Posts Tagged ‘karma’
Friday, January 21st, 2011
Lama Gendun Rinpoche
We are all looking for happiness and trying to avoid suffering, every one of us doing what we can to make life comfortable and get rid of everything we find unpleasant or that makes us suffer. In the midst of this conflict of interests, no one has much freedom of choice. Each situation has been woven by the thoughts, words and deeds accumulated throughout countless previous lives that have sown the seeds of the karma we experience at the moment. All of us now find ourselves caught up in this web of ripening karma, so that whether we like it or not, we are carried along by the force of events, suffering even more because what happens is happening despite our wishes to the contrary.
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Tags: Freedom of Action, Gendun Rinpoche, karma
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Thursday, April 15th, 2010
Lama Ole Nydahl gave this talk at a Seminar on Psychology in Basel, Switzerland. It was originally printed in the magazine Buddhism Today in 1998 and can also be read here.
Lama Ole Nydahl
Happiness, by Lama Ole Nydahl
What do Buddhist teachings say concerning happiness?.. Basically, in Buddhism one makes a separation between conditioned and unconditioned happiness, between a relative and an absolute kind. Relative happiness has to do with experiences, absolute happiness has to do with experiencer itself. When one watches the outer world, the factories, streets, houses and cars, it is evident that they were made because beings wanted to experience something pleasant. Hospitals and prisons, on the other hand, were built in order to avoid certain kinds of suffering. Actually, beings constantly try to change outer conditions with the aim of (more…)
Tags: awareness, Buddha, Buddhism, compassion, fearlessness, happiness, Kagyu Lineage, karma, love, mind, radiance, wisdom
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Monday, March 29th, 2010
Outside our Brighton Buddhist Centre
Brighton Buddhist centre: On Saturday 20th March 2010 our new centre opened its doors to the public. A converted shop in Baker Street is now home to the new Buddhist centre. It is located in an up-and-coming area of Brighton. In order to celebrate the move to the new premises the members of our Brighton Buddhist centre organised an open day for the locals to meet their new neighbours.
On the day, many interested local people came along for a chat and a cup of tea. Some also took part in guided (more…)
Tags: 16th Karmapa, Buddha, Buddhist, Kagyu Lineage, karma, Karol Sleczek, Lama Ole Nydahl, meditate, meditation, ngondro, open day, Tibetan
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Sunday, March 7th, 2010
In this post we recollect Lama Ole Nydahl’s first visit to Edinburgh. Martin Dahms, who comments later in the post, was one of the founders of the original Edinburgh Diamond Way Buddhist Group which was active between 2000 and 2003.
Edinburgh Skyline
On Tuesday 28 March 2000, Lama Ole Nydahl gave a talk at Edinburgh’s Royal Botanic Gardens lecture theatre, entitled “Basis, Way and Goal in Diamond Way Buddhism”. The talk was an introduction to Diamond Way Buddhism, in which Lama Ole pointed to the Buddha nature as the basis for our development, gave an overview of the methods the Buddha taught to remove the veils which prevent us from experiencing this potential, and explained how the goal – enlightenment – is the full development of mind’s inherent qualities. The lecture was attended by several friends who travelled from London, elsewhere in the UK and abroad, as well as many locals, including inquisitive members of what Lama Ole wryly described in his lecture as a nearby “Presbyterian Buddhist Centre”!
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Tags: Arthur's Seat, blessing, Buddha, Edinburgh, enlightenment, Holyrood Park, Kagyu Lineage, karma, Martin Dhams, meditation, presbytarian buddhist centre
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Saturday, January 16th, 2010
This interview with Lama Ole Nydahl is from the very early days of Diamond Way Buddhism in the UK. It appeared in Varsitiy, the independent student weekly newspaper of the University of Cambridge. Lama Ole Nydahl taught in Cambridge at the invitation of Stephen James, who was a student in Cambridge University at the time.
Rock n’ Roll Buddha
Matthew Arlidge communicates with Ole Nydahl about Spirituality and Motorbikes. Varsity, 28 October 1994
Lama Ole Nydahl in Varsity Magazine 1994
Cast a critical eye over the picture above and what do you see? A debonair-yet-macho top Hollywood actor? A ruthless mercenary hot-foot from a bazooka battle with the forces of SPECTRE? Or perhaps even a well ‘ardbouncer from Fifth Avenue? Well you’re wrong matey, so no nubile young banana for you. (more…)
Tags: BMW, Buddha, Buddhist, Cambridge, Christianity, compassion, Danish, drugs, interview, Kagyu, karma, lama, Matthew Arlidge, sexuality, Stephen James, Tibet, university, Varsity
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Sunday, November 15th, 2009
Here’s a blast from the past! When Lama Ole was due to visit London on 15 November 1999 – ten years ago today – he was interviewed by telephone by Richard Johnson of the Sunday Times. The interview appeared in the “Life in the Day” section of the Sunday Times Magazine. We have reproduced it here for your enjoyment:
Lama Ole Nydahl in the Sunday Times Magazine 1999
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Tags: beer, blessing, Colombia, Dalai Lama, Danish, interview, karma, London, love, meditation, rebirth, reincarnation, Richard Johnson, Sunday Times Magazine, The Times
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