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Thursday, December 6, 2007

Darjeeling tea we drink -problems and errors in our exercises

This post is about how to avoid some problems or errors in our practice.
The advies are given by Lamas of Mahayana Tradition, but the mistakes are common to all us that is why those advises are important for everybody.

In my previous post I told you that Geshe Jampa Gyatso passed away. He was the principal tutor of the Basic Program in Lama Tzong Khapa Institute situated in Pomaia/Italy. In this Institute I met Tibetan Buddhismus and studied buddhist phylosophy.

Now I received mails from the Institute with explanations what to do in this days. And they speak much about TSOG. So I wanted to know, what is this. Because I didn't knew it. The Idea was so interesting that I wanted to post here some quotations from the Teaching written by Lama Thubten Yeshe (entire article):

Take this Darjeeling tea we drink. Think
how many people were involved in its getting here
:
the growers, the pickers, the sorters, the packagers, the shippers, the shopkeepers, our own cooks. Finally, we get to drink it here. You know from your lam-rim studies that,
directly or indirectly, every sentient being has helped you get that cup of tea. And not just that cup of tea.
All happiness
, from the lowest samsaric pleasure to the eternal bliss of liberation and enlightenmentcomes from each of us to the other.

One more quotation:Normally, we push ourselves to achieve, but nothing happens because we've not made the space for something to happen. By gathering together to offer tsog we're making space.
Therefore it's important to put yourself in the right atmosphere when practicing


2 comments:

  1. Time,space,god and causality are universal according to buddhist philosophy. There is SPACE you only have to find!!!!!
    we here in INDIA drink Darjeling tea always

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