With the earth as my witness, as my home,
With this ground as my support,
May I rest in the joy and love of dharma.
With the earth as my witness,
May I be the joy and love of dharma.
With the earth as my only witness;
And in the absence of anyone to please or placate,
Let my activities of body, speech, and mind be pure;
Cleansed of distortions, unsullied by vanity,
True to my own pure Buddha being.
– Mingyur Rinpoche
from the book “In Love with the World”
We run away from the fear, and seek comfort in what is familiar. Yet since what we are running away from comes from our own minds, we are running away from ourselves, and as a strategy for happiness, this never works.
– Mingyur Rinpoche
from the book “In Love with the World”
2021 SUMMER RETREAT AT TERGAR OSELLING, NEPAL (24th of July – 6th of Sept.)
The prevailing of the Buddha’s teaching depends solely upon the Sangha. The Sangha is flourished by following the strict rules of the three foundations (restoring the vows, summer retreat, the releasing of the summer retreat) according to the Vinaya Pitaka.
During Buddha’s time, the summer monsoon season in India lasted for three months. Based on the great compassion, Buddha instructed monks to stay in one place during the monsoon period in order to prevent the killing of insects and worms while walking on muddy roads. Monks are required to main in residene in one place, practice diligently, this is so called ’summer retreat’.
During the summer retreat, the Sangha (monks) will study Tri-pitakas (Vinaya, Sutra and Abhidharma) and practice mainly on three higher trainings (morality, concentration and wisdom).
The monks of Tergar Oselling, Nepal will study and follow exactly the same rules as the monks followed during the time of Buddha. The summer retreat will start on 24th July, 2021 at Tergar Oselling, Nepal.
We sincerely invite you to join us in supporting the monks during summer retreat, providing them a peaceful enviornment for practicing. The benefactors can accumulate virtues and purify karmic obstacles, increasing both wisdom and merits till enlightenment.
In the conventional view, life comes before death. In the wisdom view, ego-grasping death comes before life. Until we wake up to the pure perceptions that are not filtered and distorted by culture and compulsions, we are sleepwalking, fully alive during neither the day nor the night—living in the place where only fungus grows. In the wisdom view, in order to wake up to reality in this life, first we must allow the limited, conditioned self to let go and die.
– Mingyur Rinpoche
from the book “In Love with the World”
เนื่องในวันอาสาฬหบูชา ขอเชิญทุกท่านเข้าร่วมรับฟังการบรรยายสด
เรื่องวิถีโพธิสัตว์เพื่อโลกสมัยใหม่
(The Way of the Bodhisattva for the Modern World)
โดยท่านมิงจูร์ รินโปเช
ในวันนี้เวลา 22.00 น. ทางช่อง Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veNdvXOjK_o
Live talk "The Way of the Bodhisattva for the Modern World"
by Mingyur Rinpoche
Today at 10 pm (Bangkok Time) on YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veNdvXOjK_o
