May YOU be Well and Happy

By Khenpo Jamyang Karma Gyaltsen

Embark on a journey through life’s challenges with the illuminating wisdom
of Buddha, offering solace in the face of dissatisfaction, suffering, and
uncertainty. Khenpo Rinpoche imparts these timeless teachings amid the
global pandemic of COVID-19, aiming to instill hope and healing.
Confronting the pandemic, Rinpoche encourages us to embrace mindfulness,
purify our minds with Dharma, and distance ourselves from negativity. By
melding spiritual practices with expert medical advice, he believes we can
triumph over physical and mental illnesses. Rinpoche dedicates all merits
to all patients, frontline workers, healers, and all beings, hoping for a swift
end to the pandemic and a return to normal, healthy lives.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Apr 26, 2024
• ISBN: 9798765248102

Khenpo Jamyang Karma Gyaltsen

Khenpo Karma Jamyang Gyaltsen is a senior teacher at the Larung Gar Buddhist Institute in Serthar, Sichuan, part of the Tibetan area known as Kham. He was born in 1962 in Nyarong, in Kardze, also in Kham. He is currently one of the main teachers at Larung Gar, which is the largest monastic institution in Tibet, if not in the world. He is the director of training in the Kagyu tradition at Larung Gar and was designated by 17th Karmapa, head of the Karma Kagyu tradition, to oversee the reconstruction of monasteries in Kham. The Khenpo (the term means “scholar” or “abbot”) took ordination in secret at the age of eight during the Cultural Revolution and practiced dharma for many years. When he was seventeen, he joined Tshokha monastery, an important Kagyu center in Nyarong, and spent several years in meditation in a cave at Tshokha. Later he received teachings from various lineages including the Rinchen terzod, Dzodun, and Nyingtik yabzhi practices. In his early years at Larung Gar, Khenpo Jamyang served as the attendant to Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok and completed advanced studies of five principal treatises in Buddhist philosophy (the Prajnaparamita, Madhyamaka, Pramana, Abhidharma, and Vinaya), as well as the yogic practices of Dzogchen and Mahamudra. He specialized in the study of language, was certified as a Khenpo, and became the first teacher of Sanskrit at the Institute. When the Kagyu department was founded at Larung Gar in 1997, Khenpo Jamyang was assigned as the director, as well as the teacher for the five treatises and the science of language. In 2002 Khenpo went to India, where he visited the 17th Karmapa. When he decided to return to Tibet, he was asked by the Karmapa to oversee restoration work at Tshokha and the other Kagyu monasteries in Kham. The Khenpo moved to Shenzhen on the east coast of China in 2002, becoming one of the first of Jigme Phuntsok’s students from Larung Gar to give Tibetan Buddhist teachings in the mainland areas of China. There he provided general support and, later, Buddhist teaching for local residents. The number of students and followers gradually increased and the Khenpo has since become well known as a religious teacher in many other places in China. He has established teaching centers in over thirty cities with hundreds of thousands of students. He has particular interest in addressing mental health issues in contemporary society, and has developed a series of methods to help with anxiety and other psychological problems

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Contents

Preface

28 Heart Advices

1. Begin your Day with a Beautiful Smile!

2. Zen mind, Beautiful life

3. The Alpha and the Omega of your Mind

4. Where is Heaven and Hell?

5. Do Not attached to your own Movies in this Life

6. Purifying your own Body and Mind

7. Your Mind is the Painter of your Life

8. Have an Oceanic Mind

9. Change your own Mind

10. The Ordinary Mind that is Extraordinary

11. What is Ordinary Mind?

12. More on Ordinary Mind

13. The Garden of your Mind

14. Practicing the Power of NOW

15. Be Forgiving, be Compassionate, Be Smart – so that you can be Happy and Free!

16. Always Be Joyful and Happy

17. Perceive Everything with the Mind of Love and Compassion

18. Make Bodhidharma your Teacher of Life

19. Beyond Words

20. The Four Reliances

21. The Two Entrances

22. The Four Practices

23. Non-attachment

24. Loving Kindness is the Source of all Happiness

25. Renunciation is NOT Lovelessness

26. The Pure Land of your Mind

27. An Immovable Mind

28. The Joy of Giving

29. A Mind as Clear as a Bright Mirror

30. Buddhadharma is the Dharma of Heart’s Essence

31. Happiness is a state of Mind

32. The Precious Lineage of Saddharma

33. The Awakening Mind of Bodhicitta

34. Your Mind as the Greatest Artist of All

35. Cutting-off the Sinful Mind is the Best Precepts

36. Be Aware of your Anger

37. Gratitude

38. Quietude amidst all the Chaos

108 Wisdom Pearls

1. Look Within

2. Be Kind

3. Take Negativity as a Path

4. Contentment

5. Ordinary Mind

6. Master Your Mind

7. Let it Go

8. Calm Abiding

9. Pure Thoughts

10. Zen’s Essence

11. The Four Dharmas

12. Look Within

13. Auspicious Connections

14. Be Good to Each Other

15. Why Meditate?

16. Benefits of Loving Kindness Meditation

17. Just Sit!

18. The Joy of Meditation

19. Be Water

20. Learn from Water

21. More Lessons from Water

22. Calmness and Clarity

23. Always have a Choice

24. Go Slow but Don’t Stop

25. Your True Nature

26. Patience as Virtue

27. Humility

28. One Mind

29. Become the Source of Positivity

30. Slow and Steady

31. Be Gentle and yet Strong

32. The Supreme Goodness

33. Eight Meritorious Qualities of the Divine Water

34. Crystal Clarity

35. Coolness of Mind

36. Sweetness of Life

37. Lightness of Heart

38. Softness of Mind

39. Self- Soothing

40. Freedom from Impurities

41. Melodious Sound

42. Even More Lessons from Water

43. The Blessing Water of Great Compassion

44. Check Your Mind

45. Letting Go – the Easy-Going Attitude

46. Go Vegetarian

47. Mahayana Vegetarianism

48. A Kind Heart attracts Good Blessings

49. Harming Others

50. Benefiting Oneself

51. Everything Springs from Your Thoughts

52. The Danger of an Untamed Mind

53. The Fragrance of Precepts, Mindfulness and Wisdom

54. Be Thankful

55. Confessing your Misdeeds

56. Don’t be jealous

57. Healing your Dis-eases

58. Benefits of Training your Mind

59. Seeing the world with the Eyes of the Buddha

60. Seeking the Buddha Within

61. Don’t worry, Be Happy!

62. It takes time to Transform your Mind

63. Everything is Dharma

64. Big Buddha Mind

65. Prescription for the Mind

66. The Best Good Intention is Bodhicitta

67. A Bodhisattva’s Great Compassion

68. The Benefits of Great Compassion

69. Being at Ease

70. Rest in the Nature of your Mind

71. Be Joyful, Be Cheerful

72. Be Water!

73. Mind Management

74. Having a Kind Heart

75. Letting go of Control

76. Happiness is a State of Mind

77. Mind Training is the Ultimate Practice

78. The Wisdom of Simplicity

79. The Power of Now

80. Sages and Sentient Beings

81. Walking the Path of Awakening

82. Be Spacious

83. The Keys

84. Wake-up!

85. Be the Master of your Life

86. Start your Day with Joy

87. Be a Dharma Billionaire

88. Inspiration from the Waterwheel

89. Transcendence

90. Wisdom about Merits

91. A Pure Heart

92. Zen Mind, Zen Actions, Zen Life.

93. The Real Source of Happiness

94. The Rich Man and His Four Wives

95. A Joyful Heart that Gives

96. Heaven or Hell?

97. The Moon Cannot Be Stolen

98. The Power of Sincerity

99. Choose Wisely

100. Slow down and Enjoy Life!

101. Pursue Liberation

102. The Greatest Wealth

103. Make Your Life Beautiful

104. Who is Hindering you?

105. True Meaning of Letting Go

106. White Beans vs Black Beans

107. Changing Your Destiny

108. Let your life bloom freely and beautifully!

About the Author

May YOU be

Well and Happy

- How to train your mind so that you can have a beautiful

and wonderful life!

By Gyaltsen

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