of purpose. Dharma is the totality of who and what we are, our experiences, our remembrances, our deeperpurpose and intention mixed with our unique gifts and the skills we've acquired.
Just like in food, OK, food-- when you get hungry, you have to eat. Dharma is just like food.And at the very least, the dharma should provide a person with means of dealing with difficulties and problems
adopted so foolishly by so many people in so many places in the world to their detriment? The Dharma is distilled in the Four Noble Truths. All life is suffering.
We had some good thinking sometime in the past. So Dharma is a hard sell sometimes because you've got to actually work in order to get something.
--but that's not so. Define dharma . Dharma means teaching, right?
Surrender to the greater understanding of how we are meant to use these in service. What is my dharma ? And just hold here for a moment as you release that question and connect the deep silence that
more broadly. Yeah. So I'd love to start just hearing a little bit about your personal journey. We're speaking of dharma . As a little girl, were you always interested in well-being?
There's basically one main concept and that is we're all one. It's Sanatana Dharma . And so I was very influenced by that ideology, not only the ideology, but the idea that we are all one. And then I think what happened to me, I just got really bothered every single time I saw contradiction to that.
of the family, and they are very good practitioners, Probably even though they are not the throne holder, maybe they can also take on leadership roles to help grow the Dharma teaching and also help the family, help the community. Thank you. OK. So let's take some questions from the audience.
and also practice buddhadharma? I usually call Dharma is daily life. Those are the lamas, monks, and nuns.
And it's not going to work. Hear about the Dharma .
we're among friends, I can be honest, is I'm the most important person in the world. in an Italian Dharma center with macho Italian men.
The brain has a function, the lungs, the pancreas, the kidneys. So the principle of dharma or spirituality is to understand the difference between material and spiritual.
The brain has a function, the lungs, the pancreas, the kidneys. can express the highest dharma in whatever occupation we may be in.
Fair enough. Something else on this point. Let's talk about dharma again.
Fair enough. Something else on this point. Can you elaborate on dharma and how it might apply to Googlers or people in Silicon Valley?
Fair enough. Something else on this point. The concept of dharma would be that if you are a lawyer and you are thriving in it, don't wear the robes of the monk before you become a monk.
Fair enough. Something else on this point. I think dharma would say that there is gradual movement.
I every day see your Facebook. Your Facebook is your dharma center. That make me very happy.
I'm curious about the transition from that into a very social role. I have 40 dharma successors.
You need a little bit more patience in order to transform your mind that way, but if you stick with it you can do it and there's less danger. The Six Dharmas of Naropa, and in particular the practice of tummo, falls into the category of relying on the pranas, or inner winds, in order to transform the mind. And that's a more dangerous approach.
There was this emperor called Trisong Detsen and he put all of the resources of the empire, the Tibetan empire-- he put into establishing Dharma . And so they essentially emptied the Tibetan treasury into India and brought back all of the scholars, and all of the enlightened masters, and all of the texts,
And some of them won't be applicable to you as much, because you have different goals. Our goal is to establish the Dharma system, and we've got reasons behind that. And you we can say this reason and this reason, and I could unload a bunch of Sanskrit jargon for these different intentions and so forth.
And that helps lead through the day is happy. And that is part of your Dharma practice for lay practitioner. But everything you do, you think something do right and helping others with from sincerely.
She now lives with her life partner, Roshi Enkyo O'Hara. Besides teaching meditation and giving Dharma talks, Sensei Joshin is a psychotherapist and is interested in the interface between spirituality and psychotherapy. So welcome.
Fair enough. Something else on this point. So it's really the dharma doesn't change, your way of acting in that environment changes.
Fair enough. Something else on this point. And I guess your vision with dharma is a little different.
I'm not talking . I'm not talking about the dharma here. I just talking about here love and compassion, compassion.
Example, OK-- like one example-- I have my own Facebook . My Facebook is main use to be dharma center. And my center's name is Dharma Center.
My Facebook is main use to be dharma center. And my center's name is Dharma Center. I always some mine teaching and some other teachers who teachings sort of like the Dalai Lama.
--but that's not so. So there's a difference between Buddhist Dharma and Buddhism.
--but that's not so. So when I speak of dharma , it speaks to the teaching of the truth as spoken by Buddha.
And he has taught college courses in philosophy, humanities, mythology and comparative religion. He's a former Zen monk and Dharma master in the Korean Zen tradition. He's a co-founder of the Worldwide Prayer Circle for Animals.
We had some good thinking sometime in the past. If you actually train your mind well in Dharma , you'll be able to do more than you used to be able to do,
We had some good thinking sometime in the past. But those things, those Dharma practices you do, actually will make everything else easier, because you won't be afraid.
our own as they say in India our own Dharma our own destiny better for
So I'm very happy especially to talk on that subject. So in my own practice of any kind of dharma activity that I'm going to undertake, I find it very important to set a good motivation and intention. And so I'm going to do that now as I begin this talk.
for their spiritual path. He said, the dharma provides them with the tools to do that. Just like in food, OK, food-- when you get hungry, you have to eat.
if a girl were doing this like Lucy or Dharma , it would be endearing but on a guy it's just annoying." And I thought, "Well there's a whole new conversation."
With jolliness, I open Dharma doors.
Yes. I just recently visited in Tibet last month, and I was offered support at many nunneries. But we left country because we don't want to give up Dharma .
Yes. I just recently visited in Tibet last month, and I was offered support at many nunneries. So what do you think is the best way for us to promote Dharma teachings or to help more people in Google or in the society?
And first you have to know, I am from Tibet. I am monk. I know only the dharma . That's where today I talk of the love and compassion and how do we work together, which is very, very important.
Dharma is just like food.And at the very least, the dharma should provide a person with means of dealing with difficulties and problems to at least the point where they don't become so overwhelming to the person that they feel like they've got to end their life
And we gave you Mahatma Gandhi and pundits and gurus and karma and dharma and kismet and reincarnation.
He is a widely admired master, teacher of dharma , and Buddhism, and meditation.
When the jackboot of the Red Guard marched into Lhasa, taking over finally in 1959, 1.2 million Tibetans were killed for their faith. 6,000 temples reduced to riprap and dust, and what was it about the Dharma that so threatened the Marxist materialist, this Western ideology adopted so foolishly by so many people in so many places in the world to their detriment?
to the recitation of a single mantra. We began at Chiwong monastery during the Mani Rimdu ceremony that commemorates the transmission of the Dharma to Tibet by Guru Rinpoche in the 6th century.
In addition to taking a full-time job and raising five sons, she took all necessary trainings to become a qualified spiritual teacher. She is also actively engaged in educating younger generations on spiritual development and has founded a few Dharma centers in North America. As featured in the book "Dakini Power," Dagmola is considered one of the most influential female Buddhist masters in the world.
Monday nights is a good place to start, where there would be sit and a Dharma talk.