Continuing with our stages of the path (Lam Rim) series, Geshe Sonam Ngodup leads a meditation on recognizing and decreasing the eight worldly concerns (eight worldly dharmas). These concerns are outlined by Nāgārjuna in Letter to a Friend: You who know the world, take gain and loss, Happiness and unhappiness, fame and insignificance praise and blame,  Make them the same and don't disturb your mind. Visit our Facebook page for more teachings by Geshe Sonam Ngodup and English translator...

In the third session on the Lam Rim series of meditations , Geshe Sonam Ngodup guides us through a contemplation and meditation on our precious human rebirth, how it is greatly meaningful and difficult to find. Visit our Facebook page for more teachings by Geshe Sonam Ngodup and English translator Ven. Jamyang Khedrup https://www.facebook.com/LamaYesheLing/ More about our teachers:  https://lamayesheling.org/teachers-and-facilitators/ To know more about our upcoming programs, please...

In this session, Geshe Sonam guides a meditation on the nature and potential of the mind . Although this is not traditionally part of the Lam Rim outlines, understanding a little bit about our mind and its nature is an excellent preliminary contemplation for our Lam Rim/Stages of the path practice. Geshe la gives an introduction, leads a short visualization meditation to settle the mind, and then gives impulses for meditation on the mind's fundamental nature. Visit our Facebook page for...

*New Series Alert* - Stages of the Path (Tibetan: 'Lam Rim')  Preliminaries – the Field of Accumulation: This week, we begin the first of what will be between 22-23 weekly short videos on the topics of the Stages of the Path (Lam Rim). The aim of this series is to give students a brief taste of these topics in a format that can be used for meditation. In this session, Geshe Sonam  guides a meditation on the preliminary practice for the Lam Rim meditation - visualizing the field of...

Geshe Sonam quotes a verse from Shantideva's Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra on how all the teachings are for the sake of arising wisdom. Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable Khedrup. All the teachings are for the sake of arising wisdom  ཡན་ལག་འདི་དག་ཐམས་ཅད་ནི།  All these branch [practices] were taught  ཐུབ་པས་ཤེས་རབ་དོན་དུ་གསུངས།  By the mighty one for the sake of wisdom  དེ་ཡི་ཕྱིར་ན་སྡུག་བསྔལ་དག།  Therefore those who wish to pacify...

In this episode, Geshe Sonam teaches that we overcome all the afflictive emotions by overcoming confusion. He quotes a verse from Āryadeva's Four Hundred Verses. Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable Khedrup. From Āryadeva's Four Hundred Verses:  ལུས་ལ་ལུས་དབང་ཇི་བཞིན་དུ།  As tactile sense [pervades] the body  གཏི་མུག་ཀུན་ལ་གནས་གྱུར་ཏེ།  Confusion is present in all places  དེ་ཕྱིར་ཉོན་མོངས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱང།  By overcoming confusion (ignorance) one...

In this teaching, Geshe Sonam teaches a short but profound verse by Dromtonpa Gyelwa Jungne ('brom ston rgyal ba 'byung gnas) on three Baskets and three Capacities. Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable Khedrup. རྒྱལ་བའི་འབྱུང་གནས་ཀྱི་གསུང་ལས།   From Gyalwa Jungne (Dromtonpa)  ངོ་མཚར་བཀའ་ནི་སྡེ་སྣོད་གསུམ་པོ་དེ།  This wonderful speech of the Buddha, the Tripitaka (Three Baskets)  དམ་པ་སྐྱེས་བུ་གསུམ་གྱིས་མཛད་པ་ཡི།  The excellent deeds [accomplished] by...

In this episode, Don Handrick presents the introductory session to the "Seven Point Mind Training Teachings". Don provides a comprehensive history and overview of these precious and practical teachings. Hope you enjoy this teaching! If you would like to learn more about Don Handrick, please take a look at his website: https://www.donhandrick.com More about our teachers:  https://lamayesheling.org/teachers-and-facilitators/ To know more about our upcoming programs, please subscribe to our...

This is a short meditation on Bodhicitta from the first session led by Don Handrick, from the Seven-Point Thought Transformation teachings at Lama Yeshe Ling. If you would like to learn more about Don Handrick, please take a look at his website: https://www.donhandrick.com

Presenting a short interview with Don Handrick, talking about his experience with the teaching on Giving and Taking "Tong-Len", in the Seven-Point Thought Transformation teaching. These practices are very practical and powerful tools for transforming problems into happiness. If you would like to learn more about Don Handrick, please take a look at his website: https://www.donhandrick.com More about our teachers:  https://lamayesheling.org/teachers-and-facilitators/ To know more about our...

In this instalment of the teaching, Geshe Sonam explains four points for successful practice.  1. Placing the mind in the direction of love and compassion  2. Clearing away the obstacles to setting in that direction  3. If obstacles are (again) encountered, how to transform them into opportunities for virtue.  4. To abide in the continuity of love and compassion in the mind, using mindfulness and introspection.   Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable...

In this teaching, Geshe Sonam explains, using a verse by Arya Nagarjuna from the text 'Precious Garland of the Middle Way', on the three causes of Complete Enlightenment or Buddhahood. Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable Khedrup. The Three Causes of Enlightenment  བདག་ཉིད་དང་ནི་འཇིག་རྟེན་འདིས།  Oneself and [others] of this world,  བླ་མེད་བྱང་ཆུབ་ཐོབ་འདོད་ན།  If they wish to attain the unsurpassed enlightenment:  དེ་ཡི་རྩ་བ་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས།  Its roots...

In this teaching Geshe Sonam explains the potential of all sentient beings to achieve Enlightenment which is known as the Tathagata Garbha or Buddha Nature (Buddha Essence). Geshe la explains how due to this potentiality, all sentient beings can achieve full Enlightenment. All Sentient Beings Possess Buddha Nature  སེམས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཅད་ལ་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་རིགས་ཡོད་པ།  From the Uttaratantra Shastra (Sublime Continuum)  རྒྱུད་བླ་མ་ལས།  Because a perfect Buddha's body (enlightened qualities) are...

On this bonus episode, Ven. Jamyang Khedrup speaks about qualities that he thinks mark exceptional teachers: Equal care to the integrity of the teachings and well-being and freedom of the listeners. Enjoy! Visit our Facebook page for more teachings by Geshe Sonam Ngodup and English translator Ven. Jamyang Khedrup  https://www.facebook.com/LamaYesheLing/ More about our teachers:  https://lamayesheling.org/teachers-and-facilitators/ To know more about our upcoming programs, please subscribe...

Saga Dawa Greetings! ས་ག་ཟླ་བ་དུས་ཆེན་ལ་བཀྲིས་བདེ་ལེགས།   In this special teaching on the special day of Saga Dawa, Geshe Sonam Ngodup wishes all our viewers greetings and hopes everyone is well. Geshe La teaches how and why this day is important, and because it is important what activities one should engage in on this holy day.   Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable Khedrup.   Visit our Facebook page for more teachings by Geshe Sonam Ngodup and English...

In this short teaching, Geshe Sonam Ngodup explains to us about the benefits of Bodhichitta by quoting a verse from Chapter 1 of Shantideva's Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra or Bodhicaryāvatāra (Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པ་ byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa). Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable Khedrup.   More Benefits of Bodhicitta  །བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་སྐྱེས་གྱུར་ན་སྐད་ཅིག་གིས།  The moment an awakening mind...

In the fourth and final session from Venerable Yönten's teaching, she will guide us through a brief analytical meditation on Identifying the Object of Negation, the inherently existent self. Please enjoy! Venerable Yönten is an American-born Buddhist nun in the Gelug Tibetan tradition who was ordained in 2003, and who is now a fully ordained Bhikshuni/Gelongma in the Dharmaguptaka tradition. If you would like to learn more about Venerable Yönten, please take a look at her website....

In the third session from Venerable Yönten's teaching, she will guide us through a brief analytical meditation on the King of Reasonings - Dependent Origination. Venerable Yönten is an American-born Buddhist nun in the Gelug Tibetan tradition who was ordained in 2003, and who is now a fully ordained Bhikshuni/Gelongma in the Dharmaguptaka tradition. If you would like to learn more about Venerable Yönten, please take a look at her website. https://lozangyonten.wixsite.com/website

In the second session from Venerable Yönten's teaching, she will guide us through a brief analytical meditation on the topic of Karma - Actions and  Results. Venerable Yönten is an American-born Buddhist nun in the Gelug Tibetan tradition who was ordained in 2003, and who is now a fully ordained Bhikshuni/Gelongma in the Dharmaguptaka tradition. If you would like to learn more about Venerable Yönten, please take a look at her website. https://lozangyonten.wixsite.com/website

We are happy to present to you a series of guided meditations led by visiting teacher Venerable Yönten at Lama Yeshe Ling. The first session is a guided analytical meditation on Laws of Karma.      Venerable Yönten is an American-born Buddhist nun in the Gelug Tibetan tradition who was ordained in 2003, and who is now a fully ordained Bhikshuni/Gelongma in the Dharmaguptaka tradition.    If you would like to learn more about Venerable Yönten, please take a look at her website....

Geshe Sonam presents glimpses of Buddhist meditation and wisdom in a practical way. The teachings are the perfect way to bring some calm and compassion into your day.In this teaching, Geshe La will explain the first verse from Lama Tsong famous text "Three Principal Aspects of the Path" and will show us how this verse contains all the essential aspects of Buddha Shakyamuni's teaching. Enjoy this short teaching.   The Very Essence of the Buddha's Teachings From Lama Tsongkhapa's Three...

In this special teaching, recorded before Mother's Day, Geshe Sonam Ngodup explains how we should see our mothers as more precious than a wish fulfilling jewel because of the kindness and care they show. Also, how we can extend this understanding and experience to encompass all sentient beings, with a mind of love and a wish to benefit them. Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable Khedrup....

This week we have a special guest teacher at Lama Yeshe Ling, Ven. Yönten. She is a very popular traveling teacher at FPMT (Foundation of Preservation of Mahayana), and her style of teaching incorporates guided meditations and a contemporary approach. This is a brief interview with Ven. Yönten to introduce herself and also the topics she will be teaching at Lama Yeshe Ling on May 15 & May 16 2021.   Please join us for this special event with Ven. Yönten (Details below). In case you miss...

In this brief teaching, Geshe Sonam Ngodup explores the reason why the kindness of the enlightened ones (the Buddhas) and kindness of Sentient beings is equal. Also, why we depend on sentient beings for our own Spiritual development towards Enlightenment. He explains this using a verse from Bodhicaryāvatāra by Shantideva. Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable Khedrup.   སེམས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཅད་སངས་རྒྱས་དང་བཀའ་དྲིན་ཆེ་ཆུང་འདྲ་བའི་རྒྱུ་མཚན།  The reason why the Buddhas...