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Aug 3, 2020, 11:05:33 PM8/3/20

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Hello,

I wanted to share a few important things:

* His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s 1-hour live teaching will begin in less than one hour. Please go here for info: https://www.dalailama.com/schedule

* For over a week, Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche and other high lamas have been doing intense, nonstop prayers and fire pujas for healing and purification from the pandemic. Please rejoice!

* Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche also shared a previous, brief teaching on how to think while watching the news. It was perfect timing and beneficial for me so I wanted to share it; maybe you’ll find it useful, too?

Please take the time to continue reading, it’s worth it!

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For over a week, Khadro la, Tsoknyi Rinpoche, Mingyur Rinpoche, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Abbott of Shechen monastery and Abbott of Mindroling monastery have been offering fire pujas, strong prayers for healing and purification for all those affected by pandemic. May all their prayers and from others around the world be actualized.

How to Think While Watching the News

Lama Zopa Rinpoche made these comments in April 2014 after seeing images of the suffering of many people on television.

It’s important to use the situation to remind yourself how fortunate you are to still have a human body and a perfect human rebirth, which is most difficult to find, and that you have met the Buddhadharma and the virtuous friend.

Remind yourself how it’s most fortunate to still be a human being and not to waste it, and to practice the holy Dharma to purify and collect merit and actualize the path.

Use these kinds of situations to be inspired. The 270 people who died in the airplane accident, the sixteen Sherpas who died on Mount Everest, and so forth—use all these situations to remind yourself to practice Dharma and to generate compassion for those sentient beings and for all the suffering sentient beings.

This isn’t the first time [they have suffered and died like this]. They have experienced the suffering of pain, the suffering of change, and pervasive compounded suffering numberless times.

Then it’s helpful and becomes a meditation of the path of the lower, middle, and higher capable beings. Think of the suffering nature of samsara that has been experienced numberless times. This makes it useful when you hear that information and news.

This advice “Watching the News” was originally published in “Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Online Advice Book” on the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive website:

https://www.lamayeshe.com/advice/watching-news

Watch the video series Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Teachings on Thought Transformation during the Time of COVID-19 and find links to videos in translation, transcripts, MP3s, additional practice advice, and more:

https://fpmt.org/…/advice-from-lama-zopa-rinpoche-for-coro…/

Lama Zopa Rinpoche is the spiritual director of the Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), a Tibetan Buddhist organization dedicated to the transmission of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition and values worldwide through teaching, meditation and community service.