Summer Mondays:
Chenresig Practice and Study Group
Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand
by Pabongka Rinpoche: The Middle Scope
Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand is the text of Pabongka Rinpoche's 1921 teaching on the entire Lam Rim. Rinpoche taught for 24 days to an audiance of over 700 lamas and practitioners. The text is the most comprehensive and detailed guide to the Lam Rim available in English, illustrated by analogies, conclusive formal logic, amazing stories and trustworthy quotations. Trijang Rinpoche says about the experience of hearing these teachings,
It was beneficial for the mind because it was so inspiring. Sometimes we were moved to laughter, becoming wide awake and alive. Sometimes we were reduced to tears and cried helplessly...
The Lam Rim is the entirity of the Buddha's teachings synthesized into an orderly progression of teachings and meditations which help us achieve higher and higher levels of compassionate and wisdom consciousnesses. From the point where we now are, we travel the path to eventual complete enlightenment, leaving behind suffering and developing the ability to deeply benefit others as we grow.
DFF plans to study the entire text on Monday nights during Ven. Chodron's absences now and then during the upcoming year and a half. This is a very valuable experience, an important part of our studies. We find out what we really know and don't know, we greatly clarify our fuzzy thinking and we directly practice turning our study toward the benefit of others. As the geshes say about education in the great monasteries, 25 percent of a student's learning comes from the teacher, 25 percent from one's classmates and 50 percent from debate (for us, perhaps, leading sessions!). It's a wonderful chance to talk about our practice in very small groups, ask a lot of questions, discuss difficulties and share our Dharma experience and knowledge.
- June 5 The Wish for Liberation
- p473 - 477 (root vows 1-9)
June 12 Venerable Chodron
- June 19 The 6 sufferings
- p 477 - 486 (aux vows 1-7)
- June 26 Specific Human sufferings
- p 486 - 496 (aux vows 8-16)
July 3 Venerable Chodron
- July 10 Demi realm and god realm sufferings
- p 497 - 505 (aux vows 17-20)
- July 17 The 6 root delusions and their causes
- p 506 - 521 (aux vows 21 -26)
- July 24 Karma and death
- p 521 - 527 (aux vows 27-34)
- August 7 The 12 links
- p 527 - 534 (aux vows 35-46)
August 14 Venerable Chodron
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