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Continuing with our stages of the path (Lam Rim) series, Geshe Sonam Ngodup leads a meditation on recognizing and decreasing the eight worldly concerns (eight worldly dharmas). These concerns are outlined by Nāgārjuna in Letter to a Friend: You who know the world, take gain and loss, Happiness and unhappiness, fame and insignificance praise and blame,  Make them the same and don't disturb your mind. Visit our Facebook page for more teachings by Geshe Sonam Ngodup and English translator Ven. Jamyang Khedrup https://www.facebook.com/LamaYesheLing/ More about our teachers:  https://lamayesheling.org/teachers-and-facilitators/ To know more about our upcoming programs, please subscribe to our newsletter at https://community.lamayesheling.org/civicrm/mailing/subscribe

In the third session on the Lam Rim series of meditations , Geshe Sonam Ngodup guides us through a contemplation and meditation on our precious human rebirth, how it is greatly meaningful and difficult to find. Visit our Facebook page for more teachings by Geshe Sonam Ngodup and English translator Ven. Jamyang Khedrup https://www.facebook.com/LamaYesheLing/ More about our teachers:  https://lamayesheling.org/teachers-and-facilitators/ To know more about our upcoming programs, please subscribe to our newsletter at https://community.lamayesheling.org/civicrm/mailing/subscribe

In this session, Geshe Sonam guides a meditation on the nature and potential of the mind . Although this is not traditionally part of the Lam Rim outlines, understanding a little bit about our mind and its nature is an excellent preliminary contemplation for our Lam Rim/Stages of the path practice. Geshe la gives an introduction, leads a short visualization meditation to settle the mind, and then gives impulses for meditation on the mind's fundamental nature. Visit our Facebook page for more teachings by Geshe Sonam Ngodup and English translator Ven. Jamyang Khedrup https://www.facebook.com/LamaYesheLing/ More about our teachers:  https://lamayesheling.org/teachers-and-facilitators/ To know more about our upcoming programs, please subscribe to our newsletter at https://community.lamayesheling.org/civicrm/mailing/subscribe

*New Series Alert* - Stages of the Path (Tibetan: 'Lam Rim')  Preliminaries – the Field of Accumulation: This week, we begin the first of what will be between 22-23 weekly short videos on the topics of the Stages of the Path (Lam Rim). The aim of this series is to give students a brief taste of these topics in a format that can be used for meditation. In this session, Geshe Sonam  guides a meditation on the preliminary practice for the Lam Rim meditation - visualizing the field of accumulation.  This meditation includes a brief recitation of the mantra of the Buddha TADYATHĀ OṂ MUNE MUNE MAHĀ MUNAYE SVĀHĀ. Visit our Facebook page for more teachings by Geshe Sonam Ngodup and English translator Ven. Jamyang Khedrup https://www.facebook.com/LamaYesheLing/ More about our teachers:  https://lamayesheling.org/teachers-and-facilitators/ To know more about our upcoming programs, please subscribe to our newsletter at https://community.lamayesheling.org/civicrm/mailing/subscribe

Geshe Sonam quotes a verse from Shantideva's Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra on how all the teachings are for the sake of arising wisdom. Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable Khedrup. All the teachings are for the sake of arising wisdom  ཡན་ལག་འདི་དག་ཐམས་ཅད་ནི།  All these branch [practices] were taught  ཐུབ་པས་ཤེས་རབ་དོན་དུ་གསུངས།  By the mighty one for the sake of wisdom  དེ་ཡི་ཕྱིར་ན་སྡུག་བསྔལ་དག།  Therefore those who wish to pacify suffering  ཞི་བར་འདོད་པས་ཤེས་རབ་བསྐྱེད།  Should generate this wisdom.  –Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra / བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པ་། Visit our Facebook page for more teachings by Geshe Sonam Ngodup and English translator Ven. Jamyang Khedrup https://www.facebook.com/LamaYesheLing/ More about our teachers:  https://lamayesheling.org/teachers-and-facilitators/ To know more about our upcoming programs, please subscribe to our newsletter at https://community.lamayesheling.org/civicrm/mailing/subscribe

In this episode, Geshe Sonam teaches that we overcome all the afflictive emotions by overcoming confusion. He quotes a verse from Āryadeva's Four Hundred Verses. Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable Khedrup. From Āryadeva's Four Hundred Verses:  ལུས་ལ་ལུས་དབང་ཇི་བཞིན་དུ།  As tactile sense [pervades] the body  གཏི་མུག་ཀུན་ལ་གནས་གྱུར་ཏེ།  Confusion is present in all places  དེ་ཕྱིར་ཉོན་མོངས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱང།  By overcoming confusion (ignorance) one also  གཏི་མུག་བཅོམ་པས་བཅོམ་པར་འགྱུར།  Overcomes all the afflictive emotions. Visit our Facebook page for more teachings by Geshe Sonam Ngodup and English translator Ven. Jamyang Khedrup https://www.facebook.com/LamaYesheLing/ More about our teachers:  https://lamayesheling.org/teachers-and-facilitators/ To know more about our upcoming programs, please subscribe to our newsletter at https://community.lamayesheling.org/civicrm/mailing/subscribe

In this teaching, Geshe Sonam teaches a short but profound verse by Dromtonpa Gyelwa Jungne ('brom ston rgyal ba 'byung gnas) on three Baskets and three Capacities. Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable Khedrup. རྒྱལ་བའི་འབྱུང་གནས་ཀྱི་གསུང་ལས།   From Gyalwa Jungne (Dromtonpa)  ངོ་མཚར་བཀའ་ནི་སྡེ་སྣོད་གསུམ་པོ་དེ།  This wonderful speech of the Buddha, the Tripitaka (Three Baskets)  དམ་པ་སྐྱེས་བུ་གསུམ་གྱིས་མཛད་པ་ཡི།  The excellent deeds [accomplished] by beings of the three capacities,  བཀའ་གདམས་རིན་ཆེན་གསེར་གྱི་འཕྲེང་བ་འདི།  The precious golden rosary of the Kadampas,  འགྲོ་བ་གང་གིས་བགྲང་ཡང་དོན་ཡོད་འགྱུར།  By which migrators accomplish the meaningful. Visit our Facebook page for more teachings by Geshe Sonam Ngodup and English translator Ven. Jamyang Khedrup https://www.facebook.com/LamaYesheLing/ More about our teachers:  https://lamayesheling.org/teachers-and-facilitators/ To know more about our upcoming programs, please subscribe to our newsletter at https://community.lamayesheling.org/civicrm/mailing/subscribe

In this episode, Don Handrick presents the introductory session to the "Seven Point Mind Training Teachings". Don provides a comprehensive history and overview of these precious and practical teachings. Hope you enjoy this teaching! If you would like to learn more about Don Handrick, please take a look at his website: https://www.donhandrick.com More about our teachers:  https://lamayesheling.org/teachers-and-facilitators/ To know more about our upcoming programs, please subscribe to our newsletter at https://community.lamayesheling.org/civicrm/mailing/subscribe

This is a short meditation on Bodhicitta from the first session led by Don Handrick, from the Seven-Point Thought Transformation teachings at Lama Yeshe Ling. If you would like to learn more about Don Handrick, please take a look at his website: https://www.donhandrick.com

Presenting a short interview with Don Handrick, talking about his experience with the teaching on Giving and Taking "Tong-Len", in the Seven-Point Thought Transformation teaching. These practices are very practical and powerful tools for transforming problems into happiness. If you would like to learn more about Don Handrick, please take a look at his website: https://www.donhandrick.com More about our teachers:  https://lamayesheling.org/teachers-and-facilitators/ To know more about our upcoming programs, please subscribe to our newsletter at https://community.lamayesheling.org/civicrm/mailing/subscribe

In this teaching, Geshe Sonam explains, using a verse by Arya Nagarjuna from the text 'Precious Garland of the Middle Way', on the three causes of Complete Enlightenment or Buddhahood. Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable Khedrup. The Three Causes of Enlightenment  བདག་ཉིད་དང་ནི་འཇིག་རྟེན་འདིས།  Oneself and [others] of this world,  བླ་མེད་བྱང་ཆུབ་ཐོབ་འདོད་ན།  If they wish to attain the unsurpassed enlightenment:  དེ་ཡི་རྩ་བ་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས།  Its roots are bodhicitta, རི་དབང་རྒྱལ་པོ་ལྟར་བརྟན་དང་།  Firm like the King of Mountains,  ཕྱོགས་མཐས་གཏུགས་པའི་སྙིང་རྗེ་དང།  Compassion reaching all directions,  གཉིས་ལ་མི་བརྟེན་ཡེ་ཤེས་ལགས།  And wisdom not relying on duality.   Visit our Facebook page for more teachings by Geshe Sonam Ngodup and English translator Ven. Jamyang Khedrup   https://www.facebook.com/LamaYesheLing/    More about our teachers:  https://lamayesheling.org/teachers-and-facilitators/    To know more about our upcoming programs, please subscribe to our newsletter at https://community.lamayesheling.org/civicrm/mailing/subscribe

In this teaching Geshe Sonam explains the potential of all sentient beings to achieve Enlightenment which is known as the Tathagata Garbha or Buddha Nature (Buddha Essence). Geshe la explains how due to this potentiality, all sentient beings can achieve full Enlightenment. All Sentient Beings Possess Buddha Nature  སེམས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཅད་ལ་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་རིགས་ཡོད་པ།  From the Uttaratantra Shastra (Sublime Continuum)  རྒྱུད་བླ་མ་ལས།  Because a perfect Buddha's body (enlightened qualities) are pervasive,  །རྫོགས་སངས་སྐུ་ནི་འཕྲོ་ཕྱིར་དང་།  Because suchness is without differentiation,  །དེ་བཞིན་ཉིད་དབྱེར་མེད་ཕྱིར་དང་།  And because Buddha lineage exists,  །རིགས་ཡོད་ཕྱིར་ན་ལུས་ཅན་ཀུན།  All embodied beings are always in possession of a Buddha essence.  །རྟག་ཏུ་སངས་རྒྱས་སྙིང་པོ་ཅན།   Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable Khedrup.   Visit our Facebook page for more teachings by Geshe Sonam Ngodup and English translator Ven. Jamyang Khedrup  https://www.facebook.com/LamaYesheLing/    More about our teachers:  https://lamayesheling.org/teachers-and-facilitators/    To know more about our upcoming programs, please subscribe to our newsletter at https://community.lamayesheling.org/civicrm/mailing/subscribe