There is so much clarity in his explanations...He is a very good teacher...I've always been fascinated by Buddhism...Particularly Tibetan Buddhism...I think that the depth of their knowledge and wisdom, particularly on the spirit world and enlightenment is astounding...If I had to change my religion, I would unmistakingly consider Buddhism
Buddhism is not a religion. It's a philosophy. You keep your religion and learn Buddhism & check your actions! Check your speech, check your mind which creates actions& speech.,
Viresh Surat Ya, sufferings is all pervasive and we can’t run away from it but as you’ve mentioned, it helps us to grow. It helps us realising that we should be responsible for our own action.
How can a person be Buddhist if one has not met the Buddha? It is impossible, he was a great master who told us to look within, not without. God lives within the heart of all human beings and we must find the LIVING Master to show us the way within. These guys read a book which is about an experience they have never had and about a person they have never met and purport to know all about both, this is delusion, NOT religion!
Imprints and Karmas, I think they work interdependently too. I always have doubts about whether we do have the ability to amend our future lives(Karma) because our karmas that we have collected in all of the previous lives(millions/ trillions of them?) are yet to open up. I’m thinking even if I’m doing good deeds and Dharma works in this life, it’s all linked to my previous life which I’ve did something good therefore I’m allow to do what am I doing now. Being alive is not just about to enjoy, live, sleep, eat and work. It is much deeper than we can ever think.
This is such a powerful dharma share by an erudite Buddhist master. Thank you Tsem Rinpoche for this...oh wow, this little tweety bird below calling itself cy - my my...does it not have anything positive to say apart from criticising people based on appearances and its comments really reflect its low IQ...it is definitely not human and I hope people who watch this video can put in some kind words for a great dharma share. Whether one believes in this or not does not negate its power...less one temps fate, let be a good human, be compassionate unlike some twisted yellow presence which will have its come-uppance when the conditions are right...
Dear Martin, many thanks for watching and leaving your comment here. Yes, it is without doubt that His Eminence the 25th Tsem Rinpoche is an erudite and selfless Buddhist master. Do visit His Eminence's personal blog at www.tsemrinpoche.com and be inspired.
Hi, thanks for watching and leaving your comment here. Do visit His Eminence the 25th Tsem Rinpoche's personal blog at www.tsemrinpoche.com for more profound teachings on Tibetan Buddhism.
Yes, so important to be mindful of our own minds, purify negative karma and cultivate kindness and generosity. Thank you Tsem Rinpoche! I love your clarity and teachings. Bless you x
Karma's job is to make one evolve, learn from mistakes, understand the causes, change their choices and free themselves from suffering by persistant pursuit of happiness for all... Suffering is just a consequence of choices based on ignorance, aversion and attachment and these consequences are universal love's way of teaching us the life lessons we need to attain enlightenment.
Hi Amor Universal, thank you for your comments. In fact Rinpoche has written in detail about Karma in Rinpoche's blog : www.tsemrinpoche.com/tsem-tulku-rinpoche/external-article/karma-vipaka-actions-their-results-and-the-%E2%80%98three-planes-of-existence%E2%80%99. Do also check out for more of Rinpoche's teaching at www.tsemrinpoche.com.
Dear cy, It's irresponsible by throwing abusive speech and comment with your bias, stereotype and hatred view, as well as your ideology, to teachings or discussions as such. Please kindly stop this. By resort to online speech violence or expressig sweeping accusing like this, definitely not going to ease your negative emotions/hatred or help you in any construtive way. As Dorje Shugden practitioner does not make a person equal or automatically a bad person, a communist (as you mentioned), or even Chinese spy as many have accused us as one. H.E. Tsem Rinpoche or his students or many of Dorje Shugden practitioners around the world does not harm anyone by doing the practice, why keeping a practice have to receive all these discrimination or abuse? Why can't you respect a person's choice of faith, while you are asking people to respect your basic human rights and your freedom? We should not exercise double standard in this, because Dorje Shugden practitioners are HUMAN also, same as many non-Dorje Shudgen people or any other people around the world. Thank you.
PAPA DAPA Death Meditation is the best to counter attachment www.tsemrinpoche.com/tsem-tulku-rinpoche/kechara-13-depts/last-night-i-spoke-about-death-meditation-in-more-detail.html. Have saw this “Faces of Death” before www.tsemrinpoche.com/tsem-tulku-rinpoche/film-tv-music/faces-of-death-movie-review.html
Funny how the homeless are judged even by easterners now days. "Too stingy to get a job"??? Wasn't the Buddha himself homeless when he wandered the forests in search for enlightenment?
@Imperium Europa Trump, has a massive network of advisers and actually bosses, telling him what to say and do. These same bosses and networks were behind the scenes with Obama, Bush, Clinton, and all the string of presidents before him. These people that are hidden, are creating even worse karma for themselves. Trump is just the amusing theater that keeps the ignorant public entertained. The real work is going on behind the scenes.
What you say is true in a conventional manner, yes. What rinpoche, I think, is trying to say is that karma itself arises from ignorance. There would be no problems (and hence, obscurations of any sort) if there was no karma as we would be enlightened. And all conventional karmic results - good or bad, are impermanent and so contribute to the wheel of life and dukkha. Even what one person considered to be good isn't inherently good - it may be seen as negative by another and so there isn't an inherent existence in anything borne out of karma. What we love (good karma) will be taken away from us and even that is suffering. So in the end everything wordly is a form of dukkha.
I personally think that being frugal is still important for practicality reasons especially if you have a family to take care of, but you become attached to the idea of how important $ is, it opens up the karma.
as a hindu what i know is karma is based on consequences of your action in this very life. and rebirth is the stage of our enlightenment to reach moksh. i could be wrong but this is my understanding.
Hi Marius Baltazar Rozenberg-Holszanski , I'm glad that you find this teaching is interesting and useful to you. There are a lot more teaching of H.E Kabje Tsem Rinpoche available in our Guru's blog www.tsemrinpoche.com/.
If you think carefully, both stems from the same root, which is for personal gain or happiness. We save, we do not want to share, we are being frugal at time as we do not have much to give, or maybe once we have it, we want to show it off. We have this mind where we do not want to give or share. All these will only generate more negative karma due to our negative thoughts or action. One important guideline is this, what's the intention behind all this? There are people who love being extravagant but what's the intention for that? Perhaps it's their brought up lifestyle and yet they give generously. So, it's better not to judge but always be Mindful of one’s thought and action.. Thanks for your question. It makes me think more.
@@gohjacinta28 buddhaweekly.com/the-secular-buddhist-approach-to-managing-money-wisely-as-taught-in-sutra/ great teaching from Buddha Shakyamuni , here's a great teaching from Zasep Rinpoche: buddhaweekly.com/wealth-deities-generating-karma-for-prosperity-by-practicing-generosity/ May your every single cell be Happy and Well.
I am bit bothered by his karma lectures. I have lots of questions, but I'll continue to pray that my karma will disappeared or at least I move into a shelter for my benefit.
Hi Amanda, i would strongly recommend you to listen to this Karma & Avoidance of Non-Virtues th-cam.com/video/FgyFtDKttMk/w-d-xo.html . Karma does not go away by just praying alone or by confessing. It does have some effect but we must have knowledge as to why and how.
There has to be the observation this too shall pass. Transitory and in flux. You will be separated from your positive experience/good karma. A clinging selfish mind will become attached to positive states and have aversion to negative ones. This is the basis of suffering in samsara. As Buddha said Dukkha.
He is saying that what we put out is what we get back, but it doesn't mean Karma, this is just the expression Buddha followers use. We create our own reality; the Universe etc, but it probably all boils down to the same thing at the end of the day.
Technically 'karma/action' is the action which we commuted out of volition, and what we can karma now are actually the effects of that action. It's more complex, there are differing types too - but which make perfect sense the more you read about it. Please do watch rinpoche's teaching on tendencies (complete) if you have the time :)
@von vich H.E. Tsem Tulku Rinpoche entered parinirvana on Sept 4, 2019. The official announcement and prayers for Rinpoche's swift return may be found here: www.tsemtulku.com/parinirvana Thank you
there is actually some quantum physics to support this idea of the recording of our thoughts, words and actions as we go about our daily lives.. the spark of Life, called Qi in Chinese medicine, is the flow of information between body and brain 🧠.. each nerve pathway is a permanent fixture that grows with us.. and carries information through a standing magnetic field.. what happens on one side of a magnet happens to the other at the same time.. despite the relativity equations.. and our body uses noceceptin.. which carries the magnetic energy.. our bodies are room temperature superconductors for this reason.. put a small magnetic on either side of a finger.. it passes magnetic energy with no resistance.. ok... new hydrogen atoms continuously form all around us.. one hydrogen atom at a Time.. Einstein's relativity equations are correct about this.. no simultaneously occurring events across space-time.. called quantum foam... as we pass through Space-time.. our superconductor body makes ripples in the quantum foam.. like the ripples of an old fashioned vinyl or wax recording.. this is new information for me.. so I am still working on it.. it's bound to catch up with me... sooner or later 🤔 this is exactly why we can't really hide from ourselves.. those little magnetic whootsies going round and round really really fast.. are directly attached to.. each of us.. till death do we part... and.. no matter where we go, or what we do.. so.. I try to keep this in mind when planning for the future.. because.. if I don't like what I am doing today.. guess what?... I am probably not going to like it tomorrow any better.. and.. it becomes a millstone around my neck instant and ongoing karma.. every single Time
the Universe gives back exactly what we put in.. how can it be otherwise?.. I don't think anyone but me is keeping score.. but I don't know that for sure... it's an ongoing project.. takes Time
I enjoyed this video, and agree on most. But I don't agree that karma is meant to make you suffer. Karma has no bias. Water can be good and bad. Fire can keep you warm or burn you. All things whether good or bad, are karma.
I remember rinpoche always said that Karma good or bad, brings you deeper into samsara which is suffering, merits however brings us closer towards enlightenment.
It's seen as suffering probably as its caused by ignorance, is my take. And if that's the case then there is nothing inherently positive about it as its not permanent in a positive sense.
i love this young fella almost listened to all recordings of song rinpoche. here is an amazing story one of my best friends is a hindu high level sadhu so close he let me pluck some hairs from his leg. i wrapoed them in tissue paper and traded them for a bottle of free water. yes everything you do say have done or will do is recorded. this is simple. scientists playing with dna just trying to prove these truths. sustenance. wow this tsem talks a lot
I can't help but think it sounds like he is "priming the pump" for donations.... better be generous with your offerings, or you will be poor next time around...
Hi Rachel, Rinpoche is trying to explain the negative imprints that manifest from our past lifes and merely quoting desire to receive for the self alone (miserliness/stinginess) as an example of negative imprints amongst others such as anger, jealousy and taught us on how to identify, eliminate and remove the negativity that was imprinted on our bones before they manifests into negative behaviour and actions. Let us not be so narrow minded and unlock our minds to see the positives, shall we?!
There is so much clarity in his explanations...He is a very good teacher...I've always been fascinated by Buddhism...Particularly Tibetan Buddhism...I think that the depth of their knowledge and wisdom, particularly on the spirit world and enlightenment is astounding...If I had to change my religion, I would unmistakingly consider Buddhism
Buddhism is not a religion. It's a philosophy. You keep your religion and learn Buddhism & check your actions! Check your speech, check your mind which creates actions& speech.,
Yes karma is to make us suffer but it helps our soul to grow
Viresh Surat Ya, sufferings is all pervasive and we can’t run away from it but as you’ve mentioned, it helps us to grow. It helps us realising that we should be responsible for our own action.
@@gohjacinta28 Cherish your mistakes
@@Psilocybiant Right.. A learning curve for us all
How can a person be Buddhist if one has not met the Buddha? It is impossible, he was a great master who told us to look within, not without. God lives within the heart of all human beings and we must find the LIVING Master to show us the way within. These guys read a book which is about an experience they have never had and about a person they have never met and purport to know all about both, this is delusion, NOT religion!
this man is great teacher. He doesnt do the hocus pocus aura. He's just straight forward and communicates well. You cant beat this.
Imprints and Karmas, I think they work interdependently too. I always have doubts about whether we do have the ability to amend our future lives(Karma) because our karmas that we have collected in all of the previous lives(millions/ trillions of them?) are yet to open up. I’m thinking even if I’m doing good deeds and Dharma works in this life, it’s all linked to my previous life which I’ve did something good therefore I’m allow to do what am I doing now.
Being alive is not just about to enjoy, live, sleep, eat and work. It is much deeper than we can ever think.
Chew Mingwen it is indeed much deeper than can be appreciated
This is such a powerful dharma share by an erudite Buddhist master. Thank you Tsem Rinpoche for this...oh wow, this little tweety bird below calling itself cy - my my...does it not have anything positive to say apart from criticising people based on appearances and its comments really reflect its low IQ...it is definitely not human and I hope people who watch this video can put in some kind words for a great dharma share.
Whether one believes in this or not does not negate its power...less one temps fate, let be a good human, be compassionate unlike some twisted yellow presence which will have its come-uppance when the conditions are right...
Dear Martin, many thanks for watching and leaving your comment here. Yes, it is without doubt that His Eminence the 25th Tsem Rinpoche is an erudite and selfless Buddhist master. Do visit His Eminence's personal blog at www.tsemrinpoche.com and be inspired.
I learned Tibetan buddism in chinese, its interesting to see how it is taught in english
Hi, thanks for watching and leaving your comment here. Do visit His Eminence the 25th Tsem Rinpoche's personal blog at www.tsemrinpoche.com for more profound teachings on Tibetan Buddhism.
Yes, so important to be mindful of our own minds, purify negative karma and cultivate kindness and generosity. Thank you Tsem Rinpoche! I love your clarity and teachings. Bless you x
Karma's job is to make one evolve, learn from mistakes, understand the causes, change their choices and free themselves from suffering by persistant pursuit of happiness for all...
Suffering is just a consequence of choices based on ignorance, aversion and attachment and these consequences are universal love's way of teaching us the life lessons we need to attain enlightenment.
Hi Amor Universal, thank you for your comments. In fact Rinpoche has written in detail about Karma in Rinpoche's blog : www.tsemrinpoche.com/tsem-tulku-rinpoche/external-article/karma-vipaka-actions-their-results-and-the-%E2%80%98three-planes-of-existence%E2%80%99. Do also check out for more of Rinpoche's teaching at www.tsemrinpoche.com.
this is deep wisdom right here
Do check out Tsem Rinpoche's blog www.tsemrinpoche for more profound wisdom and interesting knowledge.
Agree
@@wanwaimeng ĺllll
Dear cy,
It's irresponsible by throwing abusive speech and comment with your bias, stereotype and hatred view, as well as your ideology, to teachings or discussions as such.
Please kindly stop this. By resort to online speech violence or expressig sweeping accusing like this, definitely not going to ease your negative emotions/hatred or help you in any construtive way.
As Dorje Shugden practitioner does not make a person equal or automatically a bad person, a communist (as you mentioned), or even Chinese spy as many have accused us as one. H.E. Tsem Rinpoche or his students or many of Dorje Shugden practitioners around the world does not harm anyone by doing the practice, why keeping a practice have to receive all these discrimination or abuse? Why can't you respect a person's choice of faith, while you are asking people to respect your basic human rights and your freedom? We should not exercise double standard in this, because Dorje Shugden practitioners are HUMAN also, same as many non-Dorje Shudgen people or any other people around the world.
Thank you.
Please let the LAMA talk...too much interruptions
Karma is cause and effect, and not to make you suffer….
This law is impartial to all.
Money won't stay where it isn't respected - being foolish with money is far worse then being stingy with it - it can cause more harm.
wonderful teaching Rinpoche
Hi Penelope. Thanks for your comment!
Attach yourself to nothing, if you never hold on you will never fall
PAPA DAPA Death Meditation is the best to counter attachment www.tsemrinpoche.com/tsem-tulku-rinpoche/kechara-13-depts/last-night-i-spoke-about-death-meditation-in-more-detail.html. Have saw this “Faces of Death” before www.tsemrinpoche.com/tsem-tulku-rinpoche/film-tv-music/faces-of-death-movie-review.html
Rinpoche teaching closely resonate in my heart. 🙏
im always impressed with tsem rinpoche,
mind is non arising , all this activity is I think empty, subtle realization,,
Do you read his blog too?
Funny how the homeless are judged even by easterners now days. "Too stingy to get a job"???
Wasn't the Buddha himself homeless when he wandered the forests in search for enlightenment?
you ARE A IDOIT
I am enjoying listening to your talks. Thanks a lot for your talks.
What's gems of wisdom. Blessings of the Almighty are upon you.
And Hence the Praise Karma's A Fucking Bitch....
No one escapes from karma.
Indeed.
In fact, once we realised this, we will be careful with our daily body, speech and mind.
@Imperium Europa Trump, has a massive network of advisers and actually bosses, telling him what to say and do. These same bosses and networks were behind the scenes with Obama, Bush, Clinton, and all the string of presidents before him. These people that are hidden, are creating even worse karma for themselves. Trump is just the amusing theater that keeps the ignorant public entertained. The real work is going on behind the scenes.
Precious words from a Precious One.
He explained everything well but mistakenly said that karma's job is to make u suffer. Karma also rewards u back for the good deeds u have done.
What you say is true in a conventional manner, yes. What rinpoche, I think, is trying to say is that karma itself arises from ignorance. There would be no problems (and hence, obscurations of any sort) if there was no karma as we would be enlightened. And all conventional karmic results - good or bad, are impermanent and so contribute to the wheel of life and dukkha. Even what one person considered to be good isn't inherently good - it may be seen as negative by another and so there isn't an inherent existence in anything borne out of karma. What we love (good karma) will be taken away from us and even that is suffering. So in the end everything wordly is a form of dukkha.
Agree.. good karma
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I personally think that being frugal is still important for practicality reasons especially if you have a family to take care of, but you become attached to the idea of how important $ is, it opens up the karma.
Showing off & being profligate & wasteful is bad.
Yes, these bahaviour do not benefit for ourselves and other sentient beings and only add the burden of our karma. :)
Nice...jay bhim jay budha India....
love and gratitude to Rinpoche
Imprints suck ......
as a hindu what i know is karma is based on consequences of your action in this very life. and rebirth is the stage of our enlightenment to reach moksh. i could be wrong but this is my understanding.
Can you please further describe what is moksh? curious me , hehehe
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14:25 this reminds me of those projects where people build those eco friendly tiny houses for them.
Thank you Serenading Bee for watching. You have been a great supporter of Rinpoche's videos.
He is very wise.
Thank you so much.
Om Padmosnisa Vimale Hum Phat
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Thank you for bringing the Dharma through your words Tsem Rinpoche. 🙏🏽
karma is action.
All I want is to love and make feel comfortable around me I care about my family and I would love to be perfect for them
do not test out or disturb karma,karma will come back to you.do it the right way.🙏🙏🙏
Everything is a lesson.
Hi Marius Baltazar Rozenberg-Holszanski
, I'm glad that you find this teaching is interesting and useful to you. There are a lot more teaching of H.E Kabje Tsem Rinpoche available in our Guru's blog www.tsemrinpoche.com/.
Buddha is the avatar of lord vishnu(hari narayana)
No no brother
Caus buddha teaching is like gap between earth and sky
No he isn't. They made that up. Like most of religion/beliefs.
Being stingy is bad, OK, how about being profligate? Being flash with one's cash? Showing off with it?
If you think carefully, both stems from the same root, which is for personal gain or happiness.
We save, we do not want to share, we are being frugal at time as we do not have much to give, or maybe once we have it, we want to show it off. We have this mind where we do not want to give or share. All these will only generate more negative karma due to our negative thoughts or action.
One important guideline is this, what's the intention behind all this? There are people who love being extravagant but what's the intention for that? Perhaps it's their brought up lifestyle and yet they give generously. So, it's better not to judge but always be Mindful of one’s thought and action.. Thanks for your question. It makes me think more.
@@gohjacinta28 buddhaweekly.com/the-secular-buddhist-approach-to-managing-money-wisely-as-taught-in-sutra/ great teaching from Buddha Shakyamuni , here's a great teaching from Zasep Rinpoche: buddhaweekly.com/wealth-deities-generating-karma-for-prosperity-by-practicing-generosity/
May your every single cell be Happy and Well.
I am bit bothered by his karma lectures. I have lots of questions, but I'll continue to pray that my karma will disappeared or at least I move into a shelter for my benefit.
Hi Amanda, i would strongly recommend you to listen to this Karma & Avoidance of Non-Virtues th-cam.com/video/FgyFtDKttMk/w-d-xo.html . Karma does not go away by just praying alone or by confessing. It does have some effect but we must have knowledge as to why and how.
but there is such a thing as good karma so how would that be suffering?
There has to be the observation this too shall pass. Transitory and in flux. You will be separated from your positive experience/good karma. A clinging selfish mind will become attached to positive states and have aversion to negative ones. This is the basis of suffering in samsara. As Buddha said Dukkha.
Excellent answer David Seymour... thanks!
Agreed! Excellent, thank you!
He is saying that what we put out is what we get back, but it doesn't mean Karma, this is just the expression Buddha followers use. We create our own reality; the Universe etc, but it probably all boils down to the same thing at the end of the day.
Technically 'karma/action' is the action which we commuted out of volition, and what we can karma now are actually the effects of that action. It's more complex, there are differing types too - but which make perfect sense the more you read about it. Please do watch rinpoche's teaching on tendencies (complete) if you have the time :)
Thank you. RIP
may we know when?
@von vich
H.E. Tsem Tulku Rinpoche entered parinirvana on Sept 4, 2019. The official announcement and prayers for Rinpoche's swift return may be found here: www.tsemtulku.com/parinirvana
Thank you
Precious Guru... kyabsuche 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🙏 🙏 🙏💖
come to me! I can make you suffer a lot!!! hahahahahaha
Jive Lamotta lol
Fool
Staline Rayan you have to know!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂
there is actually some quantum physics to support this idea of the recording of our thoughts, words and actions as we go about our daily lives.. the spark of Life, called Qi in Chinese medicine, is the flow of information between body and brain 🧠.. each nerve pathway is a permanent fixture that grows with us.. and carries information through a standing magnetic field.. what happens on one side of a magnet happens to the other at the same time.. despite the relativity equations.. and our body uses noceceptin.. which carries the magnetic energy.. our bodies are room temperature superconductors for this reason.. put a small magnetic on either side of a finger.. it passes magnetic energy with no resistance.. ok... new hydrogen atoms continuously form all around us.. one hydrogen atom at a Time.. Einstein's relativity equations are correct about this.. no simultaneously occurring events across space-time.. called quantum foam... as we pass through Space-time.. our superconductor body makes ripples in the quantum foam.. like the ripples of an old fashioned vinyl or wax recording.. this is new information for me.. so I am still working on it.. it's bound to catch up with me... sooner or later 🤔
this is exactly why we can't really hide from ourselves.. those little magnetic whootsies going round and round really really fast.. are directly attached to.. each of us.. till death do we part... and.. no matter where we go, or what we do.. so.. I try to keep this in mind when planning for the future.. because.. if I don't like what I am doing today.. guess what?... I am probably not going to like it tomorrow any better.. and.. it becomes a millstone around my neck
instant and ongoing karma.. every single Time
the Universe gives back exactly what we put in.. how can it be otherwise?..
I don't think anyone but me is keeping score.. but I don't know that for sure... it's an ongoing project.. takes Time
Namaste señor 😊.. the Dińe, called Navajo greet each other and each new day saying Walk in Beauty.. they, too, are a very wise people
When you know your why you can endure any how
Nietsche
Thank you so much Rimpochela.
Thank you so much!
Thank you very much for watching Rinpoche`s video. Please do check out HE Tsem Rinpoche`s personal blog www.tsemrinpoche.com if you have time. :)
thank you guruji
I enjoyed this video, and agree on most. But I don't agree that karma is meant to make you suffer. Karma has no bias. Water can be good and bad. Fire can keep you warm or burn you. All things whether good or bad, are karma.
I remember rinpoche always said that Karma good or bad, brings you deeper into samsara which is suffering, merits however brings us closer towards enlightenment.
It's seen as suffering probably as its caused by ignorance, is my take. And if that's the case then there is nothing inherently positive about it as its not permanent in a positive sense.
Thank you🙏
Good
i love this young fella almost listened to all recordings of song rinpoche. here is an amazing story one of my best friends is a hindu high level sadhu so close he let me pluck some hairs from his leg. i wrapoed them in tissue paper and traded them for a bottle of free water. yes everything you do say have done or will do is recorded. this is simple. scientists playing with dna just trying to prove these truths. sustenance. wow this tsem talks a lot
Thank you 💜
Do check out Rinpoche's blog at www.tsemrinpoche.com
I can't help but think it sounds like he is "priming the pump" for donations.... better be generous with your offerings, or you will be poor next time around...
Hi Rachel, Rinpoche is trying to explain the negative imprints that manifest from our past lifes and merely quoting desire to receive for the self alone (miserliness/stinginess) as an example of negative imprints amongst others such as anger, jealousy and taught us on how to identify, eliminate and remove the negativity that was imprinted on our bones before they manifests into negative behaviour and actions. Let us not be so narrow minded and unlock our minds to see the positives, shall we?!
Donation is far frm his mind.. mereky stating the teachings of tge Buddha
Remeber buddha dont need money,donation is a way to get rid of attachment and sin.Believe or not is up to you