It's an instant CHOICE - Tsem Rinpoche
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 มี.ค. 2013
- Dear friends from around the world,
I was lying down with a migraine and a realisation came to me about myself, my childhood, my view of events in my life that everyone comes across at one stage or another. I had to share my thoughts, I had to share the feeling and its effects with you. I don’t claim any great realisations, but a deeper understanding on the workings of perception and how it can or cannot affect us did arise.
Do watch the video and let me know if you gain any understanding from it or if it affects you in any way.
Thank you and may you be blessed.
Tsem Rinpoche
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TRANSCRIPT
For all of my wonderful blog visitors and readers, I was just laying down just now and I was thinking about some things. Today I’m not very well, I have a fever and a migraine. But I had these thoughts that were bursting in my head and I thought that I’d talk about it before I forget because I often do that.
I have these very strong thoughts that come, and I have to get it on paper, or on film, or record it or else gets forgotten. And I thought that some of the thoughts might benefit a few people out there who may have the same thoughts.
A lot of things that we experience when we’re growing up either make or break us when we are adults; and a lot of things that we don’t experience when we’re growing up as children may also make or break us when we are adults.
The situation we are born into, either we have chosen or by the force of karma, we were put there. Either way, the blame isn’t for the situation that we were born to around us, but the blame or the credit will go back to us.
So, let me explain all of that. I get often asked, 15, 20 years ago when I first was found out to be a reincarnation by various high Lamas, one of them is His Eminence Kensur Jampa Yeshe Rinpoche. And I really, never thought highly of myself or thought strongly that I’m some kind of great incarnation, but that would contradict all the great lamas and the high lamas who said that I am, of which is Kensur Jampa Yeshe.
So, I don’t always outright deny that I’m a reincarnation because I can’t contradict Kensur Rinpoche. But having said that, just because a high lama said you’re a reincarnation, you still must do the actions, or perform, or leave a mark of a high incarnation, whatever that is.
As Kyabje Pabongka Dorje Chang used to say, if you’re a real tulku, you will leave a mark in this world, a mark of benefit to others.
But that’s not what I want to talk about. What I want to talk about is that when I was first found out to be a reincarnation, many people asked me, and it went on for years within the Tibetan community, outside the community for years, even up to recently.
Well if you are a reincarnated lama and you did so many wonderful things in your previous lives, and practice the dharma, and held your vows, and meditated and had guru devotion, then how come in this life you are born into such a difficult, and tumultuous, and hard to fathom childhood?
I’m going to explain that and it might help other people. What I’m not trying to explain is reincarnation but what I’m trying to explain is about how childhood, experiencing and not experiencing things, can both make or break or enhance a person’s adulthood.
That’s what it’s about but it relates to me because I have this label of a reincarnated lama or tulku, a reincarnated person that is supposed to have practice in my previous lives. So, if I practiced and I have all these merits and I have all this great advancement ‘so-called’, then why is it I’m born in such a difficult situation?
As I said, we either choose the situation or we are born to it due to karmic repercussions of what we have done. Repercussions are not in the punishment’s sake but in the sense of the cause and effect.
And I guess my childhood was horrible in many layperson’s sense of the idealistic childhood and I’m going to explain. And the explanation is not to justify that I have this childhood and therefore, “See, I am at high incarnation” or “I am an incarnation” - none of this justification or to cover, it’s just my thoughts. When my parents conceived me, they were not married.
During their era - not being married, and my father had another family, and my mother was very young and she didn’t know; so, when I was conceived - it was during the era where not being married and having kids out of wedlock or having other families besides only having one family was considered a huge scandal, very bad. So, I understand that.
My mother, being in an era where it’s scandalous to have a child without a husband, gave me up to adopted parents. So, for years when she gave me up and I was growing up in Taiwan, I lived with a set of parents there that I thought were really my parents.
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I love this guru! He is real.. Please come back soon Tsem Rinpoche 🙏🙏
You are one of the very few Tibetan Buddhist teachers that made Buddhism ☸️ so approachable to people ! You are the kindest heart ❤️ i will send lots of love to You Blessings
Yeah No doubt !
You are like the lotus flower, rose up out of the mud and yet embrace the mud cos it nurtured and fed you to bloom into a beautiful flower.
I always enjoy and listen to your talks with joy, but sometimes I cry too
I feel Buddha sent you to me...🙏🙏
Very often, religious leaders (of all faiths) create a fake air of imperviousness, special enlightenment, and all-around superiority. But this man is called a lama and has a large following; yet he's real and honest. Down to earth. In both this vid and his FB posts he speaks openly about his pains, fears, struggles, etc. I highly respect this. I'm not his disciple but I highly respect him and have learned much from him. I wish more religious leaders could display this sort of authenticity.
I think all of Rinpoche's childhood, including the change of parents, the hurt, living in the West, everything allows him to relate to a generation of people who come from broken homes and materialistic societies. His empathy is vast, it encompasses the compassion of Tibetan Buddhism and the knowledge of the needs of the modern person. He has a complete conscious understanding of what people experience in this era and he has the deep understanding and the ability to successfully teach and transfer a fabulous remedy.....the dharma. Thank you for everything.
Hey Suzy, You should join us on blog chat, can learn a lot engaging in blog chat. www.tsemrinpoche.com/chat
I am very grateful for the sincerity and generosity of your sharing Rinpoche. I send you love and appreciation.
Thank you tsem rinpoche.
Wow! I always wonder this Dharma teacher speaks like that and what were / are his purposes ( spiritually one never dies, present tense should be used here! ) Finally, I found out the reasons behind after I completed listening to this talk. This is a very important advice to me personally, hopefully for others too who are willing to ponder on it. Luckily, it actually got recorded down. Otherwise, it just slipped by and might be totally forgotten by Tsem Rinpoche while his physical body was still alive many years ago. May he return one day for more practical insights that he has lived through personally to share with us. Namo Amitabha. 💖 🙏🙏🙏
this was a teaching of a lifetime for me....thank you rinpoche la for changing my perspective on my own childhood anD current sufferings as well.....
I am watching you 7 years after you shared this message. I completely relate and agree.
People ask why there is suffering, and this is why. It catalyzes spiritual evolution, which is characterized by groundedness and insight and wisdom.
Excellent, thank you for your thoughtful words! The fact that you have alchemized your suffering into virtue is evident to me. You have a beautiful presence. 🙏
Beautiful. 🧡
What Rinpoche wants to tell us is to see the same in our lives...that all the terrible things we've endured has helped develop us to where we are today, and our spirit is all that much richer having gone through these lessons..
Most of us often blames others for their unhappiness. I admit, I was one of them b4 but after learning frm Tsem Rinpoche, u realised that the choices u made are made by urself and nobody else. Therefore, we change our perspective, life is so much easier to go through.
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True. Horribly guilty for that here.
Such a beautiful talk from a very beautiful and pure soul.
I just feel Guru Tsem childhood life journey indeed a great blessing to human as whole. His mastery of English language enable him to spread Buddha teaching in a much more effective way in this modern society. Anyway just my gut feeling. I pay my full homage to this great amazing Guru 👍 👍👍
Rinpoche’s talk has always been enlightening! Procrastination…how it was described so aptly here by Rinpoche. Covering our own selfishness by saying we constantly need to look for inspiration, this is something i never realised... When we learn something, we do it or we don’t do it, that’s what learning is about. we do what is necessary and we stop when we realise it’s not right. I think the key point here is, just do it. It’s just a shift of attitude.
Thank you Tsem Rinpoche for sharing this wonderful video. If we see our past bad experiences as what has shaped us today, we can be grateful we went through them as you said and try to be better than the best person we can be. Your talks are so inspiring!
Dear Eminence. Often times when listening to your teachings, I feel like you are speaking directly to me as I watch you intently on the screen. In this particular teaching I got shivers as I listened to how you described yourself, your traits, your characteristics and how your childhood was so like my own, it was as if I was hearing my own experience coming from your mouth. Lastly, how similar my thinking about myself is to how you described yourself because of your childhood. However, I am ions away from being anywhere near your kindness, wisdom, loving kindness and compassion Dear Rinpoche. I will continue to work toward it though for I am not horrible, or the kindness, but I am a good person.
Do check Tsem Rinpoche's blog for more enlightening influences and knowledge www.tsemrinpoche.com
I know the feeling. Some look at my life and say it is tough. And parts of it have been but it made me who I am and my only regret is that I didn’t find Buddhism sooner in my life You have been a HUGE. Help Thank u
my childhood wasn't perfect, but it was perfect for me! :) thank you for your teachings
Hi Loan Kim, I hope by now you have learnt to let go and take your past as lesson or experiences. Do check out Rinpoche's blog more... www.tsemrinpoche.com
Love you as you can speak about the real world and yet belive in your spiritual path
Truly amazing and inspiring,thank you Tsem for your personal story ...😥I am so happy & very blessed to have been brought up knowing both my parents ,somewhat ...more my mom truthfully. It is great to remember where we came from and because of that our characters are built"or the foundation to keep building on".I see so many times,people saying they can't change because it is how they were brought up.I know we can change if we want,You just have to have the determination.My motto in life"Always evolve & grow" ❤✌🏻
This is another form of generosity that Tsem Rinpoche has constantly shown us, sharing his not-so-comfortable life experiences to show how we can learn from it and to look at it from another angle, an insightful one. It's also another example of how the intricate law of karma works, certainly well hidden from ordinary people like us! Thank you rinpoche, may your nirmanakaya body continues to guide us finding our own true nature.
Oh very relevant teachings! Great to encounter you, Master.
Thank you so much!
May all be blessed ❤
Thank you so much Rinpoche! Deep and wonderful teaching to help us.
Well said… I will always remember your teaching.
Dear Rinpoche,
I have watched this TH-cam several times before, it didn't give me the same impact that it has on me now. Perhaps it is due to the clear flashback of past events that help me realize why I act the way I do today. Therefore I can relate to what Rinpoche meant by becoming highly sensitized towards resemblance of past hurt, even though what I experienced is nothing compared to Rinpoche's. Realising that these same pain and hurt can be felt by everyone, we must make the instant choice not to do it to others. We can instantly stop our self as the vehicle to transmit the same pain and hurt to others. By changing ourself and being mindful, we will not confuse others with our true intention and at the same time let people know who we really are.
Thank you, Rinpoche, for this valuable sharing that really helps. It stops me from asking "why" or "why me", instead I can focus on making the change, one step at a time. _/\_
Thankyou Rinpoche you have helped me understand myself better tears rolling down my face you have explained alot that has related to my childhood bkessings
Hi Izy Bourne, I am very happy for you. You have heard the precious Dharma straight out direct from Lama Tsongkhapa. Please do visit the blog at www.tsemrinpoche.com for more resources. I wish you well and happy researching.
Wow. I think it was Mary queen 1 of England (the super unpopular catholic monarch who had a difficult reign) who was asked about her unwavering belief in God even when she was suffering.
To that she replied along the lines of "if we don't suffer, how else will we remember God?"
I was a kid when i heard it and my mind was blown. Why would anyone want to suffer? I had always thought and then it hit me. Happiness without spiritual knowledge is laziness.
As unpleasant as it is in the beginning, Suffering is a trigger. How we take it - as an awakening or misery is up to us.
I bow before rinpoche for his great compassion and wisdom and courage to seek and propogate Dharma for all sentient beings. May he be safe, happy, and well in all spheres.
serenading Bee Looks like I’ve learnt from your comment here too..
Jacinta Goh I in turn thank Rinpoche and kechara for helping me and everyone :D
thank you for letting us watch this video..helps a lot to my well being...
wow thank you so much, i experienced similar things during childhood and working on solving these puzzles and you just hit home, you're right its about you and what you think of it and how you deal with it that makes it amazing. I hope if you are consistent then youre doing the work and all inconsistent factors hopefully become harmonized and fall off or you wont react as badly to it cause you dealt with your inconsistency to it.
thank you for your honesty and expressing your feelings, its so relatable.
Dear Vera Reyhan. Thank you for watching this wonderful video. It is very helpful for all of us. Do visit www.tsemrinpoche.com. Wishing you all the best.
It's blessing to know 您 Tsem Rinpoche.顶 礼 上师
Thank you very much with my deepest respect.
Thank you Rinpoche! This message touched me and resonated with me on such a deep and profound level!
Thank you Nivak for sharing your thoughts on this teaching by HE Tsem Rinpoche. May you enjoy more videos on the blog www.tsemrinpoche.com
I really like your videos because they relate to me as well. I find your videos beneficial.
Inspirational! The greatest contribution here, is that Rinpoche continues to speaks to us, in a language and with the contextual background of our times, which is very much relatable - the truth which opens one’s eyes and inspires
it was a training ground for you, as now today you have learned all those hardships when you were young, and now you will never let anyone face what you have gone thru
I myself too having a sad childhood which really change myself personality when i growing upvery true indeed thanks again master tsem..
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Namaste,you are a great blessed soul.Thank you for sharing
Loved the video!!! You’re so full of wisdom my guru🌙💫
Thank you Celestial Astrology for watching the video and happy to hear that you like it. Rinpoche has many teachings on his blogpost too. Do visit www.tsemrinpoche.com.
On another level he gives everyone who suffered a rough childhood permission to let go of all the stigmas and wrong ideas about themselves from themselves and others/society. IF this precious high lama can grow and transcend from a rough childhood and be grateful and it accept it as a "good" childhood given the powerful lessons involved and conquered THEN anyone who follows the dharma has the potential to generate the supreme mind of awakening. The easy and simple availability and access to the youtube dharma talks is a profound gift. I pray they reach everyone who can benefit and find peace and strength whether they practice Buddhism or not.
You have put a very well-thought comment here. Rinpoche's story has indeed benefitted me in some way. I do hope it will benefit others as you've said. Namaste!
খুবই খোলা মনের মানুষ ছিলেন, আন্তরিকও বটে! উনার কাছে অজানা কিছু বিষয়ে জানার আগ্রহ ছিল! যার উত্তর কেবল উনারই কাছে ছিল! সেটা হয়তো অজানাই থেকে যাবে! প্রকৃতি বড় রহস্যময়! আমার সাথে সেই রহস্যটাই হলো! 🤍💐🤍
I AM PROUD TO DONATE 3 BRICKS FOR YOUR TEMPLE GURU IN MY FAMILIES NAMES CALEB LEAH AND BARBARA PLESSE BLESS MY 👪 WE LOVE YOU FOREVER TSEM RINPOCHE !!!!!!
Thank you for sharig your wisdom....learned a lot from this video
Very Heart Touching childhood talked...😭May H.E.Rimpoche's next rebirth be blissful one in Dewa Chen Shingkham na... Kyabsuche..🌹🌹🌹🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Thanks for sharing such intimate thoughts of yours. Feeling very enlightened. ...
Hello Pauline, thank you very much for watching. Please do visit Tsem Rinpoche`s blog www.tsemrinpoche.com for more spiritual inspirations. :)
I appreciate your taking the time and depth of thought and feeling to share this insight, Rinpoche. It rings true to me, and I hope that I will choose to continue to rise to the occasions that this life has provided me, in order to be of service to myself and others. At 62, I am finding great intervals of waxing and waning energy and spiritual practice, though it is always on my mind and behind every thought, word or deed that I create or encounter. bless you.
thank you, thank you, thank you :-)
You are such WISDOM !
I appreciate this man: he does a lot of great teaching. I totally disagree with him about the value of "regular stuff" in life such as careers, romance, parenting and having a house etc.. On those points we sometimes differ.
I know you are probably more in line with Buddhadharma in doing so Miriam but for a guy as attached and self-centered as I am stuff like that makes me giddy.
Thank you for sharing .
Ajahn Brahm has mentioned on these similar situations the ' Before choosing our Next Life, we should read the Fine print on our Contract.'😮😢😅🎉😊
Dear Tsem Rinpoche,
Thanks for being so transparent and real.
This sharing of yours is of great benefit sir and not knowing your upbringing insofar as being in your shoes, makes me happy that you can relate to others.
Mangalam,
Stefos
Dear Stefos, thanks for watching this video and sharing your heartfelt appreciation. Yes, those who have the privilege and great merits to have actual connection and interaction with His Eminence the 25th Tsem Rinpoche always shared how selfless and kind His Eminence is. Do visit His Eminence the 25th Tsem Rinpoche's personal blog at www.tsemrinpoche.com and be inspired.
Great lecture. Thank you.
Thank you so much.
Excellent and wonderful video/leela!! thank you.
Bridget MacDari Hi Bridget. Do drop by here www.tsemrinpoche.com/ for more teachings, available 24/7 a day.
Thank you Rinpoche.
Thank you for your words, they will give me power to Trust in the progress of life. Nothing exist without meaning.
Jens Roeschmann . Hello Jens Roeschmann, thank you for your kind comment. Please do visit His Eminence Tsem Rinpoche's personal blog for more inspiration: www.tsemrinpoche.com
beautiful Tsem-la
thank you kindly
Jay Freeman Rinpoche's blog has a blog chat whereby people can share and interact with other dharma students.
Thank you very much
Teacher, you are sooo right!
mary robinson Hi Mary~ thanks for your comment here. Do you know that Rinpoche has a blog here www.tsemrinpoche.com? Do put your comment there too as Rinpoche will be reading it from time to time.
great talk thank you
Migraines often caused by stiff neck. Good to put cold, damp clothe on back of neck at onset. Best wishes to you Rinpoche.
John O'Doherty Thanks for you concern. Rinpoche is one of the hard working Lama that I know and He is working hard in promoting Buddhism especially Dorje Shugden lately. I hope you do drop by here often www.tsemrinpoche.com for daily boost of inspiration.
Amazing
Dhanyavaad
Sending a lot of that little boy
🙏🙏🙏🙏 Thank you 🥰
Thank you again
Hello Magnus, thank you for watching and your reply. Please do visit Tsem Rinphoche`s personal blog @ www.tsemrinpoche.com for further spiritual teachings :)
Stem rimpoche u know how to express yourself so I can understand u that I bow to u
Hi Timothy... I'm so happy to read that Rinpoche has benefit you here. Do listen and search for other Rinpoche's video in this channel ya.
A really good talk, really made me think. Thanks
Hello Dave, thank you for watching the video and let us know you have gained from it after watching. If you do have any further inspiration and ideas, you are welcomed to share with us more. Please do check out Tsem Rinpoche`s personal blog at www.tsemrinpoche.com :)
He talks like humble human (and not like Lama) in this particular video... 🙂
thank you for sharing your story it helps others when we share
+Terri “Broken Hearted” Hellerich Yup..Rinpoche's childhood own experiences can inspire someone in one way or another.
All those character qualities can also be develop living a comfortable life in a upper middles class loving stable family. Infact the good qualities can develop better in a good environment than in poverty and abuse.
Infinite Appreciation
Namaste
Yeah I think that if you don’t go through hardship you can’t really relate with other people when you need to teach them
Out of the billions of people on Earth sifu is the only one I can understand on Buddha's teachings.
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RIP 🙏 Guru Rinpoche 🙏 ♡
Thank you
Do check out Tsem Rinpoche's blog www.tsemrinpoche.com
感恩
Thankyou for good speech
Mangals Magar
, hi, glad that you like this vidoe. Do visit Rinpoche's blog at www.tsemrinpoche.com/ for more teaching and information.
Thank you Mangals Magar for watching the video. Do visit Rinpoche’s blogpost for more inspiring Dharma teachings.
Be assured, my friend, we are, advised to keep our practices secret (except to those worthy of understanding in dharma). I do, too. But I have many sangha friends and teachers from all over the world I can discuss with and learn from! Watch Tsoknyi rinpoche video "on open heart, open mind": we can dance with the social eye!
god bless youu
Hi Jack, first time here? Have you been to www.tsemrinpoche.com?
Rest In Peace
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Rinpoche's biography in E-book format !!
www.tsemrinpoche.com/tsem-tulku-rinpoche/me/tsem-rinpoches-inspiring-biography-now-in-ebook-format.html
U r great Rimpoche
+Sallie Lim Do check out Rinpoche's blog www.tsemrinpoche.com
Tsem Rinpoche, I am not a Buddhist, but I don't know how I found your video, thanks to TH-cam and your hard working, I listened to your story peacefully. As a spiritual master, you gave good advise and share many great thoughts with people, probably helped me a bit too. I appreciate your videos very much, and I would like to give you some advise back. I liked how you talked and reacted 10 years ago, very calm, energetic and balanced, I can tell you are balanced from interior to exterior, from body to soul. But you looked exhausted now even though you talked louder. and I can't feel the balance from your voice as before, it seems your lost balance on your body too, and some management. I hope your take care of yourself and take some break, don't stress yourself just because people demand to meet you. It looks like you gained weight, but I don't see obesity, I see a tired soul. You are very deficient and you need some good treatment. ProbablyHyperactive Liver Yang and Spleen deficiency.
I don't mean to upset you or offend you, just hope you would be healthy and longevity so people can learn more from you. Good luck on everything.
Thank you very much for your care, do check out more of Tsem Rinpoche's rich content www.tsemrinpoche.com
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Thank u
Thank you for watching Timothy. There are many more Dharma teachings and articles on Tsem Rinpoche's blog. If you have not visited, do check it out www.tsemrinpoche.com
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Aw, sorry you're not feeling well.
noted.
Make it wonderful :-)
respect
+Leung Matthew : Hi Matthew, thank you for your time and comment. Have you visited Rinpoche's blog before? Do check it out here : www.tsemrinpoche.com
What an interesting story
Thank u.
I'd gladly be your brother
Hi timothy george, you can also check out Rinpoche's blog for more teaching and information www.tsemrinpoche.com/ and Rinpoche's biography is also available in ebook www.tsemrinpoche.com/tsem-tulku-rinpoche/me/tsem-rinpoches-inspiring-biography-now-in-ebook-format.html
I can relate to this. Thank you, Tsem Rinpoche. What I'm wondering about: I've heard in several teachings from other videos that a state of pure awareness (without the influence of constant mind-stream) is the state to aspire to. But Tsem - who I respect very much - does not seem to consider this. Or am I wrong ? At least I haven't heard about it from him.
Tobias, perhaps this can help www.tsemrinpoche.com/tsem-tulku-rinpoche/buddhas-dharma/experiencing-versus-perception.html
Jacinta Goh It did. Thank you very much!
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jai bhole naath
I found giving up diary products and cow's milk helps dramatically reduce migraines.
+karmajod Thank you for sharing.
Dear Tsem Rinpoche,
Earthshattering: Please make virtual reality tantra where you can put on the headset and see the visualizations in the sadhanas and stuff like that.
I think visualization is our homework, we have to exercise our imagination 'muscles' so to say.
I like to listen on emptiness
Hi Timothy George. Emptiness in Buddhism is a very profound. To search more on this topic, there are videos on this blog that helps lay people like you and me to go on the path to achieve Emptiness. However, if you prefer to read, there is a 24 day discourse given by HH Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche which was documented by HH Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche and translated into English. This book is "Liberation In the Palm of Your Hands". This book teaches on the the 84,000 teachings of Buddha Shakyamuni and it teaches all to achieve Emptiness. I encourage you to keep yourself updated through this blog and read more Dharma books. Or, if you prefer, search for a qualified Teacher, take refuge and go all the way to transform your mind. Thank you.
Its an instant choice geshe la holds the line of dorje shugden