This week: How to Dedicate Your Good Karma

This Wednesday and Friday:
How to dedicate your good karma, a led meditation and discussion of Master Shantideva's 10th Chapter on Dedication.  Share you goodness, and help others immensely without leaving your meditation seat!

For further study, these lectures, "Ripples of Light", are a powerful commentary on Chapter 10.

Chapter 9: Worksheet 3

Dear friends,

This material draws on His Holiness the Dalai Lama's text, For the Benefit of All Beings.

Click here for the worksheet.

With gratitude,
Keith

Meditation on Emptiness by Lama Marut

Friends,
Scroll to the last 14 minutes of this lecture for a great meditation on the emptiness of the self.  This is from the same lecture listed below; I highly recommend it.  We will do this meditation together this week.  With gratitude!

Great lecture on Emptiness by Lama Marut

Friends,

This has been a great lecture:
http://www.theknowledgebase-archive.com/files/teachings/dharmaessentials12/dharmaessentials12-lamamarut-03.mp3

In particular, the last 32 minutes make the topic clear.  Scroll to the right and enjoy : )

Dharma Class this Week: Wisdom

Join us as we continue our study of Wisdom in Chapter 9 in Master Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life.  As Lama Marut says, we'll practice learning to "pierce through the veil" which hides ultimate reality.  We'll examine ways in which we misinterpret the world around us, assigning permanence to that which is impermanent, and self-existence to that which has no fixed existence, thus create suffering for ourselves and others.  But just as this way of seeing the world has become habit, so can a view which is more liberating, more healing, and more aligned with ultimate reality become our mode of interacting with the world.

We'll use the same worksheet as last week (9.1, listed below).  To brush up on the topics, please listen to "The Clock Teaching" by Geshe Michael Roach, and "Simple words about Emptiness" listed below.  See you on Wednesday and Friday!

Chapter 9: Worksheet 1, for classes 3/19 and 3/21

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B20QPR_lUz-LTjQxRm5Ncm1lczQ/edit?usp=sharing

"The Clock" Teaching, an Emptiness exploration for classes 3/26 and 3/28

http://www.theknowledgebase.com/products/emptinessadeepdive-2010-losangeles-geshemichael