In the 2024-01-21 class, we went through verse 38 of the Guru Puja, the part of confession of the seven-limb prayer.

  • the three ways of accumulating virtue and non-virtue, either by doing it yourself, having someone do it for you, and rejoicing in someone doing it,
  • understanding that virtue always results in happiness and that non virtue always results in suffering
  • also knowing that actions can be purified with the right motivation and actions by way of the 4 opponent powers and how to do so

2024-01-21 recording

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    Wanda Scherer

    Hi. I have not been able to download this lesson as I have done for all of the previous lessons. I listen to them off line. Is there something I am doing wrong? Any help you can provide me I will be greatful. Thanks, Wanda Scherer

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      Hi, I’m not sure. Maybe you can try to open the link in a private/incognito window, as it works fine on my end. We will try to improve the audio quality as well during the live sessions going forward.

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  • Tibetan word of the day: གཞི་གྲུབ་

    གཞི་གྲུབ་

    Established basis

    Spelling (jorlok; Tib. སྦྱོར་ཀློག་) and pronunciation:
    གཞི་ – ga-o zha gigu zhi
    གྲུབ་ – ga ra-tak dra zhabkyu dru ba drub
    zhi drub

    From class notes:

    “First, what must be understood is this: the established basis (Tib. གཞི་གྲུབ་ gzhi grub), object of knowledge (Tib. ཤེས་བྱ་ shes bya), existence (Tib. ཡོད་པ་ yod pa), and phenomena (Tib. ཆོས་ chos) are all of one meaning.

    The meaning of an established basis is that which is established by valid cognition (Skt. pramāṇa).”


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