What is samsara and how to get free from it - Jakarta - 2012
OVERVIEW
If you suffer from an illness and a doctor finally finds its cause and provides you with a cure that has the capacity to dispel it, you feel relieved and grateful, and take this treatment to heart. In this two-day teaching, Rinpoche reveals to us with exceptionnal clarity how all our sufferings, however diverse they may seem to be, have actually a sole origin and that it can be cleared away.
WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THESE TEACHINGS?
Rinpoche details here with breathtaking depth and precision the anatomy of suffering. He reveals how:
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- What is called 'saṃsāra' is your own body and mind contaminated by disturbing mental factors
- This saṃsāra emerges from the fundamental ignorance of your genuine nature
- Such ignorance appears as the ultimate cause of all suffering
- Authentic self-knowledge emerges through establishing what the 'I' is
- Existence within saṃsāra is filled with uncertainty, dissatisfaction, and a wide array of torments
- As long as you remain in that state you are bound to experience constantly one of the three types of suffering
- You die and reborn in cyclic existence
- How to escape completely from suffering and its causes through the three higher trainings
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WHAT WILL YOU LEARN?
This teaching may help you understand that liberation is possible, and such comprehension may spur in you a longing for it and a renunciation to all deceptive appearances of happiness.