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Continuing from the first session, H.E. Kyabje Zong Rinpoche provided further explanations on how one should be trained, before proceeding to the tantric path.
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As tantric practices are built on the foundation of the Mahayana teachings, practitioners should first familiar oneself with the concepts on renunciation, bodhicitta and emptiness - the three principal aspects of the path (a text authored by Je Tsongkhapa).
In order to prepare anyone who is interested in the tantric path,
H.E. Kyabje Zong Rinpoche shared with us the essential points on these three aspects.
Topics included here are:
a) How should one take refuge in the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha?
b) What are the 3 different types of faith that one should generate for tantra practices?
c) What are the 3 types of laziness that one should abandon in our dharma practices?
d) How one should understand the two truth (conventional truth and ultimate truth)?
This teaching was organised by Gaden Shartse Dro-Phen Ling (GSDPL), in Singapore, on the 20th Oct 2018.
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During the question and answer session, members of the audience asked the following questions:
1) Is there a law of compassion, on top of the law of karma? Is it better to use the word ‘motivation’, rather than ‘law’ here?
2) Is there a support system for a tantric practitioner with dementia or loss of memory, to break his or her samaya vows? Or is there any way we can help this kind of person?
3) How do we reconcile that our self-grasping ignorance is beginningless, ,but yet there is an end to our ignorance?
4) Do we retain our own mindstream when we become a Buddha? Or do all Buddhas share the same mindstream?
5) How do we know if we are dropping into Vajra Hell? Are there any signs or symptoms that we are going there?
6) What are the differences between a Vajra Hell and a normal hell the same?
7) How can one be freed from Vajra Hell? And how long does it take to be freed from there?