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Spirituality Now!160 - Why Do People Suffer? with Ngakpa Konchok Doje TsondonDuring today's episode, we have as our guest, Ngakpa Konchok Doje Tsondon (this name was given by Garchen Rinpoche).As a child, Ngakpa's first question to ask a priest was why does humanity suffer? Since the priest could not answer he rode to the library at 12 and found himself reading the Bhagavad-gītā, the Quran, and finally found the Buddha's teachings.Later in life, he practiced Theravada Buddhism, but as time went by he started noticing that he was very into Tibetan Buddhism. That's when life brought him to Karma Kagyu where he found teachings from Ka...2023-08-0917 min
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/enlightenverse/message2022-09-2012 minEnlightenverse ( Spiritual With Attitude)Between Angels And InsectsTibetan Buddhism
What you will learn today :
Difference between needs and purpose: finding your purpose in life it's ok contrary to what we think if Buddha had no purpose they will not be able to realise his mind.
No stupid compassion: Trungpa rinpoche use to teach that compassion is strong recognising boundaries between individuals yet being able to help those in difficulties.
Being selfless doesn't mean you do anything: being selfless reflects on the integration of emptiness into our life sadly due to superstition we think being selfless is having no life and only staying in the gompa. It's not...2022-09-1218 minEnlightenverse ( Spiritual With Attitude)Die Religion DieWhat you gonna learn today
Meaning of Dharma
Difference between religion and dharma
Why do Buddhists reduce Buddha teaching to something pathetic
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/enlightenverse/message2022-09-0518 minEnlightenverse ( Spiritual With Attitude)Errase your doubtThrough Bodhichitta you will realize that there is no self. Self-grasping will be destroyed, for when you think of others you do not think about yourself. Ultimately 'self' and 'other' are but thoughts. When we understand that we are not separate from others, we begin to fathom the preciousness of compassion, of Bodhichitta.
Garchen RinpocheTags: Buddhism, Vajrayana
Taking a spiritual path isn’t easy and when our faith is in question we gonna be hit by doubt.
Doubt is part of our path and whether we feel confident or not at some point we will always have faith in them.
...2022-08-1413 minEnlightenverse ( Spiritual With Attitude)ReintroThanks you very much for your support after nearly a year trying to get back to the podcast here we are. Today things had change now you can find both Enlightenverse and Awakening Prime on Spotify and others Platform. You can find them both on acalavidyaraja.com on podcasts. Gonna take a week to see what direction we going I really love to teach so gonna think of it thank you again and welcome back
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/enlightenverse/message2022-08-1006 minEnlightenverse ( Spiritual With Attitude)Milarepa life storyMilarepa learn magic ✨
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/enlightenverse/message2022-03-2219 minEnlightenverse ( Spiritual With Attitude)Teaching for the dark ageNamo Gurubey
First I like to say sorry for not being able to do Milarepa's life story and teaching as it was a program both my current hardships and also problems bit put this out of rail. Second today I saw that people in Ukraine was reading and listening and I can't imagine the horror they live in right now, just today I saw that Russian soldier killed from cold blood innocent peoples. I have both friends on both sides that I know for years one has been arrested for protesting for peace, the other is literally on the battlefield...2022-03-1611 minEnlightenverse ( Spiritual With Attitude)Prayer For Time of Waras mine gonna die because an egotistical monster decides to live back in the past glory of something that doesn't exist anymore.
Whatever sangha we in as Buddha student we must remain compassionate for innocents of the Medieval war.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/enlightenverse/message2022-02-2405 minEnlightenverse ( Spiritual With Attitude)Milarepa Life and teachingFrom the Gungthang province of Western Tibet, close to Nepal, Milarepa (1052-1135) had a hard childhood and a dark youth. He was only seven when his father died. Relatives had taken over his father’s property and mistreated the bereaved family. His mother, bitter, sent Milarepa to train in black magic, to wreak revenge on those who had blighted her life. She was given her wish – Milarepa proved adept at the practices he was taught, and unleashed a tide of destruction, killing many.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/enlightenverse/message2022-02-1715 minEnlightenverse ( Spiritual With Attitude)BodhicittaSanskrit term bodhicitta (mind of awakening) refers to the state of mind of a bodhisattva, who pursues buddhahood in order to benefit others. There are two primary aspects: (1) a conventional aspect of a bodhisattva who aspires to buddhahood; and (2) an ultimate aspect, which is actualized when the nature of mind of a bodhisattva awakens. The conventional aspect also has two levels: (1) aspirational (praṇidhāna) bodhicitta, in which the bodhisattva takes a vow to attain buddhahood for the benefit of others; and (2)
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/enlightenverse/message2022-02-0312 minEnlightenverse ( Spiritual With Attitude)I'm Because We AreHi, there to be honest with you I facing the most hardcore time of my life in many ways. Strangely I did find my calling not just teaching Buddhism but doing my music to awake people.
Passing that for some of us we are part of one sangha and that good, for some us we are part of multiple sanghas and that also good. This podcast today is about the power of our everyday life, modern yogi the last podcast dig a bit on this but today it’s time to hit the point.
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Send in a voice message: ht...2022-01-1617 minEnlightenverse ( Spiritual With Attitude)Modern Yogi IntroductionI trained my spirit in the method.
Milarepa
We are in a very challenging time whatever way we look nothing is certain, nothing is written on the wall.
Whatever we are in the Buddha teaching path, we need to look at the modern world and understand that avoiding our world is also basically avoiding our inner maras. We all love going to the gompa, having a teaching but real teaching start when we are head to head with a co-worker or someone in our family.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/enlightenverse/message2021-11-1800 minEnlightenverse ( Spiritual With Attitude)Non DualityHaving meditated on gentleness and compassion, I have forgotten the difference between myself and others.“ — Milarepa
When we speak of non-duality what others views call oneness we talk about the highest state of selfless. When we understand love compassion gain wisdom by letting go of our ego grasping we realise the state of one the same.
The difficulty for us ordinary people is that we see subject and object, me you, this that and we got lost on everyday experience thinking that is real. Because as the Buddha Shakyamuni teach in the golden light sutra five senses five thieves in empt...2021-11-1225 minEnlightenverse ( Spiritual With Attitude)Dharma ProtectorsMany Dharma practitioners rely on Dharma protectors when they seek protection from fear. Dharma protectors, however, play various roles in different aspects of Buddhism. To understand these, we need to explore the benefits that protector practices can provide us for our daily lives. Let’s look at what it actually means to feel protected and safe, and then we can take a look at some of the methods suggested by the different protection practices in Buddhism. Mainly, we need to look at the essence of the practices themselves, in order to see what we can take from them if we pr...2021-10-2818 minEnlightenverse ( Spiritual With Attitude)Guru YogaWhen talking about the Guru, we must distinguish between the external form and the Guru in our heart: "The illustrative guru, who is the external form of the guru, illustrates through his teachings the actual guru, which is the luminosity within your own heart. The guru's instructions awaken the ultimate guru within." In this statement, the outer guru called "the illustrative guru," the one who has realized the nature of mind (Buddha nature) and shows this nature to you so that you can then realize the nature of mind.
The outer guru is called the illustrative guru because he gives...2021-10-2124 minEnlightenverse ( Spiritual With Attitude)Tilopa MahamudraLike sesame oil ~ Tilopa
Sesame oil is the essence.
Although the ignorant know that it is in the sesame seed,
they do not understand the way of cause, effect and becoming,
and therefore are not able to extract the essence, the sesame oil.
Although innate coemergent wisdom abides in the heart of all beings,
if it is not shown by the guru, it cannot be realized.
Just like sesame oil that remains in the seed, it does not appear.
One removes the husk by beating the sesame, and the sesame oil, the essence appears.
In the same way, the guru...2021-10-1239 minEnlightenverse ( Spiritual With Attitude)THE FOUR EMPOWERMENTS OF KARPO SANGMOThe first empowerment is called the “vase empowerment,” which points out that the nature of our five aggregates (Skt. skandhas) is actually the five buddha families. There are five aspects of the vase empowerment: the vase empowerment of Akshobhya, the crown empowerment of Ratnasambhava, the vajra empowerment of Amitabha, the bell empowerment of Amoghasiddhi, and the name empowerment of Vairochana. Through these five stages of the vase empowerment, we recognize the five aggregates as being the five buddha families. The second empowerment is called the “secret empowerment,” and this takes place through the actual experience of tasting and swallowing the healing...2021-10-0706 minEnlightenverse ( Spiritual With Attitude)Om Ah Hung MeditationOm Ah Hum is an ancient Tibetan Buddhist mantra used to purify the mind, speech, and heart. This guided practice lets you quiet the thinking mind and go beyond it using a silent mantra meditation. This is an excellent daily exercise - be it morning or evening
Om : purify the body
Ah : purify the speech
Hing : purify the mind
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/enlightenverse/message2021-10-0208 minEnlightenverse ( Spiritual With Attitude)Tilopa Renouncing SamsaraSo in this second stage, the practitioners actually submit themselves to conditions such as rage or desire that would normally evoke disturbing consequences. In the first stage of completely virtuous behavior, beginners avoid these situations, but in the vanquishing stage, meditators actually seek them out. The meditators have to destroy their arrogance, pride, and hatred by throwing themselves into situations that evoke a response that allows them to work with these emotions. The third stage of “victorious in all actions” is the final expression of total fearlessness; a total lack of any inhibition about anything that is done. An example of t...2021-09-2610 minEnlightenverse ( Spiritual With Attitude)Tilopa Six NailDon’t recall. Let go of what has passed.
Don’t imagine. Let go of what may come.
Don’t think. Let go of what is happening now.
Don’t examine. Don’t try to figure anything out.
Don’t control. Don’t try to make anything happen.
Rest. Relax, right now, and rest.
Tilopa
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/enlightenverse/message2021-09-1809 minEnlightenverse ( Spiritual With Attitude)Tilopa ChildhoodTilopa was born in eastern India in 988. When Tilopa was a young boy, he had the special qualities of being extremely compassionate, kind, and loving. He was a cowherd and played in the forest without a care. At that time, the great Nagarjuna was out walking in the vicinity.11 He had the special insight that in this region there was someone who was an ideal vessel to receive the Vajrayana teachings. Pondering this, he proceeded to the place between the town and the river where Tilopa was taking care of water buffaloes. Nagarjuna wanted to cross the river and pretended...2021-09-1214 minEnlightenverse ( Spiritual With Attitude)Tilopa InstroductionsTilopa, known as Prajna Bhadra, was born in the town of Chativavo (Chittagong, which is now in Banladesh), into the Brahmin caste. His birthplace is also recorded to be Jagora (in eastern Bengal, India?). His father was Pranyasha and mother, Kashi.
When he grew up he learned all the doctrinal treatises of Brahminism. While he was wandering in various places asking for alms, he finally came to a temple and, seeing that the monks lived a life of renunciation, he entered the monastic life and became a learned in the Tripitaka, the three collections of the teachings of the Buddha.
...2021-09-1207 minEnlightenverse ( Spiritual With Attitude)Rat Race https://www.buymeacoffee.com/VajramindBut what we've got going wrong is we've got a kind of bifurcation [in cultural development]:
You take your classified telephone directory, and open up "Churches", and have a ruler in your hand. And you will find that the longest space is occupied by authoritarian, Bible-banging churches. And these people are barbarians, who take the written word of the Bible literally. Because they need terribly, they have a personal need, for something to depend on. ... The government realizes that there is a very large number of people like that; and therefore, to keep their votes, they have to pander to...2021-09-0917 minEnlightenverse ( Spiritual With Attitude)Eyes OpenerThe initial function of spirituality emerged from questioning the human condition and also from deep experiences of wonder. The word religion itself, initially meaning to “reconnect,” seems to have come from direct experiences of something larger than just a set of fixed ideas. It marked a return to something essential that we just failed to recognize in the myopia of our everyday lives. How curious that we turn experiences of awe into dogmas and stagnant ideas. That we have come to associate faith with fundamentalism, blindness, and even terrorism gives us something important to look at.
Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel,
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Send...2021-09-0710 minEnlightenverse ( Spiritual With Attitude)Lama Instructions།ཚོགས་གཉིས་ཡིད་བཞིན་གི་ནྟོར་བུ་ལ། །སྟོན་ལམ་གིས་བྱི་དྟོར་མ་བྱས་ན།
།དགྟོས་འདྟོད་ཀི་འབྲས་བུ་མི་འབྱུང་བས། །རྗེས་བསྟོ་བ་འདི་ལ་ནན་ཏན་མཛོད།།
When you do not polish the wish fulfilling gem – the two accumulations –
with aspiration prayers,
the necessary and desired results will not arise.
Make, therefore, efforts concerning the concluding dedication.
ཅྗེས་ཕྱག་ཆྗེན་ལྔ་ལྡན་གི་རྟོགས་མགུར་བྱ་བ་སྟོབ་པ་ཉིད་ཀིས་མཛད་པའྟོ།།
The Song of the Realisation of the Five Limbs of Mahāmudrā, composed by Kyoba [Jigten
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/enlightenverse/message2021-09-0611 minEnlightenverse ( Spiritual With Attitude)Just A Bowl Of Rice 🍚“As long as you regard yourself or any part of your experience as the "dream come true," then you are involved in self-deception. Self-deception seems always to depend upon the dream world, because you would like to see what you have not yet seen, rather that what you are now seeing. You will not accept that whatever is here now is what is, nor are you willing to go on with the situation as it is. Thus, self-deception always manifests itself in terms of trying to create or recreate a dream world, the nostalgia of the dream experience. And the op...2021-09-0409 minEnlightenverse ( Spiritual With Attitude)What Yana You DriveYāna refers to a mode or method of spiritual practice in Buddhism. They were all taught by the Gautama Buddha in response to the various capacities of individuals. On an outwardly conventional level, the teachings and practices may appear contradictory, but ultimately they all have the same goal.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/enlightenverse/message2021-08-3109 minEnlightenverse ( Spiritual With Attitude)All Beings are the roots of all Buddha.::. All living beings are its roots; all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas are its flowers and fruits. By benefitting all beings with the water of Great Compassion, one can realize the flowers and fruits of the Buddhas’ and Bodhisattvas’ wisdom .::. The Flower Garland Sutra 🌸
The Avatamsaka Sutra
Ch.40, translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/enlightenverse/message2021-08-3012 minEnlightenverse ( Spiritual With Attitude)EmptinessEmptiness' or 'voidness' is an expression used in Buddhist thought primarily to mark a distinction between the way things appear to be and the way they actually are, together with attendant attitudes which are held to be spiritually beneficial.
Emperor Wu: "I have built many temples, copied innumerable Sutras and ordained many monks since becoming Emperor. Therefore, I ask you, what is my merit?"
Bodhidharma: "None whatsoever!" answered Bodhidharma.
Emperor Wu: "Why no merit?"
Bodhidharma:: "Doing things for merit has an impure motive and will only bare the puny fruit of rebirth."
Emperor Wu, a little put out: "What then...2021-08-2706 minEnlightenverse ( Spiritual With Attitude)Live your life fullyBidhisattva never run away from life
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/enlightenverse/message2021-08-2607 minEnlightenverse ( Spiritual With Attitude)TummoTummo is the fierce goddess of heat and passion in Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Tummo is found in the Mahasiddha Krishnacarya and the Hevajra Tantra texts. As a breathing exercise, tummo is a part of tantric meditation cycles for yogic heat.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/enlightenverse/message2021-08-2512 minEnlightenverse ( Spiritual With Attitude)The Path is never straightUnalome. The unalome symbol represents the path to enlightenment in the Buddhist culture. The spirals are meant to symbolize the twists and turns in life, and the straight lines the moment one reaches enlightenment or peace and harmony. The dots at the end of the symbol represent death, or the moment we fade to nothing
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/enlightenverse/message2021-08-2408 minEnlightenverse ( Spiritual With Attitude)Liberation by soundThe word mantra is derived from two Sanskrit words—manas (mind) and tra (tool). Mantra literally means “a tool for the mind,” and was designed to help practitioners access a higher power and their true natures.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/enlightenverse/message2021-08-2309 minEnlightenverse ( Spiritual With Attitude)KarmaKarma, Sanskrit karman (“act”), Pali kamma, in Indian religion and philosophy, the universal causal law by which good or bad actions determine the future modes of an individual’s existence. Karma represents the ethical dimension of the process of rebirth (samsara), belief in which is generally shared among the religious traditions of India.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/enlightenverse/message2021-08-2211 minEnlightenverse ( Spiritual With Attitude)Relationship with your yidamYidam is a type of deity associated with tantric or Vajrayana Buddhism said to be manifestations of Buddhahood or enlightened mind. ... Yidam is sometimes translated by the terms "meditational deity" or "tutelary deity".
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/enlightenverse/message2021-08-1417 minEnlightenverse ( Spiritual With Attitude)Importance Of NagasNaga, (Sanskrit: “serpent”) in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, a member of a class of mythical semidivine beings, half-human and half cobra. They are a strong, handsome species that can assume either wholly human or wholly serpentine form and are potentially dangerous but often beneficial to humans.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/enlightenverse/message2021-08-0909 minEnlightenverse ( Spiritual With Attitude)Practice Like Mahasiddhaswhat does it take to practice like a siddha
Use your environment to your advantage
Shrine is in your heart
Offering of the mind are superior to any others offering
Memorise Your practice
Practice 24/7
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/enlightenverse/message2021-08-0711 minEnlightenverse ( Spiritual With Attitude)Shine IntroductionShi-ne, pronounced “shi-nay” is a meditation designed to produce a clear state of mind, without thought or other mental phenomena like visual images or ideation. Shi-ne is the Tibetan translation of the Sanskrit “shamatha,” Pali “samatha,” meaning “calm abiding.” Samatha is taught in Theravadan and in Insight traditions alongside or as a preliminary to vipassana. There, it is most commonly a concentration practice, focusing on the breath as object, leading to a state of equanimity. Shamatha is also taught in Tibetan traditions: it may be called shamatha or shi-ne in that context.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/enlightenvers2021-08-0509 minEnlightenverse ( Spiritual With Attitude)Chenrezig Mediation Level 1
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Chenrezig Meditation Level 1
2 Aug
Written By Ngakpa Konchok Dorje Tsondon

Chenrezig, also known as Avalokitesvara, "One who looks with unwavering eye," is the most revered of all Bodhisattva, embodying the compassion of all Buddhas. ... Chenrezig is consider the patron of Tibet, and, in fact, the living Buddha, the Dali Lama, is an incarnation of him.
Chenrezig Short Mantra
OṂ MAṆI PADME HŪṂ
Today we gonna practice Chenrezig for beginner the practice is in the Mahasiddha form practice what is way different of the monastic sadhana we usually do.
What mean is level 1: that is not a story of classifica...2021-08-0218 minEnlightenverse ( Spiritual With Attitude)BodhicittaWhen you eat, eat with bodhicitta. When you stand, stand with bodhicitta. When you sit, sit with bodhicitta. When you sleep, sleep with bodhicitta. When you look, look with bodhicitta. When you speak, speak with bodhicitta.
During the entire twenty-four hours, every action you do should be done out of bodhicitta, not for yourself but for others.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/enlightenverse/message2021-07-3013 minEnlightenverse ( Spiritual With Attitude)RefugeThe benefits of taking refuge
There are seven benefits of taking refuge: one becomes a Buddhist, a follower of the Buddha; one will not fall into the lower realms; one becomes a support for all vows; one is not harmed by obstacles caused by humans and nonhumans; one has few illnesses and a long life; obscurations of actions performed in the past are purified; and one will swiftly attain Buddhahood through the completion of its cause, the two accumulations.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/enlightenverse/message2021-07-2214 minEnlightenverse ( Spiritual With Attitude)Enter The MahasiddhasWelcome to that new series, when we talk about mahasiddhas we most of the time think that we’ll tomorrow I will do the six yoga of Naropa for example.
The truth is to get to the mastery of siddhas we need to put way more in practice, at the moment there is what I can call the Tummo thirst what bring very weird things. I saw from my eyes people without training without empowerment trying to do so.
Back in day Garchen Rinpoche himself train me for tummo when I was his assistant but more than that I have re...2021-07-1212 min