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Cherishing Others Opens the Door to Happiness

Cherishing Others Opens the Door to Happiness

FromLama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts


Cherishing Others Opens the Door to Happiness

FromLama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts

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Length:
17 minutes
Released:
Oct 17, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

The door to all suffering comes from the self-cherishing thought, only thinking of our own happiness, Rinpoche warns. This not only harms us, but also harms numberless sentient beings now, has harmed them in the past from beginningless rebirths, and will harm them in the future. Conversely, cherishing others, changing our mind into bodhicitta, opens the door to all happiness up to enlightenment. The purpose of life is to benefit others, not to use them for our own pleasure. A selfish mind brings many problems, so we must let go of the I and cherish others. Rinpoche emphasizes that by cherishing even one sentient being, we can achieve enlightenment. The teaching for this episode was recorded on November 10, 2018, at Nagarjuna C E T Madrid, Spain. 
Released:
Oct 17, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (27)

In this podcast we focus on teachings of Lama Zopa Rinpoche, on topics of the Graduated Path to Enlightenment, the lamrim. The lamrim is a textual tradition that organizes Shakyamuni Buddha’s teachings into a complete step-by-step path to enlightenment. Each episode is an extract of a longer teaching, capturing the essence of what Rinpoche taught.