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The Perfection of Giving
Giving, rather than just consuming, is designed to bring us happiness. Lama Marut here talks about what makes generosity "perfect" and reviews four kinds of giving.
This podcast comes from a teaching given at the Vipassana Center in Santa Cruz, California, in June of 2008.
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The Six Perfectionizers
The secret of your own happiness is to learn how to help others become happy. The six perfections – giving, ethics, patience, joyful effort, meditative concentration, and wisdom -- help us learn how to become perfect and happy.
This podcast comes from a teaching given at the Vipassana Center in Santa Cruz, California, in June of 2008.
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An Alternative to Unhappiness
The Buddha didn’t stop with the observation of the suffering nature of life. He also pointed out that suffering is caused, that there is an alternative to it, and a way to achieve that alternative.
This podcast comes from a teaching given at the Vipassana Center in Santa Cruz, California, in June of 2008.
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The First Truth: Life is Stressful!
Lama Marut retells the story of the Buddha’s first words after his enlightenment concerning the suffering (or stressful) nature of life.
This podcast comes from a teaching given at the Vipassana Center in Santa Cruz, California, in June of 2008.
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Transforming Your Mental Afflictions
When it comes to our mental afflictions, we have two choices: we can try to power through and overcome them, or we can transform them into something useful for our spiritual path. Lama Marut here discusses the second of these methods, the dangerous but swift path of tantra.
This podcast comes from a teaching given as part of a Tibetan Heart Yoga Teacher Training program near Tucson, Arizona, on June 15, 2009.
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Using Suffering as a Spiritual Path
What should we do when other people hurt us? We can use suffering to develop ourselves spiritually, as we learn in this overview of a famous Tibetan Buddhist text on how to transform suffering into a path.
This podcast comes from a teaching given as part of a Tibetan Heart Yoga Teacher Training program near Tucson, Arizona, on June 15, 2009.
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Freedom from the Four Attachments
Lama Marut reviews a famous text on the kinds of things we are attached to that prevent us from being true spiritual practitioners.
This podcast comes from a teaching given as part of a Tibetan Heart Yoga Teacher Training program near Tucson, Arizona, on June 15, 2009.
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You as the Spiritual Elite
If you’re even interested in a spiritual life, you are very special. Spiritual practitioners are not “ordinary.” Our lives are already full of miracles. The signs that we are slouching toward enlightenment are all around us. And wisdom is, in part, just recognizing your miraculous world for what it is.
This podcast comes from teachings given at the annual Thanksgiving retreat weekend at Lake Tahoe, in November of 2008.
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Learning to Be a Good Student
Lama Marut here talks about how to develop the qualities of a be good student by avoiding the “three problems of the Starbucks cup.”
This podcast comes from teachings given at the annual Thanksgiving retreat weekend at Lake Tahoe, in November of 2008.
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The Mystical Secret of Guru Yoga
The point of guru yoga is to first become able to see the divine directly in your world, and then secondly to become the divine yourself. The esoteric, secret traditions of many world religions suggest something very radical: that the way to the goal of perfection is to practice it in the here and now.
This podcast comes from teachings given at the annual Thanksgiving retreat weekend at Lake Tahoe, in November of 2008.
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The Appearance of the Sacred in Another Being
The “guru” is nothing other than the appearance in your life of the sacred in the form of a living being. And the guru can appear in any way that would help you see the special nature of the world around you. The special people in your life, however, are only special if you constitute them as sacred and invest them with the power to help you.
This podcast comes from teachings given at the annual Thanksgiving retreat weekend at Lake Tahoe, in November of 2008.
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Learning to Live in an Enchanted World . . . by Changing You
We all have a deep desire to live in a world of magic and miracles. We can, with training, learn to see the sacred and special all around us. The perception that things are just ordinary is just a subjective interpretation. When we change the subjective apparatus that filters our perceptions of the world, our world will change.
This podcast comes from teachings given at the annual Thanksgiving retreat weekend at Lake Tahoe, in November of 2008.
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Rediscovering the Miraculous Nature of Everyday Life
Which part of you doesn’t want to be happy? Holding onto the idea that nothing is special or extraordinary – that life is just humdrum and meaningless – is a major obstacle to happiness and the compassion that true happiness makes possible. The way to this goal is to reintroduce the sacred into our lives.
This podcast comes from teachings given at the annual Thanksgiving retreat weekend at Lake Tahoe, in November of 2008.
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How to Keep Your Vows Well
Lama Marut reviews five steps that will help us treasure and keep the vows we’ve taken, and the causes for why you would break your vows and the antidotes for those causes.
This podcast comes from teachings given in Vancouver in February of 2009.
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The Four White Deeds
Some of the secondary vows of a bodhisattva are designed to train us to be honest with others and also to try to see the best in things and people instead of always focussing on the negative.
This podcast comes from teachings given in Vancouver in February of 2009.
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Sticking With Your Tradition and Teacher
Sometimes we encounter teachings within our tradition that we can’t accept at present or feel doubts about our teachers. Instead of definitively rejecting such teachings or the teacher, it is important to try to just “shelve it” rather than just abandon your religion or your teacher when things get hard. The practitioners who stick to it make real progress, whereas those who just bail out over and over again do not.
This podcast comes from teachings given in Vancouver in February of 2009.
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The Four Points of the Practice of Virtue
The essence of the bodhisattva’s way of life is not returning harm with harm. A spiritual practitioner must learn to “turn the other cheek,” but also must know why it’s so important to do so.
This podcast comes from teachings given in Vancouver in February of 2009.
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Breaking and Losing Our Vows
Lama Marut discusses the ways we can lose our bodhisattva vows – through wrong views, giving up on helping others, and by breaking a vows with the “four chains.”
This podcast comes from teachings given in Vancouver in February of 2009.
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Training Ourselves in Selflessness
The vows of a bodhisattva guide us in leading a selfless, compassionate, and altruistic life. They help us lose ourselves in the service of others, and are based on understanding that all beings have just as much right as we do to be happy and avoid pain. Our own happiness is not somehow privileged, and when we realize this and begin to work toward the happiness of others we will truly be pursuing the causes of our own happiness.
This podcast comes from teachings given in Vancouver in February of 2009
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The EZ Form to Enlightenment
Buddhist vows are like training wheels for retraining our instincts and disciplining ourselves to do the right things. The first level of vows help us restrain our habit of hurting others, for harming others is the direct cause of our own suffering.
This podcast comes from teachings given in Vancouver in February of 2009
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