(Everyone is welcomed, registration form below) (ยินดีรับผู้ปฏิบัติทุกระดับ ลงทะเบียนด้านล่าง)
Lama Rinchen Phuntsok will be giving teaching on Dependent Origination (प्रतीत्यसमुत्पाद pratītyasamutpāda) on Sun 27th January afternoon, Sukhumvit/Asoke area in Bangkok
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Schedule: Sunday 27 January มกราคม 2019 —2pm-930pm Snacks and Dinner will be provided during the session
Dependent Origination (प्रतीत्यसमुत्पाद pratītyasamutpāda) Pratītyasamutpāda – A name given by the historical Buddha to the arising of samsaric phenomena, variously rendered into English as “dependent origination”, “conditional genesis”, “dependent co-arising”, “inter dependent arising”.
“Commonly translated as dependent origination, or dependent arising, is a key principle in Buddhist teachings, which states that all dharmas (“phenomena”) arise in dependence upon other dharmas: “if this exists, that exists; if this ceases to exist, that also ceases to exist”.
The principle is expressed in the links of dependent origination (Pali: dvādasanidānāni, Sanskrit: dvādaśanidānāni) in Buddhism, a linear list of twelve elements from the Buddhist teachings which arise depending on the preceding link. Traditionally the list is interpreted as describing the conditional arising of rebirth in saṃsāra, and the resultant duḥkha (suffering, pain, unsatisfactoriness). ” (from wikipedia)
Venue/สถานที่: Windsor tower apartments, unit 20B, Sukhumvit soi 20, Sukhumvit road, Bangkok Map แผนที่:https://goo.gl/maps/FwJAsvxjoKM2 Cost: ไม่มีค่าใช้จ่าย Free, snacks and light dinner will be provided, you can bring some vegetarian snacks/food to share Donation: not required, but if you find the session valuable, you can make donation directly to the teacher Bring: Sitting cushion (if you have)
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Buddhism – Introduction to Selflessness and Emptiness teaching in Bangkok 18 January 2019 บรรยายธรรม อนัตตา และ ศูนยตา 18 มกราคม 2562 (Everyone is welcomed, registration form below) (ยินดีรับผู้ปฏิบัติทุกระดับ ลงทะเบียนด้านล่าง)
Lama Rinchen Phuntsok will be giving teaching the Introduction to Selflessness and Emptiness on January on Fri 18th evening, Sukhumvit/Asoke area in Bangkok
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Selflessness and Emptiness Anattā/Selflessness: Beside the assembly of the 5 aggregates (Skandha) there is no independent self. On the these 5 aggregate (Skandha), self manifests temporarily due to grasping.
Śūnyatā/Emptiness: a passage from the Heart sūtra states: Form is emptiness, emptiness is form Emptiness is not separate from form, form is not separate from emptiness Whatever is form is emptiness, whatever is emptiness is form.
Venue/สถานที่: Windsor tower apartments, unit 20B, Sukhumvit soi 20, Sukhumvit road, Bangkok Map แผนที่:https://goo.gl/maps/FwJAsvxjoKM2 Cost: ไม่มีค่าใช้จ่าย Free, snacks and light dinner will be provided, you can bring some vegetarian snacks/food to share Donation: not required, but if you find the session valuable, you can make donation directly to the teacher Bring: Sitting cushion (if you have)
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Lama Rinchen Phuntsok will be giving teaching of The Pith Instructions on The Garland of Views [ མན་ངག་ལྟ་བའི་ཕྲེང་བ་ उपदेशदृष्ट्यावाली upadeśadṛṣṭyāvalī ] by Padmasambhava [ པདྨ་སམྦྷ་ཝ་ पद्मसम्भव ] in January on Fri 11 evening, Sat 12 afternoon, Sun 13 afternoon in Sukhumvit/Asoke area in Bangkok
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Schedule in January มกราคม 2019: Friday 11th ศุกร์ 11 .: 7pm-9pm Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th เสาร์-อาทิตย์ 12-13: 2pm-7pm
Venue/สถานที่: Windsor tower apartments, unit 20B, Sukhumvit soi 20, Sukhumvit road, Bangkok Map แผนที่: https://goo.gl/maps/FwJAsvxjoKM2 Cost: ไม่มีค่าใช้จ่าย Free, snacks and light dinner will be provided, you can bring some vegetarian snacks/food to share Donation: not required, but if you find the session valuable, you can make donation directly to the teacher
The Garland of Views “In A Garland of Views, Padmasambhava compares the different vehicles on the basis of three criteria–view, meditation, and result. He devotes the final section of the text to a comparison using a fourth criterion–spiritual training and yogic discipline or conduct. Of all these, the view is of paramount importance. The way we look at the world decides the path we will take, whether spiritual or otherwise. When we see things erroneously, we create our own (and others’) suffering, and if we are to change our condition, we need to make radical changes to our view of reality. Once the view has been established, we can meditate on it, training our minds by means of spiritual practice and tuning our activities through appropriate conduct, until we finally achieve the result. The particular view with which a person thus sets out on the spiritual path depends on his or her particular mental disposition. It is because individuals present such a variety of dispositions, with different degrees of ability and readiness to understand and accept certain views, that the Buddha and his spiritual heirs taught the different vehicles that are outlined in this text and described in order of the increasing subtlety and profundity of their corresponding views.”
“A Garland of Views presents both a concise commentary by the eighth-century Indian Buddhist master Padmasambhava on a chapter from the Guhyagarbha Tantra on the different Buddhist and non-Buddhist philosophical views, including the Great Perfection (Dzogchen)” (cr. A Garland of Views A Guide to View, Meditation, and Result in the Nine Vehicles)
Buddhism – meditation retreat – Lama Rinchen‘s Introduction to Meditation and Compassion / Chod retreat 29 December 2018 – 2 January 2019
There will be 2 sections for this retreat. Everyone is welcomed to the Introduction to Meditation and Compassion. Chod section continues last year’s retreat
Limited places available, first come first serve basis. Please register immediately. Please help share/forward to anyone you know that might be interested.
The retreat on Introduction to Meditation and Compassion by Lama Rinchen Phuntsok (http://dongakcholing.org/LamaRinchen.html) retreat. What is meditation and how can it lead us to end suffering and end causes of suffering? What is compassion and why is it essential? These question will be addressed in great detail along with introduction to the actual practices of meditation and the cultivation of compassion.
This program will start from preliminary with in-depth detail. All levels of practitioner are welcomed, from new-comer to advanced.
Cost/ราคา: 4 nights with meals 4คืนรวมอาหาร *traveling cost not included *ไม่รวมค่าเดินทาง
-Single room ห้องเดี่ยว – Baht 5500 บาท per person ต่อท่าน
-Double room ห้องคู่ (share with another participant ห้องร่วม2ท่าน) – Baht 3500 บาท per person ต่อท่าน
Registration deadline/สิ้นสุดวันลงทะเบียน:
Please register ASAP, very few places left
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Buddhism – meditation retreat – LamaRinchen‘s Dudjom Tersar Dzogchen Ngondro retreat 30 December 2017 – 3 January 2018
(Beginners are welcomed, registration form below)
Very few places available, please register immediately, first come first serve basis.
Please note that the retreat is now pretty full, please contact 0819855564 or ram@pluslab.com to confirm
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The retreat topic is Essential Advanced Dzogchen Ngondro of Dudjom Tersar with LamaRinchen Phuntsok (http://dongakcholing.org/LamaRinchen.html) retreat. This program will start from preliminary up to advanced practices (Dzogchen level). For this, Hinayana, Mahayana and Vajrayana will be covered. All levels of practitioner are welcomed, from new-comers to advanced.
Cost/ราคา: 4 nights with meals 4คืนรวมอาหาร *traveling cost not included *ไม่รวมค่าเดินทาง
-Single room ห้องเดี่ยว – Baht 5500 บาท per person ต่อท่าน
-Double room ห้องคู่ (share wih another participant ห้องร่วม2ท่าน) – Baht 3500 บาท per person ต่อท่าน
Registration deadline/สิ้นสุดวันลงทะเบียน:
Very few places left, please register immediately, first come first serve basis.
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Today we will talk about the seventh manifestation of Guru Rinpoche. His name is Kyepar Pakpey. This manifestation is especially known for taming the mountain spirits and other spirits. When we say “tame”, what does that mean? By taming, Guru Rinpoche actually teaches us how to make peace with all the beings. Why? Because Kyepar Pakpey teaches us how to make offerings: how to make offerings to the buddhas and bodhisattvas, how to make offerings to the protectors and how to make offerings to the mountain spirits and spirits and obstacle-makers and all other sentient beings. Here in the practice of Kyepar Pakpey, the method for making sang offerings is taught. Not only that, we learn how to benefit beings as a human being: how to benefit the spirit beings and how to benefit the other sentient beings as well. This is what Guru Rinpoche taught in Kyepar Pakpey.
Now, as a normal person, sometimes we have beliefs, sometimes we don’t. It is very important to respect others in this time. Sometimes we are so caught up in what we call the “reality world”, that we forget to respect the spirit world. We forget to respect other animals. We forget the outer world, such as the environment. Our respect diminishes. I can see that in myself and I can see it in others. Respect is very important. Thinking of kindness and thinking of respect is very important. Many of us, we forget this.
Here, Guru Rinpoche, in Kyepar Pakpey, teaches us how to cleanse the world. How to cleanse the environment. How to purify through his spiritual practices. Nowadays, I think at this time, we really need this practice and really need to have the idea to purify our world and our being and human beings. So, in summary, please show respect to all the environments, respect to all the elements, and thinking of the kindness of the environment, thinking of the kindness of the people who put effort, thinking of the kindness of the world is very important. Ok? This is very important to remember. Anyone who is doing sang puja, not only are you making offering to the deities, or the protector, or the spirit world, you are actually cleansing the world that is so polluted by us.
Thank you very much. Happy Guru Rinpoche Day. And be happy.
Sarva Mangalam,
Kyabgön Phakchok Rinpoche
PS: We are happy to announce that there are subtitles for this month’s message in Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Nepali, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Ukranian, and Vietnamese. Please click the settings wheel in the bottom right corner of the video to access these options.
We are also interested in your feedback about what teachings you would like to hear in future Guru Rinpoche messages.
In this month’s video message, Phakchok Rinpoche introduces the manifestation Dzamling Gyenchog, who is Yangdak Heruka inseparable from Guru Padmasambhava.
In relation to this, Rinpoche contextualizes the importance of meditation as a daily practice. Click here to view the video message https://youtu.be/u2jSh9NF7lc
Today, I want to continue the Twelve Manifestations series. Now we are focusing on the manifestation named Dzamling Gyenchog, who is Yangdak Heruka inseparable from Guru Padmasambhava. Instead of Yangdak Heruka, sometimes they say Vishuddha Heruka, and sometimes they have different translations.
This particular practice of Dzamling Gyenchog that Guru Rinpoche taught is how to gain the siddhis, especially the higher siddhis. He also taught the great practice of phowa – the ejection of consciousness. This particular Guru Rinpoche practice is to achieve the great siddhis. Yangdak Heruka Dzamling Gyenchog is very profound.
Now, with that, I just want to say that all of us are very busy. We have many great qualities. We have self-confidence. We have a happy life. We are content. We do good things. We do compassionate acts. And we all have dignity. We all have many things and we know how to balance our life. But when we don’t have meditation, then we have nothing. This practice, Dzamling Gyenchog, explains how to gain the siddhis, especially through meditation.
Our meditation is important in life. How important is exercise? How important is it to have good food? How important is it to share with our friends when we are struggling with ourselves? How important is it to get advice from wise people? Actually, meditation is more important than all of that because meditation allows you to see your own self. Meditation makes your mind calmer. Meditation makes you improve yourself a little bit. And meditation makes you reduce your bad habits, negative emotions, and negative actions.
So how to do meditation? Meditation means bring focus. You can focus on an object. You can bring your mind to focus on your breath, on Guru Padmasambhava, or on compassion. All these three are actually called meditation.
To close, I want to tell you: yes it’s very difficult to meditate every day. So that’s why you need to find the experiences and benefits to encourage yourself. You need to find the faults and difficulties that come without meditating. You need to find inspiration especially through experiences. And consider sharing this with your friends to encourage them to try meditation as well.
Thank you very much all of you. Take care! Happy Guru Rinpoche Day.
I am happy to announce that there are now subtitles in Italian! The Italian and Japanese translators kindly added subtitles to all the videos of the manifestations series, which started in November. This month’s video message also has subtitles in French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Ukranian, and Vietnamese. There are currently some technical difficulties with the Chinese and Nepali language subtitles that should be addressed shortly. Please click the settings wheel in the bottom right corner of the video to access these options.
One of Kyabgön Phakchok Rinpoche’s recent practice requests for us from his birthday message was the accumulation of the Six Vajra Line Prayer.
Samye Dharma has created a counter so we can all upload our accumulations (log in required). Please log any of your accumulations starting from Phakchok Rinpoche’s birthday on May 23, and especially persevere until the Saga Dawa Duchen on June 9th. The counter will continue at least until the next Guru Rinpoche Day, July 3rd, so keep logging your accumulations until then.
Ven. Lama Rinchen in-depth Chöd Ngondro explanation
Ven. Lama Rinchen will offer a very detailed explanation of the Chöd Ngondro, which contains the View of the great Prajñāpāramitā, Mahāmudrā and Dzogchen, and which includes the foundational set of practices that come at the forefront of most Vajrayāna systems.
The teachings will be conducted over 3 weekends from 2pm-6pm on each day total of 7 sessions–
Date/Time (2016):
Saturday Jan 23: 2pm-6pm
Sunday Jan 24: 2pm-6pm
Saturday Jan 30: 2pm-6pm
Sunday Jan 31: 2pm-6pm
Friday Feb 5: 2pm-6pm
Saturday Feb 6: 2pm-6pm
Sunday Feb 7: 2pm-6pm
Venue: Windsor Tower apartment unit 20B, opposite Windsor hotel on Sukhumvit soi 20. Easily reachable via BTS Asoke/MRT Sukhumvit station.
Cost: Baht800 per person to cover the cost of text which will be used and remaining will be made as a donation to the Lama.
Lama Rinchen Phuntsok Chod retreat in Thailand Sep 17-20 2015
Chöd retreat Sep 17-20 with Lama Rinchen
We would like to invite you to Chod retreat which will be held from September 17th to September 20th in Thailand
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Chöd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%B6d
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According to Mahayana Buddhists, emptiness is the ultimate wisdom of understanding that all things lack inherent existence. Chöd combines prajñāpāramitā philosophy with specific meditation methods and tantric ritual. The chod practitioner seeks to tap the power of fear through activities such as rituals set in graveyards, and visualisation of offering their bodies in a tantric feast in order to put their understanding of emptiness to the ultimate test.
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About Lama Rinchen http://dongakcholing.org/LamaRinchen.html
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The 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.
Venue: About 2-3 hours out of Bangkok, we will keep you informed.
Cost: 4000-4500Baht per person, all meals and text included (transport cost not included)
Limited places available, kindly signup at your earliest convenience.
This retreat is suitable for all levels of practitioners.
Meditation and Dharma classes by Ven. Lama Rinchen (Tibetan Buddhist Master)
We would like to invite you to public Dharma talks be Ven. Lama Rinchen Phuntsok in Bangkok areas in June 2015.
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.
Biography can be found at http://dongakcholing.org/LamaRinchen.html
Topic: “Attachment, Detachment, Aversion and Antidote” Date:Sunday 21st June 2pm-5pm Venue: The Continent Hotel (near Asoke intersection next to Interchange tower, on Sukhumvit road, hotel web site: www.thecontinenthotel.com/location/) 33rd floor GMT room Note: Limited seats, please RSVP by email ram@pluslab.com
Topic: “The Textual Tradition of the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism” Date: Wednesday 24nd June 1:30pm-3:30pm Venue: Mahidol University, Kanpai Room, Ground floor, Department of Humanities, Salaya
For more information please email: prasajya@gmail.com
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Tel: (Eng) 0819855564,0989195519 – (Thai) 0894817754
Email: ram@pluslab.com
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These events are free of charge and suitable for everyone.
Lama Rinchen Phuntsok Bangkok Dharma classes in June 2015
