Lazy Lama looks at Meditation

By Ringu Tulku

In this book Ringu Tulku brings us directly and lightheartedly to the point of Buddhist meditation: it helps to develop the two positive life enhancing qualities that lie naturally within us, clarity of mind and kindness for self and others. He reminds us that through meditation we can come to understand how the interconnectedness of all things

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bodhicharya Publications CIC
• Release date: Jan 1, 2013
• ISBN: 9780995734371

Ringu Tulku

Ringu Tulku Rinpoche is a Tibetan Buddhist Master of the Kagyu Order. He was trained in all schools of Tibetan Buddhism under many great masters including HH the 16th Gyalwang Karmapa and HH Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. He took his formal education at Namgyal Institute of Tibetology, Sikkim and Sampurnananda Sanskrit University, Varanasi, India. He served as Tibetan Textbook Writer and Professor of Tibetan Studies in Sikkim for 25 years.Since 1990, he has been travelling and teaching Buddhism and meditation in Europe, America, Canada, Australia and Asia. He participates in various interfaith and 'Science and Buddhism' dialogues and is the author of several books on Buddhist topics. These include Path to Buddhahood, Daring Steps, The Ri-me Philosophy of Jamgon Kongtrul the Great, Confusion Arises as Wisdom, the Lazy Lama series and the Heart Wisdom series, as well as several children's books, available in Tibetan and European languages.He founded the organisations: Bodhicharya - see www.bodhicharya.organd Rigul Trust - see www.rigultrust.org

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LAZY LAMA LOOKS AT

Buddhist

Meditation

RINGU TULKU RINPOCHE

Number 1 in the Lazy Lama series

First Published in 1998 by

Bodhicharya Publications

24 Chester Street, Oxford, OX4 1SN, United Kingdom.

www.bodhicharya.org email: [e-mail]

Text © Ringu Tulku

Ringu Tulku asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work. Please do not reproduce any part of this book without permission from the publisher.

ISBN 9780995734371

Second Edition. 2013.

First transcribed and edited by Cait Collins 1998.

Typesetting & Design by Paul O’Connor at Judo Design, Ireland.

Printed on recycled paper by Imprint Digital, Devon, UK.

Cover Image: © Dr Dirk de Klerk

Internal illustrations: Robin Bath

Lazy Lama logo: Dr Conrad Harvey & Rebecca O’Connor

Editor’s Preface

This booklet on Buddhist Meditation is the first in the Lazy Lama series of short teachings by Ringu Tulku. It is the text of a talk given in Cambridge in the summer of 1997 at the request of students of Chime Rinpoche.

The biggest difficulty in editing transcripts of talks lies in trying to convey the flavour of the distinctive qualities of the live presentation, with all the tones and the expressions and gestures and the body language - the living presence of the person - on the printed page. Ringu Tulku brings his own very special warmth and kindness and humour to his teachings, and I hope these qualities come through in the following pages.

Cait Collins

1998

The basis for Buddhist practice

People sometimes think that meditation is all there is to Buddhism but I really don’t agree with that: meditation is a very important part, but it is not everything.

I see Buddhist practice as being a way to work on yourself, to try to improve yourself. Somebody once asked me, ‘What is the one thing you have to believe if you want to become a Buddhist, without which you could not become a Buddhist?’

It was an interesting question, and I thought a lot about how to answer it. First I thought maybe it was believing in the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha; believing in taking refuge in these three. But I