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Teaching by: Deshung Rinpoche (Dezhung Rinpoche III)

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he history a buddhist
a buddhism as a system
religious practice has
well known a number of plan isn't teaching that is pithy brief statements or doctrine
or instructions for practice these so-called essam stages
i have played an important part particularly in the life of buddhist meditators what if the most famous of these was introduced into the religious life of tibet by the great indian sage funded a teacher who
they composed his logo john dungeon or
seven practices for training the mind
these were
and popularized by he is
for most desirable say that regard to and by his successors
so that
over the centuries the study and practice a dishes
seven points or a seven day trainings of the by have
i been i've become widely known and widely practiced in by practitioners belonging to all the major orders of tibetan buddhism
there are similar works
native to tibet
in our own sakya tradition the most famous at these is known as the he loved john agenda she does or the
for teachings owned
a for teachings
on the development of non attachment
this
teaching resume as she dead
was transmitted directly
the budisa to wisdom manjushri to the youthful such include ningbo the the patriarch of our order

he in turn taught it to his
two sons
by his successors as a i accept the order
timo and jets and top i dance in the latter these jets and up against in
i wrote a very beautiful
song
based to burn the
this essence teaching
taught by magistrate barry sadler known as the song of parting from the for desires or the gym but she dared dumb key young
this
short song
it contains a very lucid
and pleasing presentation of the
i'll be main
topics
of the chamber she does
his successor the six patriotic the great sakya pandita
a roti short summary of the gym but she does teaching
the consisting of a single page of the instructions summarizing the the essential teachings of the gym but she dare
in a later century the great founder of be more monastery
merging from the zongo also
wrote a
commentary
in prose
on the jimbo she dealt teaching
his brother
you
yes he has kinda lucky rimbaud chair know kinda like the range in the brother of emerging in the zone i wrote a dream more extensive commentary
to the
december she dell and this commentary
it is also included in the compendium of i
tantras and instructions for practice
known as the down the dirt or the
five treasures of instruction compiled by a great
scholar
contrary roomba chair
hmm
one or the
more famous commentaries on the zambezi dell
was composed by another great
sage of the suck your order
go rumba southern singing
buddhist tradition knows of
six great sages or teachers who after the buddha did most for the development of
the development of buddhist thought
in tibet also there is a tradition of six
sixty greatest sages or as they're known in tibet in the six ornaments
a of the dharma
the
according to cycle tradition these six are identified as
the sages wrong turn and yocto who were especially learned in
the doctrines contained the sutras
why the
exoteric buddhist literature
the to cougars that is merging come the zambo and by convert canton
the only casualty
so long was a cited a a
said yeah i said he wasn't a good idea that santana jumpsuit i was thinking
that looks to yeah
zumba going against and these two scholars the to congress were especially learned in a tantric matters
finally
two scholars go round by and it shocking choked in where famed for their knowledge
and mastery of both suitors and dress so it is about this is
this go rumba saddam hussein gay one of the six ornaments of tibet
in that we shall be
referring to today since it is his particular commentary on the gym she that the reshare that face our discussion of the teaching today
grampa was
born in a poor family in the eastern arctic tibet the province of calm during his youth here
i traveled to the west to central tibet and their attended many illustrious masters at the your order and then because of his a great wisdom and meditate
give abilities he was quickly recognized as an outstanding
a buddhist monk t
a along with his yogic abilities he was also a very learned scholar he composed
some thirteen volumes of the writings minty writings in exposition of be
the
ah
teachings and practices are both the
esoteric exoteric an esoteric buddhism these writings were of such
value to other practitioners that they were included in the sack your cat and and to this day i continue to be very exhaustively studied by serious students know
his commentary on december she does is not a long way it consists of some southern or even really six pages of text but because i in the because in a few words he was able to to extract the the
central
teaching the essential doctrines that december she dead and to present him in a very lucid and helpful way for other students and practitioners his commentary on this embassy dell has that been
been greatly appreciated
by other masters therefore
it is for this reason that route jay has undertaken to make it the basis for our discussion at the shimmers she dead today
oh

roubatis is that it is
ah income the de as as a serious students of the dharma who have
i been rummaging says that he has been asked by his friends and students at this
the psyche as she do playing center in cambridge to or
i discussed this embassy down
he is a
he knows that day those
there are here today some of his students who have
it's been out to india have received that the true teachings of the laundry and have the
generally
applied themselves
with great sincerity and earnestness to study practice or the the a
instructions which he has given them from time to time therefore he is very pleased to honor their request
but whether psyche bar where there is student a decent your order or other orders whether one is it belongs to them were in a buddhist sect or not still it is incumbent upon each of us as sincere stewed
as a persons who have who take seriously these teachings of the enlightened to be very clear about our approach to the data
it is never enough merely to listen to teachings when should be if what is this a serious student of dermot when she first of all ascertain
what is the nature of these of this buddhist religion which we have entered what is the nature of its doctrines it's principles and precepts
ah t
ah
take a restaurant or you will
once you day when she'd be very clear about the nature of the
they say a doctrine of enlightenment one should be very clear
also about the way in which it is to be rightly practiced or to be experienced through right practice and finally what is the nature of the the result which is to be attained through pratt
this one should big diligent efforts to have a very clear understanding in one's mind about these three aspects of buddhism if one day considers himself a serious student
it is the purpose than of these
about teaching such as bishop as she dare to make these matters clear to us it's embassy dell offers a summary of the buddhist religion which to the intelligent person who applies rooms it's my his or her mind to it carefully when will receive the answer
to these three essential questions
remedy the
one
so it is the
the
pumpkin that being said for the purpose of these so called essence teachings to present to the practitioner the serious student of buddhism a guide or a summary
of the
principal doctrines and essential brats to the bat which will prove helpful and went only immediate experience of the bath and mentoring training they are presented in a way that is simple lucy easy to keep in mind easy to remember and apply in was
oh
daily
a life know whether so whether it is the teaching of the seven points of doctrine or the seven day
the trainings returning the mine or the so-called for turnings said the mine or is very jimbo she doesn't teach him when she day
i understand the value and the purpose of all such a summaries of the year
after the buddhist doctrine and practice for what they are
rumor j and
himself a lisa
please to be able to rage share this teaching with you today because of the
because it the value which that he himself
sees in this survey teaching he has in his a seventy seven years had the opportunity in to attend
many of the best minds up to bed some of the greatest teachers of
the married to the buddhism he has a
i received teachings from by
to some of the greatest llamas are the various orders and a since he has always found
that there is much to be learned from each of the teachers of each of the earliest regardless of their or
affiliation
that day he has made it two point over he had the opportunity to seek a teachings of doma initiation serves into tantric practices from any of those teachers without any regard for it there are the already but only with regard to evaluate
teachings which the
i have mastered therefore a even though he makes no claim to any realization himself about the be
a about this
teaching he has he has a
in his life had the opportunity to receive this and other similar teachings from some of the best teachers at the nima i give
gilbert
orders as well as from bag is a principal preceptors of the suck your body and through his observation of the realizations attained by these great masters through his own observations of
of life in general
it he has come to wear
recognized that the december she dealt teaching there is the much a great value much that is a value to many serious practitioners determine so recognizing to be great value in this
teaching he is very pleased to share it with with you all today know him
for our teaching program today then we will
i spent the morning in discussing the first part of be teaching which consist of two
two topics
firstly the
orientation at the mind
toward
dharma is the turning of the mind
a toward

the turning the mind away from a secular orientation toward a toward the spiritual life and secondly
yesterday be what's this imagery
don't you
chill none of the job yes and then secondly
the do
it did

two years how to win
how to transform
in one so one's understanding of the of dermot into the spiritual path how to how to read
make up one's understanding a spiritual path to liberation
that is the
the first to answer the first two stages which correspond to the first two lines at a gym michelle teaching
in to summarize the four stages of this teaching with will receive
these are as we have said firstly the orientation of the mind
away from the world and towards the dharma secondly the
transformation of a understanding of dermot in spiritual path
the the overcoming of all obstacles to the spiritual life and finally
the
dornin have transcended wisdom
these these are the four stages
ah
a blue to which the teaching of the embassy shuttle repairs and so for our discussion this morning we will
turn first
a first line of the gym bushido

for the purposes of our discussion where the job know
the basic teachings are the a text
composed by rhonda
so i'm cindy
he will from time to time to relate his own explanation of the text gravy a
here is necessary
didn't first letter described the text to to
it is
in its title it is called a key and this is a
this is
they certainly very at in his matches
one needs just as run needs a key in order to enter
the
a mansion or other lovely a residents that unless one has access to a to roughhouse know better how
comfortable or delightful it may be than it is when
how does not derive near by its benefits so this
so it is with the profound meaning of the dharma unless one has access to the understanding in realization
and experience of those
profanities than it is one
does not have one is unable to protect their riches so in order to unlock the true meaning of this teaching at the gym but she dealt and for the the true meaning of the whole bahia restarting grander all his book a key
to the gym as she said this title the reject gives is quite out that does propellants function
in buddhist tradition
a
a text on the
buddhist doctrine
should always begin with
with certain preliminaries these are the invocation of worms chosen deity an invocation at the blessings that one are embedded deity and secondly statement of purpose
in it's considered auspicious to begin ruins work with the invocation of one's chosen deity a first of all the it
i'm impressed about because it too
invokes a bone one's efforts the blessings of the deity and a ensures that one's work will be accomplished without obstacle and having been accomplished that it will endure
do
so grab the to in accord with is tradition that begins his that
the
the text also with the certain verses in woking or is invoking the blessings are and opening salutation to
his particular deities in this case here the offers
deprecation of the buddha shakyamuni the or troopers to manjushri avalokiteshvara the bodhisattva of compassion and finally to be great psyche by there is such including ningbo the third patriarch who received this ambassador
teaching directly with i decided to to shoot and
so
grandpa's work begins with several verses and broke in the blessings of our peace
these booties and enlightened beings and then
he offers a statement of his purpose it is in
in response to a pure hearted request
to pure hearted
petition he has a
been undertaken to
to provide year instructions on the important aspects of my hand or buddhism
a this remedy says is a reference to a request which grew up i had received from what it is
disciples a particular householder a household your booty side trash who belong to the illustrious mini cooper forbidding mountain i remember we give me much and will get it
it rather than a month i know
king george's unlike humans and the required a sandwich chamber
the one who knows on some as on thomas timothy zahn valuable was he was a ministry in the court agree rinconada
the monarch
by the name of rather dodgy and and a
he and his family where patrons are that nag devotees of granderson see and i was himself
a
undoubtedly a great bodhisattva on one occasion he has around back to provide
his family and himself with that instructions for practice practice that could be undertaken even by his his household a
well children and servants and so it was in response to this request by relativity that rumba compose these a few pages of instruction based on the show should have
i'm quietly to be the of
here with on monday something original
i
our teachers shakyamuni buddha
i
i taught at that
the
various principles
hey
enlightenment and the path to enlightenment out of a compassionate
for the suffering beans
have i
a the this and other words and he taught those
he thought he compassionately taught with regard to also to the to the capacities of the beings and doing that each being
is endowed with the different a comic background with the differing capacities for understanding speech well the profanities
he threw his great skill in means
presented the dharma indifferent a
forms and a through the use of mini expedient teachings was able to provide beings with the each being with their just the
teaching
in the right time in the right place generally speaking all of the
doctrines are all of the countless teachings to the buddha it may be subsumed into two categories firstly there iv
exoteric
teachings of buddhism
and secondly the esoteric or tantric teachings of the buddha
ah
for our purpose
purposes of discussion today the simba she del belongs to the first category that is it belongs to the exoteric presentation of the dharma know
there are
he regained there are two
to
principal presentations of the dharma
what can
in practice when can approach ruins a path of practice through reliance burn the the about sacred literature on the various utterances of the buddha which have been recorded and about the various writings
common trees
written by buddhist masters in elucidation of the
of the buddha's words
more one can rely upon oral instructions that is the instructions for practice which have be transmitted from one realize master to a his or her cycle
to summarize the
to summarize what is meant by the
first of these that is reliance upon navy
scriptural authority current practice
we can do
you seek
to learn the
nature of
my honor buddhism
by turning to the definitions of some of the greatest
our buddhist sages for example maitreya a great teacher my career wrote in his
the text
the abyss a my alarm cara
said that essentially the true meaning of the
pragya potter meter
is that
the stages of the bath or to be found in the eight conceptualizations are eight perceptions
his writings are wary an elaboration offered an elaboration about these eight perceptions
we will go into those here the indies also he wrote in the sutra long era that the
the basic intent abroad by earnest sutras is to show that
the stages of the path consist of logical reasoning faith in the dharma and so point that is an enumeration he offered an enumeration at various successive stages of the bad getting with logical reasoning and
naga jr
also wrote in his mighty jamaica rationality that
ah
the goal of religious practice and lies in the attainment of
first about the happiness of a higher realms of existence is a human or god
a godly existence
and a final the final the attainment of the fight on the happiness of liberation
the stages of the path
to that to the attainment of these goals are
timberland spiritual happiness is to be accomplished through the practice alpha faith and wisdom
a the genus disciple hiit were also
i define the
buddhist path in these words he said that
when should have as ones aim as runs go supreme enlightenment which
is to be attained through discarding the for erroneous views
these boy read his views are the perceiving oneself to be
a pure happy pregnant and they equipped with a
with a yourself
or an eggo if
in the process of
purifying one's a one's mine of these boy erroneous views when also destroys or overcomes all of the or
the negative mental
attitudes and a impulses which are a hindrance to
the bodhisattvas career
in this way when makes for himself and his where the vessel of the truth
and at that time one's practice becomes a principally that of gaining a full perception of the to that is a full realization of the nature of ultimate reality so according to a day with
these are the essential stages of the path removing the observations of wrong use a negative mental states and then
awakening perfect insight into the air into the
nature of ultimate truth
and the great bodhisattva shanti they were also described the path in these words
hmm
one know
should
practice the six perfections which comprise the budisa to his career and they accomplish each of them
with an attitude a jury's are that is a pure resolved to benefit all living beings this a these are these stages of the path that leads to buddhahood
again the great indian sage a tisha described the path in other words

he described the path with so reference to the
capacities the spiritual capacities of its practitioners
that a person of by
of
of inferior
spiritual capacity that is when you perhaps is with a us
a limited scope
six to abandoned attachment to this life in order to attain benefit
in his next life
a person of middling capacity middling a spiritual maturity
i'm thoroughly rejects further involvement in a deluded worldly existence and six to attain personal that is individual celebration
the a person of of great spiritual maturity when you are a and it takes the religious life on a greater scale seeks to attain buddhahood for the benefit of all living beings
hmm that is this is one who has a concept who practice with be
a concept of universal salvation so these are the three kinds of practitioners
and day
the spiritual career of a
each person protects of these three stages it is necessary to pass through each of these through stages are spiritual maturity and the this process of
the maturation is quite a tissue coins the path to oblige you know you will recognize in this doctrine of addition the basis for or the grapes on campus or teaching in the laundry about
it path with reference to the types of practitioners
and
finally the great indian sage children katie
i described the path in these words
if an ordinary person undertakes to practice
three three said is an option
a
he resolved to attain enlightenment for the sake of the world and
a non dualistic
point of view and i'm non dualistic
perspective
that person will be transformed into
an area that is to say a spiritual being
and then with the through the accomplishment or the team
a separate k dharmic okay so

the
point that the agenda katie is making is that through the
training on the path according to the scriptures even in ordinary being well the through right practice become transformed into a spiritual being a great being endowed with rica
the
wondrous miraculous spiritual powers of the bodhisattva and enemy of buddhahood
these are these
these
attributes or the bodhisattvas and out the buddha's or
are so exalted and so vast in scope that it is beyond our a mercenary minds to apprehend him to comprehend these
these spiritual stages entertainment however
these various stages of attainment and realizations can also be attained through as if we like they're reliable india
a
explanations and instructions presented in the sutures
this is
these profound teachings of patent attorneys are are assessable to world who are endowed with intelligence and diligence
are you serious about their
seeking buddhahood relying upon them the result in the results are a there for the attaining so that is the a brief summary been or the first type at the first kind of approach to practice
it is reliance earn scriptures scriptural explanations and instructions
the researching
approach to practice and big buddhism
which is to be encompassed too reliance on the oral instructions
these are a summaries are the essential doctrines and practices of the path would show you something lighter
there are
many such i
many such oral instructions but in tibet there are two
a principal
teaching the switch have been there
transmitted down to the centers the first of these
i consistently teachings of the
master who wanted a dweeb a four cylinder
who
who's student was the great indian sage funded a tissue
bonded a deja
oh there was the first to the
that is the
first or the two most
the two major or instructions the second
is that
the second is that teaching
imparted by the body center with dementia three to such including the and is known as the by she dare
to summarize the first teaching that introduced into tibet by under the tissue
it consists primarily of the instructions for it the
you for turning so the mind that is true reflection upon the difficulty of obtaining an opportunity for preps in the it through reflection upon death and impermanence the reflection of bone
the efficacy of karma it is
the relationship between the cause and effect with regard to windsor and moral actions in finally the reflection about their the the unsatisfactory these are worthy existence as a whole when sam
mind becomes a tune to the dharma one's mind becomes a suitable vessel
for a time for the realizations of diamond
at this point when did the undertakes the practices of
meditation or burn the friendliness and compassion
and
then develops and then based upon these two meditations when develops an attitude of of bodhicitta that is resolved to retain
the salvation to achieve the salvation of all living beings

along with this course of training when also and he takes
so-called branch practices which i
a described is transforming a obstacles into the bath
hmm

the various are signs to be achieved through rain training one's mind the various signs that will arise as a result of runs training varies vows of training divine which are to be undertaken and in general the base
precepts in debt
instructions for training wins by
hmm
no this is the the essence in of they say
first
oral instruction which introduced into tibet by under the teacher he gave this a these this set of instructions to is
disciple drum tenga and no one else was he gave these instructions only to one person when disciple john denver himself
by transmitted the teaching two three
three disciples who were known as the three brothers they were not actually a relatives
blood relatives better way
the
brothers in the diamond the these were the
the llama ottawa is rarely want children or is it tour
put your
to checking on patrol which we were and who is buried when he grew rubina and sheng out by it than too
jim noah
and so these three brothers into a day taught it widely so that
no
in getting buddhist visa is instructions are turning the mind etc are widely known and widely practiced by know
meditators
everywhere
if you want to re
study a
extensive
extensive commentary so that this particular system of training like
the works are by gothic church zone
and will to turn met our recommended as well as those
the great teacher january gaucho
and and then the vacuum these and then issue
who founded
if somebody you
this is also very very extensive commentary and the is seven trading said by by
buy me a buggy yes new chars in you
and then game again to a she could be less you to do enjoy you
this is so to own lives
dirty work by the
founded gac and also the
she currently
the larger election could do written by jenny gaucho
at the that was close
kind of cause
what if you go over your way
second i'll be a essence teachings or as a central oral instructions that is a gym she dealt with was transmitted
into the boy such in ningbo by the active wisdom manjushri this
in their intent
they these two teachings
are very similar however their presentation they differ quite radically in their presentation at the path in this particular teaching the dish embassy down
i
the practice of the six
potter meters or six spiritual affections is
presented
ah
a correspondence to four successive stages of non-attachment this is the
just of the teaching richard who has spoken by the bodies too to imagery when he said would you have attachment to dislike you will not a religious person if you have attachment to the world of existence you haven't renunciation
if you have attachment to your own purpose you haven't the enlightenment thought and
if grasping arises you happen to view
i
you generalise
should make it
we'll get him again and again i will
if you have attachment to this life
this the meaning of these poor lines is interpreted in this way by granted
he says it's a matter of learning first to relinquish attachment to this lie and in
and thereby one's mind
the proceeds
troy the diamond that is went by and becomes dharma oriented oriented toward the religious go spiritual go second stage is a described as
learning to give up attachments to the whole round the whole of worldly existence and in this way when a traverses the the spiritual
in third stage one loans to give up attachment to selfish cones even a spiritual path that is when exept attachment to
personal aims and objectives and in this way once path becomes clear the all parents
finally
having learned to give up attachment to an increase attachment to to philosophical views to the extremes and philosophical views whether our existence not existence so for it when when loans to
the perceive
all things as they really are that is one when they experience this the arising of what is known as a no six or in wisdom
to let dot com and resumed to determine reduce
contact it
the instructions for the
first stage of practice are his father's
keeping in mind that is the purpose of this is instructions with his first stage to our best to turn our mind away
from further involvement in a usually useless worthy pursuits and to redirect our mental energies toward a spiritual gold is to
develop a
a reorientation of the mind
in this is to be accomplished through
three practices first of all
there is the preparatory practice
a meditation about the difficulty of obtaining an opportunity for practice at the dharma secondly days the main practice meditation abode get and impermanence
the auxiliary meditation a bone comment is the efficacy
karmic cause and effect
what follows knows our instructions own
the way to
meditate or burned difficulty with obtaining the opportunity or
practice or the diamond
you should day
first of all
make yourself comfortable in the city to burn a comfortable cushion before your altar or in any other place of solitude that is suitable for grabs limitation
begin your practice by taking refuge in your room teacher in the three jewels that is a affirming your reliance upon the the guidance and blessings of the buddha's trinity of buddha dharma and sangha
and
then
to request their blessings also that your mind might indeed be turned away from
to further involvement in delusions and then redirected toward enlightenment
i
and then you should
reflecting the following manner a boner first topic which is as we said the difficulty of obtaining the opportunity to practice down there
should they consider the ways in which it is difficult to times just such an opportunity practice which were now has
first of all it is very difficult to retain
the human existence even
the
liberal
it is difficult
to obtain the human existence
because the causes of the human existence are only rarely obtained by living beings
in the context of are they married forms of life
human existence is only barely they rarely obtained because it causes are only rarely obtain because you saw that human existence or a sense of morality a sense of intelligence and responsibility about ones
a responsibility for one's actions this sense out of awareness is since of moral conduct is
is does not
is not often attained by beans therefore they fail every to to to call they even the causes of human existence
so by way of course it is very difficult to to it is also
in the context dogs
of numbers also when can see that human existence is rarely obtained by beings we are want to take out the world days
as a overpopulated with humans that that we think that there are plenty of people in this world but when we consider that
how numerous or the other life forms we can see both and human existence is truly a rare in fact it is being described in a very sutras as
is being so rare rarely obtained by being said it is as if one way to through a handful of sand against a wall all of them would fall down perhaps only wanted to graves my dad my days remain on the wall
in this way is the same way with living beings to all the
you being said are constantly being reborn dying and being reborn that it is only a few who ever make it through to human return
to give another example
i when good day
sit him when good day
i liken the difficulty of obtaining even revert to the efforts of some blind turtle that lived it that lives at the bottom of the notion
if once every hundred years that blind total way to swim to the surface of the ocean in an attempt to put its neck through a wooden yolk floating on the ocean surface of the ocean it's chances of success are about as good as our turn
to surf obtaining human rebirth in the contact staffer other life forms that it's the chances are bad day turtle achieving it's goal know when considers the odds that are against it had the waves carry the
the yolk
to be easy to the rest into the other directions and wafted about a over
a vast expanse that a is that adds would rise to deserve this once every hundred years
cyclists and tried to recover sheets go he would have this much chance as we do a obtaining a human
they
even if human brain is obtained
it is
it is no guarantee of an opportunity for practice of dynamic
to be free from all of the other life from the rebate in the other forms of life where there is no opportunity to practice term and they to succeed in obtaining human barry whether it is the possibility of practice and dermot still is no
guarantee of good fortune when when considers how how frequently humans are born in times and places where the teachings of enlightenment are not available today
how they are born among
barbarians are in a places where where a
i teach himself a liberation or not known or not regarded or not i'd taken seriously
when considers how
many beings are born
with their mental and physical faculties in pay
insane or are stricken by disease in little die
death or dumb
otherwise
it injured from by practice at the dharma
win-win considers also a however
many beings are born how many humans are born with a
the unwholesome habits with evil inclinations with my inspect do not
do not
appreciate
the value of the spiritual life who do not appreciate the prospect of elaboration that whose minds are instead controlled by by a
deluded and dark impulses they then that prevent them from entering into a new one can consider just how rare is this opportunity for practice to
be a person who's somehow there's some chaps blues
a lucky break was able to obtain human existence we had a time in a place for it teachings are available to have one's body and mind and impaired and to be a person whose mind is sensitive to these to these teaching certainly
and the able to appreciate them able to
to make use of the if one has at last game such an opportunity it simply becomes on t
i
take the present moment seriously and to read
make the
best possible use or the present opportunity volume and has it therefore once your day reflected this way and i oh
again and again until one and said
develop a sense of of
alertness and awareness at the
the value at this present moment for practice and resolve that the best ones ability rendering data
apply when mind to re to the practice of dharma which makes a human existence meaningful and while so long as when has this opportunity when when make me and most their use of it
okay with that and mean
we can john the top on them

we describe day the reflection the burnley difficulty retaining the opportunity for a the practice of dharma
hmm

it is a
essential that we take advantage of the present moment the president opportunity while we have it because although we
they are not sure about our past where we have come from or will be going one thing is sure about is that we will surely die
this is the case with all human beings like ourselves that no matter how many beans and many humans have lived on this planet they have all without exception being subject to death and we have no reason to think that it will be otherwise with ours
selves
in that death is certain the time of are dead is quite uncertain none of us has a guaranteed right
no-one has promised in a universe that day we will
i have
i am both time in the future for a the practice of dharma
therefore it be who says to phase out to this that are a imminent death to pace up to the part of our own impermanence and thereby
in
come to
to appreciate better the value at the present moment for practice
and indeed practice is the practice of the dharma the training in this path of liberation is a the best possible use we can put
a
the best possible use we can make about present life because
no matter how long do we live no matter what we accomplished in this lives matter how a comfortable
pleasant our situation may have been
no matter how popular wealthy looking or eloquent or
and what
property we may possess none of these by going to be at the slightest used to us at the time of death
when it is time for us to die than none of our cleverness and skill is going to help us avoid dead it doesn't lead on it's time to die no amount of medicine new amount of prayers are religious sarah
moments or long life initiations or debbie is going to wear
a prevention from dying and they know number of friends
servants or attendants are going to be able to help you at the time
day at that time only
virtue
well be of any use to you that is only the good wholesome inclinations of your own mind will be a to you at that time
and these
point of inclinations of mine are
to be developed through repeated practice through a through
yeah
wholehearted and persistent efforts to
direct mine in the wholesome ways rather than in an herb subways if
if we neglect to
work with the mind while we are while we have the opportunity then at that time or death
we will have nothing to work with we will
no longer have the opportunity and we will have a
in failed to achieve our own best interest the

so
therefore this reflection or burned impermanence
our own impermanence the imminence apparent the certainly boned it should be like a code to our consciousness it should stir us out of the of complacency of smugness about practice so of
oh
procrastination we
she goaded into diligence to practice here and now to the utmost variability
in this raise the meditation of
the impermanence that new parameters can be a salutary to our practice and it certainly in our own best interest because when we reflect to burn
our present situation
and we
recognize our own responsibility for our present situation that it is through our past mental and physical actions that have a us to this present
to these present circumstances then we must recognize that it is also that our future also depends on a just are present actions of body blitz in mine
when we
in consider the operation of karma
we learn to become mindful about actions
i see no responsibility for them
when

when we understand that
karmic
actions of body boys in my determined our present in future state we
learn to to be mindful to make every effort to
avoid unwholesome
the actions and to develop to cultivate wholesome actions basically there are three types of karma it is wholesome or unwholesome in neutral his actions which are by their very nature produce pain as a result such as taking life
produces pain as so
other actions are a virtuous by their very nature because they have a wholesome result they produce benefit our
there are so
hmm such as making gifts and
other actions are neutral that is the bad news
happiness nor suffering as the result these are said to be comically neutral items such as
standing or walking city he did something like this they neither heard nor help
when a karmic cents per turn

when we
understand the connection between causes are present actions and their ripening results than we learn to be careful about what we say and do you think
they

actions all action scream from my impulses within the mind and when these impulses are reinforced by being put interaction physically or vocally than one has developed a common pattern so
so that the inclination is to repeat those actions were the good or bad again and again in this rabies one develops karmic patterns which a carried to their logical conclusion produced in a altered states of existence the course they aren't
our entire perception and experience and then
they
first of all they create the impulse to act
it again and again in that positive or negative way for example a thief who one succeeds in that you get away with the fat would be tempted to do it again and again in the more if it is gives a more
i the
more reinforced with is a propensities as and the be here
will become and in this way when develops the lifestyle and be mental thought day patterns of a thief and so for it said these are the results the first result at that
the that
ah
developing karmic habits and then also there's the if fully ripening results of one's actions good and bad through
carried to there
in conclusion was adults some actions
committed by body of mine
can always result in the experience of pain
as as the centuries have stressed again in game all actions that
proceed from a mine which is governed by
i
attachment or aversion or delusion have pain as the result
conversely all actions which proceed from mind that is free from desire aversion and a delusion
have a
happiness as a result
an action so a known some actions committed by body voice and mine ted
ah
the canon do ripen in day
the experience of great pay actions committed by
actions are by anger can they propelled one's consciousness into how hellish states of existence
actions are great desire lust and desire can they an attachment can propel run into the ghost realms actions of great delusion
ignorance
it can they cause and be
reborn in the animal grounds
conversely hold some actions
committed by body or voice in mine and they result in three berries and happy states of existence either as a human with the in with the endowed with good fortune or among even among the guard roads are carried to law
logical extreme when cultivates the ten wholesome actions of body boys mind
and link those i heard some actions to the year
hi
bertie sought to is that they will result came the attainment of buddhahood to happiness over our liberation
hmm

so
the general within it can be set of karma is that the
effects good and bad of our actions all the been a burned our state of mind
it is there in the mind that we must be mindful we must stay
take responsibility for the ice
attitudes or impulses are states of money food in bad because it is we who will experience ripening of this carnage and impulses
and the yet when we if we are honest about our ordinary state of mind
we must recognize that only rarely only occasionally do thoughts are virtue
i arise and a remain within the by it is only occasionally that our minds might be really described as wholesome or patriots or that we are entertaining virtuous thoughts and virtuous stops as we just define them
mental states that are free from attachment or aversion and
ignorance it is only rarely that are
in ordinary like have occasions to experience these really virtuous thoughts