Introduction As a result of our grasping to a „self-ego”, defilement such as pride, jealousy, desire, ignorance, miserliness and hatred arise. Due to these wrong views and emotions, sentient beings perform negative actions that bind themselves to...
After he attained Enlightenment, Buddha Shakyamuni gave both public and individual teachings, 84,000 baskets of teachings altogether, until his Parinirvana. His First Sermon was Dharmachakra Perwatang or the Four Noble Truths and Eight Fold Path, which is the ground...
A teaching given before the Marpa Initiation Menlo Park, California, August 1994 Niektórzy z praktykujących na Zachodzie mówią, że w Buddyzmie Tybetańskim zawarta jest zarówno tradycja tybetańska jak i właściwa praktyka Dharmy, często jednak nie potrafią odróżnić od...
For a better understanding of taking refuge in the three jewels – the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha, we need to know something about Samsara, to begin with. For it is this cyclic existence of total dissatisfaction that we wish ourselves to be sheltered from....
The three main approaches in Buddhism – An introduction In Buddhism it is pointed out that our present state of mind is conditioned by previous actions. This is always true, regardless of which realm of existence one is born into. Different kinds of existence...
„Easy to explain, but very difficult to realize” The Seven Points of Mind Training is at the heart of the Sutra and Tantra teachings in the Mahayana tradition; they are the skilful means of practice. The Indian sage, Atisha, composed the text later...
