Title: Odyssey to Freedom Summer Retreat
Teaching Date: 1997-08-29
Teacher Name: Gelek Rimpoche
Teaching Type: Summer Retreat
File Key: 19970824GRSRLR/19970829GRSRLR13.mp3
Location: Fenton
Level 2: Intermediate
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19970829GRSRLR13
When I commit myself, do I have the ways and means of helping? I don't. So what I am going to do? I must find the way to help them. That way is having the best position, which is total enlightenment. So I must generate the desire to become a Buddha within this lifetime; within the shortest possible time
244 Odyssey to Freedom
Day Six Step 31 -49
so that I will be able to help them, so that I can fulfill my commitment. I must repay the kindness. My friends can no longer wait. They have so much pain and suffering. Even a minute will make a difference. Therefore, I must obtain enlightenment quickly, as quickly as possible. May Lama Shakyamuni help me to develop that.
Light and liquid comes from the Buddha's body, purifies all negativities in general and particularly laziness and selfishness; all of them get purified. A duplicate Buddha dissolves, and we are made capable of becoming a buddha within this lifetime, building inspiration continuously.
Wishing alone is not enough, I must take action. The action of generosity. all kinds of generosity. Showing the path, showing the way, leading people to enlightenment is the best generosity. Giving things they need, material things is the second type of generosity. Protecting them from the fear, the fear of torture, suffering, pain, protecting them by giving the method of peace, nirvana, total enlightenment. These are the three different types of generosity.
Likewise I must take the action of embodying discipline, three different types of discipline. Likewise three different types of patience. May I be able to develop them. And Lama Buddha Shakyamuni must bless me to be able to function perfectly.
Light and liquid comes, washes my negativities in general and particularly those of stinginess, of immoral activities and laziness. And I develop the paramita or the stage of gone beyond generosity, the stage of gone beyond morality, the stage of gone beyond patience; I develop that. Because of that, all my twenty-four hour activities will function in the principle -of generosity, morality and patience. Each one of those types of generosity, etc. will have the wisdom of generosity, the wisdom of morality and the wisdom of patience. May I be able to function in my life with these principles.
245 Day Six: Step 31 -49
A duplicate of the Lama comes, dissolves to ourselves and makes us capable of doing this.
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