Even for someone like me have been following Rinpoche's teaching for around a decade now, I still listen to His teachings and His teachings have been very aptly to point out our mistakes, our responsibilities and how we what we should do about it. The truth, nothing but the truth. Karma is such a big word but it's very relevant. We have to do something to counter whatever negatuvitues in us and strive to be better. I hope many will listen back to these teachings again and again. As a reminder or perhaps we can move forward when we are down.
I need to watch and listen to Tsem Rinpoche's Dharma talk all the time. Thanks vv much to KECHARA FOREST RETREAT for posting up these videos again....💖💝💐
Social conditioning is much more deeper than we think. It's not surprising that most people who start realizing the spiritual path actually were depressed, unhappy and essentially done with life. This is why we need more dharma centres and teachers to help us and guide us on the path. If you realize that suffering is universal as long as ignorance is prevalent, motivation to practice dharma is the best possible thing. Thinking of death is not bad. It's sad that people don't realize that as its the one thing which is certainty and truth. So what's wrong with that? Doesn't that make us appreciate our life more? The only way you can be at peace if we want to change and if we aren't afraid. And the only way to not be afraid is to take responsibility. This is the best way forward for all. For, in the end, what will matter? Thank you rinpoche!
Satu Satu Satu! Fantastic! A GREAT Dhamma talk and very entertaining. While I am ordained as a Thai Buddhist monk I have recently found the videos of this teacher and also Ven. Robina Courtin, both of whom I find to be wonderful, insightful, intelligent and wise teachers. I LOVE Tsem Rinpoche's manner and his directness as well as his some what, off the wall humor. I shall write to him and see if I can spend a month or two with him in the coming year. I'm sure it would be a great blessing for me
Thank You Rinpoche for your interesting Dhamma teaching.I have been listening to your great Dhamma teaching almost everyday and I love it.It is a great blessing for me to have recently found your UA-cam channel.
Look at how healthy and in shape he was back then. Something mustve definitely happened in his last decade. I got a feeling he had a thyroid problem. Its just not normal he became extremely overweight. Poor guy mustve suffered from a disease. 🙏 He was a great human being. I wish I met him.
Many students and followers of HE Tsem Rinpoche including myself are equally saddened by his parinirvana. In Tibetan Buddhism teachings, when a lama manifest in this way, it is a teaching to us that life is impermanent and that we must live every moment of our lives to the fullest in doing Dharma, practising Dharma and to help others to the fullest extent such that our mind transforms to a Buddha mind. Although Tsem Rinpoche had left, the spirit of his kindness and compassion remains 🙏
If I was near a group like orchard I perhaps would join it. I have been watching Tsem Rinpoche's videos often and I realize t would be beneficial to have a guru. But I will see what opportunities arise. Perhaps I can advance without a guru in te future. I can't tell but I will continue my practice
I see that this video is marked as 1 of 6. I can see that this 1st video was published on Feb 19th and want to ask if the other 5 are available or have they not been uploaded yet? Thanks for posting! This first video is truly inspirational. :) Metta
I'm not denouncing karma. I think it is a truth as Rinpoche says. But I feel like this concept of karma can degrade into a reason for saying that certain people are lesser because they have "worse Karma". This thought struck me when he mentioned the people in the jungle making shrunken heads and dancing around a fire, at 20:00 Whichever tribal people he is referencing, I don't think it's justifiable to say that these people are ignorant and stupid, and all they do is dance around a fire; tribal people (no matter how ignorant or whatever they may seem to 'cultured' society) have their own traditions and faiths. None has any right to say, "oh, these people are so dirty because they did not pray and have bad karma therefore.. etc etc.". I don't know; this is what I thought he was saying-- granted, maybe I exaggerated a little, and I apologize; but I thought he was implying this, when most of these jungle tribes-- and any other indigenous tribe-- has a profound understanding of nature and the Most High, more-so than most people in the world. So I agree that Karma is a truth, but I think we should be cautious about how it makes us think about or classify other people. This is just my opinion.
ZionRebirth .Tello People can say many things according their flawed perception. But the beggar that we might look down on the street could have been a king before with riches well beyond our imagination and etc. Samsara is such that, a king can be humbled in a moment or in the next life, or a humble beggar can ascend great heights like being in a god realm in their next life. No where is samsara is free of suffering though, wherever we are in samsara there is bound to be dissatisfaction and unhappiness....
ZionRebirth .Tello I think Rinpoche is just making an example, he is not belitting jungle people or cultures..., he is just referring to jungle tribes as many jungle tribes have not joined the rest of the world, and they have not heard what certain established religion have preached. I also remember once reading that certain tribes in the jungle only killed people they know they will not kill strangers... I thought that was interesting. I mean why would you want to hurt someone you don't know? Maybe a bit warped according to my values, it was an interesting idea nevertheless.
please let me know if i got it right --- first you die then you go to one of the realms according to your karma , it may be heaven or hell or being a spirit or an animal etc. and then you reincarnate again , is that right ? are there teachings about what exactly happens step by step after you have died ( i know there is the tibetan book of death but i would appreciate it if someone could explain that to me )
Yes, you are right GonG108, sentient beings would be reincarnated endlessly in six realms again -- gods, demi-gods, humans, animals, hungry ghosts and hells. You can take a look this one www.tsemrinpoche.com/tsem-tulku-rinpoche/film-tv-music/reincarnation-true-or-false.html. Have you read it ? Do you find it helpful? please let us know thank you :)
i did the Mahamudra vow to become a Bodhisattva in 1995 , i was very inspired at that time but right now i don´t feel that i am capable to come back as long as it takes to liberate all beings , my question is can i step back from this vow to be a Bodhisattva and instead just be a normal spirit on his journey , don´t get me wrong , i just don't feel able to feel these huge kind of compassion towards all sentient beings and i wonder . i have taken refuge to the Buddha the dharma and the sangha through the Karmapa lineage but instead of following the buddhist teachings i did Ha - Tha yoga and followed the Sanatana Dharma teached by the Guru´s , i recited the om namah shivay so many times i can´t count it over the last 25 years but somehow i always get confronted with the tibetan buddhist teachings and every time i listen to the teachings i have the feeling that this is absolutely right . the problem is that here in cologne / germany where i reside there are not so many possibilities to join the sangha and practice dharma according to buddha teachings . i did the Mahamudra vow in 1995 ( i don´t know if vow is the right word my english is not that good , but i understood that this will tie me to the lineage ) . i recognized that always when i come to the teachings of buddha and / or shiva my heart opens up and i feel some kind of happiness , the first time when i read about Babaji a Shiva Mahavatar in india i had to cry all the time . so i am connected to the shivaite and tibetan buddhist teachings in a certain way , i still try to find out what it is . the videos here are a great help and i appreciate them very much , i will also join the blog of HE Rinpoche . i just wonder where i belong to and hope to keep on the path of the Dharma . thank you very much for your answer and i will certainly check the link out you gave me , thanks a lot . i will read it and give you a feedback of what i have understood :)))
GonG108 Thank you very much. I am really appreciated what you did share with us about your background. I do understand you are in dilemma and a bit confused what you should do in your spiritual path. If you won't mind and would like to talk to someone who are very experienced in their dharma learnings, you can talk to one of the Pastors in Tsem Rinpoche's Kechara House and ask them more details in regarding your spiritual learnings. Here is the link www.tsemrinpoche.com/ask-the-pastors. Hope this helps :)
i will give you a feedback , it all started when i was 16 years old ( now i am 45 ) and had a spontaneous Kundalini awakening , somehow i found myself in the middle of the room in padmaassana the lotus seat , something happened with my spine and then i experienced the most precious thing in my whole live . since then i try to get back to that point and on my way i met the Karmapa lineage and Shivaites . But first i will check out the link you gave me and a feedback , it is very interesting to communicate with you as this is the only option i have to go deeper into the dharma teachings ( sadly we have no Karmapa center here in Cologne / germany ) but i think a few lifetimes yoga and then the dharma teachings are surely o.k. . the goal is the same ( only that i gave this Bodhisattva vow and frankly i don´t feel so confident with this vow because it binds me to that planet or realm and i don´t know if i will get able to have so much compassion that i will re incarnate as long as it takes to free all sentient beings , but i hope i did the right thing ) . i think that i have must been through many life cycles to come to that experience i made with 16 , ( all the ha tha yoga knowledge came out of me without any book or teaching , it was simply there and i knew what i had to do , this is amazing , later in my yoga school i got told that i already did ha tha yoga for several years without knowing what exactly it is . ) please tell me if one of the Rinpoche Gems is going to visit germany , i would love to meet some of them or at least one of them if my karma allows this to happen ) . now i will take a look at the link you kindly gave me
i ´ve been through it and yes it is convincing but that was not my question i am already convinced about reincarnation my focus goes to the exact process of dying leaving the body entering the Bardo states up to the next incarnation i, i know that it is written in the tibetan book of death but sadly i lost this book before ic ould study it , if there are any videos on this special topic that would be great , a description on how to leave the body through the upper chakras or sahasrara in the best case and then the next steps , i think these are the most important teachings for someone in a human body as it sets the circumstances for the next birth and what comes after
Even for someone like me have been following Rinpoche's teaching for around a decade now, I still listen to His teachings and His teachings have been very aptly to point out our mistakes, our responsibilities and how we what we should do about it. The truth, nothing but the truth. Karma is such a big word but it's very relevant. We have to do something to counter whatever negatuvitues in us and strive to be better. I hope many will listen back to these teachings again and again. As a reminder or perhaps we can move forward when we are down.
I need to watch and listen to Tsem Rinpoche's Dharma talk all the time.
Thanks vv much to KECHARA FOREST RETREAT for posting up these videos again....💖💝💐
Social conditioning is much more deeper than we think. It's not surprising that most people who start realizing the spiritual path actually were depressed, unhappy and essentially done with life.
This is why we need more dharma centres and teachers to help us and guide us on the path. If you realize that suffering is universal as long as ignorance is prevalent, motivation to practice dharma is the best possible thing.
Thinking of death is not bad. It's sad that people don't realize that as its the one thing which is certainty and truth.
So what's wrong with that? Doesn't that make us appreciate our life more?
The only way you can be at peace if we want to change and if we aren't afraid. And the only way to not be afraid is to take responsibility. This is the best way forward for all.
For, in the end, what will matter?
Thank you rinpoche!
May all beings be happy🌻
Satu Satu Satu! Fantastic! A GREAT Dhamma talk and very entertaining. While I am ordained as a Thai Buddhist monk I have recently found the videos of this teacher and also Ven. Robina Courtin, both of whom I find to be wonderful, insightful, intelligent and wise teachers. I LOVE Tsem Rinpoche's manner and his directness as well as his some what, off the wall humor. I shall write to him and see if I can spend a month or two with him in the coming year. I'm sure it would be a great blessing for me
Thank you 💜
Thank You Rinpoche for your interesting Dhamma teaching.I have been listening to your great Dhamma teaching almost everyday and I love it.It is a great blessing for me to have recently found your UA-cam channel.
Profound Wisdom!
Thank you for your clear pointing out the way.
So useful to hear, thank you!
Excellent.
Namaste ALL
Look at how healthy and in shape he was back then. Something mustve definitely happened in his last decade. I got a feeling he had a thyroid problem. Its just not normal he became extremely overweight. Poor guy mustve suffered from a disease. 🙏 He was a great human being. I wish I met him.
I don't know why, I feel very very down when I got to know that Tsem Rinpoche has passed away and I just got to know.
Weng Mun
I know the feeling
Many students and followers of HE Tsem Rinpoche including myself are equally saddened by his parinirvana. In Tibetan Buddhism teachings, when a lama manifest in this way, it is a teaching to us that life is impermanent and that we must live every moment of our lives to the fullest in doing Dharma, practising Dharma and to help others to the fullest extent such that our mind transforms to a Buddha mind. Although Tsem Rinpoche had left, the spirit of his kindness and compassion remains 🙏
Caryn Wong thank you.
🙏🙏🙏
I love that analogy at 30:00
How are you doing? Yes Rinpoche is very serious when it comes to dharma that people really dharma practice and attack their problems head on.
If I was near a group like orchard I perhaps would join it. I have been watching Tsem Rinpoche's videos often and I realize t would be beneficial to have a guru.
But I will see what opportunities arise. Perhaps I can advance without a guru in te future. I can't tell but I will continue my practice
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
I see that this video is marked as 1 of 6. I can see that this 1st video was published on Feb 19th and want to ask if the other 5 are available or have they not been uploaded yet?
Thanks for posting! This first video is truly inspirational. :) Metta
Rinpoche is too funny. Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu
2:17 logic.
I'm not denouncing karma. I think it is a truth as Rinpoche says. But I feel like this concept of karma can degrade into a reason for saying that certain people are lesser because they have "worse Karma". This thought struck me when he mentioned the people in the jungle making shrunken heads and dancing around a fire, at 20:00
Whichever tribal people he is referencing, I don't think it's justifiable to say that these people are ignorant and stupid, and all they do is dance around a fire; tribal people (no matter how ignorant or whatever they may seem to 'cultured' society) have their own traditions and faiths. None has any right to say, "oh, these people are so dirty because they did not pray and have bad karma therefore.. etc etc.".
I don't know; this is what I thought he was saying-- granted, maybe I exaggerated a little, and I apologize; but I thought he was implying this, when most of these jungle tribes-- and any other indigenous tribe-- has a profound understanding of nature and the Most High, more-so than most people in the world.
So I agree that Karma is a truth, but I think we should be cautious about how it makes us think about or classify other people.
This is just my opinion.
ZionRebirth .Tello People can say many things according their flawed perception. But the beggar that we might look down on the street could have been a king before with riches well beyond our imagination and etc. Samsara is such that, a king can be humbled in a moment or in the next life, or a humble beggar can ascend great heights like being in a god realm in their next life. No where is samsara is free of suffering though, wherever we are in samsara there is bound to be dissatisfaction and unhappiness....
ZionRebirth .Tello I think Rinpoche is just making an example, he is not belitting jungle people or cultures..., he is just referring to jungle tribes as many jungle tribes have not joined the rest of the world, and they have not heard what certain established religion have preached. I also remember once reading that certain tribes in the jungle only killed people they know they will not kill strangers... I thought that was interesting. I mean why would you want to hurt someone you don't know? Maybe a bit warped according to my values, it was an interesting idea nevertheless.
Why did he liked Madonna so much?
i seriously lol'd when he started talking about Madonna. awesome.
please let me know if i got it right --- first you die then you go to one of the realms according to your karma , it may be heaven or hell or being a spirit or an animal etc. and then you reincarnate again , is that right ?
are there teachings about what exactly happens step by step after you have died ( i know there is the tibetan book of death but i would appreciate it if someone could explain that to me )
Yes, you are right GonG108, sentient beings would be reincarnated endlessly in six realms again -- gods, demi-gods, humans, animals, hungry ghosts and hells. You can take a look this one www.tsemrinpoche.com/tsem-tulku-rinpoche/film-tv-music/reincarnation-true-or-false.html. Have you read it ? Do you find it helpful? please let us know thank you :)
i did the Mahamudra vow to become a Bodhisattva in 1995 , i was very inspired at that time but right now i don´t feel that i am capable to come back as long as it takes to liberate all beings , my question is can i step back from this vow to be a Bodhisattva and instead just be a normal spirit on his journey , don´t get me wrong , i just don't feel able to feel these huge kind of compassion towards all sentient beings and i wonder .
i have taken refuge to the Buddha the dharma and the sangha through the Karmapa lineage but instead of following the buddhist teachings i did Ha - Tha yoga and followed the Sanatana Dharma teached by the Guru´s , i recited the om namah shivay so many times i can´t count it over the last 25 years but somehow i always get confronted with the tibetan buddhist teachings and every time i listen to the teachings i have the feeling that this is absolutely right .
the problem is that here in cologne / germany where i reside there are not so many possibilities to join the sangha and practice dharma according to buddha teachings .
i did the Mahamudra vow in 1995 ( i don´t know if vow is the right word my english is not that good , but i understood that this will tie me to the lineage ) .
i recognized that always when i come to the teachings of buddha and / or shiva my heart opens up and i feel some kind of happiness , the first time when i read about Babaji a Shiva Mahavatar in india i had to cry all the time . so i am connected to the shivaite and tibetan buddhist teachings in a certain way , i still try to find out what it is .
the videos here are a great help and i appreciate them very much , i will also join the blog of HE Rinpoche .
i just wonder where i belong to and hope to keep on the path of the Dharma .
thank you very much for your answer and i will certainly check the link out you gave me , thanks a lot .
i will read it and give you a feedback of what i have understood :)))
GonG108 Thank you very much. I am really appreciated what you did share with us about your background. I do understand you are in dilemma and a bit confused what you should do in your spiritual path. If you won't mind and would like to talk to someone who are very experienced in their dharma learnings, you can talk to one of the Pastors in Tsem Rinpoche's Kechara House and ask them more details in regarding your spiritual learnings. Here is the link www.tsemrinpoche.com/ask-the-pastors. Hope this helps :)
i will give you a feedback ,
it all started when i was 16 years old ( now i am 45 ) and had a spontaneous Kundalini awakening , somehow i found myself in the middle of the room in padmaassana the lotus seat , something happened with my spine and then i experienced the most precious thing in my whole live . since then i try to get back to that point and on my way i met the Karmapa lineage and Shivaites .
But first i will check out the link you gave me and a feedback , it is very interesting to communicate with you as this is the only option i have to go deeper into the dharma teachings ( sadly we have no Karmapa center here in Cologne / germany ) but i think a few lifetimes yoga and then the dharma teachings are surely o.k. . the goal is the same ( only that i gave this Bodhisattva vow and frankly i don´t feel so confident with this vow because it binds me to that planet or realm and i don´t know if i will get able to have so much compassion that i will re incarnate as long as it takes to free all sentient beings , but i hope i did the right thing ) .
i think that i have must been through many life cycles to come to that experience i made with 16 , ( all the ha tha yoga knowledge came out of me without any book or teaching , it was simply there and i knew what i had to do , this is amazing , later in my yoga school i got told that i already did ha tha yoga for several years without knowing what exactly it is . )
please tell me if one of the Rinpoche Gems is going to visit germany , i would love to meet some of them or at least one of them if my karma allows this to happen ) .
now i will take a look at the link you kindly gave me
i ´ve been through it and yes it is convincing but that was not my question i am already convinced about reincarnation my focus goes to the exact process of dying leaving the body entering the Bardo states up to the next incarnation i, i know that it is written in the tibetan book of death but sadly i lost this book before ic ould study it , if there are any videos on this special topic that would be great , a description on how to leave the body through the upper chakras or sahasrara in the best case and then the next steps , i think these are the most important teachings for someone in a human body as it sets the circumstances for the next birth and what comes after
Scuse me but is he Tsem Tulku Rinpoche? doesn't look like...
+Luca Barsotti Thats right. :)
karma and reincarnation but you talk about going to heaven or hell ???
There is Deva realms and the Hells within Buddhist Cosmology.
o.k. thank you for that answer :)