The quick path - Bordeaux - 2011

OVERVIEW

The Quick Path, or Nyurlam in Tibetan, is one of the eight great lamrim texts and was written by the 2^nd Panchen Lama Lobsang Yeshe. It is a commentary on the fundamental work of his predecessor, The Easy Path, or Delam. For six consecutive years, at the request of Kadam Tcheuling Bordeaux, Rinpoche gave the transmission and instructions of this essential treatise, which constitutes a deeply inspiring meditation guide to the path leading to enlightenment.

This is the third cycle of these teachings.

WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THESE TEACHINGS?

With extraordinary teaching skill, Rinpoche passes on the instructions by which we can let go of our attachment to cyclic existence and thus become free of its endless torment, and fully embrace the search for liberation.

1. Develop the aspiration to liberation by reflecting on suffering
  The universal sufferings of saṃsāra affect all beings who, like us, have a body and a mind deeply conditioned by disturbing mental factors such as ignorance, attachment or irritation. Specific sufferings also torment each of the classes of beings within cyclic existence, such as animals, human beings, and other forms of life which escape our current perceptions.
2. Establish the nature of the path leading to liberation
  As long as we continue wandering within cyclic existence we will be subject to its suffering. What is the process the process through which we die and are reborn, that is, the origin of suffering? We observe how disturbing factors arise in our mind, we understand how under their influence we accumulate karma. Then we establish the nature of the path that leads to liberation, that is, how we can bring our saṃsāra to an end.

This session concludes with a rare and magnificent bodhicitta ceremony.

WHAT WILL YOU LEARN?

These teachings will awaken the aspiration to liberation in us, or strengthen it if it already exists. Realizing that all forms of suffering, whatever their apparent differences, have a common cause, (namely the ignorance by which we see ourself as having an absolute identity) and also that it can be eliminated totally, is crucial. Once this happens, we acquire the certainty that an existence without suffering is possible, and that it is within our reach. On this basis love and compassion embracing the infinity of beings can arise, and can lead us to achieve complete enlightenment for the good of all beings, including ourselves.