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Loving-Kindness & the Gifts of an Open Heart

On Loving-Kindness and the Gifts of an Open Heart

An Excerpt from Teachings Given by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche in Nepal, 2024

His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who will be 90 in July, has been spreading his message of loving-kindness and compassion so wonderfully in this century. He is genuinely reaching out and publicly promoting the message of bodhicitta, compassion, and loving-kindness. It's a very simple message. And for us, the motivator for generating this mind of bodhicitta is the fact that you will be more happy if you care about other people, than if you only think about yourself. That's the motivator. We all want to be happy. So where does this un-happiness come from? 

It comes from a self-centered focus; worrying solely about yourself for so many hours throughout the day, and then not even recognizing that when you are thinking about other people, you're still thinking about yourself. These are the causes of unhappiness.

If you're trying to heal your sickness, clearly bodhicitta and loving-kindness are the medicine. Researchers studying the effects on monks who did 15 minutes of compassion practice found that something like 40 percent of their stem cells were activated in that 15-minute time period. Clearly, when your heart opens and feels that kind of loving-kindness towards someone, your body's ability to protect and heal itself is activated probably better than any supplements can do. Simple as that. Bodhicitta is better than any sleeping pill. And there are no side effects. Or rather, there are many good side effects. Every cell in your body is getting a message of loving-kindness.

Radio Lila's Grote Zomergesprek Deel 1 en 2

Wijzen van inwijding / Deel 2

Wat is het verschil tussen ideële en reële inwijding? Wat is schaduwtaal en waarom is de mondelinge overdracht van de traditie zo belangrijk? Hoe waardevol is een spontane transformatie? En wordt het er sowieso wel leuker op als je geïnitieerd bent? 

Deel II van het Grote Radio Lila Zomergesprek vanuit Landgoed 't Medler met voorzitter van de Theosofische Vereniging Ingmar de Boer, Docent Geesteswetenschappen Kees Voorhoeve en moderators Marleen Schefferlie en Eelco van der Velde.

Inwijding, goeroe's en opvolging / Deel 1

Wat is het doel van initiatie, en hoe werkt dat bij verschillende tradities? 

Hoe kan een ceremonie het proces van zelf-transformatie beïnvloeden? Waarom is er vaak geheimhouding? En heb je een goeroe nodig, of kun je alle kennis ook in teksten vinden?

Maurice Nicoll: The doctrine of 'I's is the most important part of the psychological teaching of this Work. Unless a person begins to see that he is not one he can never be otherwise than completely identified with himself. Just think what this means. I repeat that unless a person begins to see that he is not one but many different 'I's he cannot be otherwise than completely identified with himself in everything that he does and thinks and feels. Now such a man cannot evolve. Being fixed to himself as he is, he cannot separate himself from himself. When you speak to a man like this he is very surprised when he is told to observe himself and he is quite incapable of understanding what it means. Read more

Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky.