) - Notes: There is no fixed lifespan in our world system so we don’t know when we will die Our unconscious feeling that we will live for a very long time is totally unrealistic We need to change our certainty that we won’t die into the certainty that we will
- [Day 102](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-102-14/) - Notes: If we understand impermanence there’s no misery; we accept death as a natural thing Material things are unreliable and can be our worst enemy, especially at the time of death Dharma wisdom is the only solution to our problems and the source of happiness Impermanence and death3 The nine-­point meditation on death3.1 Death is
- [Day 327](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-327-8/) - Notes: Every morning we should make a strong motivation to dedicate our life for others With this strong motivation, even a garbage collector’s life becomes meaningful Controlling delusions and serving others is the most practical path in the modern world A good one before I start work tomorrow.
- [Day 101](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-101-15/) - Notes: With so much time taken up by worldly activities we have no time to practice Dharma The majority of our life is taken up by meaningless sleep, childhood and old age Even our positive actions are usually marred by distraction, dullness and negativity
- [Day 268](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-268-8/) - Notes: How can I get out from samsara without knowing the relation between ignorance and the twelve links? I need to study and develop awareness about all this.
- [Day 267](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-267-9/) - Notes: How profound is the Wheel of Life: the pig symbolises ignorance, the chicken craving desire and the snake hatred.
- [Day 295](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-295-6/) - Notes: Developing bodhicitta needs to be our main refuge and heart practice in this life Cherishing others is the foundation of all the positive qualities on the path Bodhisattvas are our role models, showing us how to attain happiness for self and others
- [Day 326](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-326-6/) - Notes: Life becomes truly worthwhile when we abandon ego and dedicate ourselves to others It’s the motivation behind our actions that counts, not their external appearance Our real enemy is the self-­cherishing thought in our mind, which steals our happiness
- [Day 294](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-294-7/) - Notes: A bodhisattva will quickly complete the two merits of method and wisdom The motivation to free all beings from suffering gives great meaning to everything we do Without bodhicitta, even practicing Vajrayana won’t become a cause of enlightenment
- [Day 266](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-266-11/) - Notes: Seeing how much we are engulfed in common problems, we get rise to compassion for ourselves and others. It’s seriously important to see first our condition so that we can help others.
- [Day 265](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-265-9/) - Notes: Every day I promise to create only virtue actions, but still I fail and I understand the misery of the choices that I do every day. It’s painful. May I be able to change my mind.
- [Day 264](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-264-8/) - Notes: Renunciation is the key word. It means to let go attachment to worldly concerns and pay attention to what is really important; the Dharma.
- [Day 325](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-325-7/) - Notes: Transforming problems can be as effortless as an experienced rider managing a horse I can only hope to get to this level one day! When we spontaneously see the good in problems, nothing can disturb our mind On some level (Speck meru) I am capable of this. Through gradual training, even great disasters can
- [Day 324](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-324-7/) - Notes: The five powers are a fundamental Buddhist practice for making life meaningful They are the powers of motivation, acquaintance, the white seed, destruction and prayer "The mind training texts describe two different orders to the five powers, one to do in life and one to do at the time of death. The order in life is: the power
- [Day 293](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-293-7/) - Notes: A bodhisattva can’t be harmed by either internal or external disturbances A byproduct of attaining bodhicitta is that a bodhisattva is always safe from danger Outer disturbances are controlled by bodhicitta because it destroys our inner hindrances
- [Day 323](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-323-8/) - Notes: When we fall ill, we can use our illness to develop the ultimate good heart of bodhicitta This is true. Many times have I been said have had the "man cold" wallowing in my sickness as if I am the only one to know such pain. What a joke!!! In recent times I have
- [Day 292](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-292-7/) - Notes: With bodhicitta, whatever we undertake will be effortless and completely successful Many worldly problems are easily overcome through the power of bodhicitta Generating bodhicitta brings the ability to eliminate both our own and others’ suffering
- [Day 291](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-291-10/) - Notes: Bodhicitta purifies powerful nonvirtues that cannot be purified in any other way By destroying our self-­cherishing, bodhicitta prevents us from following harmful minds Confessing with a strong bodhicitta motivation will quickly purify our negativities
- [Day 322](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-322-6/) - Notes: It’s vital to understand how we cling to a non-­existent self-­pity image of ourselves A fabricated concept of "I" exists with a string of habituated stories and ideas attached to it about who the "I" is. But the I is in a state of flux, both on a micro level and on a macro
- [Day 229](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-229-9/) - 笔记： 在人类世界之外，还存在着一些领域，那里有我们无法想象的快乐，但他们依然饱受苦难。 喇嘛梭巴仁波切 半神比人类体验到更多的快乐，但比神体验到的快乐少。 他们因嫉妒诸神无与伦比的奢华而变得疯狂，因此不断交战。 在这种悲惨的生存状态下，他们永远无法理解现实，也无法培养利他主义。 轮回之苦 2 上界之苦 2.2 天神之苦
- [Day 321](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-321-7/) - Notes: Most problems, such as emotional upset and anxiety, come from the way we think True. They are based on our habituated preconceptions rather than our intuition or true feeling. If we were able to really properly aprehend reality I wonder, as I've heard it said all things would taste somewhat the same...(-Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
- [Day 290](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-290-8/) - Notes: Unless we have bodhicitta, we create merits and then constantly destroy them Because Shantideva had bodhicitta, even his ordinary activities were of great benefit Simply the wish to actualize bodhicitta creates more merit than the greatest act of charity
- [Day 228](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-228-10/) - 笔记：只要我们心中存有这五种妄念，痛苦的种子就潜藏在我们心中。 喇嘛梭巴仁波切 我们永远被这具由妄念和业力所创造的身心束缚，与痛苦永无止境。 我们的五蕴都是从受孕到死亡的痛苦工具 无论我们走到哪里，都背负着沉重的苦难，就像背上背着一块烧红的铁块。 轮回之苦2 上界之苦2.1 八种人间之苦2.1.8 迷惑蕴之苦
- [Day 227](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-227-9/) - 笔记：我们做了很多让自己快乐的事情，但几乎总是以痛苦告终。 喇嘛耶喜
- [Day 320](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-320-6/) - Notes: Problems can help us eliminate pride, the source of endless difficulties Timely. I had moments of pride today. Based on superficial attachments and wrong views. I can see them as wrong almost immediately, however due to past karma the way the thoughts come about can be in a sharp and intrusive way. This said
- [Day 289](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-289-7/) - Notes: A bodhisattva is the supreme object of offering for all sentient beings Indra, Brahma and the Buddha himself pay homage to someone who has bodhicitta Attaining bodhicitta is our great project and we must concentrate only on this
- [Day 288](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-288-6/) - Notes: Arhats have many qualities but lack the will to care for others more than themselves It’s very difficult for an arhat to leave their blissful state of peace and generate bodhicitta While arhats remain in meditation, other beings can progress from hell to enlightenment
- [Day 319](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-319-8/) - Notes: True Dharma practitioners welcome trouble because it tests us and keeps us real In painful situations, as when the Tibetans fled into exile, the teachings help enormously Difficult experiences help us develop a deeper understanding beyond the intellectual
- [Day 287](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-287-7/) - Notes: A bodhisattva is called a child of the buddhas due to their great potential to serve others Whatever their appearance, a bodhisattva is a holy being and an object of veneration Just as a child depends on its parents, we are dependent on the Three Rare Sublime Ones
- [Day 318](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-318-7/) - Notes: One of the key Mahayana trainings is to put all the blame on the self-­cherishing thought The idea of a fixed stable independent self is self cherishing. If we continually let go of that rigid idea of a one self then our problems become tools to destroy the go, the self cherishing mind. I
- [Day 286](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-286-7/) - Notes: The Mahayana vehicle is not defined by philosophy but by the bodhicitta attitude If we are only concerned for ourselves we are not Mahayanists The Buddha emphasized bodhicitta because that is what guarantees us enlightenment
- [Day 226](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-226-10/) - 笔记：只有摆脱轮回，我们才能摆脱忧虑。 喇嘛梭巴仁波切 遇到我们不喜欢的人和事，例如敌人，会让我们感到痛苦。 我们的生活是一场持续不断的、徒劳的斗争，目的是为了获取物质财富并躲避危险。 即使是那些让生活舒适的事物，也常常会成为额外的痛苦来源。 轮回之苦2 上界之苦2.1 人类的八种苦2.1.6 遭遇不快之苦
- [Day 12](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-12-56/) - Notes: what means offering to the pores of the guru?
- [Day 285](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-285-8/) - Notes: Nothing is more interesting, enjoyable or meaningful than the thought of bodhicitta Switching our object of concern from ourselves to others brings us freedom and peace Cherishing others is the door to happiness and enlightenment
- [Day 316](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-316-7/) - Notes: Mind training can transform everything we encounter into a step on the path I do think seeing things as positive can be very helpful in transforming problems into ways to practice along the path. Some people have said that I am repressing my anger in putting positive spins on things. But I feel in
- [Day 315](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-315-7/) - Notes: What is the technique for actually practicing the taking and giving meditation, which Tibetans call tonglen? Start by breathing out through your right nostril. Visualize the air you exhale in the form of white light, the essence of which is all your positive energy and wisdom. This white light radiates to all sentient beings in
- [Day 284](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-284-8/) - Notes: Bodhicitta creates the space in our heart to be able to achieve complete enlightenment In the modern world, opening our heart to others is the most practical Dharma path Realizing bodhicitta is a gradual process that requires continuous and steady effort
- [Day 37](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-37-33/) - Notes: alleen de goed eigenschappen zien. Focus op de goede kwaliteiten en de rest verdwijnt....
- [Day 314](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-314-7/) - Notes: To undermine attachment, we transform our body into beautiful gifts for others We can also meditate on multiplying our possessions and sending them to all beings This is a gradual training in how to give things away with great joy and pleasure
- [Day 282](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-282-8/) - Notes: We can use our understanding of the twelve links to explore and change our world All our experiences are a product of our mind and can be traced back to ignorance The twelve links show us the complexity of samsara and also show us the way out
- [Day 313](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-313-7/) - Notes: Exchanging self and others is the inner revolution that will help solve all our problems We start by taking on our own suffering, then gradually take on the suffering of others This trains our mind to handle negativity and to cherish others more than ourselves Emaho!
- [Day 312](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-312-6/) - Notes: Cherishing even one living being will purify our obscurations and accumulate merit There is nothing more important than cherishing the numberless living beings Each person is so precious because through cherishing them we find peerless happiness
- [Day 281](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-281-8/) - Notes: The twelve links can be divided into delusions, karma and suffering results The links we experience now are due to craving, grasping and becoming in former lives We must consider whether the karma we’re creating now will free us or keep us trapped
- [Day 280](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-280-8/) - Notes: A chain of interdependent origination requires two or three lives to be completed Karma is never lost, but there may be a delay before it is actually activated Unless we tame our mind, we will go from one suffering existence to another
- [Day 34](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-34-35/) - Notes:niet alleen geluk in dit leven maar volgende en het bereiken van verlichting.
- [Day 225](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-225-10/) - 笔记：我们创造各种各样的幻想，追求感官上的愉悦，最终一切都以灾难告终。 我们对外部事物的依恋会在我们内心形成一颗心理原子弹。 当这些外部事物不可避免地发生变化时，就会产生巨大的担忧和妄想。 我们生活在对与我们误认为的快乐之物的分离的恐惧之中。 轮回之苦 2 上界之苦 2.1 人类的八种苦 2.1.5 与快乐分离之苦
- [Day 224](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-224-8/) - 笔记：人生就像一出戏，我们出生，度过短暂的一生，然后死去。 喇嘛梭巴仁波切 无论我们有何恐惧、遗憾和信仰，死亡终将到来。 人死后，我们将与财产、家人、朋友和身体分离。 除非我们将佛法融入生活，否则我们将经历巨大的恐惧和痛苦。 轮回之苦2 上界之苦2.1 人类的八种苦2.1.4 死亡之苦
- [Day 223](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-223-8/) - 笔记：我们别无选择，一生中不得不经历许多不同的疾病。喇嘛梭巴仁波切虽然没有人愿意生病，但我们都必须经历许多疾病和痛苦。我们的身体会发生变化，我们无法享受生活，我们忍受不愉快的事情，并且害怕死亡。疾病不是我们所能控制的，而是受妄想和业力支配的。轮回之苦2 上界之苦2.1 人类的八种苦2.1.3 疾病之苦
- [Day 311](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-311-8/) - Notes: Every happiness and benefit we have ever experienced has come from others When we check up we’ll see it’s impossible to live without the kindness of others To forget the kindness of others is a mistaken and unrealistic mental attitude
- [Day 279](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-279-7/) - Notes: Aging and death are symbolized by a man carrying a corpse Many of us deny the basic fact that we are in the process of getting old and dying Death is not the end, but the beginning of a new set of twelve suffering links
- [Day 278](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-278-7/) - Notes: Rebirth, symbolized by a woman giving birth, is driven by craving, grasping and becoming The four types of rebirth are from a womb, an egg, heat or moisture and entering or spontaneous Rebirth is a like a fully formed plant that grows from the sprout of becoming
- [Day 310](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-310-7/) - Notes: The self-­cherishing mind is the root of all human problems and bodhicitta is its antidote Be concerned with how we can be of benefit to others and strive to be of assistance to others and Our life experiences show how self-­cherishing causes all our confusion and frustration In contrast, the Buddha gave up self-­attachment
- [Day 32](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-32-40/) - Notes:We know about these eight benefits and eight shortcomings from our own experience; they describe the failures and successes in our own life. For example, we may try to do retreat, but after some time many disturbances arise and we fail to complete it. Or we may be living in ordination with the great ambition
- [Day 277](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-277-11/) - Notes: Becoming, symbolized by a pregnant woman, signifies that our karma is ripening Craving, grasping and becoming arise as a set of links at the time of death From the moment of rebirth we are controlled by delusion and karma
- [Day 276](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-276-8/) - Notes: Grasping is symbolized by a monkey clambering over a tree to find more fruit The Buddha lists four types of grasping, which relate to the extreme views As soon as craving arises, grasping ensues, and this moves us to our next rebirth
- [Day 308](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-308-6/) - Notes: A mind that discriminates between self and others is unrealistic, unbalanced and extreme A lot of my paranoia, fear and suspicion of others stems from said unbalanced and extreme mind. This said, I have recently been having moments of calm in the community where I see others in a friend
- [Day 307](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-307-7/) - Transforming our experience with the two bodhicittas brings rapid progress on the path Ultimate bodhicitta realizes emptiness whereas relative bodhicitta does not Lama Tsongkhapa emphasized the importance of understanding each in sequence Not following this today apart from the fact that gradual seems to be advised ( Karma dependent I imagine...) (could be way wrong
- [Day 275](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-275-7/) - Notes: Craving is symbolized by a man drinking wine yet never satisfying his thirst Our life is pervaded by craving for sense pleasures and freedom from fear The strongest craving is for existence, which leads to grasping and becoming
- [Day 306](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-306-7/) - Notes: Equalizing and exchanging self and others is a method emphasized by Shantideva "For countless lives we have always been obsessed with our own pleasure and have completely neglected that of others. This beginningless focus on our own happiness to the exclusion of that of others is called “self-­cherishing.” So we have to totally change
- [Day 2](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-2-123/) - Notes:”If every morning we do a short meditation with good understanding and the strong motivation of wanting to help others, I truly believe our entire day will unfold very smoothly. It’s that simple.””Don’t believe in something supernatural up there. If we act in a certain way, meditate on certain things, we turn our wisdom on.
- [Day 27](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-27-29/) - Notes: blijf in de middenweg, en blijf dankbaar zijn voor elk moment en elke contact met de guru en zoek een perspectief die je niet meer boos maakt of andere negatieve gevoelens oproept.
- [Day 305](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-305-5/)
- [Day 304](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-304-9/) - Notes: The special attitude takes sole and full responsibility for the happiness of all beings
- [Day 274](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-274-8/) - Notes: Feeling is symbolized by a man who is suffering from having an arrow in his eye Pleasurable, painful and neutral feelings arise in dependence on our mind Seeing an object as inherently good or bad opens us up to all kinds of suffering
- [Day 273](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-273-7/) - Notes: Contact is symbolized by the meeting of the sex organs of a man and a woman The link of contact is created when the mind registers a physical event Object, sense base and consciousness must all meet for contact to take place
- [Day 303](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-303-6/) - Notes: Compassion, the wish that others be free of suffering, is the source of all happiness "Without compassion there is no peace or happiness in the family, in society, in the country or the world. Generating compassion is also the source of a healthy mind and a healthy body, the most powerful way to heal
- [Day 272](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-272-8/) - Notes: The six sense bases are symbolized by an empty house with six openings These subtle inner sense faculties are part of what is called the subtle body Everything we experience depends on our sense bases and thereby on our mind
- [Day 302](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-302-6/) - Notes: Love means wishing that others be happy Loving kindness is developed through seeing how we and others suffer from delusions Our own experience becomes the basis for developing sympathetic feelings for others
- [Day 301](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-301-5/) - Notes: If our mother were stumbling toward a precipice it would be shameful not to rescue her I must lead by example and hold strong boundaries. Not caring what others think of me but upholding virtuous action. All our kind mother sentient beings, crazy with delusions, are dependent on our help Having met the Dharma
- [Day 270](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-270-7/) - Notes: Consciousness is symbolized by a monkey carrying fruit and swinging from tree to tree The principal consciousness goes from life to life and determines our next rebirth Our consciousness holds billions of karmic imprints and we are creating billions more
- [Day 23](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-23-44/) - Notes:deze lijkt wel logisch, maar het is ook weer confronterend. Zien we onze leraar als een Boeddha. Wanneer komt dat sap in het leven.
- [Day 94](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-94-17/) - Notes: When our relationship goes wrong, our most cherished possession is stolen or we lose our job—when something big happens in our life that previously would have caused us to completely lose our mind and maybe even contemplate suicide—we now remember impermanence and death and see that there is no point in being attached. The
- [Day 100](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-100-14/) - Notes: Our lifespan starts running out as soon as we are conceived We can use a watch or clock to see how every passing second brings us closer to death Although we say “I am living,” in fact we are not living, we are dying
- [Day 99](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-99-13/) - Notes: Nobody escapes death, not even the Buddha, the great arhats and the bodhisattvas Every second of the day people die holding the thought “I will not die today” Reading newspaper obituaries is a good way to remember impermanence and death
- [Day 98](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-98-16/) - Notes: The nine-­point meditation on death is based on three root truths The only thing we can be sure of is that we will die—and the moment is uncertain It may feel terrifying to face up to our death, but it can also be liberating
- [Day 97](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-97-18/) - Notes: Dharma practitioners die without worry or fear, and may even feel joyful Practical preparations include tidying, cleaning and giving away all possessions It’s possible to approach death with a great sense of spaciousness and peace
- [Day 96](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-96-16/) - Notes: Remembering death gets us to start practicing Dharma Remembering death keeps us practicing Dharma Remembering death allows us to complete our practice
- [Day 95](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-95-18/) - Notes: We need to fear death as much as we would fear a tiger in a forest In this way, all the hindrances to our Dharma practice drop away easily and completely With a strong fear of death, creating nonvirtue becomes unthinkable
- [Day 93](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-93-16/) - Notes: Death is a reality and to deny it, as many people do, is very dangerous When we die all our mistakes will appear to our mind, like watching a documentary If our life has not been meaningful, we will die with terrible fear and regret
- [Day 222](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-222-9/) - 笔记：没有人希望身体衰老，但也没有人能够阻止它的发生。 喇嘛梭巴仁波切 衰老的痛苦主要体现在我们意识到自己正在变老的那一刻。 我们年轻时充满活力和健康的身体，会慢慢衰老衰弱。 如果我们还不老，现在就思考一下这种经历将会是什么样的，是非常有益的。 轮回之苦 2 上界之苦 2.1 人类的八种苦 2.1.2 衰老之苦
- [Day 221](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-221-8/) - 笔记：我们大多数人对出生时所经历的痛苦没有任何记忆。喇嘛梭巴仁波切我们通常不会去思考怀孕和生产过程中人们所承受的身体痛苦。婴儿被困在子宫里后，要经历一段痛苦的产道之旅。出生后，婴儿的痛苦仍在继续，所以婴儿的哭泣不足为奇了。 轮回之苦2 上界之苦2.1 人类的八种苦2.1.1 出生之苦
- [Day 1](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-1-169/) - Notes: ”Feeling as if we’re caught in a fire or trapped in a tank of raw sewage or sitting naked in a thorn bush, we can’t develop total aversion to samsara or renunciation of it. Without that, we can’t realize compassion for other sentient beings or bodhicitta, and therefore we can’t enter the Mahayana path.”
- [Day 300](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-300-7/) - There are four outlines to guide our reflection on the kindness of the mother the kindness of giving us this body, protecting us from life’s dangers, leading us in the ways of the world and bearing many hardships and accumulating negative karma for us. Our mother gave us our body, kept us safe, educated us
- [Day 269](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-269-6/) - Notes: Karmic formation is symbolized by a man producing clay pots Karma has the power to throw us uncontrollably into our next rebirth If at death our strongest karma is for rebirth as a chicken, then that is what will happen
- [Day 299](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-299-6/) - Notes: We need to recognize that all sentient beings have been our mother countless times I was just thinking of and recalling this teaching to my Father the other day. I strive to strengthen this view more and more... Because our lives have been numberless, our mothers have also been numberless True. And they have
- [Day 268](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-268-7/) - Notes: Ignorance refers to our wrong concepts and is symbolized by a blind man There are two types: ignorance of how things exist and ignorance of karma Ignorance sets in motion the twelve links, which trap us in samsara
- [Day 298](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-298-7/) - Notes: All beings are equal in wanting to find happiness and be free of suffering True. We should generate a feeling of equality using logic, and then rest in that feeling Something I should practice more often. Tonglen. With our first small taste of equilibrium, we’ve started to realize the peaceful mind For the sake
- [Day 267](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-267-8/) - Notes: The Wheel of Life is a deeply symbolic teaching created by Lord Buddha himself As Dharma art, it showed a king how the three poisons are the cause of suffering The pig, chicken and snake symbolize ignorance, craving desire and hatred
- [Day 266](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-266-10/) - Notes: Without understanding and addressing our own problems, we can’t help others The way to expand love and compassion is to first understand and love ourselves By seeing our own problems, love and compassion will naturally arise for all living beings
- [Day 220](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-220-10/) - 笔记： 人世间的八苦世上没有逃离轮回的假期。喇嘛梭巴仁波切 人世间的八苦表明，苦难会影响到富人或穷人。 大多数人对生命、因果报应、痛苦的根源以及如何摆脱痛苦一无所知。 对于那些对现实如此无知的人，很容易产生同情心。 轮回之苦2 上界之苦2.1 人类的八种苦难
- [Day 297](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-297-6/) - Notes: Perhaps I should explain how to develop equilibrium. We do it in sitting meditation. Visualize in front of you a person who makes you agitated; someone you don’t like. Visualize behind you the person to whom you are most attached. And visualize all around you the people to whom you feel indifferent. Look at
- [Day 296](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-296-7/) - Notes: Buddhism offers us practical mind training methods that we can check out for ourselves This is True. And for the moments I have "tasted" experienced even a split second, a moment of what I feel bodhicitta is in the realm of. I can say it truly is a fantastic state of being. I can
- [Day 265](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-265-8/) - Notes: The way to transform our mind from suffering to happiness is to create only virtue By developing a very clear understanding of suffering we will know how to avoid it The mind is mere energy and can be transformed in any way we choose, without limit
- [Day 264](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-264-7/) - Notes: If we have renounced attachment to this life, all the wealth in the world won’t affect us We can choose to turn our back on the suffering see-­saw of our attached life As we integrate the Dharma into our life, our happiness will increase more and more
- [Day 295](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-295-5/) - Notes: Developing bodhicitta needs to be our main refuge and heart practice in this life This makes sense! Cherishing others above ourself is a
- [Day 294](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-294-6/) - Notes: A bodhisattva will quickly complete the two merits of method and wisdom This makes sense as once the mind is open, so too open actions surely follow and so completing merits quickly makes sense. The motivation to free all beings from suffering gives great meaning to everything we do Awakening in the morning we
- [Day 263](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-263-7/) - Notes: Vows protect us from refraining from non virtues, and strengthen our mind by avoiding to harm others.
- [Day 262](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-262-8/) - Notes: How important is to take and keep the pratimoksha vows. It’s the essential prerequisite for the two other highest trainings: concentration and wisdom.
- [Day 263](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-263-6/) - Notes: The essential thing is to protect our karma, and taking vows is the best way to do that Along with our vows we must develop a strong determination to refrain from nonvirtue The vows we take will strengthen our mind and help us avoid harming others
- [Day 293](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-293-6/) - Notes: A bodhisattva can’t be harmed by either internal or external disturbances I believe this. I sense that wherever Bodhisattvas go they are protected and looked after by the buddha field. Furthermore, perhaps that care will come in many forms and go beyond common perceptions of what is "good" or "bad" but that is due
- [Day 262](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-262-7/) - Notes: Morality is a prerequisite for the two higher trainings of concentration and wisdom Without good moral conduct our mind is like a windblown bird or a flickering light Even as beginners we can train in morality by taking and keeping the pratimoksha vows
- [Day 219](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-219-11/) - 笔记：轮回的外表可能看起来很有吸引力，但我们需要看到里面的毒药 - 喇嘛佐巴仁波切 当我们冥想六种痛苦时，我们必须决心打破这个循环 将知识理解与冥想结合起来，让我们超越枯燥的文字 我们需要看清轮回的陷阱，不要被欺骗 轮回的苦难1 六种常见的苦难
- [Day 218](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-218-11/) - 没有人可以分享我们的旅程或目的地 - 喇嘛佐巴仁波切 我们孤独地出生，孤独地死去：没有人能分担我们的痛苦。 即使在生活中，我们也会独自面对问题 死亡时，我们不仅会留下身体，还会留下所有财产和朋友 轮回之苦1 六种常见的苦1.6 我们独自经历痛苦和死亡
- [Day 292](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-292-6/) - Notes: With bodhicitta, whatever we undertake will be effortless and completely successful Having tasted (speck meru, can't gauge or know precisely what) some experiences of deeper clarity in life for transient periods. I can see how if that state of clarity was stabilised how anything undertaken from that state as a base could be nothing
- [Day 261](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-261-9/) - Notes: A lower capable being aims for the happiness of future lives and practices the ten virtues A middle capable being aims to leave samsara and practices the three higher trainings A higher capable being works only for others and practices the six perfections
- [Day 1](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-1-166/) - เราต้องรู้ก่อนว่าเราจะต้องช่วยเหลือผู้อื่นได้เพราะว่า1. เราไม่มีปัญญาใดๆ เลยสำหรับทรรศนะที่ผิดพลาดไปเปิดเผยข้อมูลแก่ผู้อื่นซึ่งเป็นอันตรายต่อระบบสัตว์อื่นๆ ที่จะตกเพื่อรับบ่วงบาศแห่งสังสารวัฏ...2. สปรีสัตว์จะไม่เปิดเผยรู้จริงริมนั้นประสิทธิภาพของอุปกรณ์ที่มีเครื่องมือครบพร้อมสำหรับสู่โพธิญาณเพราะในลัมริมมีสามเหตุการณ์หลักคือ -การละทิ้งควาในสังสารวัฏ - การพัฒนาโพธิจิต -คำสอนสุนยตาส่วนประกอบทั้งสาวกยานมหายานและตันตระด้วยและในการฝึกปฏิบัติลัมริมการปฏิบัติตามต้องทำตั้งแต่เริ่มต้นและอาจเลือกทำเฉพาะได้เพราะว่าจากการปฏิบัติในพระพุทธศาสนานั้นจะต้องปฏิบัติตามขั้นตอนเช่นสมมุติของเราเอาแต่ปฏิบัติถึงแต่โพธิจิตไม่แต่ปฏิบัติถึงศูนย์กลางแท้และตำนานสามารถละความศรัทธาในสังสารวัฏได้"ลำลำคือมรรคาที่มุ่งตรงสู่โพธิญาณ"~ลามะโซปา โปรินเช~ริมลัมนั้นเหมือนกับหนังสือสรุปคำสอนของพระพุทธเจ้าพระเจ้าเราจึงสรุปผลลัมริมคือธรรมะทั่วไปและธรรมะทั่วไปคือลัมริมมักจะไม่มีการปฏิบัติใดๆเลยในแกนกลางริมทะเลสาบในลัมริมมีคำสอนที่ครบถ้วนทั้ง 3 ขอบเขต(เล็กกลางใหญ่) ลัมริมจึงเหมาะกับผู้ปฏิบัติทุกระดับที่กล่าวถึงคำกล่าวของพาบงคารินโปเช:"ถ้าท่านชี้แจงลัมริมทุกหัวข้อแล้วท่านประธานก็จะสามารถเน้นลัมริมได้ทุกการปฏิบัติได้"
- [Day 92](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-92-20/) - Notes: Instead of preparing for death, we are ensuring incredible suffering in future lives We cling to the happiness of this life and obey the eight worldly dharmas When death comes, we will see how we’ve wasted our life doing meaningless things Impermanence and death1 The drawbacks of not remembering death1.5 We create nonvirtue
- [Day 91](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-91-20/) - Notes: To avoid the lower realms we need a positive mind as we die, and we can only be assured of that if our overall mindset is strongly positive. This means we must practice Dharma diligently and continuously. An on again, off again approach to Dharma is useless. Without a deep sense of impermanence and
- [Day 291](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-291-9/) - Notes: Bodhicitta purifies powerful nonvirtues that cannot be purified in any other way This makes sense to me, my faith in the Dharma is growing through experience. The more and more stabilised bodhicitta becomes the more negative karma it burns up until lastly my thinking is that once it is completely stabilised there is no
- [Day 90](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-90-19/) - Notes: We need to get to the stage where we can discard the need for the comforts of this life just as we discard used toilet paper. Such strength of mind will not come until we have developed a strong feeling for impermanence and death. If we fail to remember impermanence and death our Dharma
- [Day 89](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-89-19/) - Notes: The Dharma is postponed through not remembering impermanence and death, and then before we actually get around to practicing Dharma, we die. When we find we have no time to practice Dharma, we should not blame our boss, our partner, our kids or our dog. It is purely the fault of not remembering impermanence
- [Day 88](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-88-17/) - Notes: Nothing we do becomes Dharma, not even our Buddhist practices. Eating, sleeping, working and shopping are all done with a sense of permanence, and hence only for our own self-­cherishing mind. But so too are prostrating, meditating, saying mantras, reading Dharma books and so forth. Nothing becomes Dharma unless we have a sense of
- [Day 87](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-87-14/) - Notes:As Dharma students, it’s vital to face up to the reality of impermanence and deathWe can’t escape death when we are immersed in the conditions for it to arise right nowDeath is in our very nature, so it’s stupid and ignorant to become emotional or to deny it👩‍❤️‍👨🤰🏻👩‍🍼👩‍🎓💀🧡🪷🔄
- [Day 260](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-260-9/) - Notes: Our human rebirth offers us the potential to sever the root of all suffering completely It gives us the precious ability and responsibility to examine our own behavior This is our opportunity to transform everything into the peaceful path to enlightenment
- [Day 261](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-261-8/) - Notes: How wonderful it would be if I were able to letting go of worldly concerns, and train in the three higher trainings day and night. I will.
- [Day 260](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-260-8/) - Notes: The human rebirth offers us the potential to cut off the root of all suffering, and end to cycle in samsara.
- [Day 259](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-259-8/) - Notes: Sadness is my currently feeling by reading how we aim to rebirth in a human state. May I always aim for a pure land in order to train as a Bodhisattva.
- [Day 290](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-290-7/) - Notes: Unless we have bodhicitta, we create merits and then constantly destroy them True. I have experience with this. And seeing as my Bodhicitta is unstable at this point and I only see glimpses of it (for example today on the train) (so deeply grateful for that experience) I too am habituated to a kind
- [Day 20](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-20-42/) - Notes: kleine pijntjes zijn manieren om purification. Voor de juiste doel heb dat over, maar dat brengt je dichterbij de perfecte, correcte guru divotion.
- [Day 18](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-18-39/) - Notes: wouuuu wat een toewijding
- [Day 17](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-17-43/) - Notes: egoless Guru devotion Following advice
- [Day 259](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-259-7/) - Notes: After death, the mind enters the intermediate stage, with a body similar to its next rebirth The intermediate stage or bardo lasts from seven to forty-­nine days The cause of rebirth is attachment to one of the future parents, followed by anger
- [Day 289](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-289-6/) - Notes: A bodhisattva is the supreme object of offering for all sentient beings I imagine this is because once our mind becomes awakened and we only think of the welfare of others, this energy is magnetic so to speak it touches the undeniable Buddha nature in all of us and relates to that fundamental kindness
- [Day 258](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-258-9/) - Notes: Being mindful of our state of mind at the moment of death is essential; dying thoughts activate the karma and the consequent state of rebirth.
- [Day 257](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-257-10/) - Notes: In order to be happy, we must constantly analyze the motivation behind all our actions
- [Day 258](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-258-8/) - Notes: Our dying thoughts activate the throwing karma that will be the cause of our next rebirth The throwing karma depends on whether our last thoughts are virtuous or nonvirtuous If we die with anger or strong attachment our birth will be only in the lower realms
- [Day 288](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-288-5/) - Notes: Arhats have many qualities but lack the will to care for others more than themselves It would appear, that an Arhat does have an enormous amount of compassion for all sentient beings, however, due to having achieved a level of meditation wherein they can abide in bliss they are drawn to this state and
- [Day 217](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-217-10/) - 笔记：一瞬间，我们从高处跌落到低处 - 喇嘛佐巴仁波切 我们无数次从极度奢华陷入可怕的苦难之中。 我们在轮回中经历了各种各样的事情，但都没有帮助我们 即使人们设法实现了他们的梦想生活，它也只是短暂的一瞬间，然后就消失了 轮回之苦 1 六种常见的苦 1.5 我们永远在轮回中从高处流向低处
- [Day 215](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-215-10/) - 笔记：我们从一个身体跳到另一个身体，就像猴子从一个支架跳到另一个支架一样——喇嘛佐巴仁波切我们不得不无数次离开各种轮回的身体，没有选择哪怕是欲界的神终极，基因灭亡，并投生到地狱道我们拥有这个身体的时间很短，所以没有理由执着于它轮回之苦1 六种常见的苦1.3 我们必须再次离开这个轮回之身
- [Day 257](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-257-9/) - Notes: In order to be happy, we must constantly analyze the motivation behind all our actions Mental karma is the intention before an action and intended karma is what completes it It is intention that makes an action virtuous or nonvirtuous, not its outward appearance
- [Day 287](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-287-6/) - Notes: A bodhisattva is called a child of the buddhas due to their great potential to serve others A wonderful state to aspire to. Whatever their appearance, a bodhisattva is a holy being and an object of veneration True. I can see how this is true. Just as a child depends on its parents, we
- [Day 256](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-256-9/) - Notes: Due to the seeds of delusion within us, disturbing emotions continually arise In the absence of mindfulness, these emotions generate a sequence of negative actions Mindfulness is like a guard that stops the thief of delusions from stealing our happiness
- [Day 286](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-286-6/) - Notes: The Mahayana vehicle is not defined by philosophy but by the bodhicitta attitude This is why since meeting the Dharma (bar admittedly a few initial false naive declarations that I can recall (perhaps many more which I can't (cringe) I state currently that I have an "Interest" in Buddhism and do not Identify as
- [Day 256](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-256-8/) - Notes: Mindfulness is my guardian; be aware of your mind activity and stop immediately every non virtues thoughts of attachment to disturbing emotions.
- [Day 255](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-255-9/) - Notes: Destroying delusions as soon we notice their presence is the main mental activity so that we can practice Dharma.
- [Day 255](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-255-8/) - Notes: To practice Dharma, we need to continuously remember the shortcomings of delusions Delusions are the source of our problems and will always rob us of happiness If we could see the harm caused by delusions, we would think only of destroying them
- [Day 285](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-285-7/) - Notes: Nothing is more interesting, enjoyable or meaningful than the thought of bodhicitta It's true. Our fearful states often (if not always) stem from concern for the self. Switching our object of concern from ourselves to others brings us freedom and peace This is true. When we consider others feelings it releases the self cherishing
- [Day 284](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-284-7/) - Notes: Bodhicitta creates the space in our heart to be able to achieve complete enlightenment Bodhicitta means opening our heart to others as much as we can. Normally we do open our heart to others to some extent—everybody does—but here we’re talking about doing it with the highest destination in mind: the transcendent, universal aim
- [Day 254](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-254-10/) - Notes: Seeing a desirable object, we regard it as permanent and exaggerate its good aspects At first we might see our partner as completely attractive, then as completely repulsive The way the deluded mind works is to mistakenly divide things into black and white
- [Day 283](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-283-7/) - Notes: Bodhicitta is the supreme motivation to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of others I have had glimpses of it but due to being habituated to selfishness for the most part it is fleeting...I hope to cultivate the mind of Bodhicitta best I can before death... The energy of bodhicitta transforms our mind and attracts
- [Day 253](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-253-9/) - Notes: Habit builds up associations that make our mind automatically run toward delusion When an experience is repeated over and again, the imprint becomes thicker and thicker When we’re obsessed with an object of delusion, it’s clear that we’re not free
- [Day 252](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-252-8/) - Notes: Delusions arise when we listen to and follow the wrong conceptions of a false teacher If we lack discriminating wisdom-­knowledge, we eagerly accept garbage information Popular Western culture is designed to arouse desire, superstition and confusion
- [Day 282](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-282-7/) - Notes: We can use our understanding of the twelve links to explore and change our world I see this as changing associations with objects. There are karmic imprints and habits we have built up surrounding our relationships to all phenomena which are ultimately empty. And so we can change our experience by trying to best
- [Day 254](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-254-9/) - Notes: Seeing people or objects with a mistakenly mind (wrong comprehension) is the result of thinking of permanent existence of both of them.
- [Day 253](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-253-8/) - Notes: Doing repeatedly the same action or the same thought brings to attachments and leads to a deluded mind.
- [Day 252](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-252-7/) - Notes: Awareness is the key word to understand how much harm does following false teachings, and false teacher.
- [Day 281](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-281-7/) - Notes: The twelve links can be divided into delusions, karma and suffering results Delusions (afflicted states of mind) being :ignorance, craving and grasping. Karmic formation and becoming are the karmic elements: I see this as the actions carried out under such afflicted states of mind...and then Consciousness, name and form, the six senses, contact feeling, rebirth,
- [Day 251](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-251-9/) - Notes: Examining our life demonstrates the importance of how we choose our friends It’s better to be around people who give us wisdom rather than confused vibrations The Western mind is very skeptical but can also be overly emotional and uncritical
- [Day 280](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-280-7/) - Notes: A chain of interdependent origination requires two or three lives to be completed And then beyond this process If I understand to any extent here...There is also countless other karmic imprints which each too take either two or three lifetimes to complete and are interconnected/intertwined with other karmic imprints hence things perpetually playing out
- [Day 250](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-250-8/) - Notes: Delusion arises when the object is near us and the karmic imprint is in our mind In the West everything is exaggerated so that the deluded mind will pay attention to it As the deluded mind connects with its objects of desire, more delusion constantly arises
- [Day 251](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-251-8/) - Notes: I’m truly lucky because I no longer feel attachment to so called “friends”.I know they are disappointed, but still it’s better to be honest with my self and not indulge in useless behaviour.
- [Day 250](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-250-7/) - Notes: Now I know that the incredible difficult that I have to tame my mind is an advanced training for me, and that I’m being on the right path.
- [Day 16](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-16-35/) - Notes: doen zoals een deugdzaam guru leidt automatisch naar deugdzaam leven.
- [Day 15](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-15-43/) - Notes: toewijding is best krachtig. Als de ego erbij komt dan wordt het verzacht en kwetsbaar. Dan is er kans dat anderen kunnen ons schade aanbrengen.
- [Day 249](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-249-10/) - Notes: The thought of chocolate cake arises due to the mental imprint of a previous experience Every psychological experience we have is programmed into our mind and never lost When this imprint meets with the cooperative causes, then chocolate cake appears to us
- [Day 278](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-278-6/) - Notes: Rebirth, symbolized by a woman giving birth, is driven by craving, grasping and becoming "The mental aggregates exist in the essence of the ripening aspect and are bound to samsara by delusion and karma." ~This topic is challenging for me to comprehend and I do not understand in particular the section I have quoted
- [Day 247](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-247-9/) - Notes: Delusion starts with the ego that builds the polluted projection of “I” As soon as our ego says “I” we see ourselves as separate and more important than others This is the source of all the problems of samsara, and can all be traced back to ignorance
- [Day 277](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-277-10/) - Notes: Becoming, symbolized by a pregnant woman, signifies that our karma is ripening From what I understand (to whatever extent that may be) Becoming refers to when the craving and grasping are actualised and the consciousness joins with the sperm and egg... Craving, grasping and becoming arise as a set of links at the time
- [Jour 1](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/jour-1/) - Notes:importance de la bodehicitta
- [Day 246](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-246-8/) - Notes: The most fundamental deluded view superimposes a permanent I onto the aggregates Other deluded views lead us into eternalism or nihilism and create enormous conflict The fifth deluded view is any wrong view, particularly disbelief in karma and emptiness
- [Day 276](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-276-7/) - Notes: Grasping is symbolized by a monkey clambering over a tree to find more fruit Craving is the thought of something pleasant. We crave that thing in our mind. Grasping is when the craving has ripened to the point that we decide to take action and reach out to the object of desire. Grasping strengthens the
- [Day 275](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-275-6/) - Notes: Craving is symbolized by a man drinking wine yet never satisfying his thirst The person deluded by greed is never satisfied and craves more things. This greed ruins the present life and will ruin many future lives. This situation can manifest across many different situations...the feeling is the same and the object can be infinitely
- [Day 245](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-245-8/) - Notes: Doubt is the attitude that is uncertain about key aspects of the Dharma It grows from ignorance and prevents us from achieving any results on the path In contrast, to doubt, investigate and come to a correct conclusion is very good
- [Day 12](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-12-55/) - Notes: geven, geven en geven is de antwoord. Geven aan de guru en aan zijn omgeving en werk.
- [Day 214](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-214-9/) - 笔记：不满和不满足使我们无法获得任何安宁- 喇嘛佐巴仁波切我们的主要问题是无法实现各种愿望并产生痛苦即使那些没有物质需求的人也会感到强烈的不满只要我们的思想不受身体束缚的控制，痛苦就会持续下去 轮回之苦1 六种常见的苦1.2 轮回中没有任何东西能让人满足
- [Day 244](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-244-9/) - Notes: Pride is a feeling of superiority that we often fail to see as negative When we are filled with pride it’s very difficult for Dharma teachings to benefit our mind The simplest way to control pride is to be realistic about our achievements
- [Day 274](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-274-7/) - Notes: Feeling is symbolized by a man who is suffering from having an arrow in his eye I feel I have a degree of understanding how pleasurable feelings give rise to attachment, painful feelings to aversion. But I do not at this point quite comprehend how neutral feelings give rise to apathy and ignorance... Is it
- [Day 249](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-249-9/) - Notes: The thought of chocolate cake arises due to the mental imprint of a previous experience. Due to cooperative causes as hunger or desire the chocolate cakes manifests. Understanding that the object has no self-entity, helps to see the hallucination that we are experiencing.
- [Day 248](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-248-8/) - Notes: Mental discipline is the most effective antidote to delusions. Understanding the causes of our delusions will make our mind straight.
- [Day 14](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-14-42/) - Notes:why would the Buddhas not accept the offerings?
- [Day 243](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-243-7/) - Notes: Ignorance is being unclear about karma, the four noble truths and the objects of refuge Ignorance results in misapprehension of both relative and absolute truth Ignorance is the source of all our suffering
- [Day 242](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-242-9/) - Notes: Anger destroys not only our current joyful life but also the good quality of our next one Even the shortest moment of anger can destroy a long-­term relationship We need to use every possible method to control and abandon the emotion of anger
- [Day 273](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-273-6/) - Notes: Contact is symbolized by the meeting of the sex organs of a man and a woman Does this mean that due to emptiness that contact itself has no quality. It is only due to past karmic imprints that we associate pleasure with this action? The "pleasure" in contextual not inherent. The link of contact is
- [Day 13](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-13-45/) - Notes:how do i find a guru?
- [Day 247](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-247-8/) - Notes: when the concept of ego builds a projection of “I” we stat to separate ourself from other atoms, other people. And then attachments begin too. This shows that the source of all our problems is our faulty mental projections.
- [Day 246](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-246-7/) - Notes: Wrong views are the root of our suffering, and lead to misunderstanding. For instance, thinking of a permanent I or believe that our religious moral and discipline is supreme over the others, or thinking that karma doesn’t exist and believe in a creator.
- [Day 245](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-245-7/) - Notes: Doubts use to investigate and come to correct conclusions is very good. Otherwise, doubts stem from ignorance lead to prevent us from achieving any results on the path.
- [Day 244](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-244-8/) - Notes: Being able to questioning ourselves is imperative to prevent pride.
- [Day 272](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-272-7/) - Notes: The six sense bases are symbolized by an empty house with six openings The sense gates are empty and the objects they come into contact with are also empty but due to ignorance and grasping and previous karmic imprints playing out form beginning-less rebirths we have a karmic imprint and relationship to the object and we
- [Day 241](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-241-10/) - Notes: Attachment is the root of all the problems experienced by our body and mind Through understanding the psychology of attachment we will learn to control our mind If we check up, we will see that attachment is the biggest problem on earth
- [Day 54](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-54-27/) - eight benefits of correct devotion to the guru https://www.lamayeshe.com/article/chapter/7-benefits-correct-devotion-guru
- [Day 271](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-271-8/) - Notes: Name and form, a man rowing a boat, refers to the coming together of the five aggregates[Copied from the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive as a reference] : "aggregates skandha (Skt); pung po (Tib); phung po (Wyl) The psycho-physical constituents that make up a sentient being: form, feeling, discriminative awareness, compositional factors and consciousness. Beings
- [Day 240](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-240-10/) - Notes: There are six basic emotions that frustrate the human mind and disturb its peace Through investigating our mind we see that our restlessness comes from the ego The solution is meditation: being fully conscious of what we are doing, why, and how
- [Day 270](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-270-6/) - Notes: Consciousness is symbolized by a monkey carrying fruit and swinging from tree to tree I understand the symbolism of this to some extent...the distracted mind grasping at phenomena holding on to the fruit (like a desired object of grasping) and creating karmic imprints and each tree is a life swinging along from tree to tree
- [Day 269](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-269-5/) - Notes: Karmic formation is symbolized by a man producing clay pots Different Karmic actions bring different results...Karma is motivated by ignorance, and the most important point is that it produces a result, one that is concordant with the cause. Karma has the power to throw us uncontrollably into our next rebirth At the time of death
- [Day 9](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-9-65/) - Notes: ja, het ligt op beide kanten. De teacher en de leerling. En als we iets willen leren moeten we goed luisteren en doen wat het gezegd wordt.
- [Day 213](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-213-8/) - 笔记：轮回中没有什么是我们可以相信的 - 喇嘛佐巴仁波切 轮回中没有什么是确定的：我们的关系、财产和身体都不会长久 只需观察我们的思想或环顾四周，就能发现一切是如何变化的 有洞察力的舍利弗看到家庭成员如何从一世换到另一世 轮回之苦 1 六种常见的苦 1.1 轮回中没有确定的事物
- [Day 239](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-239-9/) - Notes: It’s our own ignorant, grasping attitude that creates our confusion and dissatisfaction Meditation enables us to understand the nature of things and have fewer expectations Once we’ve developed renunciation of samsara, we’re on the path to liberation
- [Day 268](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-268-6/) - Notes: Ignorance refers to our wrong concepts and is symbolized by a blind man I recall a teaching that mentioned along the lines of "If we really check up, we haven't successfully brought any benefit to anyone" (maybe not so extreme can't fully recall) but could be so, along the lines of true virtue being hard
- [Day 212](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-212-11/) - 笔记：轮回不是一个地方，而是一种心态 - 喇嘛佐巴仁波切 轮回并不容易逃脱：它在我们的心中，无论我们走到哪里，它都与我们同在 我们的五蕴是轮回，因为它们被妄想和业力所束缚 在我们获得解脱之前，我们所做的一切都是痛苦的 轮回之苦 1 六种常见的苦
- [Day 211](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-211-9/) - 笔记：除非我们理解了苦难，否则我们无法开始克服它 - 喇嘛佐巴仁波切 佛陀在四圣谛的教导中阐述了整个修行之路 当我们了解自己的疾病及其原因时，我们就会热切地寻求治疗方法 佛陀认为，首先我们需要认识到我们的痛苦程度 轮回之苦
- [Day 267](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-267-7/) - Notes: The Wheel of Life is a deeply symbolic teaching created by Lord Buddha himself I only discovered tonight (this time round) that the Wheel of Life was created by Lord Buddha himself... As Dharma art, it showed a king how the three poisons are the cause of suffering I can see how he realised
- [Day 8](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-8-60/) - Notes: ik begrijp dat de ideale situatie is als we een spiritual teacher hebben die in alle fronten bekend is en van hem/haar lessen kunnen krijgen. Maar is dat realistisch in mijn leven? Tot die tijd dat ik dat persoon heb ontmoet kan ik niet andere lessen volgen? En hoe weet ik dat de teacher
- [Day 238](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-238-9/) - Notes: Dharma practice is the only thing that will bring our beginningless rebirths to an end Death can come at any moment and anything other than Dharma is meaningless Reflecting on our numberless past sufferings will motivate us to practice Dharma
- [Day 266](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-266-9/) - Without understanding and addressing our own problems, we can’t help others Notes: True. This is me. I fear ( I know to some extent) I have been hoping to be of benefit to others and to give sound advice (surely practice must stand for something?) trying to help others...but first as stated here I need
- [Day 237](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-237-8/) - Notes: We should enjoy material life while understanding the nature of our enjoyment Materialism is a narrow mind obsessed with external rather than internal things We can find all the answers we seek by observing the nature of the dissatisfied mind
- [Day 7](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-7-86/) - Notes: gelukkig heb ik gurus ontmoet
- [Day 236](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-236-8/) - Notes: For as long as we remain in samsara, suffering is inevitable If we think that miserable situations are unfair, we only double the suffering Taking responsibility for our suffering strengthens our determination to get out of samsara
- [Day 265](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-265-7/) - Notes: The way to transform our mind from suffering to happiness is to create only virtue True. Is my looking for intimacy at this stage having only been alone for a short while in the bigger picture playing with fire? Is it out right foolish considering my history...on the other side I have compassion because
- [Day 6](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-6-88/) - Notes: het is een beetje scarry om een persoon, guru als de meest belangrijke persoon in onze leven te accepteren. De gehechtheid aan andere personen maakt de suffering. Voorzichtig te zijn met de connecties die ik heb.
- [Day 235](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-235-8/) - Notes: We keep ourselves busy, day and night, creating the cause for more suffering A billionaire who works only for this life shares the same motivation as an insect Even freedom from suffering is not enough: we must achieve full enlightenment
- [Day 264](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-264-6/) - Notes:Renouncing attachment to this life means renouncing the cause of suffering. It does not mean turning our back on our friends and family or discarding our material possessions. We don’t have to make a huge bonfire of our clothes or throw our books and CDs over a cliff. What it means is not having attachment
- [Day 243](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-243-6/) - Notes: Delusion is the mother of suffering. Attachment, anger, ignorance, pride, deluded doubt and distorted views.
- [Day 242](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-242-8/) - Notes: Anger is the natural consequence of delusion; when it manifest verbally or physically we have to deal with an already super strong anger.
- [Day 241](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-241-9/) - Notes: Attachments cause us all problems that we encounter in our daily lives. Resistance is the natural consequence of attachment, and all disturbing emotions arise :(
- [Day 234](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-234-10/) - Notes: Pervasive compounding suffering is what we most need to understand and renounce Under the control of delusion and karma, we perpetuate our suffering from life to life Having this contaminated body is like living in a garbage can or septic tank
- [Day 263](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-263-5/) - Notes: The essential thing is to protect our karma, and taking vows is the best way to do that In line with last nights topic. I think for where I am at currently (Without having met my root guru, I presume) with my level of mind. To keep "Most of the vows" would be best
- [Day 240](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-240-9/) - Notes: Being fully conscious of what we are doing, why and how is the most important thing to do to tame our self-centredness, the ego.
- [Day 239](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-239-8/) - Notes: Expectation and attachments give us confusion. Meditation and renunciation to samsara show us the path of liberation.
- [Day 4](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-4-118/) - Zo beginnen met het moeilijkste.
- [Day 210](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-210-9/) - 笔记：痛苦不在于外在事物，而在于我们无知的心。 - 喇嘛耶喜 如果我们认为自己没有受苦，就应该看看我们不受控制的思想 痛苦不仅仅是身体上的疼痛，也是我们永远存在的不满情绪 人们现在意识到他们一直在错误的地方寻找幸福 轮回之苦
- [Day 262](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-262-6/) - Notes: Morality is a prerequisite for the two higher trainings of concentration and wisdom I can truly see how this is the case and how without a base of morality which one consistently lives their life by (regardless of the changing conditions) that to develop the perfections of concentration and wisdom is impossible. The metaphor
- [Day 6](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-6-87/) - Notes: Can the guru be someone who is not a Buddhist?
- [Day 3](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-3-149/) - Het is moeilijk te te accepteren dat dit is de enige we. Dat ik eerst de verlichting moet bereiken om anderen te kunnen helpen.
- [Day 233](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-233-9/) - Notes: Our self-­existent pleasurable experiences are not real happiness When our hunger starts to subside, we call that happiness We project something pleasurable to be real happiness but it actually leads to pain
- [Day 209](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-209-12/) - 笔记： 我们需要把整个轮回看作一团熊熊烈火 - 喇嘛佐巴仁波切 一个中等能力的人寻求摆脱一切痛苦 一切众生皆受苦，这意味着心不受控制 我们需要认识到轮回的苦难是一场烈火，会吞噬我们 轮回之苦
- [Day 261](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-261-7/) - Notes: A lower capable being aims for the happiness of future lives and practices the ten virtues The Hinayana path: a homeowner still in the worldly world but with the aim to generate good karma in this life by practicing the ten virtues and moving toward higher rebirths... A middle capable being aims to leave
- [Day 208](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-208-12/) - 笔记：对每一个小进步感到满意和高兴 - 喇嘛耶喜 如果我们每天都保持快乐，最终就会获得启迪 因为心是轮回和涅槃的核心，我们需要正确的动机 我们必须决心以智慧、正念和慈悲来生活 业力 总结
- [Day 232](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-232-9/) - Notes: We all recognize and want to be free from the suffering of suffering Whatever aspect of society we look at, we will see a vast ocean of problems Once we understand this, simply reading a newspaper inspires us to renounce samsara
- [Day 260](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-260-7/) - Notes: Our human rebirth offers us the potential to sever the root of all suffering completely It gives us the precious ability and responsibility to examine our own behavior This is our opportunity to transform everything into the peaceful path to enlightenment True. True. True.
- [Day 1](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-1-168/) - We kunnen helpen, maar op welke manier. Goede voolgorde? Als het zo is, dan moet het zo zijn.
- [Day 207](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-207-13/) - 笔记：每天的每一分钟，我们都在从遇到的每一件事中汲取关于因果的教诲 - 喇嘛佐巴仁波切 一个很好的冥想是观察我们心中的一切，将其视为业力的投射 我们现在所经历的幸福是我们过去积极行为的结果 了解我们创造自己世界的能力将激励和鼓励我们 业力 总结
- [Day 206](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-206-9/) - 笔记：知识和经验对计算器的理解有很大区别谨记学生的自身行为才能真正领悟佛法仅靠理论知识就能阻止我们的不良习惯业力总结单靠理性的理解，就可以停止不断的痛苦体验，也可以不断地体验幸福——喇嘛耶喜
- [Day 8](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-8-59/) - Notes:I do not understand what a higher and lower being path is. nor do I understnad what a lower realm is
- [Day 259](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-259-6/) - Notes: After death, the mind enters the intermediate stage, with a body similar to its next rebirth At first I didn't quite grasp this. Even now I am not very familiar or learned in the matters of the bardo, however, reading this succinct summary, I think I have an understanding of the process to some
- [Day 258](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-258-7/) - Notes: Our dying thoughts activate the throwing karma that will be the cause of our next rebirth I sincerely hope to be able to cultivate more positive habits of mind with whatever time I have left so that when death comes I can move towards higher rebirths not lower..."if I were to die now, I
- [Day 231](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-231-10/) - Notes: The Four Noble Truths Sutracondenses all the teachings on suffering into three types Pervasive compounding suffering is the foundation for the other two sufferings When we understand all three levels of suffering we will naturally seek to be free
- [Day 257](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-257-8/) - Notes: In order to be happy, we must constantly analyze the motivation behind all our actions True.And in attempting to do so (speck meru) with my checking up, I see just how tricky the ego can be and how hiding behind my motivations can be layers...sometimes what I think is a positive motivation once checked
- [Day 230](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-230-11/) - Notes: Rebirth in the god realm uses up all our positive karma and leads to great suffering Form realm gods have perfected samadhi but are not on the path to enlightenment Meditating on nothingness simply cultivates ignorance and leads to a grosser rebirth
- [Day 256](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-256-7/) - Notes: Due to the seeds of delusion within us, disturbing emotions continually arise True. And I have been planting and continue to plant those seeds since beginning-less lifetimes, in beginning-less forms... In the absence of mindfulness, these emotions generate a sequence of negative actions This is true and sometimes my mind unconsciously and habitually goes
- [Day 229](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-229-8/) - Notes: Demigods experience more pleasure than humans, but less than the gods Driven crazy by jealousy of the incredible luxury of the gods, they are constantly at war In this miserable existence they can never understand reality or develop altruism
- [Day 255](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-255-7/) - Notes: To practice Dharma, we need to continuously remember the shortcomings of delusions Delusions are the source of our problems and will always rob us of happiness If we could see the harm caused by delusions, we would think only of destroying them
- [Day 238](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-238-8/) - Notes: The truth is that: Dharma practice is the only thing that will bring our beginningless rebirths to an end.
- [Day 237](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-237-7/) - Notes: Look at your inner world Rinchen Dolma; you will find all answers about dissatisfaction.
- [Day 236](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-236-7/) - Notes: Never giving up the motivation of achieve full enlightenment; is the only way to leave samsara and end suffering.
- [Day 235](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-235-7/) - Notes: Being conscious that if we don’t ‘work’ to achieve full enlightenment, we waste our time in this precious life.
- [Day 228](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-228-9/) - Notes: We are forever tied to suffering by this body and mind created by delusion and karma Our five deluded aggregates are instruments of suffering from conception up to death Wherever we go, we carry a load of suffering like a lump of red-­hot iron on our back
- [Day 254](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-254-8/) - Notes: Seeing a desirable object, we regard it as permanent and exaggerate its good aspects True. At first we might see our partner as completely attractive, then as completely repulsive True. The way the deluded mind works is to mistakenly divide things into black and white This can often be my mind. Without space for
- [Day 1](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-1-167/) - Note:
- [Day 205](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-205-11/) - 笔记： 我们越了解因果，我们就越自由 - 喇嘛佐巴仁波切 不了解因果，就盲目地跌倒，不知道如何摆脱痛苦 认识到因果，我们就能自由地用每一个行动播下幸福的种子 只有当我们理解了因果，我们才能从轮回的牢笼中解脱出来 业力 总结
- [Day 204](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-204-14/) - 笔记：当我们理解了因果之后，我们对生活的整个态度就会彻底改变 - 喇嘛佐巴仁波切
- [Day 203](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-203-15/) - 笔记：净化心灵是一个进化的过程——喇嘛耶喜改变习惯行为是一个渐进的过程，需要耐心和智慧我们应该首先集中精力净化粗重的负面情绪，并消除明显的过失要想在佛法修行中取得成功，最好是放松并脚踏实地 业力4 如何改变我们的行为
- [Day 253](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-253-7/) - Notes: Habit builds up associations that make our mind automatically run toward delusion True. I have created lots of impure associations with certain objects and they have left imprints in the way that now it is difficult to unlearn the association. However, there have been some periods where this has shifted and I've seen the
- [Day 227](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-227-8/) - Notes: We are driven by desire from the moment we wake until we fall asleep at night We all want happiness and to avoid the slightest suffering or disappointment Our life is full of pain and dissatisfaction, and happiness eludes our grasp
- [Day 252](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-252-6/) - Notes: Delusions arise when we listen to and follow the wrong conceptions of a false teacher ~True. Furthermore, I am concerned...considering I have disclosed to (declared comes to mind) some people my interest in the Buddhist teachings and expressed that I strive to align myself with them. I am concerned that considering I am not
- [Day 15](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-15-42/) - If we are looking at all sentient beings with equanimity then why do we describe some friends as evil?
- [Day 3](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-3-148/) - Notes: this teaching has come at the right time - I am feeling that I have so much I’m my head at the moment and trying to hold it all in. But the path is there and I just need to follow it
- [Day 226](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-226-9/) - Notes: Encountering things and people we dislike, such as enemies, is a source of suffering Our life is a constant and fruitless struggle to acquire things and keep out of danger Even the things that make life comfortable often become an extra source of pain
- [Day 251](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-251-7/) - Notes: Examining our life demonstrates the importance of how we choose our friends True. I have been taken down some non-virtuous paths, also I have taken others down non-virtuous paths and hence I can see a link there...I am polluted by delusion and so have been thinking judge not lest ye be judged. However as
- [Day 234](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-234-9/) - Notes: The so called ‘pervasive compounding suffering’ leads to the other two suffering: the suffering of suffering and the suffering of change. Pervasive compounding suffering is what we most need to understand and renounce.
- [Day 233](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-233-8/) - Notes: Every time you eat, remember Rinchen Dolma what Lama Tsongkhapa said about eating too much*. Eating is a tool to maintain a healthy body, nothing more than this.
- [Day 232](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-232-8/) - Notes: Meditating on suffering in our daily life (news i.e.) inspires us to renounce of the whole samsara.
- [Day 231](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-231-9/) - Notes: Don’t feed your self on delusions; this leads to increase further suffering and to live again and again in samsara.
- [Day 230](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-230-10/) - Notes: Take care of the quality of your meditation my dear Rinchen Dolma; never ever feel pleasure by abiding in nothingness because it leads to cultivation of ignorance.
- [Day 225](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-225-9/) - Notes: Our attachment to external objects creates a psychological atomic bomb within us When these external objects inevitably change, great worry and paranoia arise We live in fear of separation from what we mistakenly consider objects of pleasure
- [Day 250](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-250-6/) - Notes: Delusion arises when the object is near us and the karmic imprint is in our mind The grasping mind reinforces the object of desire. It exists, however is exaggerated by our perceptive habit and relationship with the object. In the West everything is exaggerated so that the deluded mind will pay attention to it
- [Day 5](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-5-92/) - Remarques : Afin de guérir nos esprits malades, nous avons besoin de conseils d’experts sur le fonctionnement de l’esprit. Toute la confusion du monde, de la société à l'individu, est créée par l'esprit Nous avons besoin d’un enseignant expérimenté pour nous aider à développer la tranquillité et la bienveillance.
- [Day 224](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-224-7/) - Notes: Whatever our fears, regrets and beliefs, death will definitely happen one day When we die, we are separated from our possessions, family, friends and our body Unless the Dharma is integrated into our life, we will experience great fear and suffering
- [Day 249](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-249-8/) - Notes: The thought of chocolate cake arises due to the mental imprint of a previous experience For me the "chocolate cake" is many things that I have many imprints left from... Every psychological experience we have is programmed into our mind and never lost This is somewhat terrifying and also explains the very challenging days,
- [Day 4](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-4-117/) - Remarques : La dévotion au gourou est la racine du chemin - Lama Zopa Rinpoché La dévotion au gourou est appelée la racine du chemin parce que toutes les réalisations en découlent. Il vient au début du lamrim afin que nous puissions commencer notre vie spirituelle sans erreurs La dévotion au gourou est le plus
- [Day 3](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-3-147/) - Remarques : Consacrer notre vie à atteindre les réalisations du lamrim est la chose la plus importante que nous puissions faire. - Lama Zopa Rinpoché Le plan du lamrim nous donne un aperçu de tous les enseignements du Bouddha Tous les grands méditants du passé ont utilisé ce schéma pour obtenir rapidement des réalisations Il
- [Day 2](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-2-122/) - Remarques : Le lamrim nous montre nos illusions et nous donne des méditations pour les éliminer Le bouddhisme est une méthode réaliste et scientifique pour changer notre façon de penser Chaque méditation du lamrim est conçue pour générer de la sagesse et éliminer la souffrance.
- [Day 202](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-202-14/) - 笔记：净化如一把火，负面情绪如火中燃烧的谷物——喇嘛佐巴仁波切净化心灵的方法有很多，但《道次第三广论》通常推出六种除了具体的修行之外，任何功德活动都是一种净化使用四种力量净化应该成为我们佛法修行的常规部分业力4 如何改变我们的行为4.2 净化的方法
- [Day 223](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-223-7/) - Notes: Although nobody wants to be sick, we all have to experience many illnesses and pains Our body changes, we can’t enjoy life, we endure unpleasant things and fear we’ll die Illness is not under our control but is under the control of delusion and karma
- [Day 248](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-248-7/) - Notes: Understanding the nature and cause of our delusions will make our mind straight We can learn to control our mind through mental discipline and self-­awareness This is the most effective way to solve our problems and gain true peace of mind True.
- [Day 247](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-247-7/) - Notes: Delusion starts with the ego that builds the polluted projection of “I” As soon as our ego says “I” we see ourselves as separate and more important than others This is the source of all the problems of samsara, and can all be traced back to ignorance Timely indeed. I am not surprised. And
- [Day 222](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-222-8/) - Notes: The suffering of aging relates primarily to the time when we realize we’re getting old Our youthful body, full of energy and health, slowly becomes older and weaker If we are not yet old, it’s very good to reflect now on what this experience will be like
- [Day 229](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-229-7/) - Notes: The Demi-gods realm is incredibly rich in pleasure, but it is permeated by incredible jealousy by seeing the more powerful gods realm. The Demi-gods are considered lower than human beings.
- [Day 221](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-221-7/) - Notes: We don’t usually think about the mental and physical sufferings of conception and birth After being trapped in the womb, the baby has a painful journey through the birth canal The intense suffering continues after birth, so it’s no surprise that newborn babies cry
- [Day 246](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-246-6/) - Notes: The most fundamental deluded view superimposes a permanent I onto the aggregates What makes up that "I" is in a perpetual state of flux and hence is impermanent. Other deluded views lead us into eternalism or nihilism and create enormous conflict My Nihilistic and destructive reckless aggressive side came out in full force the
- [Day 201](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-201-14/) - 笔记：四大对立力量是我们摆脱一切苦难的护照 - 喇嘛佐巴仁波切 四种对抗力量使任何形式的净化都具有无比强大的力量 它们是目标、遗憾、决心和补救的力量 所有四种力量都至关重要，因为每一种力量都能净化相应的痛苦结果 业力 4 如何改变我们的行为 4.1 用四种力量净化
- [Day 245](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-245-6/) - Notes: Doubt is the attitude that is uncertain about key aspects of the Dharma the attitude that is uncertain whether things such as the four noble truths, karma or the Three Rare Sublime Ones actually exist. I am certain yet I behave as though I am not due to strong habituation and feeling trapped as
- [Day 244](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-244-7/) - Notes: Pride is a feeling of superiority that we often fail to see as negative I have been trying to lessen this feeling if it comes up, which I feel is less frequently these days. I wonder if the other side of that coin is also not so good. Not humbleness, that's good. but
- [Day 220](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-220-9/) - Notes: The eight sufferings of the human realm show that suffering affects both rich or poor Most people have no idea of life, karma, what causes suffering or how to break free of it It’s easy to develop compassion for beings with such ignorance of reality
- [Day 200](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-200-12/) - 笔记：业力印记就像埋在我们心智中的定时炸弹，随时可能爆炸 - 喇嘛佐巴仁波切 如果我们认为没有太多需要净化的东西，那是因为我们还没有好好思考或深入思考 我们应该害怕自己的负面情绪，就像害怕腿上有一窝眼镜蛇一样 只有真正理解业力，我们才能培养净化的坚定信念 业力 4 如何改变我们的行为
- [Day 219](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-219-10/) - Notes: When we meditate on the six types of suffering, we must determine to break the cycle Combining intellectual understanding with meditation takes us beyond dry words We need to see the trap of samsara for what it is and not be deceived
- [Day 218](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-218-10/) - Notes: We are born alone and die alone: nobody else can share our suffering at these times Even in life, we experience our problems alone At death, we leave not only our body but all our possessions and friends behind
- [Day 243](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-243-5/) - Notes: Ignorance is being unclear about karma, the four noble truths and the objects of refuge four noble truths denpa zhi (Tib); bden pa bzhi (Wyl) The subject of the Buddha's first turning of the wheel of Dharma. The truths of suffering, the origin of suffering, the cessation of suffering, and the path to the
- [Day 249](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-249-7/) - Object + Imprint + Cooperative Causes = Hallucination
- [Day 217](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-217-9/) - Notes: We have fallen from extraordinary luxury to terrible suffering numberless times We have had every kind of experience in samsara and none of it has helped us Even if people manage to gain their dream life, it lasts a brief moment and then it is gone
- [Day 199](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-199-11/) - 笔记：业力并不复杂，也不是什么哲学问题：它意味着观察我们的身、口、意 - 喇嘛耶喜 我们没有正确处理自己的身、语、意，从而给自己带来了问题 为了能够帮助别人，我们必须下定决心消除这种困惑 认识到我们需要净化是一种实现 业力 4 如何改变我们的行为
- [Day 242](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-242-7/) - Notes: Anger destroys not only our current joyful life but also the good quality of our next one True. Even the shortest moment of anger can destroy a long-­term relationship True. We need to use every possible method to control and abandon the emotion of anger True.
- [Day 228](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-228-8/) - Notes: There’s no solution of suffering in the six realms; we always experience it. Therefore, aim enlightenment dear Rinchen Dolma, for the sake of all sentient beings.
- [Day 227](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-227-7/) - Notes: Desires influence our behaviour; if we’re not conscious of this, we find ourself in a nightmare.
- [Day 226](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-226-8/) - Notes: If I had been aware of the importance of impermanence, I wouldn’t experience so much fear in the past. Now, thankfully I’m aware of it.
- [Day 225](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-225-8/) - Notes: I’m extremely grateful of my karma that teaches me how dangerous attachments are.
- [Day 224](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-224-6/) - Notes: Being aware of the death process is important; it helps us to prepare ourself of what will happen and to be afraid of.
- [Day 223](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-223-6/) - Notes: Illness is always under control of delusion and karma. Be careful dear Rinchen Dolma of what you’re creating.
- [Day 241](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-241-8/) - Notes: Attachment is the root of all the problems experienced by our body and mind True. Wanting things to be other than they are...Holding on to rigid inflexible concepts... Through understanding the psychology of attachment we will learn to control our mind Spending time alone in recent times I am beginning to see more closely
- [Day 216](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-216-8/) - Notes: Since beginningless time, every time we have left a body we have taken rebirth again Each of our samsaric bodies has been subject to suffering, much of it terrible The scale of our suffering is unimaginable and will continue until we escape samsara
- [Day 222](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-222-7/) - Notes: Enjoying aging is wonderful, and means that we are aware of impermanence. Do your best until the death arrives, my dear Rinchen Dolma.
- [Day 215](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-215-9/) - Notes: Without choice, we have had to leave every kind of samsaric body countless times Even a desire realm god will eventually die and be reborn in the hell realms We have this body for the briefest moment, so there’s no reason to be attached to it
- [Day 240](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-240-8/) - Notes: There are six basic emotions that frustrate the human mind and disturb its peace disturbing its peace, making it restless: ignorance, attachment, anger, pride, deluded doubt and distorted views. These are mental attitudes, not external phenomena. ~Sadly bar pride (Although it's probably in the mix too) these are like undiluted cordial in my mind
- [Day 214](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-214-8/) - Notes: Our main problem is the suffering that comes from not attaining our various desires Even those with no material needs can suffer from an acute feeling of dissatisfaction Suffering will continue for as long as our mind is tied up with an uncontrolled body
- [Day 239](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-239-7/) - Notes: It’s our own ignorant, grasping attitude that creates our confusion and dissatisfaction True. My mind is so deeply habituated to so many negative habits that I may have no hope for some time...(Speck meru Eons) Meditation enables us to understand the nature of things and have fewer expectations Live a more simple life with
- [Day 3](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-3-146/) - Notes: Patience is paramount. Keep going back. Perseverance.
- [Day 221](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-221-6/) - Notes: The birth isn’t easy for both mum and baby. I’m aware of the discomfort that I create to Sacha during the pregnancy, and I’m so glade that he was born with opened eyes and a smile :). Maybe my effort to pay amend by talking him had been helpful.
- [Day 213](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-213-7/) - Notes: Nothing is definite in samsara: our relationships, possessions and body do not last Simply watching our mind or looking around us shows how everything changes The clairvoyant Shariputra saw how family members swapped places from life to life
- [Day 238](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-238-7/) - Notes: Dharma practice is the only thing that will bring our beginningless rebirths to an end True. Death can come at any moment and anything other than Dharma is meaningless True and to integrate it
- [Day 212](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-212-10/) - Notes: There is no easy escape from samsara: it’s inside our mind and with us wherever we go Our five aggregates are samsara because they are bound by delusion and karma Until we are liberated, everything we do will be in the nature of suffering
- [Day 237](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-237-6/) - Notes: We should enjoy material life while understanding the nature of our enjoyment We should enjoy our material life as much as we can Don't deny ourselves the pleasures of our material lives but realise the relationship between mind and object of enjoyment... Materialism is a narrow mind obsessed with external rather than internal things
- [Day 220](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-220-8/) - Notes: The eight types of human suffering are always present, whether we’re working or on holiday. So please, Rinchen, be always compassionate when you see this misunderstanding by other’s behaviour.
- [Day 219](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-219-9/) - Notes: Being constantly mindful in daily life give us the determination to let go worldly attachment and seeing the six suffering of this samsara.
- [Day 23](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-23-43/) - Notes: I don’t know the difference is between our guru and our every day teacher. It might help me be more accepting of guru devotion if I did.
- [Day 211](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-211-8/) - Notes: In his teaching on the four noble truths the Buddha laid out the entire path When we understand our illness and its cause, we eagerly seek a cure The Buddha saw that first of all we need to recognize the extent of our suffering
- [Day 210](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-210-8/) - Notes: If we think we aren’t suffering, we should take a look at our uncontrolled mind Suffering isn’t just physical pain—it’s also our ever-­present energy of dissatisfaction People now realize that they’ve been seeking happiness in all the wrong places
- [Day 236](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-236-6/) - Notes: For as long as we remain in samsara, suffering is inevitable True. No matter what pocket we find ourselves in... If we think that miserable situations are unfair, we only double the suffering True. Better to accept it, let it in and work with it rather than reject it or blame an external factor...(Pointing
- [Day 198](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-198-11/) - 笔记： 如果因果法则不指导我们的生活，就没有佛法修行，没有佛法，就只剩下无知和痛苦 - 喇嘛耶喜
- [Day 209](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-209-11/) - Notes: A medium capable being seeks liberation from all suffering All living beings are conditioned by suffering, which means having an uncontrolled mind We need to realize that the sufferings of samsara are a blazing fire that will consume us
- [Day 235](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-235-6/) - Notes: We keep ourselves busy, day and night, creating the cause for more suffering Even if, In some way...I am working hoping for a higher rebirth...I feel as though as it is taught a life of pleasure will only lead to another hell realm rebirth...So hypothetically even if I attained a higher rebirth and lived
- [Day 197](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-197-10/) - 笔记：有八种成熟的功德，使我们能够广泛利益他人，并更容易在证悟的道路上发展我们的心智 - 喇嘛佐巴仁波切 有了这个身体，我们就能获得八种成熟功德的人身重生 每一个成熟的品质都有其特定的原因，并帮助我们快速实现 当我们拥有强大的身心时，我们就能不断修行佛法 业力3 积极的业力过程3.3 成熟的品质
- [Day 208](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-208-11/) - Notes: If we keep our situation happy day by day we will eventually reach enlightenment Since the mind is the nucleus of samsara and nirvana, we need the right motivation We must determine to live with wisdom, mindfulness and compassion
- [Day 234](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-234-8/) - Notes: Pervasive compounding suffering is what we most need to understand and renounce To understand the Five Skandhas and to sit with them... Under the control of delusion and karma, we perpetuate our suffering from life to life True. Having this contaminated body is like living in a garbage can or septic tank Also true
- [Day 196](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-196-9/) - 笔记：誓言极大地增加了我们通过做善事所创造的功德 - 喇嘛佐巴仁波切 持守誓言是通往解脱和觉悟的单程票 在圣物前许愿和不许愿有很大区别 发誓不杀生，即使我们什么都不做，也能持续造就善业 业力 3 积极的业力过程 3.2 无意中通向强大业力的大门
- [Day 207](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-207-12/) - Notes: A very good meditation is to observe everything in our mind as a karmic projection The happiness that we experience now is the result of our positive actions in the past Understanding our ability to create our own world will inspire and encourage us
- [Day 233](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-233-7/) - Notes: Our self-­existent pleasurable experiences are not real happiness True When our hunger starts to subside, we call that happiness True but it's just one side of the coin in a world of duality. We project something pleasurable to be real happiness but it actually leads to pain True.
- [Day 206](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-206-8/) - Notes: There’s a big difference between intellectual and experiential understandings of karma Students who are mindful of their actions get a true taste of Dharma Theoretical knowledge alone is not enough to put a stop to our negative habits
- [Day 232](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-232-7/) - Notes: We all recognize and want to be free from the suffering of suffering True. The knowing that no matter what pocket of samara we find ourselves in there will inevitably be suffering beyond the external appearance of any situation and the cultural connotations associated with it. ie. certain situations are deemed as desirable however
- [Day 195](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-195-11/) - 笔记：我们拥有极少数人拥有的自由——创造尽可能多的善业的自由 - 喇嘛佐巴仁波切 我们创造的业力的力量取决于物体的力量 建立佛法联系后，善因可以迅速而有力地成熟 发菩提心供养一小炷香，威力极大 业力 3 积极的业力过程 3.2 无意中通向强大业力的大门
- [Day 194](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-194-11/) - 笔记：生命的核能和行动的核能是动机，而不是行动本身 - 喇嘛耶喜 我们的心理态度决定了行为的好坏 由于动机不同，乞丐创造了功德，而富人没有 同情心的动机带来开放，让我们摆脱自私的黑暗 业力 3 正业力过程 3.1 正业力过程及其结果
- [Day 205](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-205-10/) - Notes: To be ignorant of karma is to stumble blindly without knowing the way out of suffering Recognition of karma gives us freedom to sow the seeds of happiness with every action Only when we understand karma can we liberate ourselves from the prison of samsara
- [Day 231](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-231-8/) - Notes: The Four Noble Truths Sutra condenses all the teachings on suffering into three types:the suffering of suffering, the suffering of change and pervasive compounding suffering Pervasive compounding suffering is the foundation for the other two sufferings The five aggregates are the base from which pain and change arise... When we understand all three levels of suffering we will
- [Day 204](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-204-13/) - Notes: We fail to see that all the suffering we experience is the result of our own karma Whatever others do to us is the direct result of what we have done to them in the past The only enemy is our delusions and there’s no reason to get angry with any other being
- [Day 230](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-230-9/) - Notes: Rebirth in the god realm uses up all our positive karma and leads to great suffering I understand this, I feel. Form realm gods have perfected samadhi but are not on the path to enlightenment This I can't quite comprehend...
- [Day 229](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-229-6/) - Notes: Demigods experience more pleasure than humans, but less than the gods And ultimately, it isn't a desirable realm in the end because you are detached from compassion and can't comprehend how your actions effect others and are only concerned with the luxury material and sensory realms... Driven crazy by jealousy of the incredible luxury
- [Day 228](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-228-7/) - Notes: We are forever tied to suffering by this body and mind created by delusion and karma True. Our five deluded aggregates are instruments of suffering from conception up to death True. Wherever we go, we carry a load of suffering like a lump of red-­hot iron on our back Also true.
- [Day 193](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-193-11/) - 笔记： 十不善业导致痛苦就像我们更换电视频道一样，我们可以将自己的生活转换为痛苦或幸福 - 喇嘛佐巴仁波切 十善业导致快乐 它们最重要的结果是我们自然而然地继续做善事 十种美德的清单只是一个指南——我们可以做的美德之事数不胜数 业力 3 正业力过程 3.1 正业力过程及其结果
- [Day 192](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-192-12/) - 笔记： 不受控制的思想会让生活变成一场灾难，这就是为什么强调控制至关重要 - 喇嘛耶喜 我们必须检查自己的行为，并知道我们有能力和智慧去改变它 通过承认我们的错误，我们可以利用它们来帮助我们改变态度 由于我们所有的负面行为都来自我们内心，我们有责任控制它们 业力 2 负面业力过程
- [Day 191](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-191-15/) - 笔记：：任何违法行为都会引发连锁反应，导致越来越多的痛苦——喇嘛佐巴仁波切每一个恶行都会产生一个结果，当转世为人时会产生三个结果最坏的结果，是产生与因相似的果子，带来无尽的痛苦尽管不道德的行为看起来微不足道，但它也会让我们习惯于做出越来越糟糕的行为业力2 恶业过程2.3四种苦果
- [Day 203](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-203-14/) - Notes: Changing our habitual behavior is a gradual process that demands patience and wisdom We should concentrate first on purifying gross negativities and removing obvious faults To succeed in our Dharma practice it’s best to be relaxed and down-­to-­earth
- [Day 227](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-227-6/) - Notes: We are driven by desire from the moment we wake until we fall asleep at night true. Seeking something. Always seeking. The gaps of presence and meditation need to be built upon for progression along the path. We all want happiness and to avoid the slightest suffering or disappointment true, however inline with our
- [Day 202](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-202-13/) - Notes: There are many ways to purify the mind but the lamrim texts usually list six In addition to the specific practices, any meritorious activity is a form of purification Purification with the four powers should be a regular part of our Dharma practice
- [Day 226](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-226-7/) - Notes: Encountering things and people we dislike, such as enemies, is a source of suffering Our life is a constant and fruitless struggle to acquire things and keep out of danger Even the things that make life comfortable often become an extra source of pain
- [Day 225](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-225-7/) - Notes: Our attachment to external objects creates a psychological atomic bomb within us True. When these external objects inevitably change, great worry and paranoia arise True. This evening I have considered change in a positive light. but also with pleasure grasping... We live in fear of separation from what we mistakenly consider objects of pleasure
- [Day 200](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-200-11/) - Notes: If we think we don’t have much to purify, it’s because we haven’t thought well or deeply We should fear our negativities as much as we would fear a nest of cobras in our lap Only by really understanding karma can we develop the strong conviction to purify
- [Day 224](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-224-5/) - Whatever our fears, regrets and beliefs, death will definitely happen one day True. And the time of death is unknown...And so we must practice Dharma best we can and integrate it into our life each day... When we die, we are separated from our possessions, family, friends and our body Which is why it is
- [Day 223](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-223-5/) - Notes: Although nobody wants to be sick, we all have to experience many illnesses and pains Not only that! I'm destined to billions of Eons in the worst of all the hells where time is balanced so that the pain is incomprehensibly horrid and beyond the worst of all hells...because I looked at an image
- [Day 13](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-13-44/) - Notes: Another teaching I’m not sure I believe or even agree with the premise. It feels like it is veering toward hero worship which I am fundamentally opposed to. I will try and keep an open mind though.
- [Day 222](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-222-6/) - Notes: The suffering of aging relates primarily to the time when we realize we’re getting old Due to the lifestyle I lived in my youth I accelerated parts of this process and took for granted the precious human rebirth and my senses... For moments in time a focus was purely deriving the most pleasure from
- [Day 12](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-12-54/) - Notes: Not sure what I think about this one.
- [Day 198](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-198-10/) - Notes: A deep understanding of karma makes us conscientious in everything we do An hour’s meditation is nothing compared to a day of sustained conscious awareness Being watchful of our actions and cultivating loving kindness should be our main practice
- [Day 197](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-197-9/) - Notes: With this body we can attain a human rebirth with the eight ripened qualities Each ripened quality has a particular cause and helps us have quick realizations When we have a powerful mind and body we can constantly practice Dharma
- [Day 220](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-220-7/) - The eight sufferings of the human realm show that suffering affects both rich or poor True. No matter which pocket of samsara we find ourselves in, we will inevitably suffer... Most people have no idea of life, karma, what causes suffering or how to break free of it True. Me included, I am starting (speck,
- [Day 6](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-6-86/) - Notes:
- [Day 218](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-218-9/) - Notes: As said before we have to letting go of every attachment in order to be free from samsara or to be able to choose our next rebirth.
- [Day 217](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-217-8/) - Notes: Again; I must let go every attachment to this life full of poisonous illusions. Otherwise I will circle in samsara without end.
- [Day 216](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-216-7/) - Notes: There is no solution to escape samsara until we understand how are the causes that we keep attached to this prison
- [Day 196](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-196-8/) - Notes: Keeping vows is a one-­way ticket to liberation and enlightenment There’s a big difference between making a vow before a holy object and not making it Taking a vow not to kill creates continuous good karma even when we’re doing nothing
- [Day 219](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-219-8/) - Notes: When we meditate on the six types of suffering, we must determine to break the cycle I am aware (speck meru) to a degree, I mean it feels really palpable the six types of suffering, at this point in time I still engage in them to an extent, but without a guru in my
- [Day 195](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-195-10/) - Notes: The power of the karma we create depends on the power of the object Positive karma can ripen quickly and powerfully after making a Dharma connection Offering one small stick of incense with bodhicitta motivation is very powerful
- [Day 218](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-218-8/) - Notes: We are born alone and die alone: nobody else can share our suffering at these times This is true. And in one teaching I read it is said that being surrounded by those we love at the time of death can actually cause more clinging and emotional attachment and hence sometimes make the process
- [Day 1](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-1-165/) - cause effect graduated paths to enlightment - practice in right orders Suffering of three lower realms : impermanence and death Suffering nature of samsara - renunciation- conpassion for sentient beings - become enlightment- to free being from samsara and bring them to enlightment
- [Day 190](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-190-10/) - 笔记：只有理解因果，明白我们为什么受苦，我们才能停止这种一轮又一轮的麻烦。 - 喇嘛佐巴仁波切 有很多因素决定了我们创造的业力的强度 这些包括行为的性质、意图、行为和基础 重复的行为或未净化的行为也会带来更严重的后果 业力 2 恶业过程 2.2 造成重业或轻业的差异
- [Day 194](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-194-10/) - Notes: It is our mental attitude that makes an action good or bad Due to their different motivations, a beggar created merit while a rich man did not A sympathetic motivation brings openness and makes us lose our selfish darkness
- [Day 217](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-217-7/) - Notes: We have fallen from extraordinary luxury to terrible suffering numberless times This is so real and I feel it so truly that it is utterly haunting and terrifying. I feel compelled to also acknowledge that there is a part of me that revels in the comedy/tragedy of samsara. Of-course, the higher part of me
- [Day 193](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-193-10/) - Notes: Just as the ten nonvirtues lead to suffering, the ten virtues lead to happiness Their most important result is that we naturally continue to do virtuous activities The list of ten virtues is only a guide—there are innumerable virtuous things we can do
- [Day 192](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-192-11/) - Notes: We must check our behavior and know we have the power and wisdom to change it By acknowledging our mistakes we can use them to help us change our attitude Since all our negative actions come from within us, we have the responsibility to control them
- [Day 216](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-216-6/) - Notes: Since beginningless time, every time we have left a body we have taken rebirth again ~The cycle of samsara... Each of our samsaric bodies has been subject to suffering, much of it terrible True The scale of our suffering is unimaginable and will continue until we escape samsara True. Even in the desire god
- [Day 189](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-189-8/) - 笔记：异端邪说，也称为错误观点，是一种错误的信念，认为存在的事物是不存在的 - 喇嘛佐巴仁波切 异端邪说是相信存在事物不存在，例如业力 异端行为是指持续持有错误的信仰并谈论它 通过将我们的理解与伟大导师的理解进行比较，可以避免异端 业力 2 恶业过程 2.1 十不善 2.1.10 异端
- [Day 188](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-188-10/) - 笔记： 一次恶意造成的可怕痛苦永无止境 - 喇嘛佐巴仁波切 恶意的动机是希望其他众生遭受伤害或痛苦 恶意的行为是继续希望他人受到伤害 一颗完全被恶意淹没的心，有五个特征 业力2 恶业过程2.1 十不善业2.1.9 恶意
- [Day 215](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-215-8/) - Notes: Without choice, we have had to leave every kind of samsaric body countless times True. Even a desire realm god will eventually die and be reborn in the hell realms True. It has to balance itself out karmically. We have this body for the briefest moment, so there’s no reason to be attached to
- [Day 214](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-214-7/) - Notes: Our main problem is the suffering that comes from not attaining our various desires True。And perhaps or likely it is an illusion that once we attain said desire that we will be satisfied... Even those with no material needs can suffer from an acute feeling of dissatisfaction True. I feel as though I can
- [Day 86](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-86-19/) - Notes: With this perfect human rebirth, we can create causes for perfect happiness We must understand our limitless potential and make the most of every moment Now is the time to make vast plans to follow in the steps of Shakyamuni Buddha 🔝🪷☸️🕉️ 😁🥰
- [Day 85](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-85-15/) - Notes: Yogis of the past such as Milarepa owned nothing but were unbelievably happy Our freedoms and richnesses are more precious than the wealth of all universes The greatest riches of all are renunciation, bodhicitta and understanding reality 🧘🏼☸️🪷
- [Day 84](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-84-18/) - Notes: Have we done anything that has brought us true happiness and a joyful life? Our actions of body, speech and mind often create frustration and confusion We need to check up whether we are genuinely following a spiritual path 🪷☸️
- [Day 83](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-83-15/) - Notes:We don’t have long to practice Dharma, and if we don’t make the most of this chance while there’s still time, we will surely lose it- Lama Zopa RinpocheLife is extremely short and starts to decay from the moment of our birthTaking its essence is like picking up a priceless diamond during a flash of
- [Day 82](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-82-19/) - Notes: We can access the entire Buddhadharma only during this eon of existence There are countless sentient beings, but very few can benefit from the Dharma This is the rarest rebirth of all, the one that is hardest to receive ⏳🦨🫶💃🏼🪷💎
- [Day 81](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-81-17/) - Notes: There are many analogies for the difficulty of attaining a perfect human rebirth The story of the blind turtle demonstrates the extraordinary rarity of this rebirth Each element in the story has a symbolic meaning 🐢🌊🟡
- [Day 80](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-80-21/) - Notes: A perfect human rebirth is very rare because its causes are so difficult to acquire The three causes are: morality, generosity and making stainless prayers It’s vital not to waste all the past efforts that created this perfect human rebirth 🪷
- [Day 187](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-187-10/) - 笔记： 贪婪的结果是欲望极大，却得不到满足 - 喇嘛佐巴仁波切 贪婪是执着于他人拥有的不满足的心 非德行只是想要得到某样东西——没有必要真正得到它 为了得到我们渴望的东西，我们引发了一连串的痛苦结果 业力 2 恶业过程 2.1 十不善 2.1.8 贪婪
- [Day 28](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-28-29/) - Notes: Test notes
- [Day 186](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-186-12/) - 笔记：我们很难找到任何不是八卦的言论 - 喇嘛佐巴仁波切 闲话的定义是说一些毫无意义、没有真正目的的话 主要需要检查的是我们的动机——例如，我们只是在炫耀吗？ 相反，菩萨的言语是出于传播佛法的愿望 业力 2 恶业过程 2.1 十不善 2.1.7 闲话
- [Day 185](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-185-10/) - 笔记：恶语是最重的言语业力，因为对方会突然遭受巨大的痛苦 - 喇嘛佐巴仁波切 使用恶毒的言语是出于伤害其他众生的动机的行为 粗鲁的言辞不一定是暴力的；它们可以非常礼貌和温和地说出来 亲昵地或开玩笑地使用恶语也会造恶业 业力 2 恶业过程 2.1 十不善业 2.1.6 恶口
- [Day 191](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-191-14/) - Notes: Every negative action has a ripening result and then three results when reborn a human The worst result is creating the result similar to the cause, which brings endless suffering Even if a nonvirtue seems insignificant, it habituates us to doing worse and worse actio
- [Day 211](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-211-7/) - Notes: In his teaching on the four noble truths the Buddha laid out the entire path When we understand our illness and its cause, we eagerly seek a cure The Buddha saw that first of all we need to recognize the extent of our suffering In "extent" is the nature also implied? I imagine so...depending
- [Day 3](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-3-145/) - Notes: If others before me have achieved great realizations quickly by strictly following the Lamrim path, so too can I.
- [Day 2](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-2-121/) - Notes: I have spent many years and thousands upon thousands of hours studying to obtain four college degrees. Yet none of it has led to happiness. Were I to devote the same level of effort to Buddha Dharma, imagine what I might achieve!
- [Day 184](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-184-11/) - 笔记：如果我们发表分裂言论，我们的言论将毫无力量，只会分裂人民 - 喇嘛佐巴仁波切 分裂言论旨在造成、扩大或延长不和谐的分裂 这种行为是为了制造分裂而说的话，即使我们说的是真的 我们所说的是分裂言论，无论它是否造成了我们想要的不和谐 业力 2 恶业过程 2.1 十不善业 2.1.5 两舌
- [Day 183](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-183-9/) - 笔记：为了得到想要的东西而撒谎一次后，我们会发现下一次撒谎更容易，而且每次撒谎都变得更加自然。 - 喇嘛佐巴仁波切 第一个不善的言语行为是说谎 说谎的定义是故意“改变认知” 最恶劣的说谎形式是假装有证悟，并向圣人说谎 业力 2 恶业过程 2.1 十不善业 2.1.4 说谎
- [Day 190](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-190-9/) - Notes: There are many factors that determine the strength of the karma we create These include the nature of the action, the intention, the deed and the base Actions that are repeated or haven’t been purified will also bring a heavier result
- [Day 210](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-210-7/) - Notes: If we think we aren’t suffering, we should take a look at our uncontrolled mind Suffering isn’t just physical pain—it’s also our ever-­present energy of dissatisfaction Yes. People now realize that they’ve been seeking happiness in all the wrong places Yes and no.
- [Day 209](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-209-10/) - Notes: A medium capable being seeks liberation from all suffering True. All living beings are conditioned by suffering, which means having an uncontrolled mind True. We need to realize that the sufferings of samsara are a blazing fire that will consume us Yes I see this Lord Buddha, I see this.
- [Day 189](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-189-7/) - Notes: Heresy is the belief in the non-­existence of an existent object, such as karma The action of heresy is to continuously hold a wrong belief and to speak about it Heresy can be averted by comparing our understanding to that of the great teachers
- [Day 215](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-215-7/) - Notes: Remember how useless is thinking that the appearances are important is my main though; day and night I will generate virtuous thoughts by letting go every samsaric desires.
- [Day 214](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-214-6/) - Notes: Until our mind is tied up with our uncontrolled body we will suffer and be dissatisfied and never in peace.
- [Day 213](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-213-6/) - Notes: Incredible how changes rife with our daily life, but still we often forget it. That’s why we create delusions and burden our karma in every single moment.
- [Day 188](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-188-9/) - Notes: Ill will is motivated by the wish for another sentient being to experience harm or distress The action of ill will is to continue hoping that the other being comes to harm A mind that is completely overwhelmed by ill will has five characteristics
- [Day 208](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-208-10/) - Notes: If we keep our situation happy day by day we will eventually reach enlightenment The practicality of Buddhism. If every day were like today and I could see the positive in things strongly and not sweat the small stuff and try my darnedest to be considerate of others and spread compassion and loving kindness,
- [Day 207](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-207-11/) - Notes: A very good meditation is to observe everything in our mind as a karmic projection ~I had a thought inline with a teaching today about how the Buddha knows every single thought (and experience) each and every sentient being is experiencing at any given moment. Knows in finite detail perfectly each and every pat.
- [Day 187](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-187-9/) - Notes: Covetousness is the unsatisfied mind of attachment that wants the possessions of others The nonvirtue is simply to want the object—there’s no need to actually acquire it To acquire the things we covet, we set in motion a chain of suffering results
- [Day 186](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-186-11/) - Notes: The definition of idle gossip is to say something meaningless and without real purpose The main thing to check is our motivation—for example, are we just showing off? In contrast, the speech of bodhisattvas is motivated by a wish to share the Dharma
- [Day 185](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-185-9/) - Notes: Using harsh words is an action motivated by wanting to harm another sentient being Harsh words don’t need to be violent; they may be very polite and softly spoken Using harsh words affectionately or as a joke also creates negative karma
- [Day 206](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-206-7/) - Notes: There’s a big difference between intellectual and experiential understandings of karma Test the gold. Awareness is the first step, but alone not enough. Actions have to be changed and habits redirected... Students who are mindful of their actions get a true taste of Dharma I am learning better in challenging moments to apply the
- [Day 184](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-184-10/) - Notes: Divisive speech aims to cause, widen or prolong a disharmonious split The action is to say things with the intent of divisiveness, even if our words are true What we say is divisive speech, whether or not it causes the disharmony we intended
- [Day 205](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-205-9/) - Notes: To be ignorant of karma is to stumble blindly without knowing the way out of suffering ~True. Not seeing how to transform our actions and not seeing the law of cause and effect... Recognition of karma gives us freedom to sow the seeds of happiness with every action Also true. Only when we understand
- [Day 212](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-212-9/) - Notes: the sooner we liberate our self from ignorance, the sooner we leave samsara. Adopt emptiness in every single moment Richen Dolma :)
- [Day 211](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-211-6/) - Notes: First is understanding that we suffer, second is abandoning the cause of suffering, third is following the path of cessation of suffering, and fourth is practicing the Buddha’s teachings and go to full enlightenment.
- [Day 204](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-204-12/) - Notes: We fail to see that all the suffering we experience is the result of our own karma True. While I have a degree of understanding (speck meru) of my negative actions accumulated in this life thus far...I have no concept of those beyond this life and hence can't see fully what is at play.
- [Day 67](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-67-28/) - Hungry ghosts sounds like addiction the craving for food and sustenance like one’s very life depends on it so I know the feeling of not thinking about anything else obsessive minds and being totally desperate . this st
- [Day 66](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-66-25/) - I think active addiction is a taste of being a hell being might not be to the degree but it’s a taste. And therefore suffering was all my mind new then and it seems with sobriety that I am now out of the hellish realm and can develop postive qualities by recognizing how bad things
- [Day 183](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-183-8/) - Notes: The first nonvirtuous action of speech is telling lies The definition of lying is to deliberately “change the recognition” The worst forms of lying are pretending to have realizations and lying to holy beings
- [Day 203](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-203-13/) - Notes: Changing our habitual behavior is a gradual process that demands patience and wisdom True. We should concentrate first on purifying gross negativities and removing obvious faults Also true, not sure exactly what defines a "gross negativity" however inline with Paloma Alba she talks about actions of the body being "more gross" so I suppose
- [Day 8](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-8-58/) - Notes: and that is part of what made Rinpoche so special. He was the path. It was embodied is his person, his speech and his mind. Diamond-like clarity, he always saw the situation from the dharma perspective no matter how difficult or uncomfortable for others.
- [Day 182](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-182-9/) - Notes: Sexual misconduct is defined as having any form of sex that is inappropriate and harmful The more the other person is harmed, the heavier the karma created Sexual misconduct creates confusion and disharmony and leads to unbelievable problems
- [Day 65](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-65-22/) - This moment now in this incarnation are the perfect qualities to practice Dharma. There are 8 freedoms and ten richnesses tomediate on to realize that I am fortunate in this birth and my fortune should not make me feel better than rather it should help me feel compassion for other sentient beings who are not
- [Day 202](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-202-12/) - Notes: There are many ways to purify the mind but the lamrim texts usually list six In addition to the specific practices, any meritorious activity is a form of purification Purification with the four powers should be a regular part of our Dharma practice I have much (speck meru) to purify
- [Day 64](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-64-26/) - I have an opportunity here that I should not squander. I have perfect human rebirth . The Landon focuses on this first. the lamrim is intentional each step leading to enlightenment. It like the 12 steps are not like a buffet where I pick what I like, I have to take the whole lamrim , in
- [Day 181](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-181-10/) - Notes: Stealing is caused by craving and is due to either ignorance, attachment or anger The Tibetan word for stealing defines it as “taking that which is not given” Stealing can take many forms, such as avoiding paying a train fare
- [Day 201](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-201-13/) - Notes: The four opponent powers make any form of purification incredibly powerful ~True and so it is important to remember when practicing purification as it is an opportunity to strengthen the effects and remove obscurations more directly. They are the powers of the object (The Triratna), regret, resolve and the remedy All four powers are vital because each
- [Day 6](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-6-85/) - Notes: the guru being the most powerful object is certainly true. Almost daily I think of something Rinpoche said in his teachings and I compare other teachers to him to test their wisdom. I have no ability to judge anyone’s dharma realisations but from his actions, I can make a comparison that is helpful in
- [Day 200](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-200-10/) - Notes: If we think we don’t have much to purify, it’s because we haven’t thought well or deeply I am well aware (not in a clairvoyant way) to the extent I can be that I have beyond cosmic mountains (speck meru) of negative karma to purify and that I am stuck in a loop behaviourally.
- [Day 182](https://lamrimyear.com/lds-course-notes/day-182-8/) - 笔记：戒除不当性行为的恶业，可以保护我们免于许多关系问题 - 喇嘛佐巴仁波切 性不当行为的定义是任何形式的不适当和有害的性行为 对方受到的伤害越大，所造的业力就越重 性行为不当会造成混乱和不和谐，并导致令人难以置信的问题 业力2 恶业过程2.1 十不善行2.1.3 邪淫