Instruction that will help at the time of death – Phakchok Rinpoche message on Guru Rinpoche day สารจากท่าน พักชก ริมโปเช กรกฎาคม 2555
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พุทธมามกมูลนิธิ ในพระสังฆราชูปถัมภ์
Buddhist foundation
ร่วมกับ
with
วัดเบญจมบพิตรดุสิตวนาราม
Bejamabophit temple
ขอกราบอาราธนาพระคุณเจ้า และเรียนเชิญพุทธศาสนิกชนผู้สนใจธรรมปฏิบัติร่วมฟังธรรมและปฏิบัติกรรมฐาน
Homage to the Buddha and inviting all Buddhists to listen to Dharma and practice meditation
ณ วัดเบญจมบพิตรฯ ศาลาธรรมชินราชปัญจบพิธ ดาดฟ้า ชั้น ๕
At Wat Benjamabophit temple, top floor 5th level
องค์แสดงธรรม คือ
With the following details
(all talks are in Thai)
พระอาจารย์วิชัย เขมิโย วัดถ้ำผาจม อ. แม่สาย จ. เชียงราย
วันอาทิตย์ที่ 1 กรกฎาคม 2555 เวลา 14.00น.
พระอาจารย์ลมาย ลาภสัมปันโน วัดพระพุทธบาทดอยโล้น อ.บ้านตาก จ.ตาก
วันอาทิตย์ที่ 19 สิงหาคม 2555 เวลา 14.00น.
พระอาจารย์ท่อน ญาณธโร วัดศรีอภัยวัน อ. เมือง จ. เลย
วันอาทิตย์ที่ 23 กันยายน 2555 เวลา 14.00น.
พระอาจารย์ปริญญา ธีรปัญโญ วัดพุ่มบำเพ็ญธรรม อ.บ้านไร่ จ.อุทัยธานี
วันอาทิตย์ที่ 21 ตุลาคม 2555 เวลา 14.00น.
พระอาจารย์ปราโมทย์ ปาโมชโช สวนสันติธรรม อ. ศรีราชา จ. ชลบุรี
วันอาทิตย์ที่ 25 พฤศจิกายน 2555 เวลา 14.00น.
พระอาจารย์เยื้อน ขันติพโล วัดเขาศาลาอตุลฐานะจาโร อ. บัวเชด จ. สุรินทร์
วันอาทิตย์ที่ 23 ธันวาคม 2555 เวลา 14.00น.
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ขอเชิญร่วมเป็นเจ้าภาพทอดผ้าป่าสามัคคี เพื่อสมทบทุนสร้างศาลาการเปรียญวัดทัพหลวง อำเภอวังน้ำเย็น จังหวัดสระแก้ว วันเสาร์ที่ 30 มิถุนายน ตามรายละเอียดด้านล่าง ติดต่อ คุณสิทธิชัย 089-7517812
ธนาคารกสิกรไทย สาขาวังน้ำเย็น ชื่อบัญชีนายสมจิต ปุ้ยนอก
นายแหล่ พลเดช พระสวัสดิ์ สุขกาโม ในนามวัดทัพหลวง บัญชีเลขที่ 273-2-68162-3
Kasikorn Bank, Wang Nam Yen Branch, Account number 273-2-68162-3
หรือ ธนาคาร ธกส. สาขาวังน้ำเย็น ชื่อบัญชี วัดทับหลวง เลขที่ 278-2-90806-1
ติดต่อ พระอาจารย์ สวัสดิ์ สุขกาโม โทร.081-2631646
พระอาจารย์ อำนวย สุจิตโต โทร.080-6312920
สอบถามเส้นทาง คุณสิทธิชัย 089-7517812
Invitation to be co-host in Tod Pha Pa ceremony and making contribution for construction of monk education hall at Wat Thap Luang, Ampur Wang Nam Yen, Sa Kaew province on Saturday 30th June (for more information and to make contribution for this please contact ram@pluslab.com or call 081-9855564
“Shamatha and Vipashyana” (Calm abiding and Insight) meditation 4 days retreat in Chieng Rai from August 2nd to August 5th (4 days long-weekend public holiday) at The New Life Foundation, please try to arrive by August 1st evening (http://www.newlifethaifoundation.com/retreats/4-day-shamatha-and-vipashyana-retreat/)
บรรยายธรรมและฝึกสมาธิสมัถ และ วิปัสสนา จ. เชียงราย 2-5 สิงหาคม วันหยุดยาว ควรจะมาถึงสถานที่ภายในวันที่ 1 (มีแปลไทย)
สอบถามข้อมูลเพิ่มเติมได้ที่ 081-9855564
ลงทะเบียนได้ที่ http://www.newlifethaifoundation.com/retreats/4-day-shamatha-and-vipashyana-retreat/
Please note that the weekend of the retreat is a long-weekend public holiday so would be good to book your travel early. Please try to arrive at the retreat venue on August 1st evening or early morning on August 2nd.
For more information please contact us here, for reservation please contact retreats@newlifethaifoundation.com
Shamatha and Vipashyana
“Shamatha” or Calm Abiding takes the meditator to the stage where emotional conflict and disturbing trains of thought are eliminated in a state of thoughtful concentration which is calm and peaceful. In this peaceful and calm condition nothing disturbs equanimity, whether coming from outside or inside the mind. It is a state untroubled by attachments and aversions.
At the same time the insight which is engendered by one pointed absorption allows clear vision of one’s own mind and the nature of things. This is called “Vipashyana” or Insight, which is a clear mind with an incisive insight into the nature of reality. Calmness and clarity allow the mind freedom to be in the here and now.
The other teaching programs are yet to be finalized. We will keep you posted and you can check at Mongkol Sri facebook page and also at www.mongkol.org
We are also raising fund for the payment of his flight ticket and other traveling expenses so if you would like to make a contribution please contact us here or call me at 081-9855564. The balance from the contribution will be directly donated to Lama Rinchen.
Here is a brief biography of Lama Rinchen:
Venerable Lama Rinchen Phuntsok is a skillfull teacher with a light and joyful manner. He is a scholar and meditation master of the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition. Born in Tibet, Lama Rinchen began receiving instruction in the traditions of Tibetan Buddhism at the age of six in Tsasum Chokhorling Monastery in Tibet. After he left Tibet in 1958, he studied at Young Lama’s Home School in Dalhousie, The Buddhist Monastic School in Rewalsar, Nyingmapa Lama’s College in Dehra-Dun, and Zongdog Palri Monastery in Kalimpong. Lama Rinchen graduated from Sanskrit University in Varanasi India where he completed advanced studies in Sutrayana Buddhist philosophy and scriptures, commentaries, logic, literature, history, and the major sciences of the Tibetan curriculum.
To complete his training in Vajrayana Nyingma School studies, he served as private secretary to the late His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche, supreme Head of the Nyingma order of Tibetan Buddhism for over fifteen years. During that time he received all the important empowerments, transmissions, essential instructions, the oral teaching of Nyingma Kama, and the Profound Rediscovered Teachings of Terma of the great Lotus Born Teacher, Guru Padmasambhava, the founder of Vajravana Buddhism. For many years Lama Rinchen was in charge of Zangdog Palri Monastery in India and also Urgyen Dongag, Choling Monastery in Kathmandu, Nepal. In 1980, His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche asked him to come to the United States to teach in his New York center where Lama Rinchen was director and resident Lama for four years. Since then he has lectured widely throughout the United States and Europe at centers, colleges, and universities. Lama Rinchen visits his students every year and stays in St. Louis to give teachings and empowerments for several weeks during his U.S. tour. He also has students in New York, California, Colorado, New Mexico, etc., as he continues to spread the teachings of the Dudjom Lineage.
(http://dongakcholing.org/LamaRinchen.html)
Guru Rinpoche Day
Beloved Friends Near and Far,
I hope you and your loved ones have been happy and healthy. I am at the moment in a small Malaysian city of Batu Pahat leading a Mahamudra retreat. And all is well here!
For today’s Guru Rinpoche Day, I thought of extracting few pith instructions by Padmasambhava to his close student, Trisong Detsen and a brief overview of how it all started.
How Padmakara came to the Snowy Land of Tibet.
It all started with Samye! The Great Lopon, Padmasambhava came to Tibet on the invitation of the Great King, Trisong Detsen under the guidance of the Great Abbot, Shantarakshita to built the first ever Buddhist monastery of the country.
When King Trisong Detsen, the thirty-eighth king of Tibet, was twenty-one years of age he formed a strong aspiration to spread the sacred teachings of the Dharma. He invited the Great Abbot; Shantarakshita from India who helped laid the foundation of the great temple. Whatever was build during the day was dismantled at night by the local spirits creating much obstacle which eventually lead the Abbot to make the prediction to invite the great master Padmasambhava to come to Tibet.
At the Tamarisk Forest at Red Rock, Padmakara met the king of Tibet and then proceeded to the top of Mount Hepori to bring the gods and demons of the country under his command. He laid the foundation for Samye and saw it through to completion, employing also the gods and demons who had earlier hindered the building. In five years the work was completed for the temple complex of Glorious Samye, the Unchanging and Spontaneously Accomplished Temple.
After the completion Samye, the King requested empowerment and instruction from Padmakara. At Chimphu, the hermitage above Samye, the great master gave profound teachings to many destined students headed by the king and his sons and the twenty-five disciples.
Guru Rinpoche remained in Tibet for 55 years and six months; 48 years while the king was alive and seven years and six months afterwards. He arrived when the king was 21 (810 A.D.). The king passed away at the age of 69. Padmakara stayed for a few years after that before leaving for Ngayab Ling by liberating the king of the Rakshasas and assuming his form at the Glorious Copper Colored Mountain of Glory.
Below is an excerpt of the extraordinary teachings given by the Master to the King.
Guru Rinpoche said this to Trisong Detsen:
To condense all into a single sentence: the view is to be free from convictions, meditation is to not place the mind on anything, experience is to be free from savoring the taste and fruition is beyond attainment. The Buddhas of the three times have not taught, are not teaching, and will not teach it to be any other than this!
(Advice from the Lotus Born pg. 38)
Guru Rinpoche to the King:
The awakened mind of bodhichitta is not created through causes nor destroyed through circumstances. It is not made by ingenious Buddhas nor manufactured by clever sentient beings. It is originally present in you as your natural possession. When you recognize it through your master’s oral instructions, since mind is the forefather of the Buddhas, it is like the analogy of recognizing someone you already know.
(Advice from the Lotus Born pg. 38)
King: What does it mean to ‘clear away the faults of conviction’?
Guru Rinpoche:
Even though you have realized that your mind is the Buddha, don’t forsake your master! Even though you have realized appearances to be mind, don’t interrupt conditioned roots of virtue! Even though you don’t hope for Buddhahood, honor the sublime Three Jewels! Even though you don’t fear samsara, avoid even the minutest misdeed! Even though you have gained the unchanging confidence of your innate nature, don’t belittle any spiritual teaching! Even though you experience the qualities of samadhi, higher perceptions and the like, give up conceit and pretentiousness! Even though you have realized that samsara and nirvana are nondual, don’t cease to have compassion for sentient beings!
(Advice from the Lotus Born pg. 39)
King: What does it mean to ‘gain certainty’?
Guru Rinpoche:
Gain certainty in the fact that since the very beginning your own mind is the awakened state of Buddhahood. Gain certainty in the fact that all phenomena are the magical display of your mind. Gain certainty in the fact that the fruition is present in yourself and is not to be sought elsewhere. Gain certainty in the fact that your master is the Buddha is person. Gain certainty in the fact that the nature of view and meditation is the realization of the Buddhas. Practice by means of such confidence.
(Advice from the Lotus Born pg. 39)
Sarva Mangalam,
Phakchok Rinpoche