Words of My Perfect Teacher - Week 7 (Samsara, Part 3 - The Human realm)

On 7 February, we continued Patrul Rinpoche's commentary on the Longchen Nyingtik ngöndro, The Words of My Perfect Teacher. We continued with Chapter Three, "The Defects of Samsara" (from p.81 in the Padmakara translation of The Words of My Perfect Teacher), spending our time on the sufferings of birth, old age, sickness and death, and completing the section on the sufferings of the human realm (sections 4.2 and 4.3). A recording of our conversation is available here.

Words of My Perfect Teacher - Week 6 (Samsara, Part 2 - The Hungry Ghost & Animal realms)

On 31 January, we continued Patrul Rinpoche's commentary on the Longchen Nyingtik ngöndro, The Words of My Perfect Teacher. We continued Chapter Three, "The Defects of Samsara" (from p.72 in the Padmakara translation of The Words of My Perfect Teacher), and completed the sections on the hungry ghost (preta) realm (section 2) and the animal realm (section 3). We started on the human realm, covering the three fundamental types of suffering (section 4.1). A recording of our conversation is available here.