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FEATURE
Minding Your Life
Living
Your Practice
as Western Buddhists and lay practitioners, we may find ourselves spending more
time earning a living, caring for our families, and running dharma centers than
we spend actually practicing meditation in a formal sense. We may lament this situation
while at the same time reminding ourselves that “anything can become practice.”
True, yet how do we accomplish this? What separates “practice mind”
from the mind we have when we are in front of our computers, shopping for groceries,
or at a community meeting? The instructions of our greatest teachers—and of
the Buddha himself—tell us that when we have deeply contemplated the teachings
and taken them to heart in our meditation practice, the world becomes the perfect
testing ground for our practice and realization. our life is not a distraction from
practice but the arena for its fulfillment. In this issue, Bodhi presents teachings
that encourage us to remember why we practice and how to bring our daily activities,
as well as our moment-to-moment experiences of thoughts and emotions, onto the path—joyfully
and fully.
All This
Work That I Am Doing Now
by Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche
Click to Listen (Sung by Ari Goldfield)
Instructions
That Can Be Understood Simply By Reading Them
by Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche
Click to Listen (Sung by Ari Goldfield)
Whatever
Work You Do In This Life
by Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche
Click to Listen (Sung by Ari Goldfield)
Instructions That
Can Be Understood Just By Reading Them: How To Practice Dharma During Daily Activities
by Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche
The first verse begin: "The yoga of rising early in the morning is practiced
like this: As soon as you wake up, look up into the sky..." Khenpo Rinpoche,
once again, proclaims his joyfully sublie instructions for transcending all polarities
between the sacred and the mundane.
Emotions - From Theory
To Practice: Putting The Teachings Into Action
by The Dzogchen
Ponlop Rinpoche
Learning to work with our emotions "in action" means engaging them in the midst
of our lives and using their powerful energies to enhance our mindfulness and awarenes
and spark our insight. It means that we do not stay the same but are transformed
through our encounters.
How to Meditate During
Daily Activities: Songs by Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche
by Ari Goldfield
In his introduction to the verses of Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche, Ari Goldfield
says: "Rinpoche helps us to see that we do not need to divide our lives into
times when we are practicing Dharma and times when we are not. We can always feel
connected to and supported by our Dharma practice.
Becoming Our Own Best
Friend
Contemplating The
Four Reminders
by Acharya
Tashi Wangchuk
The purpose of contemplating the Four Reminders is to gain certainty in why we practice
the Dharma; that is, we gain a strong sense of confidence in the effectiveness and
benefit of practice and develop an appreciation for the opportunity we have in this
short life to achieve greater wakefulness and a more stable happiness.
Verses On The Four
Thoughts That Turn The Mind To Dharma
from the Thirty-Seven
Practices of a Bodhisattva
by Ngulchu
Thogme; translated by Ari Goldfield
TEACHINGS
Excerpt From The IntroductIon
To The Karmapa’s Middle Way: A Feast For the Fortunate
by The Ninth
Karmapa, Wangchuk Dorje35; translator Tyler Dewar
Since the Middle Way tradition is an expression of the Mahayana, its sole purpose
is to liberate all sentient beings from suffering by means of wisdom and compassion
working together. Followers of the Middle Way do not pursue philosophical investigation
for the purpose of knowledge itself, but only seek wisdom that will undermine the
root of suffering.
ARTICLES
Lineage Stories: An
Oral Commentary On The Lineage History Of The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoches
by Lingla
Kuchen Rinpoche
The First Dzogchen
Ponlop
An interview with Tenzin Namdak
The Sadhana of Samsara
Or How I Became a Master Of Confusion
by Andrew
Holecek
There are many aspects to sadhana practice and the subtleties take a lifetime to
understand, but the basic structure of this tantric practice is readily grasped.
The central point is that we are creating a world through sadhana practice. The
kind of world we create depends upon the kind of sadhana we practice.
The Path to Dzogchen
A Photo Essay
by Andrew
Holecek
In the summer of 2006, Dan Hirshberg and his wife, Eve Kagan, were part of a team
that led eight high school students on an educational journey through Tibet. The
climax of this rugged journey was a visit to Dzogchen Monastery.
REGULARS
Illusions of Life
& Death:
How To Relate To Suicide
by Andrew
Holecek
The Lives of the Karmapas:
The Eleventh Karmapa, Choying Dorje
by The Dzogchen
Ponlop Rinpoche
Working With Emotions:
Depression And Sadness
by Dr. Howard
Aposhyan
Bodhi Directory
Teaching Schedule
of Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche and the Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
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