Wonderful teaching and TH-cam channel. Geshe la possesses such extraordinary insight and wisdom. while Lobsang Dorje la offers such clear commentary. We are very fortunate to have these teachings available to us 🙏🙏🙏
Not only that, through putting great effort into the excellences of this life, the mental afflictions and faulty behaviour induced by them increase, and you turn your back on the nectar of Dharma. Since that leads to lower rebirths, what could be more inappropriate than that? Four Hundred Stanzas states: When someone sleeps as though at ease, as though the ruler of three worlds, the Lord of Death, itself without a master, what else could be more awful than that? And Entering the Bodhisattva Way says:
Everything must be left behind; Not understanding that this is so, I did bad actions of all kinds for the sake of friends and foes. From: The Middle-Length Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment, by Tsongkhapa. Translated by Philip Quarcoo and published by Wisdom Publications.
Wonderful teaching and TH-cam channel. Geshe la possesses such extraordinary insight and wisdom. while Lobsang Dorje la offers such clear commentary. We are very fortunate to have these teachings available to us 🙏🙏🙏
Not only that, through putting great effort into the excellences of this life, the mental afflictions and faulty behaviour induced by them increase, and you turn your back on the nectar of Dharma. Since that leads to lower rebirths, what could be more inappropriate than that? Four Hundred Stanzas states:
When someone sleeps as though at ease,
as though the ruler of three worlds,
the Lord of Death, itself without a master,
what else could be more awful than that?
And Entering the Bodhisattva Way says:
Everything must be left behind;
Not understanding that this is so,
I did bad actions of all kinds
for the sake of friends and foes.
From: The Middle-Length Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment, by Tsongkhapa. Translated by Philip Quarcoo and published by Wisdom Publications.