Lam Rim Buddhist Centre South Africa

09/05/2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2VPt6Az1Pc

A powerful Zen story which will teach you the power of silence and tell you what is importance of silence. After watching this story you will learn to speak ...

10/04/2022

There is a tendency for many of us to be high strung. Balancing alertness with relaxation is important in meditation, as in life. Being high strung impedes this balance, creating an environment of stress and clinging. Being too lazy also impedes this balance, becoming unaware and letting reality slip away completely. Realizing reality requires this balance, a middle way. Too tight and we grasp at a fixed world and ego existing on their own. Too loose and we deny the world. Finding the right balance is crucial to deconstructing the ego, which in reality never existed! Emaho!

29/11/2021

We get easily caught up in our self and loose site of others. When others enter the picture, we see them through the eyes of our own self-interest. We forget that everyone has a story of trials and tribulations, just like ourselves. To emerge from this suffering, we need to identify and overturn the causes of suffering. How do we do this? Based on an ignorance of not knowing who we really are, and what the world really is, we respond with delusions of attachment and anger. Acting on these delusions we create karma, which are actions along with their consequences. These bring all our suffering. To emerge from this vicious cycle, we must eliminate this ignorance from the root. Overturning ignorance into the wisdom that sees reality as it is, is our path to freedom. Never forsake it! Emaho!

21/01/2021

The Official Website of The Office of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama

23/08/2020

A monk knows, when he is walking,
“I am walking”;
he knows, when he is standing,
“I am standing”;
he knows, when he is sitting,
“I am sitting”;
he knows, when he is lying down,
“I am lying down”;
or just as his body is disposed
so he knows it.
-Buddha