tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051914427847603782024-02-16T04:37:35.348+00:00Bodhicharya IrelandBodhicharya Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01164377634767942386noreply@blogger.comBlogger273125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3605191442784760378.post-35782781667308934942024-01-19T13:32:00.003+00:002024-01-19T13:33:27.059+00:00A New Year aspiration<p><br /></p><table cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #4d4b4b; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25.6px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">May the year 2024 start with auspiciousness.</td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #4d4b4b; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25.6px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">May it be auspicious in the beginning, middle and end. <br />May it start auspiciously with the motivation of kindness, love and equality in every heart. <br />May there be auspiciousness of friendship, respect and wisdom in the mind of all the beings. <br />May there be auspiciousness of peace, prosperity and genuine happiness in the life of each and every individual in the universe as the result.</td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #4d4b4b; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25.6px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><em></em></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #4d4b4b; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25.6px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><em style="font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Ringu Tulku</em><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">01.01.2024</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Rinpoche is currently in Bodhgaya attending the Kagyu Monlam presided over this year by HE Tai Situ Rinpoche. The Dalai Lama is also in Bodhgaya and Ringu Tulku expressed his delight at receiving a precious blessing from His Holiness this week.</span><br /><br /><div style="color: #050505; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkkIaa-gxnCM9aZUE1SsGDDIO6hNVar0sxBZg7h1lRvX7QyxjCErkYaJxIH1yj_IL0a8-iCuCB42flT4lTvMf5WKoa8vqYN0hZeN7RiuTp5hBHfyf8dytKFaSILT3XvXpg9ioT2ybZ4kGegYn_NreBkvY4RLpfT5H5L1QzBX47PWWjJVME1ZlTcUxIBhw/s900/Ringu%20Tulk%20and%20HHDL.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkkIaa-gxnCM9aZUE1SsGDDIO6hNVar0sxBZg7h1lRvX7QyxjCErkYaJxIH1yj_IL0a8-iCuCB42flT4lTvMf5WKoa8vqYN0hZeN7RiuTp5hBHfyf8dytKFaSILT3XvXpg9ioT2ybZ4kGegYn_NreBkvY4RLpfT5H5L1QzBX47PWWjJVME1ZlTcUxIBhw/s320/Ringu%20Tulk%20and%20HHDL.png" width="320" /></a></div></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">He says: 'Today I had an audience with HH the Dalai Lama. He was so very kind to me. He took my head and touched his heart.</span></div></div><div style="color: #050505; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Ringu Tulku, Bodhgaya, 15.01.2024'</span></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table>Bodhicharya Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01164377634767942386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3605191442784760378.post-59501040027272706572023-06-20T14:26:00.062+01:002023-06-22T17:55:51.787+01:00Ringu Tulku Rinpoche visit to Dublin 27th & 28th June 2023<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1-KW0ITt5SiJNalpNYg3S9iY3Bzafw8oieB1zpNexonx_HiLzhNDIyO2i4bWqIh1im8VTSUjjIXMAL-8-ejFsh9KJCsqrTlAm-TRwab4Yo8BDSeAcVF2RtwVobI-GrSJJpPHU2d4pMTjgRBn9aoGmGnooBVC_Uk0o7L_QG2gs4_zFQ7Xvkjm4uyLEPhY/s2276/IMG_4468.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2276" data-original-width="1903" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1-KW0ITt5SiJNalpNYg3S9iY3Bzafw8oieB1zpNexonx_HiLzhNDIyO2i4bWqIh1im8VTSUjjIXMAL-8-ejFsh9KJCsqrTlAm-TRwab4Yo8BDSeAcVF2RtwVobI-GrSJJpPHU2d4pMTjgRBn9aoGmGnooBVC_Uk0o7L_QG2gs4_zFQ7Xvkjm4uyLEPhY/s320/IMG_4468.JPG" width="268" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> Visit to Minh Tam Pagoda, Coolock, Dublin</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We are very happy to welcome Ringu Tulku once again to Dublin next week, and delighted to announce his first visit to the Vietnamese Minh Tam Pagoda on Tuesday 27th June from 11 am to 3 pm, when he will be given a tour of the new temple and give a teaching on Amitabha Practice. The invitation from the Vietnamese sangha is open to all Bodhicharya Ireland members and anyone else interested. There is no need to book and this event is free. Details and directions are <a href="https://bodhicharyaireland.blogspot.com/p/an-invitation-from-abbot-of-minh-tam.html">here.</a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Public Talk Dublin City Centre </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">On Wednesday evening Rinpoche will give an introduction to the meaning and practise of Vajrasattva, [Tib. Dorje Sempa]. 7.30 - 9 pm.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Venue:</b> Buswells Hotel, Molesworth Street, Dublin 2 at the junction with Kildare Street, opposite the Dail. It can be easily reached via the Luas in Dawson St. stop or any bus along Nassau Street or St Stevens' Green.</div><p></p><p>Doors open 7.00pm – please be seated before 7.25pm </p><p>Suggested donation €20.00 (card payments can be accepted). </p><p>This year the Dublin visit will be over two days, slightly shorter than in previous years, due to the temporary closure of <a href="https://buddhism.ie">KSDD</a>. Numbers will be limited, if you have made a booking through KSDD and wish to attend this public talk instead, please come early, as we should like to try to honour your registration for the public talk at Buswells Hotel. </p><p>Bodhicharya Ireland is a not for profit organisation and we rely on donations to cover costs of Rinpoche's visit. </p><p>Thursday 29th June – Rinpoche will Teach at <a href="http://palpung.ie" target="_blank">Palpung Ireland Buddhist Centre</a>, Banteer, Co Cork</p><p>Friday 30th June - Sunday 2nd July – <a href="https://www.dzogchenbeara.org" target="_blank">Dzogchen Beara,</a> Co Cork</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Bodhicharya Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01164377634767942386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3605191442784760378.post-15985650551642021762023-05-09T13:07:00.000+01:002023-05-09T13:07:19.928+01:00Irish Retreat with Donal Creedon<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt7Sa5fGBucYRfbMoZDbVZigUDunXwtp2J8q982_926oUQJjhofOFtu25TXmsjqQHc8xBLn_ZxxXR7pllz_zsu38cWQC0s5iQ9ijTJkuc1SEt3hnrcaDGwLDvAqWG0hdJAWIULvqjqs2SpcTDj1Mpr8zNFgy0V6eA_Q8305WoWlaf0RQ_DxPlJY9QL/s3024/Tullow%20full%20moon.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2764" data-original-width="3024" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt7Sa5fGBucYRfbMoZDbVZigUDunXwtp2J8q982_926oUQJjhofOFtu25TXmsjqQHc8xBLn_ZxxXR7pllz_zsu38cWQC0s5iQ9ijTJkuc1SEt3hnrcaDGwLDvAqWG0hdJAWIULvqjqs2SpcTDj1Mpr8zNFgy0V6eA_Q8305WoWlaf0RQ_DxPlJY9QL/s320/Tullow%20full%20moon.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">Donal Creedon</span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"> will lead the annual Bodhicharya Ireland retreat in Tullow, Co Carlow, Ireland 1st - 7th September 2023 inclusive. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">Donal has spent many years studying with eminent masters of meditation, in Buddhist and other traditions, and has spent twelve years in enclosed retreat. Between the years 2002-2005 he was resident scholar at the Krishnamurti Institute in Varanasi, India and has subsequently facilitated seminars and dialogue in Krishnamurti centres both in India and the UK. His easy and accessible style of presentation and vast knowledge of the field make Donal very popular with </span><span style="color: #222222; text-align: justify;">practitioners</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"> of all traditions.</span></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">For many years he has facilitated meditation retreats in Ireland and the UK as well as mainland Europe and Africa. </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">This year's Irish retreat will be a little shorter than usual due to greater demand for the venue, so we begin on the evening Friday 1st September and finish Thursday 7th September 2023 after lunch.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">We have a few places left – click on this</span></span></span> <a href="https://bodhicharyaireland.blogspot.com/p/bodhicharya-ireland-retreat-2023.html" target="_blank">Link</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"> for all the details; several standard and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">ensuite </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">rooms are still available. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">Please register your interest and room preference to b</span><span style="color: #222222;">odhicharya.ireland@gmail.com</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"> and <b>wait for confirmation</b> – </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">we will then request a deposit to confirm your place. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><span style="color: #222222;">Do not </span></u><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><u>transfer a deposit </u> until you hear from us. <br /></span></div><p><br /></p><p> </p>Bodhicharya Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01164377634767942386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3605191442784760378.post-52295045236472209412023-04-26T13:11:00.030+01:002023-06-20T14:33:32.830+01:00Rinpoche's visit to Ireland 2023 slight change of programme.<p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: helvetica;">There have been some changes to the programme for Ringu's Visit to Dublin.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b> June 27th + Wednesday June 28th 2023</b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Tuesday 27th June</b><span style="color: #990000;"> </span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #990000;">Rinpoche will teach on the practice of Amitabha at the </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="https://bodhicharyaireland.blogspot.com/p/an-invitation-from-abbot-of-minh-tam.html">Vietnamese Temple in C</a>oolock</span><span style="color: #990000;"> </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #990000; font-family: helvetica;">at the invitation of </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #990000; font-family: helvetica;">Abbott Venerable Thích Phước Huệ and the Vietnamese Buddhist Community in Ireland.</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #990000; font-family: helvetica;">The visit will begin with a tour of the temple at 11am. Teachings will be at approximately 1.30pm-3 pm on Tuesday, 27th June </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #990000; font-family: helvetica;"> </span></i><i style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #990000; font-family: helvetica;"> </i></p><p style="text-align: left;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: helvetica;">Everyone is very welcome to attend, and the event is free. </span></i></p><p style="text-align: left;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Address: Minh Tâm Pagoda, </span></i><i style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #990000; font-family: helvetica;">Unit 6, Malahide Road Industrial Park, Coolock, Dublin 17</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #990000; font-family: helvetica;">. Details can be found on the link above. </i></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: helvetica;"><b>Wednesday 28th June</b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #990000; font-family: helvetica;">Teachings on the Practice of Vajrasattva</i></p><p style="text-align: left;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #990000; font-family: helvetica;">Buswells Hotel, Molesworth St Dublin 2. </i></p><p style="text-align: left;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #990000; font-family: helvetica;">Georgian Room, Ground floor</i></p><p style="text-align: left;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #990000; font-family: helvetica;">7.30 - 9 pm</i></p><p style="text-align: left;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #990000; font-family: helvetica;">Suggested donation €20.00 for the evening.</i></p><p style="text-align: left;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #990000; font-family: helvetica;">doors open 7 pm. </i></p><p style="text-align: left;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #990000; font-family: helvetica;">All are welcome.</i></p><p style="text-align: left;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #990000; font-family: helvetica;">There will not be a teaching on Monday 26th.</i></p><p style="text-align: left;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #990000; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></i></p><p></p><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Thursday June 29th, 2023<span style="color: #444444;"> </span></b></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span face=""Source Sans Pro", sans-serif"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: helvetica;">Ireland - Banteer, West Cork</span></span></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""Source Sans Pro", sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(77, 75, 66); font-size: 16.421999px;">Location:</span><span face=""Source Sans Pro", sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(77, 75, 66); font-size: 16.421999px;"> </span><span face=""Source Sans Pro", sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(77, 75, 66); font-size: 16.421999px;"> </span><span class="simcal-event-address simcal-event-start-location" face=""Source Sans Pro", sans-serif" itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(77, 75, 66); font-size: 16.421999px;">Palpung Ireland Buddhist Centre, Banteer, Co. Cork, Ireland</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://www.palpung.ie/" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(77, 75, 66); font-size: 16.421999px; font-style: italic; transition: all 0.2s linear 0s;">http://www.palpung.ie</a><span face=""Source Sans Pro", sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(77, 75, 66); font-size: 16.421999px; font-style: italic;"> </span><a href="mailto:palpungireland@gmail.com" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(77, 75, 66); font-size: 16.421999px; font-style: italic; transition: all 0.2s linear 0s;">palpungireland@gmail.com</a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Friday June 30th - Sunday July 2nd </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(77, 75, 66); color: #4d4b42; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 16.421999px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(77, 75, 66); color: #4d4b42; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 16.421999px;">Dzogchen Beara, Garranes, Allihies, Co. Cork, P75 C670, Ireland</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="http://www.dzogchenbeara.org/" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(77, 75, 66); font-size: 16.421999px; font-style: italic; transition: all 0.2s linear 0s;">http://www.dzogchenbeara.org</a>. </span> <span face=""Source Sans Pro", sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(77, 75, 66); color: #4d4b42; font-size: 16.421999px; font-style: italic;">info@</span><span face=""Source Sans Pro", sans-serif" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(77, 75, 66); color: #4d4b42; font-size: 16.421999px; font-style: italic;">dzogchenbeara.org</span></span></div><p></p><p><br /> </p>Bodhicharya Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01164377634767942386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3605191442784760378.post-71691838707290287362023-02-25T09:31:00.022+00:002023-04-27T08:53:47.342+01:00Ringu Tulku will give teachings on The Path of Heroes, a text by Sechen Gyaltsap, in Berlin <p><span face=""Source Sans Pro", sans-serif" style="color: #212121; font-size: 13pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5D-apRYT-gwiyqBth2PtGFUucjUa7kwdaAQBO4RNtTAzOUDC_BsTMd3TUo0GOIkK_cVqXrvk8OS10clU7kTP-WMmwNVFQZA09tA6pK4IVpoQS_68n4wejDqbGaiRpP_rrpgkwowogY1a3T13QErKyup26yk8XAO64vkcTLhv1AK4ZeYBxqcTVAZs7/s3728/IMG_9500.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3728" data-original-width="2574" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5D-apRYT-gwiyqBth2PtGFUucjUa7kwdaAQBO4RNtTAzOUDC_BsTMd3TUo0GOIkK_cVqXrvk8OS10clU7kTP-WMmwNVFQZA09tA6pK4IVpoQS_68n4wejDqbGaiRpP_rrpgkwowogY1a3T13QErKyup26yk8XAO64vkcTLhv1AK4ZeYBxqcTVAZs7/s320/IMG_9500.JPG" width="221" /></a></div>Ringu Tulku Rinpoche has accepted an invitation to give the lung and some teaching sessions on Sechen Gyaltsap’s text 'The Path of Heroes‘ on 18th – 21st May 2023 inclusive, at Bodhicharya Berlin. <p></p><p><span face=""Source Sans Pro", sans-serif" style="color: #212121; font-size: 13pt;">The</span><span face=""Source Sans Pro", sans-serif" style="color: #212121; font-size: 13pt;"> event will be open to everyone. </span></p><p><span face=""Source Sans Pro", sans-serif" style="color: #212121;">The event will take place at Bodhicharya Berlin beginning on Thursday 18th May at 9 am, when Ringu Tulku Rinpoche plans to start reading the lung: it is a long text, and there will be several hours of readings both morning and afternoon on each day. In the evenings Thursday – Saturday, Rinpoche will give teachings on the text. On Sunday 21st there will be two sessions, morning and afternoon, ending at 5 pm. If the lung is complete Rinpoche will also teach in those sessions. </span></p><p><span face=""Source Sans Pro", sans-serif" style="color: #212121;">The Path Of Heroes––otherwise known as “A Good Vase of the Nectar of the Deep Teachings of the Mahayana” or “A Good Jar of Honey,” is a commentary by Shechen Gyaltsab Rinpoche, one of the three Lamas of Kham, (the others being Kongtrul Lodro Taye and Sechen Rabjam) on a text called the Seven Essentials of Self Mastery by Chekawa Yeshe Dorje [12century]. Kongtrul Lodro Taye incarnated as Shechen Kongtrul who was also a student of Shechen Gyaltsab and later became Abbot of Sechen Monastery.</span> </p><p><span face=""Source Sans Pro", sans-serif" style="color: #212121;">The following timetable is provisional and may be adjusted, please check back closer to the time.</span></p><p><span face=""Source Sans Pro", sans-serif" style="color: #212121;">09.00 hrs & 16.00hrs CT daily: Lung transmission - times to be confirmed (<i>not on zoom</i>) </span></p><p><span face="Source Sans Pro, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;">1930 hrs CT. 6.30 pm BST Thursday to Saturday: *Teachings on Sechen Gyaltsap's commentary. </span></p><p><span face="Source Sans Pro, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;">Sunday sessions: 10.00hrs & 1500 hrs CT teachings if lung transmission is complete. (not on Zoom) </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Source Sans Pro, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span face="Source Sans Pro, sans-serif" style="color: #212121; text-align: left;">*</span><i style="text-align: left;">The evening & weekend teachings (only) will be transmitted via zoom for those who are unable to attend in person.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Source Sans Pro, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><i><br /></i></span></div><span face="Source Sans Pro, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><i style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUAB2F_j0xhMKJiIdM3ibY5SliGn7rMSjHM8xjMKPhw4bWvCFGYAokpKcuxGKTQzROKdj6L02_qz8Y0id3yIymKNtCBAkhNXm_jJfafv8IqejXFGgk-p1ETzHvRkwwdZyEaHuwxTZbdGYWDP77yFxaSThHruwhSS6yiFaUytqSXCYc_ZdfNSJtY7jb/s3538/IMG_9505.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: right;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3538" data-original-width="2430" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUAB2F_j0xhMKJiIdM3ibY5SliGn7rMSjHM8xjMKPhw4bWvCFGYAokpKcuxGKTQzROKdj6L02_qz8Y0id3yIymKNtCBAkhNXm_jJfafv8IqejXFGgk-p1ETzHvRkwwdZyEaHuwxTZbdGYWDP77yFxaSThHruwhSS6yiFaUytqSXCYc_ZdfNSJtY7jb/s320/IMG_9505.JPG" width="220" /></a></div></i><span style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;">A 'lung' is one aspect of transmission given to a student for study and practise of a particular teaching or text. During a lung the whole text is read aloud, usually in Tibetan, giving 'transmission through hearing' to students wishing to study and practise the text. There is usually also an explanation of the context and instructions to practice, a 'tri'. In the Tibetan tradition it is said these aspects may be received if one wishes to get most benefit from studying a particular text. </div></span></span></div><p></p><p><span face=""Source Sans Pro", sans-serif" style="color: #212121;">Ringu Tulku Rinpoche received the transmission from Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche who received it from Sechen Kongtrul. This is a rare and special opportunity to receive these teachings from him. They will be given in English with German translation. </span><span face=""Source Sans Pro", sans-serif" style="color: #212121;">Accommodation: There’s no accommodation at Bodhicharya, but there are plenty of</span><span face=""Source Sans Pro", sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"> </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.booking.com/hotel/de/ibis-styles-berlin-ost.en-gb.html?aid%3D355028%26sid%3D4a8c45be2cf196d7663efbbbda0a10c6%26all_sr_blocks%3D6088912_338447304_2_2_0;checkin%3D2023-05-17;checkout%3D2023-05-21;dest_id%3D-1746443;dest_type%3Dcity;dist%3D0;group_adults%3D2;group_children%3D0;hapos%3D1;highlighted_blocks%3D6088912_338447304_2_2_0;hpos%3D1;matching_block_id%3D6088912_338447304_2_2_0;no_rooms%3D1;req_adults%3D2;req_children%3D0;room1%3DA%252CA;sb_price_type%3Dtotal;sr_order%3Dpopularity;sr_pri_blocks%3D6088912_338447304_2_2_0__52000;srepoch%3D1676322472;srpvid%3Dac4294930d54010a;type%3Dtotal;ucfs%3D1%26%23hotelTmpl&source=gmail&ust=1677320866249000&usg=AOvVaw0Tz4OuG4aPQHI1i19fZLfZ" href="https://www.booking.com/hotel/de/ibis-styles-berlin-ost.en-gb.html?aid=355028&sid=4a8c45be2cf196d7663efbbbda0a10c6&all_sr_blocks=6088912_338447304_2_2_0;checkin=2023-05-17;checkout=2023-05-21;dest_id=-1746443;dest_type=city;dist=0;group_adults=2;group_children=0;hapos=1;highlighted_blocks=6088912_338447304_2_2_0;hpos=1;matching_block_id=6088912_338447304_2_2_0;no_rooms=1;req_adults=2;req_children=0;room1=A%2CA;sb_price_type=total;sr_order=popularity;sr_pri_blocks=6088912_338447304_2_2_0__52000;srepoch=1676322472;srpvid=ac4294930d54010a;type=total;ucfs=1&#hotelTmpl" style="color: #1155cc; 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color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"><u></u> </p></div></div></blockquote>Bodhicharya Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01164377634767942386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3605191442784760378.post-76917312248960370242023-01-01T10:42:00.003+00:002023-01-01T10:44:52.457+00:00Ringu Tulku Rinpoche's New Year message.<p></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; max-width: 660px; width: 660px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"></td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 20px; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;" valign="top"><table cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #4d4b4b; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25.6px; margin: 0px; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><em>The signs of degenerate times are even clearer.<br />Effects of war and pandemic continue to torture the whole world.<br />Extreme weather screams of environmental tragedies.<br />The future does not look good for this world of ours.<br />And yet this is no time for us to weaken.<br />The real solution lies in each of us.<br />Let us turn the hatred into kindness.<br />Let us open our eyes to interdependence and realise the futility of disunity and greed.<br />Let each of us light a lamp of wisdom and compassion in our hearts.<br />And turn this world of ours into a paradise of kindness and harmony.<br />No one else - only each one of us can do this.</em><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #4d4b4b; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25.6px; margin: 0px; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><em></em></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #4d4b4b; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25.6px; margin: 0px; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;">Wishing you all a Happy New Year of healing, harmony and helping each other with courage, confidence and clarity.<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #4d4b4b; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25.6px; margin: 0px; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;">Ringu Tulku<br /><em>Gangtok<br /><br /><br /></em></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>Bodhicharya Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01164377634767942386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3605191442784760378.post-39295051160793985332022-10-04T12:20:00.003+01:002022-10-04T20:45:50.381+01:00News just in : Rinpoche will visit Ireland at the end of October.<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0Xk9QYhA9ugnWI9Bxz7-S4bAg_6PPIQQwn-qnu90Oi7UQF0z0bVsCzt2AAc8emppjHnKTB3Oo80mlvY8OL96rvyGvXNoiP087NxZkl1ur4E8McMy7o9SjVdXgm-rvS_l0RnsBn-h4uPT-swhG8wdwkP7qBVPiihKBl-MoQ9VW8DSQIfBBvYl68n7Z/s4416/IMG_4141.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3312" data-original-width="4416" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0Xk9QYhA9ugnWI9Bxz7-S4bAg_6PPIQQwn-qnu90Oi7UQF0z0bVsCzt2AAc8emppjHnKTB3Oo80mlvY8OL96rvyGvXNoiP087NxZkl1ur4E8McMy7o9SjVdXgm-rvS_l0RnsBn-h4uPT-swhG8wdwkP7qBVPiihKBl-MoQ9VW8DSQIfBBvYl68n7Z/w272-h204/IMG_4141.JPG" width="272" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">We look forward to welcoming Ringu Tulku Rinpoche once more to Ireland at the end of the month. He will be teaching at <a href="https://buddhism.ie/events/">Kagyu Samye Dzong in Dublin </a>each evening 24-26th October, </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Palpung Ireland (Banteer) Thursday 27th* visiting </span><a href="https://www.glendaloughsanctuary.ie" style="font-family: georgia;">Glendalough Sanctuary</a>, <span style="font-family: georgia;">and teaching at </span></span><a href="https://www.dzogchenbeara.org/events/" style="font-family: georgia;">Dzogchen Beara, Co Cork 28th - 31st October.</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><p></p><p>*The talk at Palpung Ireland will take place at <span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 255); color: blue; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><span style="font-family: georgia;">"Culturlann Newmarket " - (Culture Centre Newmarket) Co Cork. P51D854.</span></span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 255); color: blue; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">bookings can be made by emailing</span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 255); color: blue;"> </span></span><a href="mailto:palpungireland@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span class="il">palpungireland@gmail.com</span></a></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Due to such short notice the full programme is not yet available, so please use the links above for information and bookings.</span></p><p><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p>Bodhicharya Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01164377634767942386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3605191442784760378.post-64724700156514006172022-02-25T08:35:00.001+00:002022-02-25T08:35:48.082+00:00<p> <span style="color: #861918; font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif; font-size: 24pt;">A Prayer for peace</span></p><p style="border: none; line-height: 27.360000610351562px; margin-bottom: 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="color: #5a6151;">By Ringu Tulku Rinpoche (in Tibetan, English and German).</span></span></span></p><p style="border: none; line-height: 27.360000610351562px; margin-bottom: 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0cm;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Lucida Sans;"><span lang="hi-IN"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">སངས་རྒྱས་བྱང་སེམས་རྒྱ་མཚོའི་བྱིན་རླབས་དང་།།</span></span><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Lucida Sans;"><span lang="hi-IN"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">བདག་གིས་དུས་གསུམ་བསགས་པའི་དགེ་བའི་ཚོགས།།</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Lucida Sans;"><span lang="hi-IN"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">ལྷག་བསམ་རྣམ་དག་སྨོན་པའི་ནུས་མཐུ་ཡིས་།།</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Lucida Sans;"><span lang="hi-IN"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">འཇིག་རྟེན་ཁམས་འདིར་འཁྲུག་རྩོད་ནད་ཡམས་སོགས།།</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Lucida Sans;"><span lang="hi-IN"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">ཉེས་ཚོགས་ཀུན་ཞི་བདེ་སྐྱིད་ཕུན་སུམ་ཚོགས།།</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Lucida Sans;"><span lang="hi-IN"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">ཕན་ཚུན་བྱམས་པའི་སེམས་དང་ལྡན་གྱུར་ཅིག། །།</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="border: none; line-height: 27.360000610351562px; margin-bottom: 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #5a6151; font-family: verdana;">By the blessings of Enlightened and Compassionate ones,<br />By the power of my positive actions of three times,<br />And my prayers of pure aspiration,<br />May wars, conflicts, epidemics<br />And all other maladies dissolve in this world,<br />And may the earth and all who live on this earth enjoy the abundance of wellbeing,<br />May all learn to live lovingly with each other.</span></span></span></p><p style="border: none; line-height: 27.360000610351562px; margin-bottom: 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0cm;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Durch den Segen von Erleuchteten und Mitfühlenden,<br />Durch die Kraft meiner positiven Handlungen aus drei Zeiten,<br />und meine reinen Wunschgebete,<br />Mögen Kriege, Konflikte, Epidemien<br />Und alle anderen Leiden in dieser Welt sich auflösen,<br />Und möge die Erde und alle die auf dieser Erde leben<br />die Fülle des Wohlergehens genießen,<br />Mögen alle lernen, liebevoll miteinander zu leben.</span></span></p><p style="border: none; line-height: 27.360000610351562px; margin-bottom: 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0cm;"><span style="color: #5e5e5e;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Bodhicharya e.V. Berlin, 24 February 2022</span></span></span></span></p>Bodhicharya Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01164377634767942386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3605191442784760378.post-51642210419161838412021-09-12T08:50:00.022+01:002021-09-12T09:01:33.949+01:00<p> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://bodhicharya.org/teachings?mailpoet_router%26endpoint%3Dtrack%26action%3Dclick%26data%3DWzcsIjU4YTM3NSIsIjYxIiwiNDRmMDQ3MDQ4NDI2IixmYWxzZV0&source=gmail&ust=1631217909104000&usg=AFQjCNE8uDHAmXs3Q2zkQGJKuyBWQnDOmA" href="https://bodhicharya.org/teachings?mailpoet_router&endpoint=track&action=click&data=WzcsIjU4YTM3NSIsIjYxIiwiNDRmMDQ3MDQ4NDI2IixmYWxzZV0" style="color: #861918; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="header-logo" class="CToWUd" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgRTByE6UBiDU-FWI1HKnLELxAiTUvtugq25FrvkV50JIEIhQAIhyopMAkIoAtlXLKksN4tKVPr8xIRmZiEOI_mhig-QwnB31UW5Y5m_5RP8pk322SWNLL7GU-5Gi6-VYB7-096L1PXX1iZhGYU035hhcDqsip58xKckFwfVmROvBDlDBJyeptXV3wE5MQaYR8VnXzVeoeJlwsn7pgVaVX8igsKwHZiTHiKU6F9O_DS8X7mQA=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px; 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text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Vivid Awareness - <br /></a>Khenpo Gangshar’s guidance on using difficulties as the path of Dharma practice.</p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; color: #222222; max-width: 660px; width: 660px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 20px; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;" valign="top"><h3 style="color: #66665e; font-family: "open sans", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Monday 13th - Saturday 18th September 2021 </h3></td></tr><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding: 13px 20px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin: 0px;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; 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float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHHcB4Wnu5eyrASaQxzIZ5-1QW946DpVcEh2Fjmr4WBKRxjInDMLcPjqlXzFx2Ybk5O1QvpfqABwV4werSWhZ8a0sGona0UgSjIxzIej6oRxl4AP-wINV7SGHY3GUFZxXg0LQrwBuYyeU/s320/BC-ireland-retreat-2021.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br />All information on the <a href="https://bodhicharyaireland.blogspot.com/p/bodhicharya-ireland-retreat-2021.html" target="_blank">Bodhicharya Ireland Retreat with Donal Creedon</a> 13th - 21st August 2021 can be found on the above link. In earlier times this has been an annual residential retreat held in Ireland. For the time of Covid-19 we have moved onto zoom and invite students of Donal to join us. There will be a limit to the number of participants that can be facilitated, and a wait list will be made should the retreat be oversubscribed. In the case of your need to cancel please email bodhicharya.ireland@gmail.com to notify us so that another person can be given a place. Thank you.<p></p>Bodhicharya Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01164377634767942386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3605191442784760378.post-15505128296919852882021-07-11T10:29:00.003+01:002021-08-08T07:37:08.176+01:00<p> </p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="m_-7794910113541807671templateContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="margin: 0px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="m_-7794910113541807671templatePreheader" style="background-color: #ece6c9; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; border-top-width: 0px; min-width: 100%; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-7794910113541807671preheaderContainer" style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; 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margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://bodhicharya.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D1550e83791cbf9b14af80359a%26id%3D6a45c01c69%26e%3D2fb20985e5&source=gmail&ust=1626081704359000&usg=AFQjCNE-Wo4BnsveMwXlKRE38cRaKeqOxw" href="https://bodhicharya.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1550e83791cbf9b14af80359a&id=6a45c01c69&e=2fb20985e5" style="color: #861918; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><img alt="Summer Camp 2021" border="0" class="CToWUd" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgxgS_PtLRwARuc4RAA6nUbeJeFxXAQ2cR6Vg_sqoas4_UarjYOrD4SThRcQHXGPj3dT-DZMzVSnpGqjBHM9L3NIZpDv0_3XhCTFpAEZm9UFyumTs7ymRsFArGuZnr-Arf8UkS1B4VfYoaoRLMkCI-_CobwBLGOWR_SL7pQJG9ZD-xCQNvnP5L8RTKB6MOUttka2zfVBLoRKhagxpWAdaE4RVV2YUydNc1G5trMpCdzwepkH5roiBR7FbA=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px; display: inline; height: auto; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: bottom; width: 564.00732421875px;" width="560" /></a></p><h2 style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64) !important; font-size: 26px; letter-spacing: -0.75px; line-height: 32.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Bardos, Phowa and Thukdam.</h2><h3 style="font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.5px; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">23rd – 27th July 2021</h3><hr /><p style="line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;">Dealing with the different stages of this life and beyond, into the next, is a precious skill for a Buddhist practitioner. If we can use life and death as opportunities for transformation and spiritual growth, we can make the most of this human life.</p><p style="line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;">Ringu Tulku Rinpoche has kindly agreed to teach on this most essential topic for five days, from 23rd to the 27th of July. There will be live simultaneous translations into French, Portuguese, German, Italian, and Spanish.</p><p style="line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;">Like last year, due to the Corona virus outbreak, this year’s Bodhicharya Summer Camp will still be happening via Zoom. Rinpoche has kindly agreed to teach online for five days. There will be a session a day, with time for questions and answers too.</p><p style="line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;">Like every year, the online Summer Camp will be accessible to everyone, even to those who do not have a deep knowledge of the Buddhist path and did not attend previous years’ sessions.</p><p style="line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;">Click the link below to find out more and register:</p><p style="line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://bodhicharya.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D1550e83791cbf9b14af80359a%26id%3D54d4926289%26e%3D2fb20985e5&source=gmail&ust=1626081704359000&usg=AFQjCNEJ003ywekezrNXFr8sFovh39Wdxw" href="https://bodhicharya.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1550e83791cbf9b14af80359a&id=54d4926289&e=2fb20985e5" rel="noopener" style="color: #861918; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://bodhicharyaportugal.<wbr></wbr>org/novo/summer-camp-2021-e</a></strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>Bodhicharya Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01164377634767942386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3605191442784760378.post-42483268439712567862021-06-26T20:12:00.003+01:002021-06-26T20:12:33.953+01:00<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Today we join Ringu Tulku in sending birthday wishes to Ogyen Trinley Dorje, the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa. May you be well and your retreat be of benefit. We look forward to the time when our paths can once again cross with yours.</span> </p><h2 style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64) !important; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 26px; letter-spacing: -0.75px; line-height: 32.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://bodhicharya.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D1550e83791cbf9b14af80359a%26id%3D0442cbf459%26e%3D2fb20985e5&source=gmail&ust=1624745165206000&usg=AFQjCNECSK_RoCsKLTDI_LGg9HQe8clbWA" href="https://bodhicharya.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1550e83791cbf9b14af80359a&id=0442cbf459&e=2fb20985e5" style="color: #861918; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Birthday wishes for His Holiness Karmapa’s 36th birthday</a></h2><p style="color: #606060; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="" border="0" class="CToWUd a6T" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhGtmKMph9IGnrP-yETaTnS0M_0IJA6QLBjLF1bYcgCQxPmXSIVJStTx5NEXT03e_3DpMneuAbcnuBa12R3FGl7zOuA9GjUwje87pXnYy7bg8aUjjc3hbgtaQh_VVNb3c3ptWstVM146HoynuazjBWgtfHP2RtufcMWO6CcI6pV6hnUarO2SmHZxNUMBjb8xCHZBwNExilpym-AEayOBx4-AlMQ_-qvOE0RwWli8_TRMDXGiJ8qZWd_brhjxb8tXxY=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: inline; height: auto; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: bottom; width: 564px;" tabindex="0" width="560" /></p><p style="color: #606060; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;">I and all the followers of His Holiness Gyalwang Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje in Europe celebrate his 36th Birthday on the 26th of June. May he live long and turn the wheel of dharma to help countless beings. May all the obstacles to his health and activities be completely cleared so that he will be able to bring great benefit to the whole world. May all our prayers and good wishes, that we earnestly offer, be effortlessly accomplished.</p><p style="color: #606060; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>Ringu Tulku </em><br />Sikkim, 25 June 2020</p>Bodhicharya Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01164377634767942386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3605191442784760378.post-80820517545088060692021-02-14T11:33:00.003+00:002021-02-14T11:33:31.077+00:00Calling all Writers, Poets, Musicians, Filmmakers, Hillwalkers, Sea Swimmers, Painters, Photographers, Birdwatchers <div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIptUvjsX3AE1cWT9QpZrmhqwFWz0eqSoZvuUK6hjA3J9UTYNuYzQ3wyPIpYfZa2dONHYlsTwe17SYOBIcwm-IC21QuJLJn5adcdl1L1fktDoxG5DLOeoY8LeyzjVu_6QrKWvdRMelntM/s544/00398D1A-C62D-40F4-BE56-B4E4F2571C5E.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="315" data-original-width="544" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIptUvjsX3AE1cWT9QpZrmhqwFWz0eqSoZvuUK6hjA3J9UTYNuYzQ3wyPIpYfZa2dONHYlsTwe17SYOBIcwm-IC21QuJLJn5adcdl1L1fktDoxG5DLOeoY8LeyzjVu_6QrKWvdRMelntM/w412-h185/00398D1A-C62D-40F4-BE56-B4E4F2571C5E.jpg" width="412" /></a></div></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Image clipping from 'The Boy, Tthe Mole, The Fox and The Horse'. by </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Charley Mackesy, Ebury Press</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div>Please consider bringing your thoughts, images and stories to <b>Many Roads</b> e-magazine. <div> Many Roads was established as a virtual hub for the Bodhicharya Community to share dharma related activity––whatever your medium for creative expression––to the attention of others who may or not be like minded, but are potentially kindred souls travelling a path for the betterment of all. </div><div>It is compiled and edited by Albert Harris who is now collecting and collating articles and images for the next publication <b> Many Roads</b> welcomes anyone who is interested, all are invited to contribute and read what might inspire and help other people on the road, regardless of background or belief. </div><div>So if the mountains or wildlife instil you with a sense of wonder, or if lockdown has given you fresh insight into life (and death); if you have had an experience or heard a dharma teaching that might give others hope or help their engagement with what has been a truly challenging year, or if you have something that will purely and simply entertain us, please send your article, or image, or recipe, or video link, or book/film review) to Albert.
The deadline for submissions is Sunday 14th March 2021 </div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i style="color: #660000;"><span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></div></blockquote><i style="color: #660000;"><div style="display: inline !important; text-align: right;"><i><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWpQAFkznxlg3bhU9lT_tbu6Nh2edbED4jZKQWwJG6C5Z-1e_93o6TECkp2RDRukcmNnBDVk2EqQgUhUikbEQjjeNqtFgc53To_cdM4TQWDsV6PTdhlfF5Rh-aDtKgMD6QV1wM10HRl70//" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="574" data-original-width="628" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWpQAFkznxlg3bhU9lT_tbu6Nh2edbED4jZKQWwJG6C5Z-1e_93o6TECkp2RDRukcmNnBDVk2EqQgUhUikbEQjjeNqtFgc53To_cdM4TQWDsV6PTdhlfF5Rh-aDtKgMD6QV1wM10HRl70//" width="263" /></a></div><i style="color: #660000;"><div style="display: inline !important; text-align: right;"><i><br /></i></div></i></div>Hi everyone. </i> </div></i><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="color: #660000; text-align: justify;">I'm compiling articles for the next edition of Many Roads for </i><i style="color: #660000; text-align: justify;">Bodhicharya. Submissions can be made under the following titles: Personal Stories; Fiction/Creative Writing; Poetry; Recipes; Video Links; Humour; Reviews of Music, Poetry, Literature, Film, etc. If you would like to be published in the next edition, please send articles to: manyroads@bodhicharya.org (or to my personal email) The deadline for articles is Sunday March 14</i></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(102, 0, 0); color: #660000;">Albert Harris avrom@fastmail.com</i></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><div><div><span style="color: #660000;"><i><br /><br /></i></span></div></div>Bodhicharya Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01164377634767942386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3605191442784760378.post-40139691300564247552021-02-14T09:01:00.000+00:002021-02-14T09:06:39.288+00:00<p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMRebgCREsybJrr0dV7ONpr0q798mkC_ND6GMD1GoJXgri1obZc-n1tyoG11PF91ElxkP9yJ6n2Js3EBJMDxvlHQ1_OaQiuEgIPzLtE45D1nibRv6BZ1qxGCfsUFlvac3Wl4ebbfiWzug/s1080/9367ee1f-a6e4-412e-ab65-9e84305a5a93.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMRebgCREsybJrr0dV7ONpr0q798mkC_ND6GMD1GoJXgri1obZc-n1tyoG11PF91ElxkP9yJ6n2Js3EBJMDxvlHQ1_OaQiuEgIPzLtE45D1nibRv6BZ1qxGCfsUFlvac3Wl4ebbfiWzug/s320/9367ee1f-a6e4-412e-ab65-9e84305a5a93.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">On the Western [Gregorian] Calendar] Friday 12th February marked the first day of the Tibetan and Chinese New Year. It is the Year of the Ox, traditionally considered to be bring calmness and stability, to be welcomed following the turbulence of 2020. In the previous post, Rinpoche offers reminders in his aspiration prayer to set the focus of the mind on effortless harmony and peace, love and joy - the ultimate objective of dharma practice, as in The Four Immeasurables. </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Rinpoche will begin a <a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/2/#inbox/FMfcgxwLsSZgbXBFRkPWmPqKlgQrNTld" target="_blank">new series of teachings</a> on the Bodhisattvas Way of life, the Bodhicharyavatara, on Thursday February 18th, summarising the 10 chapters in weekly sessions until July. The series is free but a donation can be made if you wish, to Tibet House, who are hosting the event. Please click on the link for details. The teachings will also be made available on the Bodhicharya Archive.</div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">There will be more teachings from HH 17th Karmapa, Orgyen Trinley Dorje, on the life of the 8th Karmapa, Mikyo Dorje starting on Monday, 15th February, daily for one month until 14th March and details of those can be found <a href="https://kagyuoffice.org/schedule/" target="_blank">here. </a> </p><p>For regular updates of Ringu Tulku's teachings schedule, and more, please visit <a href="http://Bodhicharya.org.">Bodhicharya.org</a> and sign up to receive information via email. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Bodhicharya Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01164377634767942386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3605191442784760378.post-76076557538204954562021-02-14T08:06:00.000+00:002021-02-14T08:06:42.260+00:00New Year Wishing Prayers for the Year of the Iron Ox<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQZ7uo4Q0tLGVibEpz6M2yelnrTAahrvHLi1pX-l7ycg3HmIzQu9vMVW78vC-znCrrCK-hPENI5LH0MW1vxXg7ExylQ2biBJj43k3zHZSsv7QKy0NNfL5tQXvjI_oZzHLkxAmEi1679ss/s560/unnamed-3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="318" data-original-width="560" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQZ7uo4Q0tLGVibEpz6M2yelnrTAahrvHLi1pX-l7ycg3HmIzQu9vMVW78vC-znCrrCK-hPENI5LH0MW1vxXg7ExylQ2biBJj43k3zHZSsv7QKy0NNfL5tQXvjI_oZzHLkxAmEi1679ss/w531-h302/unnamed-3.png" width="531" /></a></div><br /> <span style="caret-color: rgb(96, 96, 96); color: #606060; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15px;">This humble offering of wishing prayers is made on the New Year of Iron Ox Year.</span><p></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(96, 96, 96); color: #606060; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15px;"><p style="line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>May you have a constant smile on your face and live long and healthy.<br />May there always be laughter in your speech and bring solace to countless lives.<br />May your heart be ever filled with loving kindness, joy and peace.<br />May all your wishes come true in this year without making any efforts.</em></p></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(96, 96, 96); color: #606060; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15px;"><p style="line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;">ལྕགས་གླང་གནམ་ལོ་གསར་ཚེས་ལ་བཀྲ་<wbr></wbr>ཤིས་པའི་སྨོན་འདུན་གྱི་མཆོད་སྤྲི<wbr></wbr>ན་འདི་གུས་སེམས་དྭངས་མས་འབུལ།།</p><p style="line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;">སྐུ་ཚེ་རིང་ནད་མེད་འཛུམ་མདངས་<wbr></wbr>འབྲལ་མེད་ཤོག།<br />གསུང་ཀུན་ཕན་སྙན་འཇེབ་དགོད་སྒྲ་<wbr></wbr>འབྲལ་མེད་ཤོག།<br />ཐུགས་ཟབ་ཡངས་བྱམས་བརྩེ་ཞི་བདེ་<wbr></wbr>འབྲལ་མེད་ཤོག།<br />ལོ་གསར་པར་ཅི་བསམ་གང་འདོད་ལྷུན་<wbr></wbr>འགྲུབ་ཤོག།<br />རི་མགུལ་སྤྲུལ་མིང་པས།</p></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(96, 96, 96); color: #606060; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15px;"></div><p style="caret-color: rgb(96, 96, 96); color: #606060; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;">Ringu Tulku<br /><em>Gangtok, 12th Feb 2021</em></p><em style="caret-color: rgb(96, 96, 96); color: #606060; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15px;"></em><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Bodhicharya Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01164377634767942386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3605191442784760378.post-41732890065708749302021-01-18T09:33:00.074+00:002021-01-18T09:56:07.413+00:00His Holiness 17th Gyalwang Karmapa will lead the Kagyu Monlam <h2 style="color: #888888; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 30px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 37.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(96, 96, 96); color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; text-align: left;">Online prayers led by HH Gyalwang Karmapa.</span></h2><p style="caret-color: rgb(96, 96, 96); color: #606060; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> 20th – 27th January 2021</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(96, 96, 96); color: #606060; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> The events will be live streamed here:</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(96, 96, 96); color: #606060; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://karmapafoundation.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Dd3d4dc5eda78d95db5ba52d6d%26id%3D2d5b1067e3%26e%3D8d156501f8&source=gmail&ust=1610975801410000&usg=AFQjCNF_je_rk2xtkmVMYTd1yfCFS7rC3A" href="https://karmapafoundation.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d3d4dc5eda78d95db5ba52d6d&id=2d5b1067e3&e=8d156501f8" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="color: #e38f08; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Facebook/Karmapa</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="715" data-original-width="526" height="694" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidEIRiwNJZyfaEiVksCW2OtdR0VGXxlVY3yfMthX2p8UI8jRyLC6SSW3DfdNsiGmoSvAgUeK-khxLOpeG4-iJBkuhS5xxAOI53ceX0cyILXiaze8IG3T1YqsYBgTqt53zEsa2NzCq6g3E/w510-h694/136364261_247375913414299_4039277112940917523_n.jpg" width="510" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">His Holiness 17th Karmapa will lead Monlam (Wishing) Prayers online for 8 days beginning Wednesday 20th January at 1 pm GMT. An e-prayerbook to accompany the sessions has ben published by KTD ebooks, and can be downloaded as a PDF </span><a href="https://dharmaebooks.org/tag/english/" style="font-family: verdana;" target="_blank">here.</a> <span style="font-family: verdana;">Ringu Tulku</span> <span style="font-family: verdana;">has postponed his Q&A teachings for next Sunday, 24th January.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><img height="262" src="https://dharmaebooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Aspirations-to-End-Adversity-2.jpg" width="196" /> <p style="text-align: left;"> </p>Bodhicharya Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01164377634767942386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3605191442784760378.post-16876396671859792552021-01-03T20:17:00.000+00:002021-01-03T20:17:58.803+00:00<p> Rinpoche has informed us that his mother, known fondly to his students as Ama-la, passed away quietly after a short illness on Christmas Eve, 24th December. The whole family were with her in Gangtok. Her cremation took place in Sikkim on Sunday 27th December and prayers were said by Lamas from Rumtek, Dodrupchen and the Sakya monasteries in keeping with principle of the all inclusive rimé school central to the teaching and practise of Ringu Tulku Rinpoche. If you would like to make an online donation for prayers to be said for his mother, there is a link at the bottom of this page <a href="https://bodhicharya.org/about/" target="_blank">https://bodhicharya.org/about/</a>. Rinpoche has asked specifically that we keep Ama-la in our own prayers at this time. Please see his message below.</p><p style="border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(77, 75, 66); color: #4d4b42; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px 0px 1.714285714rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-27506" height="539" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="https://bodhicharya-websites.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/31120133/IMG_1832-800x539.jpg" srcset="https://bodhicharya-websites.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/31120133/IMG_1832-800x539.jpg 800w, https://bodhicharya-websites.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/31120133/IMG_1832-300x202.jpg 300w, https://bodhicharya-websites.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/31120133/IMG_1832-768x517.jpg 768w, https://bodhicharya-websites.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/31120133/IMG_1832-1536x1035.jpg 1536w, https://bodhicharya-websites.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/31120133/IMG_1832-2048x1380.jpg 2048w, https://bodhicharya-websites.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/31120133/IMG_1832-640x431.jpg 640w, https://bodhicharya-websites.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/31120133/IMG_1832-624x420.jpg 624w, https://bodhicharya-websites.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/31120133/IMG_1832-560x377.jpg 560w, https://bodhicharya-websites.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/31120133/IMG_1832-500x337.jpg 500w" style="border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border: none; box-shadow: none; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="800" /></p><p style="border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(77, 75, 66); color: #4d4b42; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px 0px 1.714285714rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">My mother passed away a week ago.</em><br /><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I miss her deeply but not sad.</em><br /><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">68 years I basked at her loving presence.</em><br /><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This is the time to celebrate that fortune.</em><br /><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">She only thought of what to give.</em><br /><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Never lost her genuine smile and good heart.</em><br /><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Even in our worst days</em><br /><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">She never let any visitors to leave</em><br /><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Without a cup of hot tea.</em><br /><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I wish to thank all who sent me love</em><br /><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And kind messages</em><br /><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I wish you all a wonderful New Year</em><br /><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">With health, wealth and harmony</em><br /><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And lots of kindness.</em></p><p style="border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(77, 75, 66); color: #4d4b42; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px 0px 1.714285714rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ringu Tulku<br /><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">31.12.2020</em><br /><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gangtok</em></p>Bodhicharya Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01164377634767942386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3605191442784760378.post-46539756777649994322020-12-01T07:43:00.002+00:002020-12-01T07:43:59.354+00:00<p><br /></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="m_-4156666532420875710templateContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="margin: 0px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="m_-4156666532420875710templateHeader" style="background-color: white; 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margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;">Rinpoche has very kindly accepted our request to give a teaching on the <em><strong>‘Prayer of Samantabhadra (Kunzang Mönlam)’</strong></em>.</p><p style="line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;">This direct and important text is not only an aspiration prayer, but also a very profound teaching and an introduction to the Dzogchen approach. The popular and well-known prayer is especially recommended to be recited during special times like earthquakes, eclipses and solstices, utilising such times as an opportunity for liberation.</p><p style="line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;">The eight day Winter Teaching will start on Monday 14th December on a solar eclipse, and end on Winter solstice on Monday 21st, when we will recite the prayer together.</p><p style="line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;">During this week of teachings Rinpoche will go through the text and also provide us some background and perspective. There will be one session each day at 2.30 pm UTC (GMT). The sessions will be on Zoom and the recordings will become available for registered participants.</p><p style="line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;">The root text is available in different translations in English and other languages, for instance, here at <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://bodhicharya.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D1550e83791cbf9b14af80359a%26id%3De7246cd309%26e%3D2fb20985e5&source=gmail&ust=1606842839698000&usg=AFQjCNGF3V7YWoBT0Q5e4VgPdE7tyXIhrw" href="https://bodhicharya.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1550e83791cbf9b14af80359a&id=e7246cd309&e=2fb20985e5" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #861918; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Lotsawa House</a></strong>.</p><p style="line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;">The Winter Teaching is open for all and given freely.</p><blockquote><p style="line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;">Without Bodhichitta even the highest teachings will not benefit us and can even harm us. Rinpoche often recommends that we study the Bodhicharyavatara. 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At this year's virtual Summercamp, hosted by the Tsering Paldron and the Portuguese Sangha, with an Irish/Finnish technical team, Rinpoche was able to give teachings on Je Tsongkhapa's text, <i>The Principle Aspects of the Path</i>, under the broad title of 'Training and Path.' Practice and dialogue sessions were hosted via zoom by various members of the international sangha in Germany, US, UK, Ireland, Finland and elsewhere according to timezones and availability. There was a daily social breakfast which is continuing: please please see below.</p></div><p>The team hosted webinars and dialogues, and question and answer sessions with Rinpoche–who is currently based in Gangtok–throughout the week. The whole week provided a marvellous international forum for people to meet and exchange ideas as well as connect with Rinpoche as if he was in our own homes. It also served to connect folk with each other on every continent across the world, from New Zealand to India, to Colorado and Brazil, South Africa and Europe; many who might for various reasons otherwise feel fearful and isolated giving a strong sense of unity and hope. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikpgaUh3ved3ylZE-Cmv9fvryrqK-kSLnl15kftXj4B-As_LQACtvUMpoooWHaEvwTwLnnpj1xoVplUgLi5jyU4wrrLLUdexcYj_8mNlNtc8OxYqbFFj_jPplysgPG7nxg_MSsK1BmzSw/s2048/IMG_6142.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1356" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikpgaUh3ved3ylZE-Cmv9fvryrqK-kSLnl15kftXj4B-As_LQACtvUMpoooWHaEvwTwLnnpj1xoVplUgLi5jyU4wrrLLUdexcYj_8mNlNtc8OxYqbFFj_jPplysgPG7nxg_MSsK1BmzSw/s640/IMG_6142.jpg" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;">The Irish Bodhicharya Sangha, facilitated by Ani Karma Trinley Paldron (Pat Murphy) met daily to practise the short White Tara Sadhana adapted by Tenga Rinpoche and the subject of a commentary and reading transmission by Ringu Tulku Rinpoche in June 2020, which can be accessed in the <a href="https://bodhicharya.org/teachings/archive">Bodhicharya Archives.</a> </p><p style="text-align: left;">There will be a regular practice session for White Tara every Sunday morning at 11 am UK/ Irish time beginning 9th August 2020. </p><p style="text-align: left;">Karma Trinley also hosted an evening discussion group throughout the Summer camp and this will continue on the first Tuesday of the Month, 7-8pm UK/Ireland, </p><p><span face="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(96, 96, 96); color: #606060; font-family: georgia, times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: small;">Karma Trinley </span><a href="mailto:pat.murphyspace@gmail.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #861918; font-family: georgia, times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">pat.murphyspace@gmail.com</a><span face="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(96, 96, 96); color: #606060; font-family: georgia, times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15px;"> </span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #606060; font-family: georgia, times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15px;">for access to White Tara and discussion groups.</span></p><p><span face="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(96, 96, 96); color: #606060; font-family: georgia, times, "times new roman", serif;">Andy Lowe </span><a href="mailto:globalnomad999@gmail.com" style="color: #861918; font-family: georgia, times, "times new roman", serif; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">globalnomad999@gmail.com</a> for access to the monthly Zoom breakfast meetings. ( 2nd Sunday each month). All Bodhicharya Sangha are welcome to join these sessions wherever you are. </p>Bodhicharya Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01164377634767942386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3605191442784760378.post-11096354342334703642020-07-24T11:11:00.005+01:002020-07-24T11:17:47.244+01:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="" style="color: #54585a; font-family: helvetica;">Applying formal practice into daily life is the most needed skill for a Buddhist practitioner. In happy times and challenging times, how can we make use of our training and bring all circumstances into the Path. Ringu Tulku Rinpoche has kindly agreed to teach on this most essential topic for five days, from 29th of July to the 2nd of August.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="" style="color: #54585a; font-family: helvetica;">As you know, due to the Corona virus outbreak, this year’s Bodhicharya Summer Camp in Portugal was canceled. We are now very happy to announce that Rinpoche has kindly agreed to teach online for five days, on the topic of “<b>Training & Path</b>“. There will be a session a day, with time for questions & answers too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="" style="color: #54585a; font-family: helvetica;">Like every year, the online Summer Camp will be accessible to everyone, even to those who do not have a deep knowledge of the Buddhist path and did not attend previous years’ sessions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="" style="color: #54585a; font-family: helvetica;">Summer Camp fee includes a collective offering to Rinpoche but, if you would like to make a <a href="https://bodhicharya.org/teachings/offerings"><span style="color: #d3750c;">personal offering to Rinpoche</span></a>, along with a message, please go to the main bodhicharya.org website<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="" style="color: #54585a; font-family: helvetica;">Rinpoche suggested that Summer Camp participants could gather in smaller groups, for group practice and further discussion on the topic. the local English and German-speaking Bodhicharya groups will be holding these and practice groups during the five days of teachings.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="" style="color: #54585a; font-family: helvetica;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444;">Please see Summercamp website to register for a discussion group.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444;"><br /></span></div>
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</style><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><b><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Philippe Cornu, ‘La Crise Covid-19: une opportunité pour changer?’ </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">(An opportunity for change?) Second of two Television programs in the weekly series ‘Sagesses Bouddhistes’ (Buddhist Wisdoms), Sunday 14<sup>th</sup> June 2020<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">In his second broadcast on France 2, Philippe Cornu considers the implications for change in the present situation, indicating a radical solution which could come out of the current disorientation. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">He began with a consideration of the fundamental Buddhist idea of interdependence, in which the coming-into-being of a phenomenon causes the self-destruction of other phenomena and so on <i>ad infinitum</i>. In this way all phenomena are both transitory and interdependent: it is impossible to consider one element without reference to the whole, and to all the individual phenomena that have contributed to its coming</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">-into-being. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">This applies, naturally, on both the personal and the collective level. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Although it is in Buddhism that we find this philosophy developed to its most sophisticated level, it is to be found elsewhere, for example in the Stoics, in Spinoza and, perhaps most radically, in the 18<sup>th</sup> century Scottish philosopher Hume.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">The present crisis, argues Cornu, is a direct result of a market philosophy in which everything has become delocalised, and we have become dependent on a global economy over which we have no control. This vertiginous situation was perhaps necessary to oblige us to reflect on the implications for the future, to examine where present suppositions are leading: for example, the implications of a world subject to the demands of the GNP, to growth at all costs. The very concept is nonsense, declares Cornu: how can we have infinite growth in a finite and closed world? Why do we always want more, when more will never be enough? But behind this will to endless expansion there is an increasingly obvious vulnerability, because we have not recognised our place in the whole, we have not taken account of interdependence. Here Cornu evokes the well-known French ecologist and writer Pierre Rabhi who, living on and from the land, claims that we should be aiming at a ‘sobriété heureuse’ (a happy sobriety), learning to do without many of the gadgets and accessories that the market increasingly tempts us with, claiming that the very survival of humanity is at stake. The astrophysician Aurélien Barrau, engaged also in the politics of climate-change, is right to be warning the world in increasingly urgent fashion of the dangers of our current way of life. We need more scientists of his calibre, argues Cornu, and we should listen to what they are saying. It is nothing short of a transformation of our civilisation that is necessary, he declares, enumerating the areas that need our urgent attention:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Our food. Without necessarily becoming totally vegetarian, we should limit our meat intake, firstly thinking of the animal suffering that is involved in their rearing, slaughter and consumption. Animals should be allowed to “have a life”: we eat them only because our minds ‘make them into things’ (the French is “chosifiés”), rather than our companion living beings on this earth. Let us reflect on the old adage ‘we are what we eat’.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">The rearing of animals for slaughter consumes an enormous amount of water, an increasingly rare resource, and also cereals, which could be better used to feed people. The present agro-alimentary system is disastrously wasteful, and contributes to the destruction of the environment.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Transport. This is another destructive aspect of our current civilisation that calls for a revolution in the way we think. In France at least, we should no longer think of taking an internal flight when there is an alternative train service, even if, paradoxically, the train can be more expensive. This is a choice we should consider making on an individual basis, as is the rather automatic way in which some of us still take several long-haul flights per year, with no thought of the cost to the environment.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Water is an increasingly scarce resource, with some communities already desperately short of it, having to walk one or two kilometres to fetch it. We should think of that as we take a shower that lasts for half an hour, or draw a bath of water. We must learn to respect it as something precious and essential to life. As such we should pay for it ungrudgingly as individuals. The glaciers are already receding at an alarming rate, and as a result less water is being channelled into the rivers. The time may come when we have to pay for clean air too!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">During lockdown, paradoxically, we have been able to appreciate nature better: we can hear birdsong once again, the animal world no longer fears us in the same way and ventures out into the space that we had occupied. The animals that humans accuse of being responsible for the Corona virus were never intended to be consumed by humans. Their habitat is deep in the forest, from which they have been driven by deforestation. Being more respectful of our environment is one of the reflexes that we must develop if we want to survive into the future. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">To the interviewer’s question as to how we might reinvent human creativity, Cornu replied that this must become much more interior. We must stop projecting our desires outwards, as if we were somehow outside nature, a stance that betrays our belief that nature is there to be manipulated by us. We are also responsible for sterilising and impoverishing nature, in the form of the soils in which we grow things, leading to loss of nutrients and hence the increasingly poor quality of the food we consume. Humans are in fact the virus of the planet, whose multiplication and heedless behaviour destroy their environment.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">If we do not want to be this virus, we must learn to think differently, turning inwards in order to make better contact with others – not just other humans, but animals, plants, nature in general, so that this planet may once more be good to live on. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Since the pandemic, we have become accustomed to take leave of people with the formula ‘Take care’, and in fact, without care for oneself, we cannot take care of others. The first thing to cultivate is a good relationship with oneself.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">In these two short talks, Philippe Cornu gave a thoroughly convincing demonstration of the way in which Buddhist philosophy reaches into every aspect of our lives, and a powerful plea for a more caring attitude towards the planet we occupy and towards the other creatures and natural phenomena with which we share it. Cease wanting more – material goods, space, entertainment, things outside ourselves – and rather look inwards to reacquaint ourselves with the essential. In this way we may ensure a future for the planet.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Pat Little<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: right;"><a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">little.patricia0@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Saint-Geniès de Malgoires, 19/06/20<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Part two of the original interview can be <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fOwnfL7t-4" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">viewed here</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>Bodhicharya Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01164377634767942386noreply@blogger.com0Ireland53.1423672 -7.692053599999998624.832133363821157 -42.8483036 81.452601036178848 27.464196400000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3605191442784760378.post-77642262527147112222020-06-22T14:38:00.004+01:002020-06-22T14:47:22.029+01:00Hope Together: Philippe Cornu, ‘Espérer ensemble’, Television program in the weekly series ‘Sagesses Bouddhistes’ (Buddhist Wisdoms), Sunday 7th June 2020<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;"><b>Pat Little, a Bodhicharya Ireland member who is presently living in the South of France, has reviewed a recent discussion televised in two parts on French television, in which Philippe Cornu reflects on the recent lockdown from a Buddhist perspective. In part one he considers it as a <i>bardo of opportunity:</i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">'In this broadcast on France 2 Philippe Cornu, a well-known Ethnologist and Tibetologist, teaching at the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium) considers the present situation, with France just coming out of lockdown in the context of the pandemic COVID 19, and gives a Buddhist interpretation of the situation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">He defines the lockdown, which has made people all over the world reconsider themselves and the context in which they live and have their being, as a ‘bardo’, an intermediate stage involving a rupture with a past state and also with a future, just beginning, the whole experience causing a certain amount of fear and apprehension. The French lockdown has in some respects been more severe than that in other countries in Europe, with the requirement to produce a signed form stipulating for which of certain approved options one is leaving one’s home, for a period of not more than one hour, this form controlled by the police, who are empowered to impose quite substantial fines for irregularities. It is understandable therefore that many people have felt that they were no longer in control of their own lives. And with the French predilection for philosophical debate, the media took up the cause with great enthusiasm, broadcasting hours of analysis by well-known figures, but also phone-ins where citizens could express their opinions on the cause, political handling and ultimate outcome of the arrival of the virus that has caused so much distress and thrown so many lives into chaos.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">The definition of this state as a ‘bardo’ is therefore readily comprehensible, and helps to give meaning to it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Cornu emphasised from the beginning the particularity of the space-time nature of every ‘bardo’, every one being different, and involving a profound rupture with the past, a confusing loss of reference-points in which all old habits are reviewed and many discarded.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">There has been much questioning therefore of the nature of ‘freedom’, or ‘liberty’, the first of the trio of the revolutionary ‘liberty, equality, fraternity’ which, dating back to the Revolution of 1789, is still the underlying benchmark of French political life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">But Cornu questions the meaning of ‘freedom’; does it mean the freedom to do exactly as I want to, the freedom to go out and about, to go and watch a football match or visit friends and relatives? Cornu puts a Buddhist slant on what real freedom means, defining it as an interior attitude, a view of the whole that does not require the physical act of going anywhere at all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">At this point the interviewer asked Cornu what place the concept of ‘hope’ occupied in Buddhism, to which he replied that ‘hope’ did not hold an especially privileged place in Buddhist thinking, any more than its opposite, ‘fear’, since both operate on the level of the emotions, which perturb our minds and prevent us from seeing things as they are. A Buddhist approach requires us to look at our emotions, rather than espousing them. Beware, he advised; the emotions always have something to sell you! Behind them there is nothing, and the only power they have over us is that which we grant them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">The really important question, given the destabilising nature of this ‘bardo’ experience that no one was expecting is: how can we put it to positive use? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">One element, probably the first in importance for most people, is the social one: physical isolation was experienced, sometimes in a traumatic way, depending on circumstances and the nature of the individual. But, counters Cornu, physical distancing from people does not prevent a feeling for the social element. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">On the contrary, it allows one to see and understand better one’s responsibility for other people: since we all can be carriers of the virus, keeping one’s distance and wearing a mask is, paradoxically, a manner of paying attention to the well-being of others. We should not see it from an egotistical point of view: “I am deprived of the company of the other”, but rather: “I am doing this for all other people I come across, whether friends or strangers”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">We have, of course, during this period, learned to communicate in a different way. Liberal and creative use has been made of the internet, videos etc., but we should not think that the devices of the new technologies are a replacement for physical contact; they simply help us to get through this period. The ‘bardo’ is not the end of the journey, but a trial, an ordeal that can be gone through with serenity given the right attitude.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">It is a learning experience ideal for seeing the concept of interdependence in action at every level:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">As this is a long-term trend, we need to prepare in advance for dramatic changes in life on earth, changes which happen in time.<span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">As the programme drew to a close, Cornu asked the fundamental question: can we hope for change in our behaviour in the long term? He answered his own question in Buddhist fashion, by claiming that it all depends on the capacity of each individual for inward change. He suggested that we should use the time we have to change our patterns of over-consumption, of restless frenzy in our behaviour, of our attitude towards time in which we must have everything, immediately. On the other hand, looking inward will reveal the riches we already possess. We must become conscious of the illusions on which our societies are built, as we are constantly drawn towards the attractiveness of the spectacle that is before us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Philippe Cornu’s short talk was a good example of the qualities that this weekly programme often demonstrates, and the ‘Union Bouddhiste de France’ is to be congratulated in producing such a consistently high quality of reflection for those lucky enough to be able to tune into it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Saint-Geniès de Malgoires, 10 June 2020<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Part one of the original programme in French can be <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5ZgDp_2A0Y">viewed here.</a></span></div>
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Bodhicharya Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01164377634767942386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3605191442784760378.post-73539364825691466502020-06-07T12:07:00.016+01:002020-06-12T19:16:44.639+01:00Teachings on Tara. 15th -18th June 2020<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An image of White Tara and mantra drawn by the 17th Karmapa<br />
Orgyen Trinley Dorje</td></tr>
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You will need to register for the teachings at the <a href="https://bodhicharya.org/teachings/">Bodhicharya teachings archive</a>. The times and dates for the teachings are as follows: </div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Monday, 15th June 2020</strong> – 14:30 pm GMT 3:30 BST <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tuesday, 16th June 2020 </strong>– 14:30 pm GMT 3:30 BST <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wednesday, 17th June 2020</strong> – 14:30 pm GMT 3:30 BST</div>
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These teachings are sponsored in part by Bodhicharya Publications. </div>
<div style="border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(77, 75, 75); color: #4d4b4b; font-family: georgia, palatino, "palatino linotype", times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">On Sunday 14th June Rinpoche will host another Q&A session for students studying the Bodhicharyavatara.</div><div style="border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(77, 75, 75); color: #4d4b4b; font-family: georgia, palatino, "palatino linotype", times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rinpoche also continues his regular commentary on the Bodhicharyavatara Ch 7 Diligence on Tuesdays (apart from 16th June) and Fridays each week. Register on the Bodhicharya.org website for updates. </div><div style="border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(77, 75, 75); color: #4d4b4b; font-family: georgia, palatino, "palatino linotype", times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Offerings to Rinpoche can be made through the Bodhicharya.org website.</div>
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Bodhicharya Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01164377634767942386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3605191442784760378.post-31994465638473197782020-05-10T10:04:00.003+01:002020-05-10T16:59:36.921+01:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ringu Tulku Rinpoche will be giving three teachings on the Medicine Buddha Sadhana on Monday11th May<br />
Tuesday 12th May<br />
Wednesday 13th May<br />
at 2.30 GMT / 3.30 pm Irish time<br />
The selected root text is Karma Chagme's<br />
Sadhana of Bhaisajya Guru<br />
Wednesday's session will include a reading transmission (lung) and empowerment (wang)<br />
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Please go to <a href="https://bodhicharya.org/teachings/archives/medicine-buddha-sadhana-live-teaching">Bodhicharya.org</a> to register for attendance.<br />
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Rinpoche's teachings on <a href="https://bodhicharya.org/teachings/courses/bodhicharyavatara">Bodhicharyavatara</a> continue to be uploaded twice weekly, on Tuesdays and Fridays.<br />
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This is a direct link to the place you can make a donation for the teachings during this time.<br />
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