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Hi Thank you for watching the video. Every being is different and surely things that gives us solace are not the same.Having said that, i believe all of us wish to seek for happiness and peace of mind in life. Perhaps you may visit Rinpoche's blog for more articles www. tsemrinpoche.com.

Im currently choosing a religion to follow I'm torn between sikhism buddhism and hinduism

that's nice

Greed Emotions Delusions cause all suffering stated the Buddha. To feel human is enough.

Dear Alex, thanks for watching and commenting. Do check out His Eminence the 25th Tsem Rinpoche's blog at www.tsemrinpoche.com for more inspiration.

HI Christine. I am Jacinta... I came to know about Buddhism about two years ago through Rinpoche's teaching also. I hope you can learn more from here www.tsemrinpoche.com. Do join in blogchat if possible here www.tsemrinpoche.com/chat

Do check out Rinpoche's blog at www.tsemrinpoche.com for more interesting and dharma articles and information.

What will you be starting?

Buddha

Hi Diva, Do check out www.tsemrinpoche.com and www.dorjeshugden.org to help you along. If you need help or need to ask questions please ask them yeah.

griffin james I hope by now you’ll have an excellent altar that suited you.. May you have enthusiasm and persistent in your practice

@@gohjacinta28 thank you for your kind message. 4 years later I have my own! I hope to set mine it back up when I head back to college

@@griffinjames1449 and I'm still replying messages 😅. I am very happy to know that you're still doing alright, and even better now. Keep it up 😉 This spiritual journey may not be smooth sailing all the time, but it's fulfilling and rewarding.

Hi Michelle... are you following Rinpoche's teachings all the while?

Hi there :) glad you found this informative. Please so visit the blogsite at tsemrinpoche.com for more dharma knowledge :)

Hi Mr. Ugyen. Glad that you like this video and please be informed that all the videos are produced under the guidance of H.E Tsem Tulku Rinpoche’s with the aim to help more people know about Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism in particular. Tsem Rinpoche has the aim to made Buddha’s teaching more accessible via modern technologies. Do keep look for interesting videos from Tsem Rinpoche’s youtube channer, alternatively you are also welcome to visit Rinpoche’s blog at www.tsemrinpoche.com/ for more.

Do check out Rinpoche's blog www.tsemrinpoche.com Rinpoche has a lot of good content

+Michelle Ma Belle Michelle... then load yourself with more teachings from Rinpoche then. There's a blogchat section at Rinpoche's blog for your queries if any! www.tsemrinpoche.com/chat p/s: Thanks for your love and peace! I send some back to you also! with Love...

Hi Priyanka, thank you for watching. Have you visited Tsem Rinpoche`s blog www.tsemrinpoche.com? Please do browse for further spiritual teachings or interesting articles. :)

Thank you Ruma Dutta for watching this video. Please do visit His Eminence the 25th Tsem Rinpoche's blog at www.tsemrinpoche.com for more inspiration and insight.

Hello Ruma, thank you very much for your comment. Please do come to visit Tsem Rinpoche's blog www.tsemrinpoche.com, you will find some interesting and useful articles that may suit your need.

Hi Gregory, Thank you for your enthusiasm for the dharma. One does not need so much to begin one's practice? Are you still studying at this time? One can start with a buddha image, can even print out your favourite buddha, and make offerings of water bowls to the buddha. Then for chanting related practices you can choose from the ones given on the blog, TSEM RINPOCHE DOT COM most Kecharians start off with the practice of Guru Yoga of Lama Tsongkhapa and there is many resources about this practice on Tsem Rinpoche's blog.

i used to have water bowels and zafu but these things got lost in moving around but now am not able to purchase them an still looking for work here yes i am still studying the dharma have been for along time now almost 8 years and am looking for a teacher also thank you so much for your reply and concern in this matter in maitri

Remember you can always use folded blankets and pillows, or even just use a chair. Do not let the realm of forms prevent you from developing your practice. Your diligence is all you need. May you be well, happy and peaceful.

Yes as animals die in fear, anger, ignorance, so in fact we are putting in more and more fear inside us over and over again if we keep on partaking in meat. Have you visited Tsem Rinpoche's blog -> tsem rinpoche dot com

Wai Meng Wan If Buddha is alive today, I think he would have preferred us to meditate only because it is the only way to enlightenment. Having an alter is just an old tradition borne out of love and respect for him. The third eye centre should be the focal point, as is highlighted in many Buddha pictures and statues.

Quansan52 Yes meditation is the only way to become enlightened. From my understanding, we need to have knowledge and learning to meditate on. Vipassana is insight meditation, but don't you need to learn dharma knowledge whether is it theory on no self or the 12 links of dependent origination to have a dharma object to meditate on? Buddhist practice usually involves 2 key aspects 1) collection of merit and 2) purification of karma for Vajrayana anyways. So having a altar helps us collect merit and purify our karma. It is important. With merits we can understand and contemplate on the dharma, some meditate on the breath which is like shamatha, but the concentration is used for us meditate on the ultimate nature of reality. When we purify our karma, we prevent ourselves from encountering a situation whereby our spiritual practice is hindered and remove obstacle to spiritual practice.

Wai Meng Wan Dharma knowledge is wisdom, which is not learned from books or outside source but through inner experience. I am initiated into the inner light and inner sound ( Quan Yin ) meditation, a direct contact with Buddha Nature. Initiation by a true master is the inner transmission Of Dharma. The inner connection is always there, so that is the best guidance. There are 2 types of karma; fixed karma which determines our current life events and cannot be changed, past stored karma are accumulated over the many past lives, can only be eradicated by a fifth level master. that is why most of us are caught up in the cycle of reincarnations.

Cher Un inconnu pas très connu, Non, nous n'avons pas encore de traduction en français. Je vais vous contacter dès qu'il y a une version française pour mettre en place un autel. Merci pour votre intérêt.

Hello Jackie, thank you for letting us know about your concerns regarding making offerings to buddhas or bodhisattvas.For this question, obviously buddhas do not require us to offer any worldly material offerings to him. They are not benefitted with those material objects, what they really want are our spiritual development, our dharma practice. It just symbols the act of generousity in making offerings to buddhas.We can make offerings in any form: through charity donation as you said or shrine offerings. These actions are the antidote to our worldly attachment. With these selfless actions, would help us to release our selfish attachments. We do not need to spend too much on shrine offerings indeed, we can just simply offer some water to buddhas in the beginning. So I do not think it would cost us a lot. Of course, we offer the best we could afford is the most wonderful things as we are the dharma practitioners, right? Moreover, and this is the most important point, we can create merits through making offerings and so that we would get closer towards the enlightenment.

Enjoiy.........Blessed.....in Ravikala Ur.

You make offerings to Buddha, Tara, they pour blessings onto you, both spiritual and financial, and you can help other people much more effectively than if you spent that money on people instead of buying an offering cup or an altar statue. You make a small offering and receive big blessing. You receive dharma and give back gratitude, Buddha gives you even more again and so it goes non stop. If you think like this, it makes sense to buy a beautiful cup your money can afford, fill it with water and offer to Buddha. Water symbolizes your soul, incense is your devotion to spiritual way of living, light is your enlightened understanding, fruit is that your material life is in accordance with spirit.

Jackie Jasso your right the buddha isn’t interested in How opulent are offerings are or how luxurious our shrines look, I just think a beautiful shrine in our home makes it nicer for the practitioner and brings us a little joy, as it’s a place where we will spend a great deal of time as we meditate and progress on our path and accelerate a our learning. I spent quite a bit on my altar and don’t regret it one bit as I think if it doesn’t bring a little joy to,our lives we are going about it all wrong, and as people have mentioned already it will reward us great merit in doing so. But of course as you mentioned, purity of spirit, and love and compassion for all things are the most important lessons, so while we’re doing this I don’t see any harm in doing it in front of something beautiful to inspire us and become the jewel and spiritual epicentre of our home 😊🙏🏽❤️that’s my own personal view anyway. Many blessings to you

Hi Jackie, I agree, I'm a Theravada Buddhist, these guys are Tibetan Buddhists. I'm not saying Theravada Buddhist temples don't have big expensive Buddha statues but our shrines are usually more simple and less elaborate. The Buddha did not want images of him made at all, they appeared because lay people who did not read could not comprehend what a Buddha was, so images were made to show them. If you become Buddhist you don't need a statue just a dhamma sutra and somewhere at home peaceful to meditate.

Joy Storey that's not necessary

No it does not

Hi Ravikala Udupi, where are you from?

Vandami, Blessing's Ur!.......Udupi, Kanataka.........

Ravikala Udupi I see... nice to meet you here! Rinpoche has a blog, you’ve been here before www.tsemrinpoche.com ? There’s a lot of interesting stuff there be it spirituality, something weird or even paranormal and perhaps if you are looking for an inspiration to start you day! Feel free to leave a comment there ...

+Yaakov Reed Exactly! There are a lot of rich buddhist out there...

+brody garich I don't think wealth is keeping them from keeping true traditions of the Buddha. I think most are just missed lead by following commentarys like the visuddhimagga.

Ravikala Udupi erm, you mean where is Kechara House now? www.kechara.com/kechara-house/contact/

Darong Li Do you know mandarin?

Jacinta Goh yes i understand

Darong Li blog.sina.cn/dpool/blog/zhandugu#type=-1 你可以去这里看一看。 希望你可以学到很多

Jacinta Goh 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

asim ibrahimov Ameen

asim ibrahimov threatened lol

What’s wrong?

Whate is mean of your comment please tell me

@@dinujayamendis8043 According to the google translation. It says: " God have mercy".

Hieu Pham The Presenter is Bradley Gibson

+Emma Frost Yes people who set up and altar and do practices, they can find peace and for some a solution to their current problems.

Blessings are generated by virtous deeds and practicing the dharma. Dont get to attach on altars and artiffacts, cultivate your buddha nature blessings will come.

Buddhist do not pray to stone. It's a representation of Buddha and when we have a Buddha at home, we will keep reminding ourselves of who we are and the purpose of us here. Just like speed limit. Why do you often keep seeing speed limit on Highways? Don't we know the speed limit? So, when we have the speed limit being put up in highways, we are constantly being reminded that we should drive in within the speed limit. The Buddha statue do not have mind per see but every gestures, even the posture, the clothes are representation of something. For example, the sitting posture is a reminder on how Buddha gained Enlightenment. We should meditate. For example, Islam has surau or mosque. They pray five times a day. They have a wonderful sound system that will read out Quran or prayer verses at different times a day to remind the practitioners to pray and that's very very beautiful. Why is that? Because it teaches us to think of spirituality, think of God in their case. Hope this helps.

Jacinta Goh Very Well Said.

You completely misunderstand Buddhism

U r praying to air that every takes

You idiot. You do not understand Buddhism very well indeed Islam is a threat to humanity