Refuge: taking safety from the Buddha, his Teachings and the Commuity
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Transcript of Refuge: taking safety from the Buddha, his Teachings and the Commuity
refugeJamyang London, July 2014
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Analyse: Nature, Cause, Effect
suffering of birth
Birth is suffering because it is associated with pain
Birth is suffering because it is associated with dysfunctional tendencies
Birth is suffering because it is the origin of suffering
Birth is suffering because it is the origin of afflictions
Birth is suffering because it is an unwanted separation
2. Suffering of old age
3. Suffering of sickness
4. Suffering of death
5. Association with the unpleasant
6. Disassociation from the pleasant
7. Not getting what one wants
“In brief, the five contaminated aggregates are
suffering”
suffering of the appropriated aggregates
Vessels for future suffering
Vessels for suffering based on what presently exists
Vessels for the suffering of pain
Vessels for the suffering of change
Vessels for the suffering of conditionality
“This is neither inappropriate nor accidental; it is the character or
nature of cyclic existence. While we are in cyclic existence there is
no escaping it. If we are disgusted by it, then we must eliminate the
process of birth. To do this, we must eliminate its cause.”
Geshe Bodowa, LRCM I, p. 280
Know your enemy
o Identification, order in which they arise, causes, faults of the
afflictions, antidotes
At first it completely afflicts your mind
Causing you to err with regard to what you are observing
Reinforcing your propensities, and causing the same sort of affliction to recur
In society you feel apprehensive, joyless and devoid of confidence
You die with regret, your aims unfulfilled
And after death you are reborn into a miserable realm
1. Where one knows the situation
2. Where there is doubt
3. Where there is ignorance
1. Knowing the good qualities
2. Knowing the distinctions
3. Through commitment
4. By refusing to acknowledge other refuges
Conviction that they can protect you from suffering
Aspiration to attain these states
Joyous effort leading you to engage into Dharma practice
Attain refuge – liberation from suffering & its causes
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