Gems of Wisdom - New
The Gems of Wisdom, available on the website, offer a selection of 108 of Lama Dondrup Dorje Rinpoche's teachings as used by his students for daily meditation. The first of these gems explains: “Compassion is not an expression of ordinary love tainted by the attachment to emotion. It is the energy of loving kindness that comes about as one’s mind awakens to the recognition that life we deemed as normal is impermanent and the lack of our recognition of its true nature is the cause of suffering.”
To help students better understand the meaning of this gem, and to show the benefit of reflecting deeply on the teaching, here Lama Dondrup Dorje Rinpoche gives 15 days of teaching on some aspects of the meaning of this first Gem of Wisdom. Topics include: The Four Immeasurables, karma, the truth of suffering, love, how to liberate yourself from mundane concerns, Buddhist approaches to resolving conflicting emotion, the 37 factors of enlightenment, and many others.