Summer Festival 2024 ~ Day 3

Day 3 of the Festival dawns and by now everyone is beginning to settle into Festival life. Enjoying a change of pace, letting go of ordinary life, falling in to a delightful rhythm of meditation, attending teachings, volunteering, meal...

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Summer Festival 2024 ~ Day 3

Today there was a lovely structure to the teachings. In the morning we received the transmission of the original teachings given by Venerable Geshe-la in Portugal and in the afternoon Gen-la Dekyong gave commentary and encouragement based on that teaching. Today we are looking at three main questions posed by Geshe-la and the conclusions and meditation objects they lead us to.

Why we need to practice Buddha’s teachings.
Why we need to be concerned for our future lives.
Why we need permanent liberation from suffering.

These three questions are addressed with profound logical reasoning. This teaching later appeared in the introduction of the book, The Mirror of Dharma with Additions.

Gen-la helps us to really look in the mirror of the teachings personally, and ask ourselves those questions deeply and practically. She asks us if we are finding happiness in Dharma - which is wisdom - or searching for happiness in wrong objects - which is ignorance.

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