Hi, I'm Claire, and I'm kind of a professional Buddhist. I want to share the knowledge and experience I've gained through practicing Buddhism since 1997, teaching meditation since 2004, and completing a PhD in Tibetan Buddhism at Rice University in 2015.
My videos are here to give you an easy way to start learning about the wisdom of the dharma and how to apply it in daily life. I'm interested in the basics of Buddhist belief, Tibetan teachings on rebirth (from the "Tibetan Book of the Dead" genre of teachings) and how they apply to transitions, and the hints Buddhist teachings offer as to the ultimate nature of our minds and reality.
As a friend of mine put it, I got the PhD so you don't have to. 😜
In my opinion the english mantra Im already enough is going against Buddhist practice. To me, this mantra implies a self, however in Buddhism, there is no self.
As I m a Christian (peace the prince of peace. Jesus To fill my heart.).( Love The most important thing because if I can do everything But don't love what's the point).( Grace to forgive myself and others For their failures and shortcomings), That I will pray with a guru bead as my heart. I hope if anyone reads this comment that needs it there will be less than weekly and the name of Jesus The most shy I pray if your path is laid in your jam or If he's leading you on this path be encouraged if you're not on this path The best hopes and wishes to you Truly be blessed
be here now do no harm help others be still close eyes listen to your breathing. om amidewa hri: om mani peme hung: om a hung benza guru pema siddhi hung: om chale chule chunde so ha: hung mama hung ni so ha: om benza kili kilaye hung peh.
I've discovered Buddhism 12 years ago but am much older and really trying to follow this path. I love the mantra of compassion and the mantra to help take away pain and suffering from others. My Mala are red wood. What sort of wood would that be? If you could link me with a website that share a list of mantras I'd be very grateful.
Thanks for sharing, I would like to go beyond basic dual approch to elements. Thousands of years before buddha and tibet existed indian sages have identified true nature of elements. Every east asian culture has taken infinitely small wisdom from it. There is no seprate fire or any element everything has emerged from akasha infinite space and prana ( singular subatomic universal energy ) Fire element also known as agni is also harmones, intercellular heat or immunity. May be it has something to do with gut microbiome who act in digestion but ultimately fire is born from wind element which itself has originated from space so actually fire is space.
Thanks for sharing Can you pls make a detailed video on dissolution of elements in dyeing and Bardo states with energetic aspect . its interesting to know how rainbow body is created despite dissolution of all elements
Ultimate secret of the universe is akasha the first primordial element. All east asian spiritual traditions have there origin in india. Ancient indian scriptures have elaborate description of space. In advanced tantric yogic process all five elements are dissolved into even finer element from which space originates. Prana or ultimate building block of energy is yang aspect of yin space. Every state of mind has combinations of all 5 elements. Quantum mechanics and dark energy could be related to space. I think space can be only experiened within and cannot be intellectually explained. Thanks for sharing.
This was a really nice guided meditation for someone just starting like me. Except for the commercials that came on when I was supposed to be relaxing.
Thank you for these clear videos. I wonder how reliable the Buddha's texts are if they were written a few hundred years after his death. Take the Bible and then the gospels of Jesus Christ. He lived later than Buddha and his life was only written down 60 years later and that really doesn't add up. Sorry for my doubts.
My honest opinion sangha is properly one of the best jewel 💎 out there why because it goes on about helping the community out and the environment out as well and thats what the monks do
I like the presentation my favourite bit about Buddhism is the three jewels 💎 I understand 2 of them and that is sangha and the Buddha the one I do not understand is the dharma
Mantras are very beneficial. We chant mantras because they are short, simple & easy to remember or memorize. In short, a simple way to explain this is that chanting mantras with faith and a clear, focused mind will help us develop compassion, be able to control our minds, earn merits, and abolish our karma.
This makes so much sense. Most religion including Hindu have us believe aligning to God/The Universe is the ultimate achievement. Which is true but....this is always the question that I have. In most western religions, God tests us all for our loyalty. We live in this world and watch suffering and ask God why, if God is all knowing with incredible powers allow this to happen? If God knows what is inevitable, why still test us, we, who are the imperfect? In Hindu, Krishna and Shiva are like the Universe. The book, The Bhagavad Gita explains that we are just fragments of Krisha; that we are all a part of him here to experience life and work to be in union (yoga) with Krishna/Shiva. If so, my conundrum here is why would they do that? Is it for us to have everlasting praise and faith for them when they know we have to suffer to attain it? They have everlasting knowledge, yet they put us here to witness the good and the bad. They didn't have to do that. It is their game. So Buddism makes sense now, suffering is inevitable. He knew it was all a game. The Buddha detached from the Universe's games and broke away from the Matrix. However, their are Bodhisattvas that reincarnate to share to us that we can all break away from this Matrix.
Great video, thank you. However, Maitreya is not a focus or definition of Buddha in early Buddhism, as you stated. In early Buddhism, Theravada, Buddha is the historical Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama. In Mahayana, the later tradition, the definition of Buddha was expanded to view many enlightened Buddhas, including Siddhartha Gautama, as well as the inherent Buddha Nature which is , of course, everyone’s innate potential for enlightenment; the “Buddha-ness”within all of us. And Maitreya, the future Buddha, is actually more of a feature in Mahayana, not earlier Theravada, as Maitreya is an important element of the Lotus Sutra, which is one of the most influential and venerated Mahayana sutras. Also, just as you mentioned that there are different traditions within Pure Land Buddhism, the same is to be said for Zen. The two most practiced Zen traditions are Soto and Rinzai.
Luckily for is then that most of these mantras have easily accessible translations. Plus that ultimately for many mantras act as a method of focus, like watching a candle flame to calm the mind!
Well, there are translated mantras, but many traditional cultures and groups don't translate mantras from the original language they were spoken. They do this so nothing is "lost in translation" and the mantras hold the exact same meaning and power from when they were originally said. Direct translations don't always make the same sense, or certain words or phrases don't translate
100% RIGHT i do this all the time, any plant life actually even the rocks and boulders ..IT IS TRULY A GROUNDING and highly enlightening experience..."Nature all Botany i love u, am sorry - please forgive me and THANK YOU THANK YOU Mother Earth"!
