Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo on Vigilance
April 29, 2020*
| 10am – 12 noon | Teachings by Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo |
| 12 noon | Lunch break (please note Tushita won’t be able to provide lunch – there are many restaurants in Dharamkot nearby) |
| 3 – 5pm | Teachings by Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo |
& April 30, 2020*
| 9am – 12noon | Teachings by Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo |
| 12noon | Lunch break (please note Tushita won’t be able to provide lunch – there are many restaurants in Dharamkot nearby) |
| 3 – 5pm | Teachings by Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo |
*Schedule is subject to changes.
Esteemed teacher Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo has very graciously agreed to give a teaching on:
Meditation (Ch 5) from Shantideva’s “A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life”
Cultivating an Undistracted Mind in a Distracted World by Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
A teaching based on Shantideva’s text, The Way of the Bodhisattva
Do you ever find yourself lost in distraction, pulled in myriad directions? In this 2 days teaching, Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo will explore a classic Tibetan Buddhist text on vigilance or mindfulness in daily life. In the fifth chapter of the Bodhicaryavatara (The Way of the Bodhisattva), Shantideva expounds on the importance of cultivating the qualities of mindfulness and awareness, since the mind is the source of all suffering – and offers practical advice on how to tame our unruly ‘monkey minds’ by becoming more conscious of our behavior and attitude toward others.
In the whole of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, there is no single treatise more deeply revered or widely practiced than A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life. Composed in the eighth century by the Indian Bodhisattva Santideva, it became an instant classic in the curricula of the Buddhist monastic universities of India, and its renown has grown ever since. Santideva presents methods to harmonize one’s life with the Bodhisattva ideal and inspires the reader to cultivate the perfections of the Bodhisattva: generosity, ethics, patience, zeal, meditative concentration, and wisdom.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama said:
If I have any understanding of compassion and the Bodhisattva path, it all comes from studying this text.
Shantideva composed his text in the form of an inner dialog. He turned his own weapons upon himself, doing battle with his negative emotions. Therefore, when we teach or listen to this text, it is important that we do so in order to progress spiritually, rather than making it simply a subject of academic study.
Download the course material here.
On our Movie Day, Friday March 20 @ 2pm, we will screen “Cave in the Snow”, a documentary about Jetsunma’s life and practice.
Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo was born in England, and became one of the first Westerners to be ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun. She lived for 12 years in a remote Himalayan Cave, developing the profound store of wisdom that she expresses in her Teaching. For the last 15 years, Jetsunma has focused on establishing Dongyu Gatsal Ling Nunnery.
In 2008, Tenzin Palmo was given the rare title of Jetsunma, which means Venerable Master, by His Holiness Gyalwang Drukpa, in recognition of her spiritual achievements as a nun and her efforts in promoting the status of female practitioners in Tibetan Buddhism.