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Domo Geshe Rinpoche taught on Zoom for Milwaukee Visit March 19-21, 2021 on Loneliness and Buddhist Practice A Domo Geshe Rinpoche Event
A plague of loneliness is disturbing so many during this time of isolation from friends and family. Let’s work together to uplift ourselves so that we will be better off when all of this is over.
2021-03-19 The causes of loneliness and how we cope
Rinpoche leads a discussion that explores the causes of loneliness from acute issues like the isolation in the COVID19 pandemic to chronic loneliness. She also compares lonliness to being alone. Loneliness will not heal itself, we must make effort to reach out to those we feel safe with or speak with a professional. She ends with teaching the technique to “Lift the Inner Eye” as a way to increase feeling alive, well being, and connectedness.
2021-03-20 Lonely or alone? A Buddhist strategy for discovering the pleasure of solitude
Rinpoche begins by talking about how we are habituated to loneliness and gathers feedkback on in men or wormen are more lonely, and how each group copes with it. She reads from SSR June 12 on loneliness and illusion and discusses how Buddhism views it with a discussion of outer and inner life. She then reads a sutra on Buddha’s advice to become an “Ideal lover of soletude”. She ends with a discussion of what is solitude.
2021-03-21 Bodhisattva lifestyle for practitioners and the already enlightened
During this third day of the loneliness discussion Rinpoche discusses different levels of beings like ordinary baby/child, unusual child, and extraordinary child. A bodhisattva extraordinatory child must awaken and live a life of service. She discusses life in a pure land, and live after awakening in the human realm. She offers advice on the importanct singlemindedness for success, and how senses and thinking are different after awakening. She offers advice to serious practitioners on how they can change their thinking and organize their lifestyle to awaken. She ends with tools we can use to make the world work better.
Each day is available as an individual teaching upon request.
