The master has passed, But his compassion keeps flowing. I bow down my head in gratitude.

He uses skillful means to communicate his message. I've listened to dozens of his dharma talks, and they are always precious learning experiences.

He sounds like that because of his passion. He's adamant about putting his point across, & he wants to get things done fast. That's his samsaric character, I feel it's useful to him as a teacher & I think more people will relate to him because of that..

Lama Yehse (and this lama seems to be of the same tradition) used to say, "Meditate on your own death till the tears run down your face." Tolle says," Die before you die." Don Juan says death is a good adviser. The Samurai Zen tradition says live like a dead man. Trungpa says his tutors took him to many funerals as a child. I found working in hospice very helpful. Now cancer helps me keep death close. Grateful, grateful, grateful.

I cannot begin to say much this has helped.....recently lost a dear friend whose last words were " I don't want to die" upon which it hit me that all are destined to die regardless of the path we are in. I have started death meditation and will continue to do so for it helps me enrich the lives of all that comeinto my life regardless of wether it is for a second or a lifetime.

Thank you for not sugar coating this teaching. It is important for sincere practitioners who wish to make progress but find themselves overly preoccupied with worldly distractions to hear that their lack of progress is directly tied to their ignorance on impermanence. Such ignorance is an obstacle to accumulating merit because one's energy then goes into non-Dharma related things. Once we take to heart that we may truly die today, we will not waste our time indulging in the meaningless activities of life. So again, I thank you. In an age of emotional sensitivity it is refreshing to hear words of wisdom spoken so directly and to the point.

Thank you Tsem Tulku Rinpoche for sharing this amazing and clearly explanation about meditation on death. Everyone has a great fear of death, no one wants to die. However, it’s natural cycle, everyone in the world also has to face it. In Buddhism, dying without fear, with peace, with a sense of “happiness” is a key teaching. To the end, the teaching on the five power widely used in Purification practice can be helpful. These practice are: The Power of Purification, The Power of Intention, The Power of Remorse, The Power of Prayer and The Power of Familiarity. As Tsem Tulku Rinpoche said, everyone has to performing death meditation , no matter of what age you are. Many of the high lamas also advice on why we need performing the death meditation. For examples: “Death can happen at any time…meditating on death is very helpful.” by Zasep Tulku Rinpoche, “Facing Death and Dying Well” by His Holiness 14th Dalai Lama, “I think our fear on dying is a loss of control… Those thoughts are your conditioning” by Ondrea Levine , “ The notion of death cannot be applied to reality” by Thich Nhat Hanh, and so on. As a conclusion, meditation can overcoming the fear of dying and increasing our commitment to savour life. As we grow in mindfulness through reflection on the life of someone who had died and through meditating on death, we can learn to fully savour life and surf all its waves.

As many of us may know, the best meditation on death is watching dead bodies or the process of cremation and think that we will be on their place some day. Many monks do this practice and you can't deny that this practice is very efficient.

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Thank you Dear Rinpoche, it is so true Dharma is the greatest thing in the world

You can feel the passion and love for Dharma that he had in this life. His speech is so powerful!

Eye-opening talk, calling for a true waking-up motivation. The message is very loud and clear, and uttered with a great sense of humour. Thank you, Rinpoche!

Death is inevitable. Everyone knows death. When we meditate on death and see that all we desire and fight for will end in death, it really makes everything in a different perspective. I start to question, "What is really important?" Is my purpose in life merely to breathe, take up space, pretend to be important, have a few friends, a few millions????

can you hear that? that is the sound of me subscribing.

OMG! this Rinpoche is awesome, he can really talk and give good example. Thank you for posting.

Wonderful teaching ! thanks a lot tsem tulku rinpoche for posting your teachings ! Greetings from France !

I think Rinpoche is a great teacher and entertaining person. This meditation if practiced can change your life .It is simple ,universal ,dark and light ideas that are universal and enlightening. These are unifying ideas just as Buddhism's teachings are. The same rules and ideas apply to everyone equally .A very serious yet funny and profound message .When you perceive the world and yourself as they are, then you see the simplicity of truth and beauty in yourself and the world and beyond.

Love you from Kathmandu Guru. Meditation is kind of Death. Do the Death Practice for all the People.

Outstanding. Thank you Tsem Rinpoche, your teachings are very effective.

Wow i love this guy

Congratulations for your wonderful Dhamma Speech. I really appreciated it. I wish you good health, success, happiness, good luck, long life, prosperity and all the best in your life,sir. I am a Buddhist in Bangkok, Thailand.

I Love to hear someone to speakin the really truth,oh how much i love this,thank you soooomuch for being incarnated in these times and speakin these wonderfull truth.Thanks. in these days...in a world where is spoken so many lies ..OM MANI PADME HUM and dont forget..We all are consciousness, You are I,and I am You.Everything is one.

this should be taught in all public schools in america

How great after many years I manage to listen sharing from here

Everyone should watch this!

Powerful teaching, short yet informative!!

bitter but truth truth truth . now i am thanks thanks thanks for so crucial knowledge. Hindu but 100 percent follow buddhism. buddha is boon for mankind

This is a good practice, I will do it everyday together with lords prayer.

No one is truly alive while they deny death. This is a good video. Listen and you may hear. "Nothing in the world is more difficult for a man than to take the path that leads to himself." Hermann Hesse.

I know this sounds ridiculous, but I just turned 18 and my fear of aging has kicked in. And I think I realize why now. Because I fear growing further and further from childhood, a time when everything seemed permanent and it seemed like you'd never age and when death of "non-elders-of-the-moment" seemed like a myth. It was easier to deny death. Now I realize how much enjoying the present moment really is important. I tried this meditation for like, 2 seconds, and got so scared! I hope it gets

wow, hard hitting teachings! Thank you so much Rinpoche!

Thanks for the teaching!

Rimpochela thank u for the video.....and i love watching and following the dharma....thank u soooo much..

actually, if you meet people who have had near death experiences, or recovered from very serious illnesses, they will tell you that it has helped them tremendously to live positively and happily. This is what the teachings on impermanence are about As Rinpoche himself says in his book "If not now, when?": WE TALK ABOUT DEATH SO WE CAN LIVE; WE REALISE DEATH SO WE CAN MAKE OTHERS LIVE

I am not the body i am not the mind

The more we accept the truth (our loved once will die), the more we will do spiritual practise.

Amazing. Thank you rinpochela for sharing your wisdom! 🙏🏽

what a life changing video.

Excellent

Rinpoche YOU ROCK!

indeed a live buddha talking dharma in a modern society :） he is an very unsual rinpoche that able to put dharma in practical sense.. awesome

this is one of my favorite video teaching by HE Tsem Rinpoche

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First Buddhist I hear with a gay accent and body language. Diversity is great!

Thank you for uploading this. I meditate regularly on Vipassana and Twin heart, but this was an eye opener. I plan to start on the "Nine point death meditation" shortly. If there is any specific guided death meditation out there, please point me to a good one.

He’s a great teacher

Rimpoche, u r great

Whether one meditates on LIFE or DEATH, that is not the issue! . . . . So, just get RELAXED AND start MEDITATING on objects . . . . An object can be anything, such as (1) an IMAGE (for example, Statue of Buddha, Lotus flower, any flower, any tree, an image outside image of your home, school, office, etc.), (2) a LIGHT (e.g. moonlight, sunlight above landscapes, sunlight on streams, rivers or fountains, candlelight in your room, forest in moonlight or sunlight, wildlife in moonlight or sunlight, etc.), and a SOUND (e.g. sound coming from outside such as sounds of traffic, people, any noise pollution, sounds of birds, air, etc, or inside sounds, such as sounds of your room fan, your children giggling, your own breathing, family members walking and talking, etc.) . . . . Just, be relaxed and be an outsider when concentrating on one of the objects (i.e. an image, light, or even sound that suits your mood) with your awareness being an OUTSIDER concentrating on those objects with your eyes closed (or maybe sometimes opened) . . . Just, don't force . . . . Let other ideas come and interrupt your concentration . . . . Accept them and don't get annoyed, and just be relaxed . . . . As you practice more, your concentration will improve . . . . That's what I learnt from TIBETAN BUDDHIST MEDITATIOn . . . . . May long live, Tenzin Gyasto, the 14th Dalai Lama . . . . Lots of regards . . . . OM MANI PADME HUM

I hope it gets better... Peace to you all :) And love.

Consciousness is a thought of the universe

That sounds very much like the Buddhist practice as well. In Thailand, some meditators actually do that. They meditate in coffins to realize our mortality.

This is humbling

I started listening to Tsem Riponche about 2 months ago and I think it is fantastic then I found out he died in Sep 2019 at 53yrs of organ (liver) failure. He has a great vision for Kechara Centre. So can someone help me understand his death. it is like a Great let down. Finally there is someone who can teach Tibetean Buddhism in understandable modern English, then he is dead. help !!! I am confused!!

There is an explanation in Chinese destiny reading as to why people are fat or thin. If I understand correctly, it has to do with one's resource element. Remember, what we see is like an illusion.. Gaining weight is not necessarily negative because everyone's point of equilibrium is different, & even different at different times of their life..

Many a time i bet, the lowest scope person changes paths to a higher one.❤

Thank you Rinpoche. Wish you reborn soon to help people.

wow, made me sit straight up! thank you!

@samann95014 I used to think after thinking about death you'd be all down, negative and scared. On the contrary, you'll find that a lot of things that would normally bother you, would bother you less. If you think how short this life is and how all those things that nag you would really not mean a thing at the point of death. You'll let go of things easier, feel less stressfull. You might even end up living longer !

awesomely weird profound experience all good!

Holy crap that was awesome, brb going straight to the cushion to do death meditation!

Nice description. please give caption of synopsis described for better comprehension of elderly persons who have weakened some hearing power.

awesome

What is Dharma can smbdy help me understand. I like budhism and their teachings I would like to learn more

The hard true,Well speech..

Hi, is it safe to do death meditation alone in my bedroom? Is there any danger of actually dying while doing it? 'Cause I did it, and as I was visualizing it, it really felt like I was hitting the brakes on my body, like everything was shutting down... So then I stopped doing it 'cause I got scared...

Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu.

Thankyou ..this is truth...please make more such videos....

If I may add to Tsem's point. Contemplate, meditate on death until you comprehend deathlessness. From that point observe and contemplate, meditate on karma. It has no static form and is mutable to your perspectives. You lucky bugger Tsem, I'll be dead one of these decades too. Yet for now, may I find no end to the samsara for the causes of happiness towards all. Being unkillable sucks.

touched my tsem ....thk u rinpoche

Yo estaba buscando esto hace tiempo. Solo digo wooow, es mucho más profundo de lo que pense.

Dang he’s like right wow

As an atheist/agnostic, how can I rip the benefits of death meditation? death meditation doesn't seem to work for me b.c I don't believe in rebirth (reincarnation) does anyone have any idea?

I am death i am life i am the all and consciousness is seeing this as we are the cosmos

He said the bad things you did will come to you when you die , The countless sins i did are coming to me right now . some times i feel very ashamed of my self because of all the bad things i did to others out of ignorance greed stupidity , pride and anger . i hope i will change myself forever for the benefits of others . peace long live usa.

His English is very good

Maybe it could be the time again like in the middleage.! And to be reborn as a human being is the greatest gift ever!!! its so hard!!!so hard...really. its like,you have to imagine,theres a turtle swimming out there in the big,deep ocean,and on the water surface is swimming a lifebelt,and every 100 years the turtle comes up to grab some air,how likely it is,that when the turtle comes up,that the turtle will meet the lifebelt! so hard it is to get a life with a awareness like we have

Please upload full video 🙏🙏❤

OMG.. he nearly seems to hate those people who don't do dharma work.

I suggest the reading of the HAGAKURE! the samurai book of death

This was intense as fuck!

Thinking about what will befall everyone in this planet appears to be negative. It is if we don't try to understand more about it because then we have no way of dealing with it when it strikes us and we are caught totally unprepared.If we understand death knowing the dangers when we take rebirths in lower realms, we will want to do something about it.This fear becomes a positive motivating factor for us to find a way out like what Sakyamuni did.

Hello : ) yes i was not aware of this ;) but its great to know now,thank You. im from Germany. many tashi deleg to You

old age is bad enough

Which chapter is he saying to reread ?

there was an order of christian monks who used to sleep in coffins every night to remind themselves of impermanence.

and btw, I agree with redlittledot - go check out RINPOCHE'S BLOG which really has many wonderful stories and show us why we should make the most of our precious live to do more more more blog (do t) tsemtulku (do t) com

Thank you

Thank you rinpoche, thanks for sharing. _/\_

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I can see the point tho...if you realise how precious life is, you`ll let go of some negative stuff easier and you can concentrate more of the meaningful things in life! Still I don`t think that one should scare people into this kind of life, they should find out about this eventually as they walk through it. I also doubt that one should think about death every single day in order to be a better person. I agree that you should be able to make piece with the fact that death will come eventually.

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Wow!

The most savage dharma talk begins from 11:00. You're welcome.

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Who is that Monk? Very helpful information.

Why did you put advertisements on Dharma videos?

At first I didn't like the fact that he gained weight but he's just as epic now as when he was thin.

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Rinpoche reminds me of Fluffy (Gabriel Iglesias). I'm sure they're incarnations of the same deity.