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		<title>Rainbow is a sign of H.H Penor Rinpoche&#8217;s Passing Away</title>
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		<title>Ongoing Shedra</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 21:14:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shedra is a Tibetan word meaning: Buddhist Philosophical University.  Although Shedra refers to a course that begins and ends covering one or more texts, the actual word Shedra  refers to continuous study and the graduation is when you realize the meaning of the teachings.  Realization is a Buddhist term and does not refer to hearing something and then knowing it, or something suddenly clicking in the intellect.  It is significantly more than that. Realization is a totally stable understanding, with no regression or deterioration, once something is realized it remains undiminishible. To fully realize the teachings is to realize emptiness.  The realization of emptiness means that the treasure that lives within ourselves blossoms.    This is why the texts continually refer to realization of emptiness, compassion ect.., because realization is how the Lineage is preserved, for the lama who has realized the teachings then guides his students to the same realization. Those students then transmit that realization to the next generation. Buddha Shakyamuni's Great Realization 2633 years ago has been passed down exactly in this way to the present day.   The three foundations of our Shedra will be Learning, Contemplation and Mediation.  These three practices arouse Wisdom.  From Learning comes understanding.  From Contemplation comes experience and from Meditation Realization will arise.   Our aspiration for these seven months, is to form a learning community based on these three principles.  Often Buddhist teachings are not give the respect they merit.  Most people give a university education more respect, importance, and fastidious care than Dharma studies because it will determine one's status in the world, economic power and area of occupation.  While all these things are highly important, what all beings truly wish for is happiness itself,  and lacking happiness the material gains a university education can provide will not fully satisy or bring peace of mind on their own.  Buddha's teachings however when treated with respect and given due importance and fastidious care, lead to a true happiness, a realization that is happiness, thourougly stable, unshakeable.  For this reason they are of a higher value than mundane subjects.  Also, for this reason our respectful request is,  those interested in this Shedra give it the due seriousness these texts, the teacher and the lineage they transmits merits.
<a href="http://welcomingbuddhist.com/shedra">Visit the Shedra Website</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Dungse Rinpoche Video</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Video</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Interview with Dilgo Khyentse Reincarnation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Thirty Pieces of Advice from the Heart</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Khenchen Pema Sherab taught on "<a href="http://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Thirty_Pieces_of_Advice_from_the_Heart">Thirty Pieces of Advice from the Heart</a>" in Lerab Ling during the All-Mandala retreat, 2009. The recordings contain the teaching in Tibetan with English translation by Gyurmé.

Khenchen Pema Sherab Rinpoche is a disciple of H.H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche and other great Nyngima masters. He is current head of the Nyingma Lineage. What does Khenpo mean?  In the vinaya tradition it means keeping the monastic vows and providing for other monks; it also designates one great realization,  superior training and knowledge in the sutrayana and vajrayana traditions. He is the best living example of a Khenpo in our lineage because of his pure intention and countless disciples that will remain for a long time and benefit countless sentient beings. His quality is like Shariputra--outside pure, inside pure, like a lotus. However you are able to connect with him or his teachings will be most meaningful and bring you <a href="http://welcomingbuddhist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Aurora-of-Blessings.pdf">many blessings</a>.

<ul><li><i>talk 1 </i><a href="http://www.rigpawiki.org/Media/Audio/2009/LongchenpaLL/KhenpoPemaSherab23August2009LerabLing.mp3"  title="Khenchen Pema Sherab Rinpoche" rel="nofollow">Khenchen Pema Sherab Rinpoche</a></li>
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		<title>Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Video</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>H H Dudjom Rinpoche Video</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:18:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>How to determine levels of Practice and that pracitce&#8217;s meditations.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Buddhas teaching has many categories.  Is all very beneficial.  Why?  Because in Buddhas Omniscience he knew all of the beings various faculties.  This is why there are so many teachings.  However all of them can be classified in the system of the 9 yanas that exists in the Nyingma Lineage.  The three baskets of teachings are the Vinaya, emphasizing renunciation and teaches us to see samsara as a harmful fire and helps us develop the need for liberation from samasara, renunciation.  Because of this emphasis it is known as the vehicle of self-liberation, Vinaya.  Sutra teachings is Mahayana.  This is View.  We recognize that all beings in truth have been our father and mother, because of this recognition, we realize that to seek only liberation for myself would be of no use because all my mothers and fathers would still be caught in unending suffering.  In Mahayana the motivation is to do something to help them.]]></description>
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		<title>Becoming a Positive Person</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Without reliance on each of the three vehicles &#8211;
The vows of individual liberation, of the Bodhisattvas, and of the Mantras&#8211;
To cut that old tree of the three poisons
That stands in the middle of the plain of samsara,
How could there be means to transform beings of different mental dispositions?
Therefore, be earnest in suppressing the root, the [...]]]></description>
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