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EXTRACT Be Very Careful About Your Motivation for Doing Retreat 26-Aug-2017

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Channel: FPMT · 2018 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Here Rinpoche gives essential advice. If you do a tantra retreat, having understood lam rim, you do it with bodhichitta attitude, then it becomes the cause for enlightenment. The purpose of doing retreat is to subdue one’s mind. Rinpoche gives an important message: the first thing is to understand that everything comes from your mind. That awareness should always be there. Due to your past ignorance your are still holding your „I"" as truly existing. The basic mindfulness about that should be always there. Keep up the awareness to see everything as a dream, as a projected hallucination. Another point is to understand how important it is to have the right motivation: to develop great compassion for all sentient beings. Then doing a three year retreat you will have a good result. The good signs will be that you have less anger, less attachment and altogether less problems. Remember that all your happiness comes from the kindness of every sentient being. On the basis of that you practice tantra. You live your life for sentient beings. You can enjoy your life!
This video was extracted from a teaching that was recorded in Black Mountain, United States on August 26, 2017.
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