From Milk to Yoghurt: A recipe for living & dying
By Ringu Tulku
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The Heart Wisdom series aims to make the teachings of Ringu Tulku Rinpoche available to a wider audience, by bringing his oral teachings to the written page. This volume brings together three talks by Ringu Tulku on the topics of Rebirth, Working with a Spiritual Teacher and Death and Dying; including calligraphies by Ringu Tulku on these themes
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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From Milk to Yoghurt - Ringu Tulku
From Milk to Yoghurt
A RECIPE FOR LIVING AND DYING
Ringu Tulku Rinpoche
Bodhicharya Publications
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© Bodhicharya Publications 2009
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 978-1-915725-10-3
First Edition: 2013
Compiled and edited by Margaret Ford
Teaching sources:
Rebirth: transcribed by Maria Huendorf, edited by Marita Faaberg, Margaret Ford, Ringu Tulku and the Bodhicharya Publishing team.
Working with a Spiritual Teacher: transcribed by Cait Collins, edited by Marita Faaberg, Margaret Ford, Ringu Tulku and the Bodhicharya Publishing team.
Death and Dying: transcribed by Claire Trueman, edited by Marita Faaberg, Margaret Ford, Ringu Tulku and the Bodhicharya Publishing team.
Calligraphy by Ringu Tulku: Transformation (opposite), Rebirth (page 4), Devotion (page 20), Bardo (page 38).
Typesetting & Design by Paul O’Connor at www.judodesign.com
Front Cover Photo: ©Paul Hocksenar. Back Cover Photo: ©Paul O’Connor
Printed on recycled paper by Imprint Digital, Devon, UK.
The Heart Wisdom Series
By Ringu Tulku Rinpoche
The Ngöndro
Foundation Practices of Mahamudra
From Milk to Yoghurt
A Recipe for Living and Dying
Like Dreams and Clouds
Emptiness and Interdependence, Mahamudra and Dzogchen
Dealing with Emotions
Scattering the Clouds
Journey from Head to Heart
Along a Buddhist Path
Riding Stormy Waves
Victory over the Maras
Being Pure
The practice of Vajrasattva
Radiance of the Heart
Kindness, Compassion, Bodhicitta
Meeting Challenges
Unshaken by Life’s Ups and Downs
Editors’ Preface
With many thanks for the hard work and dedication of the Bodhicharya Publications team including Marita Faaberg, Claire Trueman, Mary Heneghan, Eric Masterton, Tim Barrow, Minna Stenroos, Jet Mort, Maria Huendorf, Annie Dibble, Rachel Moffit, Dave Tuffield. This has been our first ‘team’ effort and it was a joy to work with them all. Also, Peter Ford, our hidden member of the publishing team. His love, support and encouragement, are the driving forces behind everything I do.
With enormous gratitude to Paul O’Connor for his beautiful layout and design and his kind patience.
With thanks and appreciation to the Theosophical Society Glasgow, the Bodhicharya Buddhist Group Sussex and to Bodhicharya London, who organised the talks included in this book.
With special thanks and love to Ringu Tulku for sharing his heart wisdom that is contained in this book. May it benefit everyone who reads it.
Margaret Ford
Bodhicharya Publications
June 2009
Introduction
The idea behind the Heart Wisdom Series of books is to make more widely available the vast number of talks and teachings given by Ringu Tulku Rinpoche. Ringu Tulku has travelled extensively around the world since 1990, giving teachings and participating in seminars in Dharma centres, universities, village halls, cinemas, wherever he was invited. Most of these talks have been recorded and are stored in his archive in Hamburg.
This book contains three separate adapted and edited public talks given by Ringu Tulku over a number of years. Rebirth
was given in Glasgow, Scotland in 1995; Working with a Spiritual Teacher
in Sussex, England in 1999 and Death and Dying
in London, England in 2008.
If you have attended a talk or teaching given by Ringu Tulku you will know that his style is gentle and relaxed with much humour. But Rinpoche is a Professor of Tibetology and has received teachings and training from many of the most realised and compassionate teachers from Tibet, such as His Holiness the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa and His Holiness Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. His public talks use an apparent simplicity of expression to explain the most profound Buddhist philosophies.
You will also see from these talks that Rinpoche invites many questions. He has said often It’s not good for just one person to talk too much!
, and we have included here Rinpoche’s dialogue with his audience. Whilst you read, you may have more questions; as it’s not expected that you will understand or accept all the points put forward in these few pages.
There are many avenues to explore these. For example, we would like to point out the forums for further study and discussion set up on the Bodhicharya website (www.bodhicharya.org). There is also information here about local study and meditation groups and a schedule for the talks and teachings Rinpoche continues to give around the world.
Margaret Ford
Bodhicharya Publications
Rebirth: A Buddhist View
I don’t think that I would be able to prove to you that there is such a thing as rebirth but I would like to go into some of the Buddhist understanding. This idea is something that exists in almost all spiritual traditions, but in the west there seems to be some resistance in accepting it. Maybe this is just a cultural thing, and perhaps it is gradually changing, but for a long time to talk about rebirth was considered to be like a fiction, something akin to story-telling.
Rebirth is rather difficult to understand. It is not something directly seen with our eyes, nor is it something that can be tested in a laboratory. But if you look more closely at yourself, you have this feeling, this understanding, and a kind of experience of existing not only for a short period. When you look at this feeling deeply, without any prejudice, without any assumptions, really open yourself deep down and try to experience this feeling, I think most people would sense that we are not just here for a short time. You can see and feel, maybe understand, that the life that you have now is not just a single life with nothing before it and nothing afterwards.
Rebirth has been a question of debate for centuries in Buddhism. The Pramanavartika is a book on Buddhist logic and dedicates