Yesterday MPs in the UK Parliament voted in favour of the so-called “assisted dying bill” aka euthanasia. Yongdzin Rinpoche was asked about this during a retreat in Paris in April 1997 when he was teaching on Nyamzhag Gompai Laglen (Tib. Mnyam bzhag sgom pa’i lag len). Here is his response: Q: (a question about euthanasia)A: If someone is dying, terminally ill, it is better not to kill him or her or let them commit suicide because they haven’t worked through their karma yet. You should never kill. A painkiller is not an antidote to karmic cause, it can only alleviate some pain…
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རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ཞང་ཞུང་སྙན་རྒྱུད་ལས་ཕྱི་ལྟ་བ་སྤྱི་གཅོད་ཀྱི་མན་ངག་ལེའུ་བཅུ་གཉིས་པ་ལས།། རྣམ་རྟོག་ཐོལ་གྱིས་སྐྱེས་པ་དེ། །གཅེར་གྱིས་ལྟས་པས་ཁྲོལ་གྱིས་གྲོལ། །གཏད་མེད་ཡེ་ཤེས་ས་ལེ་བ། །ཐོད་རྒལ་ཡེཤེས་བྱ་བ་ཡིན། “Suddenly a thought appears. Look back, and watcher, watched and watching liberate by themselves into their own nature. In this instant, your Dzogchen awareness appears clearly to you. That is Direct Wisdom.” This quotation is just four sentences, but they are very, very important. We believe these words first appeared from Kuntu Zangpo. From: Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin. How to Practise Dzogchen in Daily Life: Teachings by Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin in Triten Norbutse Monastery, Kathmandu, on the occasion of Yongdzin Rinpoche’s 95th birthday, February 2020 (UK: FPYB, 2021), p. 6. Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin,…
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Sono ancora disponibili pochi posti per questo speriale Ritiro Dzogchen in presenza in Tuscana, 4-7 Ottobre! Il Testo: Diffondere la Saggezza Suprema: Spiegazione Concisa e Commentario sulla Preghiera di Supplica al Signore Tapihritsa, Emanazione della Mente di Kuntu Zangpo. Questo è un testo breve e molto importante che Yongdzin Lopön Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche ha scritto in Tibetano alcuni anni fa. Esso include una spiegazione chiara della Visione Dzogchen, e del frutto del praticare questo sentiero di Grande Perfezione. Diffondere la Saggezza Suprema si basa sulla preghiera di ispirazione che Gyerpung Nangzher Lödpo canto spontaneamente quando incontrò per la prima volta…
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There are still a few places left for this special in-person Dzogchen Retreat in Tuscany, 4-7 October! The Text: Spreading Supreme Wisdom: Concise Explanation and Commentary on the Supplication Prayer to Lord Tapihritsa, Mind Emanation of Kuntu Zangpo This is a short and very important text that Yongdzin Lopön Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche wrote in Tibetan some years ago. It includes a clear explanation of the Dzogchen View, and the fruit of practising this path of Great Perfection. Spreading Supreme Wisdom is based on the inspiring prayer which Gyerpung Nangzher Lödpo spontaneously sang when he first met Tapihritsa and relaised he…
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