In this instalment of the teaching, Geshe Sonam explains four points for successful practice. 

1. Placing the mind in the direction of love and compassion 

2. Clearing away the obstacles to setting in that direction 

3. If obstacles are (again) encountered, how to transform them into opportunities for virtue. 

4. To abide in the continuity of love and compassion in the mind, using mindfulness and introspection.  

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In this teaching, Geshe Sonam explains, using a verse by Arya Nagarjuna from the text 'Precious Garland of the Middle Way', on the three causes of Complete Enlightenment or Buddhahood. Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable Khedrup.

The Three Causes of Enlightenment 

བདག་ཉིད་དང་ནི་འཇིག་རྟེན་འདིས། 

Oneself and [others] of this world, 

བླ་མེད་བྱང་ཆུབ་ཐོབ་འདོད་ན། 

If they wish to attain the unsurpassed enlightenment: 

དེ་ཡི་རྩ་བ་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས། 

Its roots are bodhicitta, རི་དབང་རྒྱལ་པོ་ལྟར་བརྟན་དང་། 

Firm like the King of Mountains, 

ཕྱོགས་མཐས་གཏུགས་པའི་སྙིང་རྗེ་དང། 

Compassion reaching all directions, 

གཉིས་ལ་མི་བརྟེན་ཡེ་ཤེས་ལགས། 

And wisdom not relying on duality.  

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In this teaching Geshe Sonam explains the potential of all sentient beings to achieve Enlightenment which is known as the Tathagata Garbha or Buddha Nature (Buddha Essence). Geshe la explains how due to this potentiality, all sentient beings can achieve full Enlightenment.

All Sentient Beings Possess Buddha Nature 

སེམས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཅད་ལ་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་རིགས་ཡོད་པ། 

From the Uttaratantra Shastra (Sublime Continuum) 

རྒྱུད་བླ་མ་ལས།  Because a perfect Buddha's body (enlightened qualities) are pervasive, 

།རྫོགས་སངས་སྐུ་ནི་འཕྲོ་ཕྱིར་དང་། 

Because suchness is without differentiation, 

།དེ་བཞིན་ཉིད་དབྱེར་མེད་ཕྱིར་དང་། 

And because Buddha lineage exists, 

།རིགས་ཡོད་ཕྱིར་ན་ལུས་ཅན་ཀུན། 

All embodied beings are always in possession of a Buddha essence. 

།རྟག་ཏུ་སངས་རྒྱས་སྙིང་པོ་ཅན།  

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On this bonus episode, Ven. Jamyang Khedrup elaborates about qualities that mark exceptional teachers: Equal care to the integrity of the teachings and well-being and freedom of the listeners. Enjoy! 

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Saga Dawa Greetings! ས་ག་ཟླ་བ་དུས་ཆེན་ལ་བཀྲིས་བདེ་ལེགས།  

In this special teaching on the special day of Saga Dawa, Geshe Sonam Ngodup wishes all our viewers greetings and hopes everyone is well. Geshe La teaches how and why this day is important, and because it is important what activities one should engage in on this holy day.  

Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable Khedrup.  

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In this short teaching, Geshe Sonam Ngodup explains to us about the benefits of Bodhichitta by quoting a verse from Chapter 1 of Shantideva's Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra or Bodhicaryāvatāra (Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པ་ byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa). Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable Khedrup.  

More Benefits of Bodhicitta

 །བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་སྐྱེས་གྱུར་ན་སྐད་ཅིག་གིས། 

The moment an awakening mind arises

 །འཁོར་བའི་བཙོན་རར་བསྡམས་པའི་ཉམ་ཐག་རྣམས། 

In those fettered and weak in the prison of cyclic existence 

།བདེ་གཤེགས་རྣམས་ཀྱི་སྲས་ཞེས་བརྗོད་བྱ་ཞིང་། T

hey will be named a child of the Sugatas 

།འཇིག་རྟེན་ལྷ་མིར་བཅས་པས་ཕྱག་བྱར་འགྱུར། 

And will be revered by both devas and humans of the world  

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In the fourth and final session from Venerable Yönten's teaching, she will guide us through a brief analytical meditation on Identifying the Object of Negation, the inherently existent self. Please enjoy!

Venerable Yönten is an American-born Buddhist nun in the Gelug Tibetan tradition who was ordained in 2003, and who is now a fully ordained Bhikshuni/Gelongma in the Dharmaguptaka tradition.

If you would like to learn more about Venerable Yönten, please take a look at her website. https://lozangyonten.wixsite.com/website

In the third session from Venerable Yönten's teaching, she will guide us through a brief analytical meditation on the King of Reasonings - Dependent Origination.

Venerable Yönten is an American-born Buddhist nun in the Gelug Tibetan tradition who was ordained in 2003, and who is now a fully ordained Bhikshuni/Gelongma in the Dharmaguptaka tradition.

If you would like to learn more about Venerable Yönten, please take a look at her website. https://lozangyonten.wixsite.com/website

In the second session from Venerable Yönten's teaching, she will guide us through a brief analytical meditation on the topic of Karma - Actions and  Results.

Venerable Yönten is an American-born Buddhist nun in the Gelug Tibetan tradition who was ordained in 2003, and who is now a fully ordained Bhikshuni/Gelongma in the Dharmaguptaka tradition.

If you would like to learn more about Venerable Yönten, please take a look at her website. https://lozangyonten.wixsite.com/website

We are happy to present to you a series of guided meditations led by visiting teacher Venerable Yönten at Lama Yeshe Ling. The first session is a guided analytical meditation on Laws of Karma.     

Venerable Yönten is an American-born Buddhist nun in the Gelug Tibetan tradition who was ordained in 2003, and who is now a fully ordained Bhikshuni/Gelongma in the Dharmaguptaka tradition.   

If you would like to learn more about Venerable Yönten, please take a look at her website. https://lozangyonten.wixsite.com/website