On Sunday the yearly Ngakso Puja took place at Gomde Denmark. More than one hundred practitioners attended.
RANGJUNG YESHE GOMDE SANGHA DENMARK
7. juli 2010
29. juni 2010
eco-ice cream
PS. We just got a small freezer filled with eco-ice cream and Rinpoche, Lama Ji and Buchung got the first ones.
Absolutely delicious !!!
Rinpoche arrives at Gomde
At noon on the 28th the Sangha and visitors welcomed a great Bodhisattva at Gomde Denmark. Bringing with him a flawless blue sky, Rinpoche's arrival marks an auspicious beginning of the main part of this years Cloudless Summer Camp.
Rinpoche gave an introductory speech, inspected the grounds and improvements made since his last visit.
In the span of the next three days Rinpoche will be expounding the subject of compassion and egolessness.
Rinpoche gave an introductory speech, inspected the grounds and improvements made since his last visit.
In the span of the next three days Rinpoche will be expounding the subject of compassion and egolessness.
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27. juni 2010
Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche i Kastrup Lufthavn
Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche ankommer med fly fra Bangkok til Kastup Lufthavn mandag morgen den 28. juni.
Forventet ankomst kl. 7:05
Planlagt ankomst kl. 7:40
Mads og René vil køre Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche med følge i bil fra lufthavnen til Gomde.
Så der vil være mulighed for at byde Rinpoche velkommen til Danmark inden han fortsætter rejsen til Jylland.
Forventet ankomst kl. 7:05
Planlagt ankomst kl. 7:40
Mads og René vil køre Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche med følge i bil fra lufthavnen til Gomde.
Så der vil være mulighed for at byde Rinpoche velkommen til Danmark inden han fortsætter rejsen til Jylland.
26. juni 2010
25. juni 2010
Kandidater til Formands- og bestyrelsesposter i Foreningen Gomde Sangha
Kandidater til formands- og bestyrelsesposter i Foreningen Gomde Sangha.
Vi vil gerne have at alle, der er interesserede, stiller op til posten for formand og de fire bestyrelsesposter samt to suppleanter, man kan stille op på den stiftende generalforsamling d. 5/7 kl. 10 -12 på Gomde.
Som forberedelse er der allerede nu fire, der har ønsket at beskrive, hvorfor de stiller op, se nedenfor.
Kh
Lillian, Anne Lise og Kaj
Andreas Doctor stiller op til bestyrelsen:
Jeg stiller op til bestyrelsesvalg i foreningen Gomde Sangha for at støtte den nye demokratiske struktur i sanghaen. Jeg har boet i Nepal i en del år og vil gerne dele mine oplevelser fra klosteret i Nepal med sanghaen i Danmark. Da jeg også har lært tibetansk under mit ophold i Nepal håber jeg at det kan være en hjælp til at støtte kommunikationen med klosteret og de munke og nonner som vi forhåbentlig kommer til at invitere til Danmark fremover til at undervise os. Jeg er også meget interesseret i hvordan vi bedst kan integrere den buddhistiske tradition i et samfund som vores og jeg vil gerne prøve at bidrage til denne proces gennem bestyrelsesarbejdet. Endelig håber jeg også at jeg fremover vil kunne være i Danmark for at hjælpe til med de mange praktiske opgaver på Gomde.
Niels Viggo Hansen stiller op til bestyrelsen for Gomde Sangha:
Hvis jeg skulle pege på to ting jeg primært ville finde det naturligt at arbejde for i sådan en bestyrelse, ville det være at gøre Gomde lidt mere synlig og tilgængelig for de mange unge mennesker som søger efter måder at rumme dyb og ægte spiritualitet i den hektiske og farverige nutid, og på den længere bane at sikre Gomdes harmoniske eksistens i en organisationsform, en samfundsmæssig ”krop”, der svinger godt med et moderne dansk / europæisk / kosmopolitisk samfund.
At vi har et forum, hvor medlemmerne kan komme til orde.
Rolfsgade 1
8260 Viby J
Tlf. 26914911
Kaj Hansen stiller op til bestyrelsen for Gomde Sangha:
Jeg hedder Kaj Hansen og er kommet til undervisning på Gomde siden 2005. Jeg er imponeret og taknemmelig over den generøsitet Rangjung Yeshe Gomde udstråler. Jeg vil gerne medvirke til at videreføre og udvikle arbejdet på Gomde, derfor har det været dejligt at få mulighed for at arbejde på etablering af Foreningen Gomde Sangha. Jeg tror, at denne forening vil kunne danne ramme om en styrkelse af arbejdet med en ny organisering og udvikling af Gomde, f.eks. etablering af det religiøse samfund: Ka-Nying Dharma Lineage med de funktioner og fordele for medlemmer/Gomde dette indebærer. Gomde skal, synes jeg, godkendes til det formål stedet har, bl.a. for at kunne udbygge rammerne. Organiseringen i foreningen skal styrke medlemmernes medvirken og mulighed for deltagelse på forskellige niveauer.
24. juni 2010
Welcome ceremony and Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche's arrival speech.
Welcome ceremony and Rinpoche's arrival speech on the 28th of June.
In a traditional Buddhist fashion we form a welcome procession for a great bodhisattva and escort him into the temple hall. Come earlier if you wish to participate in decorating the road and temple with auspicious symbols and flowers. Put on your finest, hold incense and a white, red or yellow scarf. Be here before 11 am. Everyone is welcome.
Velkomst ceremoni og Rinpoches ankomsts tale d. 28 juni.
På traditionel buddhistisk vis byder vi en stor bodhisattva ind i tempelsalen. Kom tidligere hvis I vil være med til at dekorere vejen med lykkebringende tegn og blomster. Tag dit bedste tøj på, hav røgelse og et hvidt eller gult skærf i hånden. Vær her før kl 11:00. Alle er velkomne.
21. juni 2010
A letter from Phakchok Rinpoche
Dear All,
It is evening here in Boudhanath, Kathmandu and I'm sitting on my bed, drinking tea and watching the World Cup, the 1st Half of Chile Vs. Switzerland. Deliciously lost in time and deeply embedded in the samsaric way of life! At a time like this, if I try to recall the Buddha's teaching on how one should spend their time, I am reminded of the "three different chakras":
1. Allocating time for meditation
2. Listening, reading and reflecting on teachings
3. Engaging in actions based on good motivation
If possible, your meditation should be continuous and on a daily basis. The duration doesn't matter; it can be for few seconds, minutes and later hours. When you make it a habit to meditate continuously, you'll have fever problems with your mind and the emotions that follow. So for instance, while watching the World Cup and in the moment of jubilation/grievance for your team, you can meditate for few seconds and try to be mindful of those very feelings at that very moment. Isn't that quite simple? Meditation, a term with 10 alphabets can sometimes bear a certain weight because of it's length and meaning and thus people tend to be too careful with it. To a point where we build a complete new environment for it: the right place to meditate, the right time to meditate, and the right circumstance to mediate. And in the process of planning, we loose out on time and hence a day skips by followed by a week and then loose the entire momentum of wanting to meditate. So before you get entrapped in this repeated cycle, try not to plan too much and just meditate.
But before you engage in your meditation, you should have a good understanding of the meaning of the "right view". The view of emptiness, the empty nature of all phenomena. Many of us engaged in our different stages and types of mediation are sometimes completely lost in the method and while doing so we truly forget the ground. Therefore, we should constantly reflect on the right view, emptiness. The great master Tilopa when instructing his heart student Naropa states that, "If you don't understand the right view then your meditation and conduct will not be right". It is like for instance, when someone is meditating, he/she saying, "I am meditating". The very fact that the word "I" is mentioned, and the attachment to the word "I", your meditation is not right.
For the means for understanding and training in the right view and to understand emptiness, it is helpful to use Atisha's technique of Burjom, getting rid of thoughts as they arise. And while investigating your thoughts, it is mentioned that one should be like a lion and not like a dog. No matter what kind of feelings, thoughts, and emotions arise, don't chase after them like a dog. Instead, think of where theses feelings, thoughts and emotions are arising from and like a lion jump on the person throwing the stick rather than chasing after the stick.
In any kind of samsaric activities you are engaged in, try to do them with a good motivation and constantly check your emotions. My root teachers constantly states that if a person don't have mindfulness, then that person is like a dead man. So while listening, reading, and reflecting on teachings constantly check what kind of emotion is present and be mindful.
Finally on this precious Guru Rinpoche Day, I want to advice you all to be calm while practicing and try to reflect on Atisha's pith instruction and constantly look at your mind.
Keeping you all in my mind and my prayers.
Sarva Mangalam,
Phakchok Rinpoche
16. juni 2010
Arbejdsweekend på Gomde
Den 18. 19. og 20 juni gør vi endelig parat til den 15. SommerCamp på Gomde.
Kom og vær med til at gøre Gomde flot for Rinpoche og alle de nye gæster.
Have og park arbejde.
Malerarbejde.
Forberedende arbejde i køkkenet til SummerCamp.
Der vil selvfølgelig være fællesmeditation og fællesspisning.
Skriv gerne tilbage at du deltager.
Kærlig hilsen Erik og Tara.
Photo: the two Rinpoche brothers at the monastery in Nepal
6. juni 2010
SummerCamp 2010 The complete program
26.juni kl. 19.30: Velkommen til SummerCamp 2010.
26.juni kl.19.30-29.juni kl. 12.00: Buddhas lære og meditation med Erik Pema Kunsang
27. juni-29. juni kl. 15.00-16.45: Sindelagstræning med Lama Tenzin Sangpo (Lojong)
28.juni kl. 12.00: Velkomst til Rinpoche.
28.juni-9.juli 07.00- 08.00: Morgen chant på tibetansk & engelsk samt meditation med Lama Tenzin Sangpo
28.juni-9.juli 12.15-13.00: Meditations praksis med Lama Tenzin Sangpo
28.juni-9.juli 17.00- 17.45: Meditations praksis med Lama Tenzin Sangpo
29.juli-8. juli kl.14.30-15.00: Qigong træning hver dag med Göran Jacobsen
29.juni kl.19.30-1.juli kl.12.00: Medfølelse og egoløshed med Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche
1.juli 15.00-16.45: Buddhisme og psykologi med Antonia Sumbundu
1.-3. juli: Enkelthed og sindets natur med Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche
3. juli kl. 15.00-16.45: Forklaring til Ocean of Amrita med Lama Tenzin Sangpo
3.juli-6. juli kl. 12.15-13.00 Yoga for børn med Ulrika Deze
3. juli kl. 17.30: Anvisning til Pujamedhjælpere med Lama Tenzin Sangpo
3. juli kl.19.30: Introduktion til Vajrayana med Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche
4. juli kl.09.00-17.00: Ocean of Amrita med Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche
(Pujamedhjælpere anviser pladser, deler tekster ud, serverer vand og te under ceremonien)
4. juli kl.20.00- 21.00 Tantrisk poesi and musik fra Wellsprings. Afspilles mens man mediterer
5. juli kl. 10.00-12.00: Stiftende generalforsamling af foreningen ”Gomde Sangha”
5. juli kl.16.00–17.00: Kaffebord for lokale håndværkere sammen med Rinpoche
5. juli kl.16.00–17.00: Medarbejdermøde for Gomde Sangha
5. juli kl.19.30-7.juli kl.12.00: Indsigt i sindets natur med Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche
6. juli 15.00-16.45: Introduktion til treårsretreat med Lama Tenzin Sangpo
7. juli kl. 19.30-9 juli kl. 12.00: Den store mundtlige videregivelse med Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche
8. juli 15.00-16.45: Dzogchen: Et historisk overblik af Erik Meier Carlsen
9. juli kl.18.00: Festbanket med Rinpoche
June 26 at 19.30 p.m.: Welcome to the SummerCamp 2010
June 26 at 19.30 p.m. - June 29 at 12.00 p.m.: The teachings of Buddha and meditation with Erik Pema Kunsang
June 29 at 15.00-16.45 p.m.: Mind training with Lama Tenzin Sangpo (Lojong)
June 28 at 20.00 p.m.: Welcoming Rinpoche
June 28 – July 9 at 7-8 a.m.: Morning chant in Tibetan & English and meditation with Lama Tenzin Sangpo
June 28 – July 9 at 12.15-13.00 p.m.: Meditation practice with Lama Tenzin Sangpo
June 28 – July 9 at 17.00-17.45 p.m.: Meditation practice with Lama Tenzin Sangpo
June 28 – July 8 at 14.30-15.00 p.m.: Qigong training every day with Göran Jacobsen
June 29 at 19.30 p.m. – July 1 at 12.00 p.m.: Compassion and Egolessness with Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche
July 1 - 3: Simplicity and the Nature of the Mind with Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche
July 1 at 15.00-16.45 p.m.: Buddhism and psychology with Antonia Sumbundu
July 3 at 15.00-16.45 p.m.: Explanation of the Ocean of Amrita with Lama Tenzin Sangpo
July 3 – 6 at 12.15-13.00 p.m.: Yoga for children with Ulrika Deze
July 3 at 17.30 p.m.: Instructions for the Puja helpers with Lama Tenzin Sangpo
July 3 at 19.30 p.m.: Introduction to Vajrayana with Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche
July 4 at 9.00 a.m - 17.00 p.m.: Ocean of Amrita with Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche
(Puja helpers will show the seats, hand out texts and serve water and tea during the ceremony)
July 4 at 20.00-21.00 p.m.: Tantric poetry and music from Wellsprings - will be played during a meditation session
July 5 at 10.00 a.m. - 12.00 p.m.: Founding meeting of the society ”Gomde Sangha”
July 5 at 16.00–17.00 p.m.: Coffee table for local workmen connected to Gomde with Rinpoche
July 5 at 16.00–17.00 p.m.: Volunteer’s meeting for Gomde Sangha
July 5 at 19.30 p.m. – July 7 at 12.00 p.m.: Insight in the Nature of Mind with Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche
July 6 at 15.00-16.45 p.m.: Introduction to the three year retreat with Lama Tenzin Sangpo
July 7 at 19.30 p.m. – July 9 at 12.00 p.m.: The Great Oral Transmission with Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche
July 8 at 15.00 - 16.45 p.m.: Dzogchen: A historical view by Erik Meier Carlsen
July 9 at 18.00 p.m.: Feast banquet with Rinpoche.
5. juni 2010
4. juni 2010
Indbydelse
Kære Gomde interesserede og praktiserende, I inviteres hermed til stiftende generalforsamling for Foreningen Gomde Sangha, den 5/7 2010 kl.10-12 på Gomde.
Referatet af det forberedende møde d. 29/5 2010 se: http://gomde.dk/pages/gomdesangha/2010-05-29_gomdemeeting.pdf, på mødet var der opbakning til vedtægterne med nogle ændringer, disse er indføjet i forslag til vedtægter, se http://gomde.dk/pages/gomdesangha/2010-05-29_forslag.pdf . Den stiftende generalforsamling vil have følgende dagsorden:
1) Valg af dirigent og referent.
2) Afstemning om vedtægter
3) Fastsættelse af kontingent
4) Beslutning om, hvorvidt der skal være en grænse for hvor længe man kan være bestyrelsesmedlem.
5) Valg af formand.
6) Valg af 4 bestyrelsesmedlemmer.
7) Valg af 2 suppleanter til bestyrelsen
8) Valg af ekstern revisor og revisorsuppleant for et år ad gangen
9) Eventuelt
Hvis i har lyst til at stille op som formand/forkvinde eller bestyrelsesmedlem så bedes i meddele dette på mail: kajh@post1.dansknet.dk senest den 21. juni, meddelelsen skal indeholde 5-10 linjer om, hvad i vil arbejde for. De indkomne forslag til kandidater vil blive udsendt pr. mail d. 25. juni
Kandidaterne vil blive præsenteret på den stiftende generalforsamling. Formandskandidater skal have mindst 3 års anciennitet, dvs. at kandidaterne skal have fulgt undervisning på Gomde i mindst tre år.
I kan også foreslå en anden, som enten skal godkende indstillingen inden mødet evt. pr. mail eller godkende indstillingen på den stiftende generalforsamling.
Med venlig hilsen
Lillian, Annelise og Kaj
30. maj 2010
Joy of exertion
Dear Dharma friends,
I wrote this poem for gomde tonight.
Please post it on the sangha site if you find it relevant and appropriate, just thought it might be of some interest to someone other than just myself.
All good things to you all,
chris campau, Ry, Denmark.
Joy of exertion (for gomde)
to do the work that needs doing
is the aim of my practice.
I do not strive to do nothing at all.
as long as there is a need
i will rest only just enough,
the remainder spent
in the practice of joyous exertion.
making no promises.
enticing no enemies
other than ignorance
in practicing the precious dharma.
28. maj 2010
Tenga Rinpoche i Odense 13. juni 2010
Benchen Karma Geleg Dargye Ling centeret i Odense annoncerer hermed den glædelige nyhed, at vi afholder sommerkursus med Tenga Rinpoche søndag den 13. juni 2010 kl. 14:00.
Tenga Rinpoche har ønsket personligt at vælge emnet for undervisningen, som han vil annoncere ved kursusstart.
Oversættelse: Der vil være oversættelse til dansk og til engelsk.
Kurset finder sted på adressen:
Odense Toldkammer, st.th.,Østre Stationsvej 43
5000 Odense C
Kursuslokalet ligger 500 meter fra Odense banegård. Der er gode parkeringsmuligheder.
NB! Husk at medbringe siddepude.
Pris: 200 kr.
Tilmelding:
Da der er begrænsede pladser, bør I tilmelde jer i god tid på odensecentret@hotmail.com
Tlf.: 70 20 90 73
Info:
Se vores hjemmeside www.benchenling.dk eller kontakt os på odensecentret
Mange hilsner fra
Benchen Karma Geleg Dargye Ling
26. maj 2010
A letter from Phakchok Rinpoche
Dear Dharma Friends,
I hope you've all been happy and healthy. The message below was sent out on Guru Rinpoche Day, but due to some technical error, many of you didn't receive it. It is my hope that you receive it this time without any obstacle and if you happen to receive a double copy, please bear with us.
I would like to share with you a teaching that is very dear to my heart. A teaching given by my grandfather many years ago. And it is to my hope that the teaching will have some positive impact on you.
Heart Advice from my grandfather, Kyabje Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche:
This Precious Human Body:
The body we have right now is called the precious human body. In this world there are countless sentient beings and among all of them, the best one is this precious human body, which is very hard to obtain again and again. It is impossible to obtain a precious human body through demerit. It is only through the accumulation of merits in your past lives and the residual of incredible great positive karma that we can arrive in a body like this.
Having being born as a human is like arriving on an island of jewels. But if we don’t take any of them and just keep our hands crossed and go home empty handed, then what really is the point? So how do we make this precious human birth meaningful? It is only through practicing the spiritual path that one can make this precious human body significant. Without which you are just an ordinary human trapped in an ordinary human body.
And why is this human body called precious? It is because of this body, that we can listen to precious teachings when they are explained and subsequently put them into practice. But if we waste such a precious thing like this, there is truly no greater loss than that. If we don’t practice the dharma then we are no different than an animal. So truly and honestly we should really persevere to practice the dharma.
Practicing the Dharma:
To practice the dharma means having trust, diligence and being wise/intelligent. Trust means having complete trust and confidence in the Dharma, the teachings and in the one who taught the teachings, the Buddha. Therefore having complete trust in the Buddha and the Dharma. Complete trust in the Sangha, the ones who upholds the teachings and therefore a feeling of gratitude towards the Sangha. We need to trust in these three (Buddha/Dharma/Sangha).
Diligence means, in any kind of job you do, if you begin and do not finish then it is never completed. Therefore what carries you to complete that job is called diligence.
And being wise/intelligent is first of all what we gain from listening to teachings, from thinking about them and than later applying them. So when you hear something and you gain some trust and confidence then you have some insight that is called the knowledge through learning. And then when you think it over, the knowledge through reflection and finally the knowledge through meditation practice and having full confidence and trust in it. It is for that reason invincible to have trust. If one mistrusts then that is a great defect.
If one has no compassion and trust it is very hard to penetrate the very heart of the dharma. It is like someone who when seeing Buddhas and bodhisattvas flying in the sky think they are just showing off and when seeing a creature lying on the floor with it’s intestines flowing out and saying oh it’s his karma, everyone dies.
Devotion and Compassion:
Compassion and devotion shouldn’t just be a show. And shouldn’t only be of lip service. It should be from the depths of our heart. Trust towards the teachings of the Buddha should be with pure appreciation. We need to have the kind of trust which is penetrating so that tears comes out of our eyes and the hairs on our body naturally stand, a kind of feeling difficult to remain in. Simply by uttering some empty words wont’ suffice. When thinking of other beings you should have the kind of compassion thinking that they are all my parents and yet they don’t know what to do, they create immense pain and suffering for themselves, yet they are not aware of it. They have no idea about the ultimate truth, the true state of Samadhi. So they wonder from one life to the next in the endless chain of samsara. Therefore, the ones who are filled with overwhelming compassion for sentient beings and with unwavering devotion for the enlighten ones; they will without any doubt receive the blessings of all the Buddhas and bodhisattvas.
Just to pay lip service and superficially act as if one pities sentient beings and respects the enlighten ones is not enough to receive the blessings. It has to be with hundred percent sincerity. So here are some signs of receiving the blessings, and they are when you no longer have to try to feel kind and compassionate, as it will come spontaneously and you no longer have to try to be deliberately respectful, as it will come spontaneously as well. Those are the signs. With a natural trust in the teaching and the consequences of karma, that is the real accomplishment of dharma practice. That is the real siddhi.
Receiving the Blessings:
You may not be having a lot of knowledge and information of the dharma but if you have real trust in the three jewels and you have kindness towards other beings and acutely understand that in this life, nothing last forever, then you have already received the blessings of the three jewels. Otherwise just to know a lot of teachings can sometimes really resolve in nothing but conceit. Or thinking I have practiced so much and so many years of Shamatha and Samadhi. People who have a lot of practice behind them usually become more miserly and stingy. This is proof that the teachings have not taken affect. So what is the main mission at stake? It is after all about buddha-nature, which is the very identity within which the bodies, speech, mind, qualities and enlighten activities of all the Buddhas are complete. Actually the body, speech, and mind of any sentient being have its source or origin only in the body, speech, and mind of all the awakened ones. This unchanging quality is called the vajra body, the unceasing quality the vajra speech and the unmistaken quality, the vajra mind. The indivisible unity of these three is exactly what buddha-nature means.
Buddha-nature:
If we don’t recognize or acknowledge in our own experience what is the unchanging quality of this buddha-nature, then it is more or less like entering into the entrapment of the physical body of flesh and blood, our speech being entrapped within the movement of breath to become voice and voice that appears and disappears. Our consciousness becomes fixated upon a perceiver or the perceived. In other words, fixation on duality that arises and ceases for each moment, in other words, thoughts that come and go, one after the other in an endless string of thoughts continued from beginning less time and just goes on and on. That is how our normal state of mind is. If we don’t recognize our own nature in this very lifetime, we are then incapable of capturing our natural seat of unchanging self-existent wakefulness. Instead, we chase after one perishable thought after the other so that samsara becomes endless. Being overpowered by this involvement in thought day and night, life after life. Unless you become free of conceptual thinking, there is absolutely no way to truly awaken to enlightenment.
The Supreme Method:
Great peace is when the conceptual thinking subsides or calms down. And there is such a way for that to happen. The thoughts which are an expression, while thinking if you truly recognize that you are in natural phase, which is buddha-nature, at that same moment, any thought vanishes by itself leaving no trace. That brings an end to samsara. So the basic way for that is the supreme method, once you know that one method is there anything superior to that you need to know? And this way is something, which is already attained in your self, it is not something that we need to get from someone else, by bribe, search for and finally find. It is not necessary at all. Just recognize your own natural phase and you have already transcended the six realms of samsara. That way is what one asks for when asking a master to please give instruction on mind essence. This is the most precious which one doesn’t need to search for outside, it is in your self. This is called the Buddha being placed in the palm of your own hand. That is an analogy which means, at that moment, you don’t need to seek for the awakened state somewhere else. If you line up all the money and wealth of the whole world in a big heap on one side and on the other side the recognition of buddha-nature, the nature of our own mind then what is more valuable if you were to choose between the two? Obviously, you should without a doubt choose recognizing mind essence as being much more valuable. This is called the amazing Buddha within.
If you have a wish-fulfilling jewel and yet don’t use it, then the endless samsara lies before you. Isn’t there more trouble? This is something we really need to think about. This is the real crucial point. If we didn’t have this innate buddha-nature, who can actually blame you. This buddha-nature, it is the identity of the three kayas of all Buddhas.
And in closing:
Although my mind is the Buddha, I failed to acknowledge it
Though the essence of thought is Dharmakaya, I failed to recognize it
Though the innate natural state is uncontrived, I failed to sustain it
Though this naturalness is the true state, I failed to trust it
So Guru, please look upon me with compassion and grant your blessings
That I may quickly turn my mind towards the dharma
And have no obstacles on the path and quickly have diligence to practice
Sarva Mangalam,
Phakchok Rinpoche
FYI:
Pilgrimage in the Year of the Iron Tiger: Following the footsteps of the Buddha, The Awakened One
Tentative date: December 15th-25th, 2010
Visit www.cglf.org for more information
* The above teaching was given at Nagi Gonpa by Kyabje Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche with Erik Pema Kunsang as his translator.
I hope you've all been happy and healthy. The message below was sent out on Guru Rinpoche Day, but due to some technical error, many of you didn't receive it. It is my hope that you receive it this time without any obstacle and if you happen to receive a double copy, please bear with us.
I would like to share with you a teaching that is very dear to my heart. A teaching given by my grandfather many years ago. And it is to my hope that the teaching will have some positive impact on you.
Heart Advice from my grandfather, Kyabje Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche:
This Precious Human Body:
The body we have right now is called the precious human body. In this world there are countless sentient beings and among all of them, the best one is this precious human body, which is very hard to obtain again and again. It is impossible to obtain a precious human body through demerit. It is only through the accumulation of merits in your past lives and the residual of incredible great positive karma that we can arrive in a body like this.
Having being born as a human is like arriving on an island of jewels. But if we don’t take any of them and just keep our hands crossed and go home empty handed, then what really is the point? So how do we make this precious human birth meaningful? It is only through practicing the spiritual path that one can make this precious human body significant. Without which you are just an ordinary human trapped in an ordinary human body.
And why is this human body called precious? It is because of this body, that we can listen to precious teachings when they are explained and subsequently put them into practice. But if we waste such a precious thing like this, there is truly no greater loss than that. If we don’t practice the dharma then we are no different than an animal. So truly and honestly we should really persevere to practice the dharma.
Practicing the Dharma:
To practice the dharma means having trust, diligence and being wise/intelligent. Trust means having complete trust and confidence in the Dharma, the teachings and in the one who taught the teachings, the Buddha. Therefore having complete trust in the Buddha and the Dharma. Complete trust in the Sangha, the ones who upholds the teachings and therefore a feeling of gratitude towards the Sangha. We need to trust in these three (Buddha/Dharma/Sangha).
Diligence means, in any kind of job you do, if you begin and do not finish then it is never completed. Therefore what carries you to complete that job is called diligence.
And being wise/intelligent is first of all what we gain from listening to teachings, from thinking about them and than later applying them. So when you hear something and you gain some trust and confidence then you have some insight that is called the knowledge through learning. And then when you think it over, the knowledge through reflection and finally the knowledge through meditation practice and having full confidence and trust in it. It is for that reason invincible to have trust. If one mistrusts then that is a great defect.
If one has no compassion and trust it is very hard to penetrate the very heart of the dharma. It is like someone who when seeing Buddhas and bodhisattvas flying in the sky think they are just showing off and when seeing a creature lying on the floor with it’s intestines flowing out and saying oh it’s his karma, everyone dies.
Devotion and Compassion:
Compassion and devotion shouldn’t just be a show. And shouldn’t only be of lip service. It should be from the depths of our heart. Trust towards the teachings of the Buddha should be with pure appreciation. We need to have the kind of trust which is penetrating so that tears comes out of our eyes and the hairs on our body naturally stand, a kind of feeling difficult to remain in. Simply by uttering some empty words wont’ suffice. When thinking of other beings you should have the kind of compassion thinking that they are all my parents and yet they don’t know what to do, they create immense pain and suffering for themselves, yet they are not aware of it. They have no idea about the ultimate truth, the true state of Samadhi. So they wonder from one life to the next in the endless chain of samsara. Therefore, the ones who are filled with overwhelming compassion for sentient beings and with unwavering devotion for the enlighten ones; they will without any doubt receive the blessings of all the Buddhas and bodhisattvas.
Just to pay lip service and superficially act as if one pities sentient beings and respects the enlighten ones is not enough to receive the blessings. It has to be with hundred percent sincerity. So here are some signs of receiving the blessings, and they are when you no longer have to try to feel kind and compassionate, as it will come spontaneously and you no longer have to try to be deliberately respectful, as it will come spontaneously as well. Those are the signs. With a natural trust in the teaching and the consequences of karma, that is the real accomplishment of dharma practice. That is the real siddhi.
Receiving the Blessings:
You may not be having a lot of knowledge and information of the dharma but if you have real trust in the three jewels and you have kindness towards other beings and acutely understand that in this life, nothing last forever, then you have already received the blessings of the three jewels. Otherwise just to know a lot of teachings can sometimes really resolve in nothing but conceit. Or thinking I have practiced so much and so many years of Shamatha and Samadhi. People who have a lot of practice behind them usually become more miserly and stingy. This is proof that the teachings have not taken affect. So what is the main mission at stake? It is after all about buddha-nature, which is the very identity within which the bodies, speech, mind, qualities and enlighten activities of all the Buddhas are complete. Actually the body, speech, and mind of any sentient being have its source or origin only in the body, speech, and mind of all the awakened ones. This unchanging quality is called the vajra body, the unceasing quality the vajra speech and the unmistaken quality, the vajra mind. The indivisible unity of these three is exactly what buddha-nature means.
Buddha-nature:
If we don’t recognize or acknowledge in our own experience what is the unchanging quality of this buddha-nature, then it is more or less like entering into the entrapment of the physical body of flesh and blood, our speech being entrapped within the movement of breath to become voice and voice that appears and disappears. Our consciousness becomes fixated upon a perceiver or the perceived. In other words, fixation on duality that arises and ceases for each moment, in other words, thoughts that come and go, one after the other in an endless string of thoughts continued from beginning less time and just goes on and on. That is how our normal state of mind is. If we don’t recognize our own nature in this very lifetime, we are then incapable of capturing our natural seat of unchanging self-existent wakefulness. Instead, we chase after one perishable thought after the other so that samsara becomes endless. Being overpowered by this involvement in thought day and night, life after life. Unless you become free of conceptual thinking, there is absolutely no way to truly awaken to enlightenment.
The Supreme Method:
Great peace is when the conceptual thinking subsides or calms down. And there is such a way for that to happen. The thoughts which are an expression, while thinking if you truly recognize that you are in natural phase, which is buddha-nature, at that same moment, any thought vanishes by itself leaving no trace. That brings an end to samsara. So the basic way for that is the supreme method, once you know that one method is there anything superior to that you need to know? And this way is something, which is already attained in your self, it is not something that we need to get from someone else, by bribe, search for and finally find. It is not necessary at all. Just recognize your own natural phase and you have already transcended the six realms of samsara. That way is what one asks for when asking a master to please give instruction on mind essence. This is the most precious which one doesn’t need to search for outside, it is in your self. This is called the Buddha being placed in the palm of your own hand. That is an analogy which means, at that moment, you don’t need to seek for the awakened state somewhere else. If you line up all the money and wealth of the whole world in a big heap on one side and on the other side the recognition of buddha-nature, the nature of our own mind then what is more valuable if you were to choose between the two? Obviously, you should without a doubt choose recognizing mind essence as being much more valuable. This is called the amazing Buddha within.
If you have a wish-fulfilling jewel and yet don’t use it, then the endless samsara lies before you. Isn’t there more trouble? This is something we really need to think about. This is the real crucial point. If we didn’t have this innate buddha-nature, who can actually blame you. This buddha-nature, it is the identity of the three kayas of all Buddhas.
And in closing:
Although my mind is the Buddha, I failed to acknowledge it
Though the essence of thought is Dharmakaya, I failed to recognize it
Though the innate natural state is uncontrived, I failed to sustain it
Though this naturalness is the true state, I failed to trust it
So Guru, please look upon me with compassion and grant your blessings
That I may quickly turn my mind towards the dharma
And have no obstacles on the path and quickly have diligence to practice
Sarva Mangalam,
Phakchok Rinpoche
FYI:
Pilgrimage in the Year of the Iron Tiger: Following the footsteps of the Buddha, The Awakened One
Tentative date: December 15th-25th, 2010
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* The above teaching was given at Nagi Gonpa by Kyabje Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche with Erik Pema Kunsang as his translator.
12. maj 2010
Foreningen Gomde Sangha
En glædelig nyhed til alle venner af Rangjung Yeshe Gomde, Danmark.
I anledning af stiftende generalforsamling sammen med Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche sommeren 2010, indkalder vi hermed til et forberedende møde på Gomde d. 29. maj kl. 10.00 -13.00
Denne forening har længe været undervejs og ser nu dagens lys.
Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche sagde forleden fra Malaysia, ”Tiden er inde. Begynd det forberedende arbejdsmøde så snart som muligt. Vi tager de endelige beslutninger når jeg kommer til Danmark.”
Mødets formål er at drøfte foreningen Gomde Sangha, dens formål og vedtægter, information om opgaver tilknyttet Gomde, foreningens fordele, forskellige medlemsniveauer m.m.
Et udkast til vedtægter er allerede grundigt gennemarbejdet og ligger parat. Det kan downloades på http://gomde.dk/pages/dokumenter/Gomde Sangha vedtægter maj 2010.doc
I første omgang inviteres især praktiserende buddhister som er interesserede i aktivt at hjælpe foreningen Gomde Sangha. Til den stiftende generalforsamling sammen med Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche den 6/7 kl. 9.00 er alle velkomne.
Foreningen vil være åben for alle buddhister samt for alle som sympatiserer og støtter Buddhas lære.
Send venligst en email om du deltager i det forberedende møde. Er du forhindret i at komme personligt så skriv gerne et par linjer om at du vil være med til at støtte og hvordan.
S.U. Af hensyn til planlægning og praktisk arbejde i forbindelse med det forberedende møde, bedes i meddele om i kan komme, senest d. 25/5 2010 og evt. om i kan komme 2 timer før og blive to timer efter, for at hjælpe med forberedelser og oprydning.
På glædelig gensyn og hilsner
Kaj Hansen, Bo Frederiksen, Lillian Steenholt, Tara og Erik Pema Kunsang.
Gomde Sangha Møde
Smedehalden 3
8420 Knebel
Tel 86356835. Email programs@gomde.dk
Dagsorden for mødet d. 29/5:
Kl. 8-10: Forberedelser af mødet.
Kl.10-10.30: Fælles meditation
Kl. 10.30-13: Præsentation og diskussion af udkast til vedtægter.
Kl. 13-14: Let frokost
Kl. 16-18: Oprydning
11. maj 2010
Compassion and Egolessness
Compassion and Egolessness - the path to freedom and enlightenment – distilled into just two words. How do we discover true compassion and see through ego’s deception? How to avoid love getting sticky or insight getting dry and cold-hearted?
Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche teaches this at Gomde retreat center in Demark, June 29 to July 1.
You can recommend this section of SummerCamp to friends and family.
10. maj 2010
Dzongsar Khyentse on social harmony and happiness
In Laos there is a saying that too much education makes you unhappy. This proverb is contrary to everything you hear these days — namely that education is the key to everything.
But this kind of folk proverb has a lot of wisdom, in part because we often only identify issues as problems when we have knowledge and information about them. So we don’t really know whether our peace and happiness are due simply to ignorance or to our ability to make ourselves truly happy even when we have knowledge.
But there is more wisdom in that Laotian proverb, because education sometimes seems to make us so greedy and stressed. Many of my friends, particularly in Asian countries like Singapore and Hong Kong, are pushed relentlessly from a very young age to study so hard, get A’s, go to university, be competitive, get bank jobs, work around the clock, and live totally scheduled lives. They don’t have a life; they are stressed; and they aren’t very happy.
By contrast, Laotians still manage to smile and be friendly despite having been bombed more than any other country for a mistake they didn’t even make. From my own experience there, I think it may have something to do with Laotians being very laid back and seemingly not very ambitious or greedy.
Read the rest of the article.>>
http://www.kuenselonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=15402
6. maj 2010
Albertgaarden nær Gomde har en dejlig lejlighed fri.
På Albertgaarden er der en dejlig lejlighed på 130 m2 i to etager med gårdhave og udsigt til sø i haven i skøn natur til leje fra 1 juni 2010. Albertgården er et buddhistisk kunstnermiljø tilknyttet Gomde retreat center på Helgenæs.
Stuetagen består af stort køkken-alrum og badeværelse.
Første sal har tre værelser og sydvendt altan.
Der er 1 km til egen strand med badebro.
Havet kan ses fra haven.
Prisen er 4.500 kr pr mdr + forbrug.
Henvendelse til Steen Stender
Stuetagen består af stort køkken-alrum og badeværelse.
Første sal har tre værelser og sydvendt altan.
Der er 1 km til egen strand med badebro.
Havet kan ses fra haven.
Prisen er 4.500 kr pr mdr + forbrug.
Henvendelse til Steen Stender
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