The Bodisattva Path with Traleg Rinpoche

[claudelebel55]

this guy is hilarious

[claudelebel55]

this guy is funny - very lite, light

[spiritualhealingct]

All sentient beings...a sensitivity to all life...a respect for all things, animate and inanimate.

Thank you for this video.

[ruzickaw]

what a useless talking! First, what does a Bodhisatva do for the insects? Just not killing them? And why do you want to become

a Great Being, a Mahasatva, instead of just being a being? And if one is still greater than a Mahasatva, will he become a MahaMahasattva?

[yankeejat66]

What I think about why do you want to become a Great Being is just for your own good. To do that, you need to do the best that you can do for others. That is what I can come up with my limited intellect.

[ruzickaw]

Then why are so many Tibetan teachers called (or let them be called) HIS HOLINESS?

Just calling someone holy means, that he is holy and all the others are not. And what is holy anyway?

Somebody who is egoless (which is a fiction; there is always some ego involved as long as we live) does not need any title, not even rimpoche.

[yankeejat66]

Yes, I also don't like that personally and that is the main reason why I don't let others call me HH Yankeejat66 or anything like that ;)

I agree with you that as long as we live, we can't be egoless.

The purpose of Buddhism is to have a psychologically well-balanced mind which is happy. It has worked amazingly well for me as I am sure it has worked like that for countless others. I think you are getting hooked on to the outside appearances. I suggest that you study a bit about emptiness.

[mauricioasalinas]

You do not need to understand egolesness literally, it means that you have great altruism, that you have overcome gross and even subtle egoism and selfishness, and then care and act for the benefit of others. Holy is a bad translation for Sat or Sad, meaning real or authentic. The titles and other stuff are again a label. Trying to understand the meaning it is in itself a sign or mark. Correct analysis takes you to understand what is the real meaning. Even the basic meaning, is like a beacon.

[mindreadingradios]

Ruzikaw, -If he is holy it does not mean that others are. One is not exclusive of the other.

Calling a christian minister a ?man of God, doesn't men he is either. Not does his being a minister mean he necessarily knows more about God or is more spiritual than you or I are. DO you question that as well ?

I think a lot of your questioning is because you are uncomfortable with this belief and those who believe.

[ruzickaw]

A man of God, yes that´s exactly what it means. He is a man of god, but we are not. Why?

He pretends to dedicate his whole life to god, while we have others interests, more practical ones.

In Theravada Buddhism a teacher is called a good friend, kalyana-mitta. No need to bow to him and kiss his lotus feed or call him His Holiness.

Tibetans took this senseless adoration of the guru over from the Hindus.

[mindreadingradios]

The greater the being the less you do things for yourself or personal benefit or gain.

[mauricioasalinas]

being a great being is just a figure of speech, meaning that you have achieved great compassion. This is what you wan to do. second, what can anyone do for insects? being a person who has great compassion, means also great wisdom. Both together, are significant in order for one person to understand how to help all beings. The reason that this ideal is presented is to have a target or an aim, a model to guide your own development. It is not meant for worship, it is for inspiration.

[ruzickaw]

Overcoming even subtle egotism? Monks are the subtlest egotists. I renounce the world to reach enlightenment. No rising of a family, no work, just MY study, just MY meditation.

So that it does not look so egoistic we make the Bodhisattva vow. I do all this not for me but to help others.

But when one looks at these poor refugee monks they are not even cable of helping themselves. They always want you to help them.I want to go to the west. Please pay my plain ticket, give donation.

[mauricioasalinas]

what you describe is not the boddhisattva path. Monks are not necessarily boddhisattvas or viceversa. Real monks are hard to find, keeping the vinaya is very difficult even for lay practitioners. Making the boddhisattva bow is just intention, being a boddhisattva requires first a change of heart and this is difficult to do. For some people being bikshus/bikshunis is an ego trip as anything. It is not of much help,.this does not mean that boddhi mind can not be engendered at all.

[yogafrogrich]

thank-you Traleg for putting distinctions of depth into Buddhism, accounting for but not limited to postmodernism : )