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https://www.jewelheart.org/.../meditation-technology-series/ The Seven Limbed Prayer and Special Request In order to have profound meditations with lasting impact, practitioners strive to create positive energy and purify any obstacles in the presence of the Field of Merit. The seven-limbed prayer is a condensed presentation of engaging in powerful positive thoughts and visualizations. Making special requests opens our heart and makes us receptive to the wisdom, compassion and blessings from the Field of Merit, and also from within ourselves.

Demo Rinpoche: Bodhisattva's Way of Life. Begins November 17. Watch Live or Stream Later. https://www.jewelheart.org/.../the-bodhisattvas-way-of.../ Shantideva’s Bodhisattva’s Way of Life was composed in the 8th century and is among the most beloved and inspiring works in the Mahayana Buddhist tradition. With the motivation of unselfishly helping others, a bodhisattva aspires to follow in the footsteps of the Buddha. Shantideva gives detailed instructions on the benefits and... methods of living in accordance with the bodhisattva ideals. For additional reading on the subject: https://www.jewelheart.org/.../six-perfections.../

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https://www.jewelheart.org//lojong-courage-to-transform-y/ The lojong or mind training tradition is rich with methods to counter the two main obstacles to enlightenment, self-grasping and self-cherishing. Demo Rinpoche will teach from Langri Tangpa's famed eight verses of Mind Training with some input also from Je Tsongkhapa's Lojong, known as the 27 Verses.

GANDEN LHA GYEMA Class tonight. Remember, you can still sign up for this class and stream later any you missed. https://www.jewelheart.org/events/ganden-lha-gyema-2020/ The Ganden Lha Gyema is one of the most popular practices in the Tsongkhapa tradition. Ganden Lha Gyema is an easy, foundational practice that includes the basic teachings of Buddhism.... This online Jewel Heart course, led by Jewel Heart Instructor Jonathan Rose, will provide instructions and guided meditations, particularly visualization practices, to deepen the spiritual connection with this tradition. Jonathan F.P. Rose, is a long-time student of the late Tibetan Buddhist master Gelek Rimpoche.

A DAILY DOSE OF MOTIVATION https://www.jewelheart.org/blog/a-daily-dose-of-motivation/ The moment you wake up in the morning there are actually three things we can do. First, you should appreciate that you are alive. Be thankful to the objects of refuge, in our case, Buddha, Dharma and Sangha. We are grateful to them that we are still alive. The second thing is that we will not waste this precious life in general. It is important to recognize this. Otherwise we don’t apprecia...te our life. It could have easily ended when we were asleep. It could have gone away yesterday. But today we are still here. So we are grateful. So we don’t want to waste our time in general and in particular, today. Then, while not wasting time, what do I do? Whatever I do I will try to benefit all living beings, trying to bring them to the state of Buddhahood. I myself need to become a Buddha so that I have the effortless, unlimited capability, so I can fulfill my commitment. Such a thought will push the individual a very long way on your spiritual journey. Such a thought will make positive whatever you do during the day not only the virtues, but even neutral thoughts. Simply sitting there and day-dreaming, simply not doing anything, just relaxing, all of those will become virtue, because of the power of the thoughts of that morning. That’s why mind is important. That’s why mind makes a difference. That’s why one individual has to be good and kind minded, a kind person. How does one become a kind person? If you say poor thing, poor thing alone when you see someone suffering, that just becomes po ting la. It doesn’t really become compassion. It doesn’t become kindness. It almost becomes lip service. But whether you say poor thing or not, if you have developed such a mind every day, as a religion, for your own benefit and for the benefit of those who are connected and particularly your own family, your spouse, your children and so forth, if you do that, and particularly for yourself, you can do nothing better for the day, actually. That is what this lam rim demands. They even call it, "ge sem kye par je" a very special, virtuous mind. It is really referring to bodhimind. ~ Gelek Rimpoche, Delam - The Smooth Path To Enlightenment, 2013, p. 20

CONCENTRATED MEDITATION https://www.jewelheart.org/blog/concentrated-meditation/ If you do not do any analytical meditations, then whatever you hear will be like a person telling you stories. But if you use it, it will be an effective spiritual practice. If you want it to help you, you have to do the work. That is: analytically try to understand and draw the conclusion and then concentrate on it, apply concentrated meditation. Both are necessary: concentrated meditation is ab...solutely necessary, analytical meditation is absolutely necessary. Without it you can never get a spiritual development. Once you are able to get some points that you found by analyzing, then concentrate on them. When you do that, each point merges with you; you and that point will merge together; it becomes almost oneness. When it becomes that, then it works, then you are moving in the right direction. Until then, we are simply going around it, but we are really never getting into it. Every point that you really get is a spiritual development. In order to make it become a spiritual development the individual has to merge into it. The moment you merge that within the individual, it affects the person. And that is your spiritual development. I believe this is how one should move. Concentrated meditation alone can give you harmony, make you peaceful, wonderful, can reduce your emotions, reduce your anger, attachment, hatred, but then you’ll have fallbacks. Sometimes you can go into depression a little bit; all these funny little problems can come up. If you do analytical meditation alone and you don’t do any concentrated meditation, then you become a very talkative informer. You know what I mean? Some people have a lot of information in their brain and they go, Tuptuptuptup... So and so said such and such, I read about it tactactactac... but actually it has no effect on the individual themselves or the people they talk to at all. ~ Gelek Rimpoche, The Three Principles of the Path, 1994, p. 48

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