Category: Gyalwa Karmapa
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What is the Best Practice to Work with Speech? How to Make it Become Buddha Speech?
I think a simple answer would be that any speech that comes from a kind heart (in the unemotional sense) would help make it more like Buddha speech.
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What is the Pure View?
My question is about pure view and the ability to discriminate. If one practices pure view of everyone, would it inhibit our ability to judge people and matters and function in daily life?
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How Can Buddhism Help Us to Avert the Crisis on Earth?
Question: global warming suggests that one day the earth will be uninhabitable. Governments seem too slow and in some cases unwilling to act for change, so how can Buddhism help us to avert this crisis?
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How to Balance Practice and Mundane Life?
Realisation of impermanence is an important part of building the motivation to practice. However, lay persons are mostly still caught up with work and family, and the time left for dharma study, inner reflection and meditation becomes little.
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How to Help My Mum Who is Dying of Cancer?
I believe that when anyone is in this kind of condition – be it cancer or any other form of illness – in these difficult moments, I think there is only one thing that we can provide.
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Why is it So Important to Have a Spiritual Teacher?
Question: Is it necessary to practice the spiritual practice only under proper guidance by a teacher, or can we start on our own if we have faith in what we do? If the beginning of all knowledge is to know yourself and we have all the answers within ourselves, why is it so important to…
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Day of Peace
Dear dharma friends, I am delighted to share this message as Faith in Peace Ambassador for Peace Day on 21st September 2013. With the United Nations Secretary-General and countless others supporting this global day of peace, this is an auspicious moment indeed.
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September 11th: Nonviolence and Compassion
September 11th marks the anniversary of the tragic events in New York and Washington in 2001. Nearly 3000 people were killed in the attacks, causing huge suffering and loss, still felt to this day. In the face of violence, where is there hope?
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Finding Freedom
Most of us tend to think about freedom as being able to say and do what we want. We think of freedom as depending on external circumstances. If we can’t do what we want, we think, this is largely due to society’s constraints on us. So, naturally, we think of ‘others’ as the enemies of…
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About Buddha Purnima
It is a very special day for all practitioners of Buddhism, because it is the anniversary of three important events in Lord Buddha’s life.
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Wars of Words Are Violent, Too
The so-called war of words involving North Korea, South Korea and the United States, raises an important question for our time: how do we define violence?
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Learning From Lehman
Saturday 15 September marks four years since the fall of the Lehman brothers, the beginning of the economic crisis. Seeing and experiencing how the economic system has caused pain and sorrow for many people around the world, we cannot forget, however, that it was once intended for something good and to benefit everybody. With the…
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Pain, Gain and the Race of Life
This summer, the world is looking towards London to celebrate its athletes. For them, the saying ‘no pain, no gain’ is part of their path to excellence. For the rest of us, we might be left wondering whether all this pain is necessary. Wouldn’t life be much easier if we only had gain? Nobody wants…
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The Wealth of Europe
The financial crisis in Europe, and the suffering caused by it, is something that has increasingly drawn my attention. The population of young people – my own age group – is particularly affected by it. I believe that in Spain, where I begin my third European tour this week, more than half of young people…
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Five Steps to a Wealthier Life
We all want to lead healthy and prosperous lives. The news headlines in the UK and around the world, however, are firmly focused on the activities of banks and bankers and the weakness of our global economy. They paint a picture of wealth and prosperity defined by possessions and materialism alone. How do we lead…