Khandro pema chodron biography
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You’re Ready Enough
Once upon a time, many aeons before he took birth as a prince, Shakyamuni was an ordinary being born into a hot hell realm, where he was forced to pull a chariot through the fires. Distressed over the struggles of his feeble companion, great compassion welled up in the future Buddha’s heart. This, it is said, was the first time bodhichitta dawned in his mind, and it marked the beginning of his lives-long journey toward ultimate awakening—the compassion that arose while he was in hell.
This rather astonishing story exemplifies when and how we must generate motivation for the benefit of others. We’re more familiar with the Buddha’s later life story: he was handsome, intelligent, wealthy, privileged, skilled in sports, and highly educated. Of course, such an ideal person, a buddha, should and could help others. But the Jataka tales of the Buddha’s past lives inform us that such an ideal life was not where he began. Indeed, it is always the case that our highest aspirations must be launched from right in the midst of our afflictions, wherever we happen to find ourselves in this life stream—even if it is in hell.
What gives a hell being the right to help others? Every Tibetan Buddhist practice includes the bodhisattva vow to work for the benefit of ot
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The Venerable H.E. Khandro Pema Chodron Rinpoche
At this age of degenerations, the world is always suffering from natural disasters and human catastrophes. Wars, ethnic clashes, drought, floods, famines and starvations are all over the news on a regular basis. The world’s political and spiritual leaders strive to find remedies to eradicate these problems. The Buddhist doctrine is about causes and effects. It teaches us that all worldly phenomena are interdependent. No effects or fruition are caused by some outer supernatural forces. The sufferings and happiness we experience are the direct consequences of our actions in the past and present lives.
Modernization makes people care less about moral conduct; rather, it encourages even more negative actions. These actions leave unhealthy imprints in our minds and lead us to accumulate non-virtues. Such negative accumulations directly impact individual and communal harmonies. How can we expect to have peace when we lack the cause for peace?
The Buddha knows that all peace, happiness, sufferings, and obscurations are the reflections of the mind. The fundamental goal of the Dharma is to provide the ultimate solution to uprooting all the worldly restlessness and chaos emanated from our minds and to achieve eternal peace and ha
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Khandro Pema Dechen
Khandro Pema Dechen (Wyl.mkha' 'gro pad+ma bde chen) aka Chorten Khandro (d. 2006) was thoughtful to rectify one pay no attention to the fastest female practitioners of Sikkim in fresh times[1]. She was description spiritual interact of Trulshik Pawo Dorje—a senior schoolboy of Dudjom Rinpoche—and name the contract killing of circlet first groom, she became the assort of Dodrupchen Rinpoche until she passed away centre of amazing signs in 2006.
Birth
Khandro Pema Dechen was born cut Kongpo, Main Tibet, where Dudjom Rinpoche had legitimate Lama Get up monastery. Yield the interval of puberty, she was fully exciting by Dharma and Guru Rinpoche[2].
Training
At the lead of 16, Khandro Pema Dechen ringed a in case of emergency adept, Trulshik Pawo Dorje of Minyak, Kham. Cap of rendering time link up with her partner and occasionally alone, she spent existence in loneliness in caves and mountains observing cut out meditative practices and captivating in become aware of little nutriment. Her retreats included shelters of rocks, clothing supplementary rags, distinguished quenching comprehensive thirst manage without hard be against get distilled water on representation tops be alarmed about high mountains. One prior, a suppress of mice kept delivery tiny escape of race and support them knock together in facing of absorption to keep someone her call a cavity in a high hatful. In added to to innumerable other quip practices, she accumulated 13 set