Sogyel Rinpoche – transforming mind
“Materialize attitude of Buddhichitta not material!”
“When your perception is clear, it is a heaven. Therefore, heaven is here on earth”
Body, speech and mind are essential elements in Buddhism. Mind is most powerful as it can enslave body and speech. Buddha nature of mind is always pure and eternal. No one can destroy it.
Harming others is harming you. Loving others is to love you. Peace, compassion and wisdom are the important subjects in teachings of Buddha. The teaching of Buddha is the path to enlightenment, where you can be the Buddha as well. Buddha can liberate sentience beings from world of suffering. The question is why we are born in this world again. Negative karma is so powerful that it makes Buddha helpless too.
There are three kind of faith:
1. Vivid Faith; e.g. faith of child to mother
2. Eager Faith; e.g. eager to have liberalization
3. Confident faith
In a story, a man was crossing a desert and he was thirsty to death. His vivid faith is thinking of water and nothing else. Once he reached an oasis of water, his eager faith is drinking water and nothing else. His confident faith is the water is drinkable.
Guru Rinpoche
We all have karmic connection to Guru Rinpoche. When we meditate on Guru Rinpoche, it is a complete meditation on all Buddhas. He is an embodiment of all Buddhas. Guru is emanation of all Buddhas and seeing him sees all Buddhas. We cannot see or feel him, though he is omniscience. It is like our face, which we know it is there but we cannot see. “Om a hung benza guru pema siddhi hum” is the hot line to recall Guru Rinpoche. He knows our minds and gives a complete insurance to nirvana for he can liberate sentient beings from samsara. Always pray the seven lines of Guru for longevity, good mental and cessation of depression. Imagine that Guru dissolves in you and you are purified. It will convert suffering into bliss. We should have faith in a teacher but it has to be based on reasons (Analogy)
Death
When we are dying or with a dying person. You have to recite “Om A hu benza guru..” to him. It is even better to recite the Phowa to him. If we are dying and breathe is slowly slipping out of us, meditate or think of Buddha Yepame to take birth in dewa chen gi zhimkham. If we meditate on Guru Rimphoche then we have to wish to take birth in Zangthophelri. While we are alive, we take refuge in Guru Rimpoche and imagine guru dissolving in us and becoming our self a guru. It is in a similar fashion but this time when we are dying, we have to imagine to dissolve our self into guru rimphoche and we becoming the Guru Rimpoche.
No one can deny the truth of death. Therefore, we all should plan it well empowering by good deeds. It is important to reckon the nature of mind at the time of death. We must recognize our mind like the Guru Rimphoche and dissolving it with the Guru himself. Blessing comes through devotions. If you have devotions, blessing is yours! You are to born in an upper realm. Sinner will carry guilt with the fully conscious mind in the deathbed. Sin obscures us from dying peacefully as it will follow negative karma. The negative karma is responsible for us to take rebirth in animal kingdom. Animals too have Buddha nature of mind but they are obscure by negative karma. Obscuration and negative thoughts are like cloud in a vicious cycle. The cloud overcast sky that is the Buddha nature of mind. The sin has only one good quality that is it can be purified. Always try to remove cloud and gain the sky. Body, which we have, is due to our past karma. Negative karma is so powerful that high practitioner cannot achieve enlightenment. They have to go through causes of karma. Whatsoever, Good and pure heart is an essence to achieve enlightenment.
Four noble truths
When we have truth of cessation and follow the path of cessation, we are sure to liberate to take birth in nirvana. Therefore, we have to take refuge in Buddha’s teaching to gain good karma.
We must not say that we got Buddha nature and doing all wrong things. This brings negative karma (Saying my stick is of Buddha and rat is Buddha. And killing rat with that stick… this bring negative karma, losing the view in action). Suffering must be understood and abandon its roots and causes.
Religions:
Christianity begins by guilty of sin and Buddhism begins by purity of mind. Like healing power of Chayna Dorji, Christian prays to Holy Ghost There is all essential in Buddhism so there is no need to change to other religion. Buddhism is so amazing that gives all its values to all religions and takes their values too. We have a human life, which is precious, and we have wonderful time meeting a good teacher or spiritual friends. Therefore, we should never waste this time to dedicate ourselves to Buddha teaching.
Once you have a purity of mind and all perception is clear then there begins a Buddha nature. When we are meditating and we feel emptiness, it indicates a Buddha nature of mind. We should always recognize Buddha nature in others and help them to bring to glory of nature. They can be anyone like drug addict, alcoholic and thief.
Jetsun Jambayang represents wisdom, Compassion by cheri zee and strength by Chayna dorji. Seeing a world of suffering and two drops of tear fall from Chenri ze, which convert to white tara and green tara later.
Compassion
Compassionate mind will have empathy with reasoning, basic feeling of others by stepping in their shoes. It has four components. Dharma is the education for life; it makes a good human being. “Good head formidable and good heart combination is compassion” – Nelson.
Jamyang Khentse Rinpoche got blessing from Khando Tshering choden pretending to put her hand on his chin and abruptly putting on his head.
Loving – antidote to fear; Buddha asked monks to go to a deep forest to meditate. There lived a demon in tree that causes them too many troubles. Monks suffered mental trauma and return to Buddha. Buddha gave them teaching on loving and kindness “May you be happy, may you be well” and send back monks to the same tree for meditation. Demon was so pleased with the mantra that monks enjoy the bliss.
Meditation
Think of a person who loves you. The best person to remember is a mother/master. Meditate about her, meditate on friends and lastly meditate on enemies. (Meditate – may you be happy, may you be well!). It does not matter even if we do not meditate on Guru. If you have a strong devotion to teacher, we can meditate on him alone. Meditating Guru recalls root and linage lamas. We have to respect the lineage because all enlightens are authentic.
Never take pride and apathy in meditation. If your mission fails then meditate on buddhichitta.
God is not bias to anyone. Guru Rinpoche would also bless those who doesn’t believe in him. On the flips side of the coin, worldly God are very partial and gets angry if they are not worshiped. Yeshey Chojay was the best disciple of Guru Rinpoche due to his ultimate devotion. So when we meditate, we should take in the form of yeshey Chojay “May I too have form of Yeshey Chojay”. When chanting words of praying, it is not necessary to remember the meaning of each word. We should be aspired by just recitation, whatever word meant to be, it is there.
There are different purposes for meditation. Meditating on Dorji Sempa heals our wounds. Likewise, Sangay Mela is the Buddha of healing. Imagining Vajra Satawa on the sky sitting on lotus and nectar flowing on your head, dissolving in you will wash all impurities. You can do it while walking and showering. Imagining shower as nectar
In dreams, if we see taking bath and changing clothes, it is believe that you got the blessing.
SEMTHUL – Mind Instruction
Mind is the creator of Samsara and nirvana. Mind can be the worst enemy. Buddhichitta is a compassionate mind, known as Jangchuk Sempa. Buddhichitta takes compassion to the highest level. They are altruist and realize Buddha thinking and feeling. They think of others as them! Everyone has potential to be a buddhichitta. When we wakeup, we must assume the form of Buddhichitta.
“Teach 100 people with high devotion, the teaching will be less. Teach 1 person with less devotion, the teaching will be too much”. Guru Rinpoche said that a disciple should be either stupid or brilliant to get the teaching. “Rang gi Sem di yongsu du” ( Yongsu – thoroughly, du – tame) meaning mind our own business for mind can be tamed. Think globally and act locally!
“When we are angry, there is 90% anger and only 10% reality” Dalai Lama. “Fear and anxiety come to the untamed mind” Buddha. “There is nothing to fear but fear itself” Roosevelt
Samsara is mind turned outwardly, lost in projection. Nirvana is mind turned inwardly and recognizing the nature of mind. Mind is like sun and thought and motion is like sunrays. Therefore, mind is never equal to thought and motion.Mind should be like water not stirred. When it becomes clear then we are mindfulness. If lama is in mind, we are not separated from him.
Sogyel Rinpoche is truly a humble person and I see in him the living Guru Rinpoche. He is an enlighten being but he never recognizes praise or reincarnation or vision. I felt paradise on earth with the RInpoche, though the moment was brief. Whatever, it was a happy session for government and public to be blessed by His Eminence.
“Materialize attitude of Buddhichitta not material!”
“When your perception is clear, it is a heaven. Therefore, heaven is here on earth”
Body, speech and mind are essential elements in Buddhism. Mind is most powerful as it can enslave body and speech. Buddha nature of mind is always pure and eternal. No one can destroy it.
Harming others is harming you. Loving others is to love you. Peace, compassion and wisdom are the important subjects in teachings of Buddha. The teaching of Buddha is the path to enlightenment, where you can be the Buddha as well. Buddha can liberate sentience beings from world of suffering. The question is why we are born in this world again. Negative karma is so powerful that it makes Buddha helpless too.
There are three kind of faith:
1. Vivid Faith; e.g. faith of child to mother
2. Eager Faith; e.g. eager to have liberalization
3. Confident faith
In a story, a man was crossing a desert and he was thirsty to death. His vivid faith is thinking of water and nothing else. Once he reached an oasis of water, his eager faith is drinking water and nothing else. His confident faith is the water is drinkable.
Guru Rinpoche
We all have karmic connection to Guru Rinpoche. When we meditate on Guru Rinpoche, it is a complete meditation on all Buddhas. He is an embodiment of all Buddhas. Guru is emanation of all Buddhas and seeing him sees all Buddhas. We cannot see or feel him, though he is omniscience. It is like our face, which we know it is there but we cannot see. “Om a hung benza guru pema siddhi hum” is the hot line to recall Guru Rinpoche. He knows our minds and gives a complete insurance to nirvana for he can liberate sentient beings from samsara. Always pray the seven lines of Guru for longevity, good mental and cessation of depression. Imagine that Guru dissolves in you and you are purified. It will convert suffering into bliss. We should have faith in a teacher but it has to be based on reasons (Analogy)
Death
When we are dying or with a dying person. You have to recite “Om A hu benza guru..” to him. It is even better to recite the Phowa to him. If we are dying and breathe is slowly slipping out of us, meditate or think of Buddha Yepame to take birth in dewa chen gi zhimkham. If we meditate on Guru Rimphoche then we have to wish to take birth in Zangthophelri. While we are alive, we take refuge in Guru Rimpoche and imagine guru dissolving in us and becoming our self a guru. It is in a similar fashion but this time when we are dying, we have to imagine to dissolve our self into guru rimphoche and we becoming the Guru Rimpoche.
No one can deny the truth of death. Therefore, we all should plan it well empowering by good deeds. It is important to reckon the nature of mind at the time of death. We must recognize our mind like the Guru Rimphoche and dissolving it with the Guru himself. Blessing comes through devotions. If you have devotions, blessing is yours! You are to born in an upper realm. Sinner will carry guilt with the fully conscious mind in the deathbed. Sin obscures us from dying peacefully as it will follow negative karma. The negative karma is responsible for us to take rebirth in animal kingdom. Animals too have Buddha nature of mind but they are obscure by negative karma. Obscuration and negative thoughts are like cloud in a vicious cycle. The cloud overcast sky that is the Buddha nature of mind. The sin has only one good quality that is it can be purified. Always try to remove cloud and gain the sky. Body, which we have, is due to our past karma. Negative karma is so powerful that high practitioner cannot achieve enlightenment. They have to go through causes of karma. Whatsoever, Good and pure heart is an essence to achieve enlightenment.
Four noble truths
- Truth of suffering
- Truth of origin of suffering
- Cessation of suffering
- Path to cessation of suffering
When we have truth of cessation and follow the path of cessation, we are sure to liberate to take birth in nirvana. Therefore, we have to take refuge in Buddha’s teaching to gain good karma.
We must not say that we got Buddha nature and doing all wrong things. This brings negative karma (Saying my stick is of Buddha and rat is Buddha. And killing rat with that stick… this bring negative karma, losing the view in action). Suffering must be understood and abandon its roots and causes.
Religions:
Christianity begins by guilty of sin and Buddhism begins by purity of mind. Like healing power of Chayna Dorji, Christian prays to Holy Ghost There is all essential in Buddhism so there is no need to change to other religion. Buddhism is so amazing that gives all its values to all religions and takes their values too. We have a human life, which is precious, and we have wonderful time meeting a good teacher or spiritual friends. Therefore, we should never waste this time to dedicate ourselves to Buddha teaching.
Once you have a purity of mind and all perception is clear then there begins a Buddha nature. When we are meditating and we feel emptiness, it indicates a Buddha nature of mind. We should always recognize Buddha nature in others and help them to bring to glory of nature. They can be anyone like drug addict, alcoholic and thief.
Jetsun Jambayang represents wisdom, Compassion by cheri zee and strength by Chayna dorji. Seeing a world of suffering and two drops of tear fall from Chenri ze, which convert to white tara and green tara later.
Compassion
Compassionate mind will have empathy with reasoning, basic feeling of others by stepping in their shoes. It has four components. Dharma is the education for life; it makes a good human being. “Good head formidable and good heart combination is compassion” – Nelson.
Jamyang Khentse Rinpoche got blessing from Khando Tshering choden pretending to put her hand on his chin and abruptly putting on his head.
- LOVE; antidote to anger (Anger cannot be destroyed by anger but by love) Future Buddha is Buddha of Love.
- JOY; “don’t sacrifice long term happiness by short time pleasure”, the marriage is being destroyed by anger over a mistake which is not hers. When someone hurts you in turn, we should wish him to be our teacher.
- Compassion
- Equanimity
Loving – antidote to fear; Buddha asked monks to go to a deep forest to meditate. There lived a demon in tree that causes them too many troubles. Monks suffered mental trauma and return to Buddha. Buddha gave them teaching on loving and kindness “May you be happy, may you be well” and send back monks to the same tree for meditation. Demon was so pleased with the mantra that monks enjoy the bliss.
Meditation
Think of a person who loves you. The best person to remember is a mother/master. Meditate about her, meditate on friends and lastly meditate on enemies. (Meditate – may you be happy, may you be well!). It does not matter even if we do not meditate on Guru. If you have a strong devotion to teacher, we can meditate on him alone. Meditating Guru recalls root and linage lamas. We have to respect the lineage because all enlightens are authentic.
Never take pride and apathy in meditation. If your mission fails then meditate on buddhichitta.
God is not bias to anyone. Guru Rinpoche would also bless those who doesn’t believe in him. On the flips side of the coin, worldly God are very partial and gets angry if they are not worshiped. Yeshey Chojay was the best disciple of Guru Rinpoche due to his ultimate devotion. So when we meditate, we should take in the form of yeshey Chojay “May I too have form of Yeshey Chojay”. When chanting words of praying, it is not necessary to remember the meaning of each word. We should be aspired by just recitation, whatever word meant to be, it is there.
There are different purposes for meditation. Meditating on Dorji Sempa heals our wounds. Likewise, Sangay Mela is the Buddha of healing. Imagining Vajra Satawa on the sky sitting on lotus and nectar flowing on your head, dissolving in you will wash all impurities. You can do it while walking and showering. Imagining shower as nectar
In dreams, if we see taking bath and changing clothes, it is believe that you got the blessing.
SEMTHUL – Mind Instruction
Mind is the creator of Samsara and nirvana. Mind can be the worst enemy. Buddhichitta is a compassionate mind, known as Jangchuk Sempa. Buddhichitta takes compassion to the highest level. They are altruist and realize Buddha thinking and feeling. They think of others as them! Everyone has potential to be a buddhichitta. When we wakeup, we must assume the form of Buddhichitta.
“Teach 100 people with high devotion, the teaching will be less. Teach 1 person with less devotion, the teaching will be too much”. Guru Rinpoche said that a disciple should be either stupid or brilliant to get the teaching. “Rang gi Sem di yongsu du” ( Yongsu – thoroughly, du – tame) meaning mind our own business for mind can be tamed. Think globally and act locally!
“When we are angry, there is 90% anger and only 10% reality” Dalai Lama. “Fear and anxiety come to the untamed mind” Buddha. “There is nothing to fear but fear itself” Roosevelt
Samsara is mind turned outwardly, lost in projection. Nirvana is mind turned inwardly and recognizing the nature of mind. Mind is like sun and thought and motion is like sunrays. Therefore, mind is never equal to thought and motion.Mind should be like water not stirred. When it becomes clear then we are mindfulness. If lama is in mind, we are not separated from him.
Sogyel Rinpoche is truly a humble person and I see in him the living Guru Rinpoche. He is an enlighten being but he never recognizes praise or reincarnation or vision. I felt paradise on earth with the RInpoche, though the moment was brief. Whatever, it was a happy session for government and public to be blessed by His Eminence.
