Description
Winter Retreat 2012
Lotus Lake Buddhist Center
Rinpoche offers a week of teachings on yoga, simplicity and mantra.
12/28/2012 Live the simplicity of a monks life on retreat.
Rinpoche prepares retreatants for the upcoming week of teachings on yoga, simplicity and mantra.
12/30/2012 ab Simplicity in Third, Second, and First World Countries
A. Rinpoche discusses simplicity in First World countries – by choice or due to poverty. We look at the elements of simplicity in First World luxury life,and the history of simplicity.
B. Rinpoche talks about how simplicity is viewed in third world countries like India and Tibet.
01/01/2013 Â Analysis of Plain vs Artificial: physical, mental and spiritual
Rinpoche leads a discussion of the benefits and draw backs of plain and artificial in the three areas of physical, mental, and spiritual. This logical analysis leads us to argue for plain over artificial.
01/02/2013 Analysis of Easy vs Difficult
Rinpoche leads a discussion of analysis of easy vs difficult in spiritual doing, understanding and obstacles. We then argue for easy. Rinpoche begins the discussion on deepening mantra practice.Â
She then leads a discussion of analysis of easy vs difficult in physical doing and understanding, and mental understanding. (Rainbow)
01/03/2013 Simplicity of the senses
Rinpoche briefly completes her discussion of simplicity of the senses and how to open to the energy of the world in a healthy way. She then discusses how to deepen mantra practice including being more calm, inner checking, and being aware of where mantra recitation is occurring.
01/04/2013Â Analysis of Modest
Rinpoche leads us in an analysis of modest and we argue for modest over proud as the way to live a Buddhist life of simplicity.
01/04/2013 Â Enjoyment of Simplicity, and analysis of proud
Rinpoche discusses how enjoyment of simplicity leads to happiness, and leads us in an analysis of proud, affected, effete, arrogant in physical, mental, and spiritual areas.
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