Gently Spoken Advice

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

On this bonus episode, Ven. Jamyang Khedrup elaborates about qualities that mark exceptional teachers: Equal care to the integrity of the teachings and well-being and freedom of the listeners. Enjoy! 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

Saga Dawa Greetings! ས་ག་ཟླ་བ་དུས་ཆེན་ལ་བཀྲིས་བདེ་ལེགས། In this special teaching on the special day of Saga Dawa, Geshe Sonam Ngodup wishes all our viewers greetings and hopes everyone is well. Geshe La teaches how and why this day is important, and because it is important what activities one should engage in on this holy day. 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

In this short teaching, Geshe Sonam Ngodup explains to us about the benefits of Bodhichitta by quoting a verse from Chapter 1 of Shantideva's Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra or Bodhicaryāvatāra (Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པ་ byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa). Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable Khedrup. More Benefits of Bodhicitta །བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་སྐྱེས་གྱུར་ན་སྐད་ཅིག་གིས། The moment an awakening mind arises །འཁོར་བའི་བཙོན་རར་བསྡམས་པའི་ཉམ་ཐག་རྣམས། In those fettered and weak in the prison of cyclic existence །བདེ་གཤེགས་རྣམས་ཀྱི་སྲས་ཞེས་བརྗོད་བྱ་ཞིང་། T hey will be named a child of the Sugatas །འཇིག་རྟེན་ལྷ་མིར་བཅས་པས་ཕྱག་བྱར་འགྱུར། And will be revered by both devas and humans of the world 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 fourth and final session from Venerable Yönten's teaching, she will guide us through a brief analytical meditation on Identifying the Object of Negation, the inherently existent self. Please enjoy! Venerable Yönten is an American-born Buddhist nun in the Gelug Tibetan tradition who was ordained in 2003, and who is now a fully ordained Bhikshuni/Gelongma in the Dharmaguptaka tradition. If you would like to learn more about Venerable Yönten, please take a look at her website. https://lozangyonten.wixsite.com/website

In the third session from Venerable Yönten's teaching, she will guide us through a brief analytical meditation on the King of Reasonings - Dependent Origination. Venerable Yönten is an American-born Buddhist nun in the Gelug Tibetan tradition who was ordained in 2003, and who is now a fully ordained Bhikshuni/Gelongma in the Dharmaguptaka tradition. If you would like to learn more about Venerable Yönten, please take a look at her website. https://lozangyonten.wixsite.com/website

In the second session from Venerable Yönten's teaching, she will guide us through a brief analytical meditation on the topic of Karma - Actions and Results. Venerable Yönten is an American-born Buddhist nun in the Gelug Tibetan tradition who was ordained in 2003, and who is now a fully ordained Bhikshuni/Gelongma in the Dharmaguptaka tradition. If you would like to learn more about Venerable Yönten, please take a look at her website. https://lozangyonten.wixsite.com/website

We are happy to present to you a series of guided meditations led by visiting teacher Venerable Yönten at Lama Yeshe Ling. The first session is a guided analytical meditation on Laws of Karma. Venerable Yönten is an American-born Buddhist nun in the Gelug Tibetan tradition who was ordained in 2003, and who is now a fully ordained Bhikshuni/Gelongma in the Dharmaguptaka tradition. If you would like to learn more about Venerable Yönten, please take a look at her website. https://lozangyonten.wixsite.com/website

Geshe Sonam presents glimpses of Buddhist meditation and wisdom in a practical way. The teachings are the perfect way to bring some calm and compassion into your day.In this teaching, Geshe La will explain the first verse from Lama Tsong famous text "Three Principal Aspects of the Path" and will show us how this verse contains all the essential aspects of Buddha Shakyamuni's teaching. Enjoy this short teaching. The Very Essence of the Buddha's Teachings From Lama Tsongkhapa's Three Principal Aspects of the Path །ལམ་གྱི་གཙོ་བོ་རྣམ་གསུམ། ། རྗེ་བཙུན་བླ་མ་རྣམས་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། Homage to the precious noble masters! རྒྱལ་བའི་གསུང་རབ་ཀུན་གྱི་སྙིང་པོའི་དོན། ། The very essence of all the buddhas' teachings, རྒྱལ་སྲས་དམ་པ་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་བསྔགས་པའི་ལམ། ། The path that is praised by the noble bodhisattvas, སྐལ་ལྡན་ཐར་འདོད་རྣམས་ཀྱི་འཇུག་ངོགས་དེ། ། And the entrance for all fortunate ones desiring liberation— ཇི་ལྟར་ནུས་བཞིན་བདག་གིས་བཤད་པར་བྱ། ། To the best of my ability, I shall now set forth. 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 special teaching, recorded before Mother's Day, Geshe Sonam Ngodup explains how we should see our mothers as more precious than a wish fulfilling jewel because of the kindness and care they show. Also, how we can extend this understanding and experience to encompass all sentient beings, with a mind of love and a wish to benefit them. Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable Khedrup. ཨ་མ་ཡོངས་རྫོགས་་ཡིད་བཞིན་གྱི་ནོར་བུ་ལས་ཀྱང་ལྷག་པ་མ་ཟད་སེམས་ཅན་ཐམད་ཅད་ཀྱང་དེ་ལས་ལྷག་པར་ལྟ་དགོས་ཚུལ། Not only are all mothers more precious than a wish-fulfilling jewel, but one should also see all sentient beings as more precious than a wish-fulfilling jewel ༄༅།།བློ་སྦྱོང་ཚིགས་བརྒྱད་མ། The Eight Verses of Mind Training (Lojong) བདག་ནི་སེམས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཅད་ལ། By thinking of all sentient beings ཡིད་བཞིན་ནོར་བུ་ལས་ལྷག་པའི། As more precious than a wish-fulfilling jewel དོན་མཆོག་སྒྲུབ་པའི་བསམ་པ་ཡིས། For accomplishing the highest aim, རྟག་ཏུ་གཅེས་པར་འཛིནཔར་ཤོག། I will always hold them dear. 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

This week we have a special guest teacher at Lama Yeshe Ling, Ven. Yönten. She is a very popular traveling teacher at FPMT (Foundation of Preservation of Mahayana), and her style of teaching incorporates guided meditations and a contemporary approach. This is a brief interview with Ven. Yönten to introduce herself and also the topics she will be teaching at Lama Yeshe Ling on May 15 & May 16 2021. Please join us for this special event with Ven. Yönten (Details below). In case you miss it, the sessions will be recorded and available on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/LamaYesheLing/ All teachings are offered free at Lama Yeshe Ling. Saturday, May 15 and Sunday, May 16 Two Sessions: 11:00 am to 12:30 pm EDT 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm EDT Zoom Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYof-2vqzsvGdJFnZxmLeCMPQyoCHIsdXvkV May learn more about Venerable Yönten, from her website: https://lozangyonten.wixsite.com/website

In this brief teaching, Geshe Sonam Ngodup explores the reason why the kindness of the enlightened ones (the Buddhas) and kindness of Sentient beings is equal. Also, why we depend on sentient beings for our own Spiritual development towards Enlightenment. He explains this using a verse from Bodhicaryāvatāra by Shantideva. Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable Khedrup. སེམས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཅད་སངས་རྒྱས་དང་བཀའ་དྲིན་ཆེ་ཆུང་འདྲ་བའི་རྒྱུ་མཚན། The reason why the Buddhas and all sentient beings are similarly kind. From Shantideva's Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra སྤྱོད་འཇུག་ལས། སེམས་ཅན་རྣམས་དང་རྒྱལ་བ་ལ། A Buddha's qualities are gained སངས་རྒྱས་ཆོས་འགྲུབ་འདྲ་བ་ལ། From sentient beings and Conquerors (Buddhas) alike, རྒྱལ་ལ་གུས་བྱེད་དེ་བཞིན་ཏུ། So why do I not respect them (sentient beings) སེམས་ཅན་ལ་མིན་ཅི་ཡི་ཚུལ། In the same way I respect Conquerors? 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 short teaching, Geshe Sonam Ngodup gives an explanation of a verse from the Six Session Guru Yoga. Specifically, he will explain the verse which teaches, how after bringing forth a mind of Bodhichitta, rooted in Love and Compassion, rejoicing in them can be powerful. He will also explain some different methods for arising love that sees all beings equally, not holding some close and others far away. Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable Khedrup. From the Six Session Guru Yoga ཐུང་དྲུག་ལསདེང་དུས་བདག་ཚེ་འབྲས་བུ་ཡོད། Now my life has been given great meaning མི་ཡི་སྲིད་པ་ལེགས་པར་ཐོབ། This human life has been made worthwhile; དེ་རིང་སངས་རྒྱས་རིགས་སུ་སྐྱེས། Today I am born into the family of Buddhas - སངས་རྒྱས་སྲས་སུ་ད་གྱུར་ཏོ། I have now become a Buddha's child 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 of the podcast, Geshe Sonam Ngodup explains a verse from the Great Indian Pundit Aryadeva's 'Four Hundred Verses'. This verse is about the importance of developing wisdom, specifically 'Dependent arising'. Geshe la explains some techniques for using this in our daily life. Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable Khedrup. Wisdom's Key ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ལྡེ་མིག། རྟེན་ཅིང་འགྲེལ་བར་འབྱུང་བ་གང། When dependent arising is seen མཐོང་ན་གཏི་མུག་འབྱུང་མི་འགྱུར། Confusion (ignorance) will not occur དེ་ཕྱིར་འབད་པ་ཀུན་གྱིས་འདིར། Thus every effort has been made here གཏམ་འདི་ཐོག་མར་བསྙད་པར་བྱ། Foremost to emphasize this subject 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 learn more about our upcoming programs please subscribe to our newsletter at https://community.lamayesheling.org/civicrm/mailing/subscribe

In this episode, we share with you a brief guided meditation on Calm abiding, Love and Compassion by Geshe Sonam Ngodup. This meditation was recorded as part of a live Zoom teaching. In this guided meditation, Geshe la walks us through different techniques aimed at increasing our relaxation, develop single pointed concentration and generate a mind of Loving Kindness & Compassion. We hope you enjoy this guided meditation, which is suitable for everyone. As always, Geshe la leads the meditation 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

In this installment of the podcast, Geshe Sonam Ngodup explains a verse from the Bodhisattvacharyavatara (Way of the Bodhisattva) ( Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པ་, changchub sempé chöpa la jukpa) by great Indian master Shantideva about the importance of the mind of Bodhichitta, mind of awakening. Geshe la will explain how this mind, rooted in Love and Compassion can activate great openness and happiness allowing our mind to go from joy to joy. Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable Khedrup. སྤྱོད་འཇུག་ལས། From Bodhisattvacaryavatara: དེ་བས་སྐྱོ་ངལ་ཀུན་སེལ་བའི། ། That which dispels all discouragement and despondency བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་ཀྱི་རྟ་ཞོན་ནས། ། Having mounted the horse of the awakening mind བདེ་ནས་བདེ་བར་འགྲོ་བ་ལ། ། Who, when they know of this mind that proceeds from joy to joy སེམས་ཤེས་སུ་ཞིག་སྒྱིད་ལུག་འགྱུར། ། Would ever lapse into despondency? Order in English: That which dispels all discouragement and despondency Having mounted the horse of the awakening mind Who, when they know of this mind that proceeds from joy to joy Would ever lapse into despondency (discouragement)? Trans. S. Batchelor 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 of the podcast, Geshe Sonam Ngodup speaks about the importance of developing our wisdom and discernment. Also, how developing our wisdom and discernment will empower all our other qualities such as Love, Compassion and Bodhichitta. He explains this point with a verse from 'Uma la Jukpa' (skt. 'Madhyamakāvatāra') by renowned seventh-century Indian master Chandrakirti. Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable Khedrup. Enjoy the teachings! " As an entire crowd of blind people can easily be lead to their desired destination by a seeing individual, Likewise intelligence (wisdom) can lead the blind qualities to victory." 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/

In this episode of the podcast, Geshe Sonam Ngodup, explains how a person endowed with great merit, can accomplish all their wishes (བསོད་ནམས་ལྡན་པའི་མི་ཡིས་བསམ་དོན་རྣམས་འགྲུབ་ཐུབ་པ།). He recites and explains a verse from the Sutra ‘Gyacher Rolpa' (Skt. ‘Lalitavistara Sutra', Eng. ‘The Play in Full Sutra'). This verse is recited during the Geshe graduation ceremony. Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable Khedrup. Enjoy the teachings! བསོད་ནམས་རྣམ་སྨིན་བདེ་་སྟེར་སྡུག་བསྔལ་ཐམས་ཅད་སེལ། The ripening of merit brings happiness and clears all suffering. བསོད་ནམས་ལྡན་པའི་མི་ཡིས་བསམ་པ་སྣམས་ཀྱང་འགྲུབ། A person endowed with merit has their wishes accomplished, བདུད་བཅོམ་ནས་ནི་བྱང་ཆུབ་མྱུར་དུ་རེག་པ་འགྱུར། By defeating the maras they quickly touch enlightenment མྱང་ལས་འདས་ཞི་བ་བསིལ་བའི་དངོས་པོ་ཐོབ། And quickly achieve the cooling essence of nirvana. 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/

In this episode of the podcast, Geshe Sonam Ngodup talks about the best way to achieve stable happiness. He also quotes a verse from the Bodhisattvacharyavatara (Way of the Bodhisattva) ( Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པ་, changchub sempé chöpa la jukpa). Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable Khedrup. Enjoy the teachings! བདེ་བའི་ནུས་པ་རྣམས་སྨིན་པའི་ཐབས་ཡག་ཤོས། The Best Way to Activate the Potential for Happiness སྲིད་པའི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་བརྒྱ་ཕྲག་གཞོམ་འདོད་ཅིང། Those who wish to destroy the many sorrows of conditioned existence, སེམས་ཅན་མི་བདེ་བསལ་བར་འདོད་པ་དང། and who wish all beings to experience a multitude of joys, བདེ་མང་བརྒྱ་ཕྲག་སྤྱོད་པར་འདོད་པས་ཀྱང། And those who wish to experience much happiness, བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་ཉིད་རྟག་ཏུ་བཏང་མི་བྱ།་ Should never forsake the awakening mind. Visit our Facebook page for more teachings by Geshe Sonam Ngodup and English translator Ven. Jamyang Khedrup https://www.facebook.com/LamaYesheLing/ Learn More about our teachers: https://lamayesheling.org/teachers-and-facilitators/

In this episode of the podcast, Geshe Sonam Ngodup explains a verse from the Bodhisattvacharyavatara (Way of the Bodhisattva) ( Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པ་, changchub sempé chöpa la jukpa) . Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable Khedrup. Like a Wish fulfilling tree its good fruits are not exhausted. སྤྱོད་འཇུག་ལས། དགེ་བ་གཞན་ཀུན་ཆུ་ཤིང་བཞིན་དུ་ནི། All other virtues are like a plantain tree, འབྲས་བུ་ཕྱུང་ནས་ཟད་པར་འགྱུར་བ་ཉིད། After bearing fruit they simply perish, བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་ཀྱི་ལྗོན་ཤིང་རྟག་པར་ཡང། But the perennial tree of bodhicitta, འབྲས་བུ་འབྱིན་པས་མི་ཟད་འཕེལ་བར་འགྱུར། Unceasingly bears fruit and flourishes without end. Visit our Facebook page for more teachings by Geshe Sonam Ngodup and English translator Ven. Jamyang Khedrup https://www.facebook.com/LamaYesheLing/ Learn More about our teachers: https://lamayesheling.org/teachers-and-facilitators/