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I missed Monday June 9, so thanks again to Laura F. for keeping the sessions going.
On the Tuesday (June 10), we finally got to the hungry ghosts on Day 67 of the Lamrim Year:
■ The suffering of hunger and thirst makes it near impossible to think of anything else
■ The lives of hungry ghosts are totally overwhelmed by desperation
■ If we were reborn as a hungry ghost we would have no freedom to practice DharmaThanks again to Laura, Katrin and Judy for keeping the sessions going.
This week, on both days, they revisited:
8_C2_March 24_Meditation_12 Links – Ven. Yönten.
Have a lovely week!
I had to miss Monday’s session, but I believe the group followed Day 68 of the Lam Rim year.
■ Animals are dumb and foolish, trapped by ignorance in a life without choice
■ We need to realize that by this time tomorrow we could be a lobster, fish or worm
■ Reflecting on the suffering of animals enables us to appreciate our own freedomToday, Laura F led a meditation on the Seven Point Cause-And-Effect Method for generating Bodhicitta (as she did in the review session last week). Thank you, Laura!
I don’t think there was a session on May 19 due to technical issues.
Then yesterday, we followed Day 66 of the Lam Rim year. Hell realms!
■ A hell being’s mind has no space for anything except unbearable suffering
■ It’s impossible to develop positive qualities when experiencing terrible pain
■ By contemplating such suffering we generate the energy to really practice DharmaOn May 13, there was Day 65 of the Lam Rim year:
■ The first section of this topic describes the extraordinary conditions we have
■ We should reflect deeply on each of the eight freedoms and ten richnesses
■ In this way we naturally develop compassion for beings who lack these opportunitiesOn May 12, we followed:
Meditation on taking and giving – Ven. Thubten Chonyi
Then on May 6, I think Laura F shared this one:
Express Meditation Ven.Losang Dondrub: Eleven Points Meditation on Bodhichitta
I was away again on May 5. I suggested this one, but I don’t know whether it was followed that day!
Express Meditation Ven.Losang Dondrub: Contemplating our Emotional Habit Patterns
On 28 April, we followed Day 62 of the Lam Rim year:
■ Guru devotion is the most difficult realization to achieve, so it demands great effort
■ Using quotations and reasoning, we must reflect on the points again and again
■ Once the mind is transformed into devotion, stabilize it through fixed meditationHello. Apologies for the lack of updates. I’ve been away a lot, but Katrin and Laura have kept the sessions going.
I know that they repeated the 12 links part 1 meditation in the previous post, and also followed:
Hello!
I missed posting last week, and I can’t remember which pages of the Lam Rim year we did. (I thought we did page 14, but having read it just now, I’m not sure!)
I can tell you what we did this week, however.
On Monday, we followed:
Day 34 Lam Rim Year – If we want profit and don’t want loss we have to practice seeing the guru as a buddha
Then today, we followed:
I skipped yesterday, but the group followed a Ven. Robina meditation.
This morning, we followed:
Express Meditation Ven. Katy Cole: Continuity of Consciousness
Have a good week!
This week, we did two more meditations from the Lamrim year (though I messed up the screensharing on Tuesday, so only some of us followed it!)
Monday: Day 6 – The Virtuous Friend is the Most Powerful Object in Our Life;
Tuesday: Day 7 – There is a Need for an Organic, Living Kind of Force to Come in Touch with Our Life.Link to a .pdf version of the Lamrim Year – click here
Today we followed day 4 of the Lamrim year. The bullet points were:
■ Guru devotion is called the root of the path because all realizations grow from it
■ It comes at the beginning of the lamrim so we can start our spiritual life without mistakes
■ Guru devotion is the most important of all teachings and is the source of all happinessThank you Laura for running things (I slept through my alarm!)
Have a lovely week!
Today, we went back to Shamatha.
Tour of Shamatha Practices – B. Alan Wallace
