5. The Extraordinary Potential Of Our Human Life


OVERVIEW

Throughout our life, we are often confronted or referred to our limitations, whether it be our intellectual or physical faculties, our material means, our place in society, or even our age. All of this makes us lose sight of the extraordinary potential of our human life. Through these teachings, Rinpoche urges us to give to our life its full meaning, by helping us to recognize its unique characteristics, to become more aware of all that it could lead us to accomplish, and to realize its extreme rarity.


WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THESE TEACHINGS?

Rinpoche guides us in this meditation through three main axes:

    1. Identifying this precious human life of leisure and opportunity: it means identifying the very specific qualities of our present existence, which is free of eight major obstacles to any spiritual development, and which is endowed with ten specific assets, interior and exterior, which make us capable of taking a decisive step towards Full Enlightenment.

    2. Contemplating its great meaning: this contemplation helps us realize that our human life makes it possible to accomplish all of our temporary or ultimate goals, and that it could also prove to be of profound significance to us from moment to moment.

    3. Contemplating the difficulty of attaining such leisure and opportunity: whether it is through the causes that it is necessary to bring together to obtain such a human life, the observation of the different forms of life that surround us, or examples that may be used to illustrate it, everything leads us to assert its extreme rarity.


WHAT WILL YOU LEARN?

This meditation helps us gain real self-confidence and contributes to awaken in our hearts an increased joy and desire to practice the spiritual path.


How to live today to die in peace tomorrow - Neuchâtel - 2010

Like a needy unaware of possessing a treasure, we most often go through our lives without even suspecting its extraordinary potential. This teaching invites us to become fully aware of it, infuses us with the courage to accomplish great things, shows us that with such an existence complete...

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