| Lama Jigme Tibetan-buddhist: Monk, Teacher and Healer |
| What do you Know of Buddha's Teachings? |
As a Buddhist monk I get to converse with all sorts of
folks. One day an Asian-American girl approached me to
request a blessing.
When I asked her what she knew of Buddha’s teachings
she replied…
“In more than forty years of teaching, is that all Buddha
explained?” I asked.
“But that’s all I know.” was her sheepish reponce.
A beautiful yoga instructor, wearing a colorful, tight-fitting,
T-shirt, with Buddha silk-screened across her chest
boasted of her love of meditation.
When I asked her what she knew of Buddha’s teachings
she answered…
“Has that one teaching been enough to tame your
‘restless mind’?” I asked.
“Not yet.” was her lament.
At a public gathering, an aging massage therapist and
self-styled mystic, stormed up to me and proclaimed…
“Could it be possible that in 84,000 discourses, Buddha
could have taught many other things as well?” I asked. To
which he responded by cunningly losing his temper and
then briskly stalking away.
I once attended a “meditation group,” hosted by some
Nichiren Buddhists, where they sought to manifest wealth
and lovers through Japanese chanting. The burly
contractor who drove me there, boasted of twenty years of
“powerful practice.”
He did this, of course, when he wasn’t busy screaming
profanities at other drivers. When I asked him what he
knew of Buddha’s teachings, he insisted that he fervently
praised the Lotus Sutra with a Japanese mantra every
day and…
Each of the Dalai Lamas and their teachers have
recognized that one could squander a lifetime pouring
over each of Buddha’s 84,000 discourses without ever
seeing the forest for the trees.
And even if one did accomplish such a great intellectual
feet, there would NOT be enough time and energy left over
to practice dynamically enough or effectively enough, to
accomplish full enlightenment in THIS life.
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, the late teacher of the 14th
Dalai Lama of Tibet insisted that the most effective way to
both study and practice Buddha’s teachings was in a…
That is why each of the Dalai Lamas and their teachers
have organized
by subject and then distilled them down to their most
practical, profound and powerful essence. Why did they
do this? Because…
In their wisdom and compassion the Dalai Lamas have
arranged the essence of all of Buddha’s teachings of
sutra and tantra along a gradual pathway that, when
skillfully followed and applied, leads to full enlightenment in
just one life!
You could describe it as a “God Send” but I like to call it
the
The teacher of the first Dalai Lama promised that by
skillfully practicing in such an essentialized manner you
could:
• experience how all of Buddha’s teachings are FREE
from contradiction – which could make it much
easier to feel safe on enlightenment’s path;
• see, first hand, that Buddha’s teachings are not
merely flowery prose or just deep-sounding theory,
but actually precise instructions to be applied to your
daily practice – which could protect you from the
trap of pseudo-intellectualism and make sure you
really receive the increased: love, peace, insight
and happiness that these teachings are meant to
deliver;
• be safe from doctrinal error, confusion and needless
debate – so you could free up your precious time
and energy for that which is truly important… peace,
bliss, and transformation;
• know exactly what Buddha’s advice is – which could
make it much easier to liberate yourself from the
tyranny of sorrow, fear, anger and turmoil
I have students around the world and most of them are
NOT monks. Most of them are simple, work-a-day Joes
with kids, a spouse, pets, a house, a car and…
That’s why I present the “Treasure of the Dalai Lama’s” in
just three compelling stanzas, of four lines each. But I don’t
just give you something that only SOUNDS spiritual.
Nope, I actually teach you the “Treasure of the Dalai
Lama’s” in a manner that could help you really “get”:
• the secret to Tantra’s rapid generation of Bliss –
after all, we all love pleasure, so let’s find out how to
use it to enhance our spiritual practice,
• the safety afforded by the Buddha of Compassion –
so we can find it easier to escape the talons of fear
and stress,
• the profound advantages that are at your fingertips –
so you can ensure that your life is as fulfilling and as
meaningful at you could want it to be,
• how nature’s obvious and easily observable
phenomena demonstrate even the most profound of
Buddha’s teachings – so you won’t have to rely on
blind, unstable faith or ridged dogma,
• an antidote to those tendencies to procrastinate, that
can plague us all – so you can manifest the greater
joy and peace that you could already long for,
• real strategies to deal with loss – so that prospect
will not frighten you, any more,
• the FIRST key to Buddha’s wisdom teachings – so
you can really get your shoe in the door of Letting-
go, in the most wonderful way,
• the interplay between causality and conditions – so
you never have to play the victim again,
• how our choices effect our experience – so you’ll
always have the motivation required to do the right
thing,
• the SECOND key to Buddha’s path of letting go – so
you can finally understand those difficult metaphors
that often reduce the profundity of enlightened
wisdom to that of fortune cookie nonsense,
• the legitimacy of dissatisfaction – so you can stop
beating yourself up,
• universal ugliness – so your heart can spontaneously
give birth to the beauty of greater compassion and
love,
• and the energetic interplay between invocation and
supplication – so these verses can do more than
just entertain you… but instead transform you, so
you can be more of that person that your dog
already thinks you are
Many, less then scrupulous gurus, are so determined to
keep their students coming back for more that they only
dole out tiny or cryptic servings of truth, thus ensuring their
students’ continual frustration and dissatisfaction. That
type of cruelty requires great intestinal fortitude. Luckily,
I’m too much of a wimp for that, in fact…
The “Sutric Questions” are arguably Buddha’s greatest
transformational tools to secure your liberation from the
tyranny of sorrow, fear, anger and turmoil that can really
suck the joy out of life. But they only work if you understand
the essence of Buddha’s teachings. That is why I’m
making this explanation of the “Treasure of the Dalai
Lamas” available to you, so that when you do get your
hands on the transmission of the “Sutric Questions” you
are fully equipped to make the most of it.
Boredom is a joy-killer.
So I’ve given you seven variations of the “Treasure of the
Dalai Lamas”, so that every day there is something
different, so that your practice is less work, so it 's more
fun, so you'll actually do it!
It’s sad but true: so many people get flat tires on Buddha’s
path to enlightenment. So many people get lost in either
the extreme of over-simplification and find themselves
woefully ill equipped to deal with life’s challenges, or they
get bogged down in the mud of over intellectualism and
become so busy with the
• acquisition,
• translation,
• comprehension and
• debate of
Buddha’s sutras and tantras that they never get on with the
practice of transformation and evolution.
The good news is that you don’t have to go through all the
time, effort and inconvenience of re-inventing the wheel; it's
already been done for you.
The practical and profound essence of all of Buddha’s
teachings upon both his Sutric and Tantric paths has
already been prepared for you and explained on your
behalf.
It’s easy!
Now you can get your hands on this useful and
entertaining explanation, so you can play it on the way to
work, when you’re on the treadmill or at home, so you can
get, really get, these profound yet accessible
explanations, so you can apply them for 3 minuets every
morning and 44 seconds every evening, so you can
prepare yourself for even greater success on Buddha’s
path to enlightenment, so you can experience even
greater love, peace, insight and happiness, so...
Why aren’t these extensive explanations free? Why do I
only give them to those make medium or small donations?
Why do I do it that way?
I was asked to make the easy, path of NON-sectarian
devotion to the Buddha of Compassion and rapid
enlightenment, available to westerners. I was asked to
present the teachings in a profoundly easy, effective and
accessible manner. I was asked to found Monasteries
and Meditation-centers across this country and around the
world in the most wonderful way.
But it all starts here and now. When you make a medium
or small donation this month you’ll receive the teachings
either over the phone {in a live personal class} or as an
Audio CD. For a Medium or Small donation you’ll get the
teachings, you’ll get the good karma of giving to a monk,
and you’ll get to support the efforts to found San Diego
County’s first “Buddha of Compassion Monastery and
Meditation-center.” Remember the next generation of
American Nuns and Monks are counting on you so…
folks. One day an Asian-American girl approached me to
request a blessing.
When I asked her what she knew of Buddha’s teachings
she replied…
“In more than forty years of teaching, is that all Buddha
explained?” I asked.
“But that’s all I know.” was her sheepish reponce.
A beautiful yoga instructor, wearing a colorful, tight-fitting,
T-shirt, with Buddha silk-screened across her chest
boasted of her love of meditation.
When I asked her what she knew of Buddha’s teachings
she answered…
“Has that one teaching been enough to tame your
‘restless mind’?” I asked.
“Not yet.” was her lament.
At a public gathering, an aging massage therapist and
self-styled mystic, stormed up to me and proclaimed…
“Could it be possible that in 84,000 discourses, Buddha
could have taught many other things as well?” I asked. To
which he responded by cunningly losing his temper and
then briskly stalking away.
I once attended a “meditation group,” hosted by some
Nichiren Buddhists, where they sought to manifest wealth
and lovers through Japanese chanting. The burly
contractor who drove me there, boasted of twenty years of
“powerful practice.”
He did this, of course, when he wasn’t busy screaming
profanities at other drivers. When I asked him what he
knew of Buddha’s teachings, he insisted that he fervently
praised the Lotus Sutra with a Japanese mantra every
day and…
Each of the Dalai Lamas and their teachers have
recognized that one could squander a lifetime pouring
over each of Buddha’s 84,000 discourses without ever
seeing the forest for the trees.
And even if one did accomplish such a great intellectual
feet, there would NOT be enough time and energy left over
to practice dynamically enough or effectively enough, to
accomplish full enlightenment in THIS life.
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, the late teacher of the 14th
Dalai Lama of Tibet insisted that the most effective way to
both study and practice Buddha’s teachings was in a…
That is why each of the Dalai Lamas and their teachers
have organized
by subject and then distilled them down to their most
practical, profound and powerful essence. Why did they
do this? Because…
In their wisdom and compassion the Dalai Lamas have
arranged the essence of all of Buddha’s teachings of
sutra and tantra along a gradual pathway that, when
skillfully followed and applied, leads to full enlightenment in
just one life!
You could describe it as a “God Send” but I like to call it
the
The teacher of the first Dalai Lama promised that by
skillfully practicing in such an essentialized manner you
could:
• experience how all of Buddha’s teachings are FREE
from contradiction – which could make it much
easier to feel safe on enlightenment’s path;
• see, first hand, that Buddha’s teachings are not
merely flowery prose or just deep-sounding theory,
but actually precise instructions to be applied to your
daily practice – which could protect you from the
trap of pseudo-intellectualism and make sure you
really receive the increased: love, peace, insight
and happiness that these teachings are meant to
deliver;
• be safe from doctrinal error, confusion and needless
debate – so you could free up your precious time
and energy for that which is truly important… peace,
bliss, and transformation;
• know exactly what Buddha’s advice is – which could
make it much easier to liberate yourself from the
tyranny of sorrow, fear, anger and turmoil
I have students around the world and most of them are
NOT monks. Most of them are simple, work-a-day Joes
with kids, a spouse, pets, a house, a car and…
That’s why I present the “Treasure of the Dalai Lama’s” in
just three compelling stanzas, of four lines each. But I don’t
just give you something that only SOUNDS spiritual.
Nope, I actually teach you the “Treasure of the Dalai
Lama’s” in a manner that could help you really “get”:
• the secret to Tantra’s rapid generation of Bliss –
after all, we all love pleasure, so let’s find out how to
use it to enhance our spiritual practice,
• the safety afforded by the Buddha of Compassion –
so we can find it easier to escape the talons of fear
and stress,
• the profound advantages that are at your fingertips –
so you can ensure that your life is as fulfilling and as
meaningful at you could want it to be,
• how nature’s obvious and easily observable
phenomena demonstrate even the most profound of
Buddha’s teachings – so you won’t have to rely on
blind, unstable faith or ridged dogma,
• an antidote to those tendencies to procrastinate, that
can plague us all – so you can manifest the greater
joy and peace that you could already long for,
• real strategies to deal with loss – so that prospect
will not frighten you, any more,
• the FIRST key to Buddha’s wisdom teachings – so
you can really get your shoe in the door of Letting-
go, in the most wonderful way,
• the interplay between causality and conditions – so
you never have to play the victim again,
• how our choices effect our experience – so you’ll
always have the motivation required to do the right
thing,
• the SECOND key to Buddha’s path of letting go – so
you can finally understand those difficult metaphors
that often reduce the profundity of enlightened
wisdom to that of fortune cookie nonsense,
• the legitimacy of dissatisfaction – so you can stop
beating yourself up,
• universal ugliness – so your heart can spontaneously
give birth to the beauty of greater compassion and
love,
• and the energetic interplay between invocation and
supplication – so these verses can do more than
just entertain you… but instead transform you, so
you can be more of that person that your dog
already thinks you are
Many, less then scrupulous gurus, are so determined to
keep their students coming back for more that they only
dole out tiny or cryptic servings of truth, thus ensuring their
students’ continual frustration and dissatisfaction. That
type of cruelty requires great intestinal fortitude. Luckily,
I’m too much of a wimp for that, in fact…
The “Sutric Questions” are arguably Buddha’s greatest
transformational tools to secure your liberation from the
tyranny of sorrow, fear, anger and turmoil that can really
suck the joy out of life. But they only work if you understand
the essence of Buddha’s teachings. That is why I’m
making this explanation of the “Treasure of the Dalai
Lamas” available to you, so that when you do get your
hands on the transmission of the “Sutric Questions” you
are fully equipped to make the most of it.
Boredom is a joy-killer.
So I’ve given you seven variations of the “Treasure of the
Dalai Lamas”, so that every day there is something
different, so that your practice is less work, so it 's more
fun, so you'll actually do it!
It’s sad but true: so many people get flat tires on Buddha’s
path to enlightenment. So many people get lost in either
the extreme of over-simplification and find themselves
woefully ill equipped to deal with life’s challenges, or they
get bogged down in the mud of over intellectualism and
become so busy with the
• acquisition,
• translation,
• comprehension and
• debate of
Buddha’s sutras and tantras that they never get on with the
practice of transformation and evolution.
The good news is that you don’t have to go through all the
time, effort and inconvenience of re-inventing the wheel; it's
already been done for you.
The practical and profound essence of all of Buddha’s
teachings upon both his Sutric and Tantric paths has
already been prepared for you and explained on your
behalf.
It’s easy!
Now you can get your hands on this useful and
entertaining explanation, so you can play it on the way to
work, when you’re on the treadmill or at home, so you can
get, really get, these profound yet accessible
explanations, so you can apply them for 3 minuets every
morning and 44 seconds every evening, so you can
prepare yourself for even greater success on Buddha’s
path to enlightenment, so you can experience even
greater love, peace, insight and happiness, so...
Why aren’t these extensive explanations free? Why do I
only give them to those make medium or small donations?
Why do I do it that way?
I was asked to make the easy, path of NON-sectarian
devotion to the Buddha of Compassion and rapid
enlightenment, available to westerners. I was asked to
present the teachings in a profoundly easy, effective and
accessible manner. I was asked to found Monasteries
and Meditation-centers across this country and around the
world in the most wonderful way.
But it all starts here and now. When you make a medium
or small donation this month you’ll receive the teachings
either over the phone {in a live personal class} or as an
Audio CD. For a Medium or Small donation you’ll get the
teachings, you’ll get the good karma of giving to a monk,
and you’ll get to support the efforts to found San Diego
County’s first “Buddha of Compassion Monastery and
Meditation-center.” Remember the next generation of
American Nuns and Monks are counting on you so…
| “Don't eat Meat?” |
| “Here and Now are All that Matters?” |
| “ ‘Don’t have Desires,’ was all Buddha taught!” |
| “That's all I Gotta do!” |
| highly essentialized form |
| ALL of Buddha’s teachings. |
| it’s Good to have a Hook to Hang your Hat on! |
| Treasure of the Dalai Lamas! |
| very little spare time. |
| But NOT all teachers are good teachers. |
| I’m determined to Set-you-up for Success! |
| I was asked to! |
