{"id":210477,"date":"2019-09-12T16:52:47","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T14:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/institut.dhagpo.org\/?p=210477"},"modified":"2019-09-15T19:35:22","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T17:35:22","slug":"sit-down-and-practice-with-sincerity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/institut.dhagpo.org\/en\/sit-down-and-practice-with-sincerity\/","title":{"rendered":"Sit down and practice with sincerity – Teaching with Jigm\u00e9 Rinpoch\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In Tibetan, we don’t say \u201cI’m a Buddhist\u201d, we say \u201cI turn inwards\u201d. This is the idea that began the five days of teaching with Jigm\u00e9 Rinpoch\u00e9. To know the outer world is not a bad thing, but to turn inwards allows us to not have to depend on our environment. By looking inward, we can realize that there is something to observe: the state of our mind. It is by becoming aware of its multiple aspects that we can cultivate clarity; we understand how our manner of linking to the outer world creates problems. This understanding allows us to depend less on the conditions that we encounter.<\/p>\n

Then, as is often the case during his teachings, Rinpoch\u00e9 made sure that he gave us some keys, the means that will allow us to integrate the instructions with proper understanding. The first stage consists of slowing down: \u201cit is about knowing rather than doing.\u201d The point is to not act too quickly beginning with what we have heard from the teachings, but to take the time to acquire an understanding. It is a process of integration that allows us to put the teaching to work in a correct way.<\/p>\n

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To return to the fundamentals: the nature of human beings has the capacity to actualize everything, to accomplish everything. It cannot do it directly due to its limiting conditions. Here, Rinpoch\u00e9 insists: \u201cI\u2019m not talking about negative conditions, but limiting!\u201d He goes back to this idea in other ways throughout the teaching: \u201cI don\u2019t say what to do and what not to do, I make an assessment, I\u2019m talking about conditions to gather; then it is up to you to see how to put this to work\u201d or rather \u201cI\u2019m not giving you a direction to take, but the elements to be able to evaluate the situation in order to face the problems.\u201d And lastly, (with a few quirky but ever so expressive metaphors) \u201cour situation is not black and white, not so distinct, that approach leads to more confusion; so we investigate, a little like if we asked why does hair grow.\u201d The real question is in fact: \u201cwhy does suffering exist? Where does it come from, how does it take hold, and how to respond to it?\u201d All of that had the aroma of the four truths of the Noble Ones.<\/p>\n

Our human nature is therefore hampered, not by the negative, but through its limits. Three obscurations are interrelated in their workings, hindering our natural clarity:<\/p>\n