Thongdrol Podcast Overview The Thongdrol Podcast is a treasure trove of spiritual teachings, featuring His Holiness the Dalai Lama and other revered spiritual lamas. The word “Thongdrol” itself holds profound meaning: it signifies liberation through seeing. On a fundamental level, it represents anything that inspires individuals to embark on a spiritual path, leading them toward freedom from…
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September
31 The practice of all the bodhisattvas is to scrutinize oneself
Continually and to rid oneself of faults whenever they appear.
For unless one checks carefully to find one’s own confusion,
One might appear to be practising Dharma, but act against it. 32 The practice of all the bodhisattvas is never to speak ill
Of others who have embarked…
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September
The practice of all the bodhisattvas is to turn away immediately From those things which bring desire and attachment. For the pleasures of the senses are just like salty water: The more we taste of them, the more our thirst increases. The practice of all the bodhisattvas is never to entertain concepts, Which revolve around…
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August
The practice of all the bodhisattvas is to make a genuine exchange Of one’s own happiness and wellbeing for all the sufferings of others. Since all misery comes from seeking happiness for oneself alone, Whilst perfect buddhahood is born from the wish for others’ good. Even if others, in the grips of great desire, should…
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August
༄༅། །རྒྱལ་སྲས་ལག་ལེན་སོ་བདུན་མ་བཞུགས་སོ། ། ན་མོ་ལོ་ཀེ་ཤྭ་ར་ཡེ། གང་གིས་ཆོས་ཀུན་འགྲོ་འོང་མེད་གཟིགས་ཀྱང༌། ། འགྲོ་བའི་དོན་ལ་གཅིག་ཏུ་བརྩོན་མཛད་པའི། ། བླ་མ་མཆོག་དང་སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་མགོན་ལ། ། རྟག་ཏུ་སྒོ་གསུམ་གུས་པས་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། ། ཕན་བདེའི་འབྱུང་གནས་རྫོགས་པའི་སངས་རྒྱས་རྣམས། ། དམ་ཆོས་སྒྲུབ་ལས་བྱུང་སྟེ་དེ་ཡང་ནི། ། དེ་ཡི་ལག་ལེན་ཤེས་ལ་རགས་ལས་པས། ། རྒྱལ་སྲས་རྣམས་ཀྱི་ལག་ལེན་བཤད་པར་བྱ། ། The Thirty-Seven Practices of All the Bodhisattvas by Gyalse Tokme Zangpo Namo Lokeśvaraye! You see that all things are beyond coming and going, Yet still you strive solely for the sake of living beings— To…
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November
An opportunity to serve fresh and hot meal to monks, pilgrims, rickshaw drivers, cobblers and poor people around Mahabodhi Temple, Bodhgaya.
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July
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Sampa Lhundrupma (Tib. བསམ་པ་ལྷུན་གྲུབ་མ་།,) The Prayer to Guru Rinpoche That Spontaneously Fulfills All Wishes, is a prayer that forms the seventh chapter of Le’u Dünma.