Chapter 8: Worksheet 3

For classes beginning 1/29/14

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B20QPR_lUz-LVkpKTUtSdzU4Rjg/edit?usp=sharing

A bodhisattva's job description:

"If you're an artist, you make paintings

If you're a sculptor, you make sculptures.

If you are a carpenter, you make beautiful tables.

But if you are a bodhisattva, you make happiness in other people.  And that's what you do for a living.  That's your product. What you produce is happiness in other people's hearts.  And that's your job.  That's what you do.  People say, what's your product?  What do you make in your factory?  You say, we make happiness, happiness in other people's hearts." - Geshe Michael Roach, ACI Course 11, Meditation chapter recording #3, 1997, NYC.  

Re: Martin Luther King, Jr

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/08/29/1011562/-Most-of-you-have-no-idea-what-Martin-Luther-King-actually-did#

Liberation Upon Hearing (by Robert Thurman)

"Suffering is false, bliss is truth, and truth is more powerful than bliss." - Robert Thurman

A free 2 min audio sample, touching on many themes from Master Shantideva:

http://www.soundstrue.com/shop/Liberation-Upon-Hearing-in-the-Between/208.pd

6 x a Day Book Guide, 2014 Version (with gratitude and super-sizing)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B20QPR_lUz-LNTlTUktZd0E5ZlE/edit?usp=sharing

6 x a Day Book Guide in Spanish

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B20QPR_lUz-LR0ZxOWd3YnRHNWs/edit?usp=sharing

Thank you so much, Sarah Couture, for your translation work which made this possible.

Meditation (by Cindy Lee from Jackie, thank you!!)

 http://mahasukha.org/ALLAUDIO/Depression_Causes_Cures/Depression_Med_Melb_09.15.10.mp3

Chapter 8, Worksheet 2: Meditation on the Equality of Self and Others

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B20QPR_lUz-LMFh4UlBnV2N1NnM/edit?usp=sharing

Root text link, with final portion missing

Friends, here is the link for a translation of the Bodhicaryavatara, or Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, by Master Shantideva.  The translator is Stephen Batchelor.  The text can also be purchased (in full) on Amazon.  This is the translation which His Holiness the Dalai Lama uses when he teaches this sacred text.

I will bring copies of the missing verses to our dharma class sessions.

http://www.abuddhistlibrary.com/Buddhism/A%20-%20Tibetan%20Buddhism/Authors/Shantideva/A%20Guide%20to%20the%20Bodhisattva's%20Way%20of%20Life%20-%20%20Stephen%20Bachelor%20tra/A%20Guide%20to%20the%20Bodhisattva's%20Way%20of%20Life.pdf

Chapter 8, Worksheet 1

Hi dharma friends, here's the worksheet we'll use to analyze the obstacles to meditation

"Sky Burial" video, to describe the impermanence of the body

Dear dharma friends,

This powerful video reminds us of the fragility of the body and the uncertainty of the time of our death. It may be useful in our discussion of Chapter 8.

http://vimeo.com/58678621

also:

http://www.theartandritualofdeath.com

Lecture on Compassion as presented in Chapter 8, Bodhisattvacaryavatara, Master Shantideva

Dear dharma friends,

Please enjoy this lecture.  Let's share our reflections in dharma class.
Our next meetings are: Weds Jan 8, Weds Jan 15, and Fri Jan 17, 2014.  Peace.