Ignorance is Clever so Be Careful, Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche

The agility of our minds enables us to solve problems and consider options. Khandro Rinpoche looks at how the untrained or semi-disciplined mind can have its agility become a liability, undermining our ability to be happy and effective in our pursuits. #Buddhism #khandrorinpoche #ignorance
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Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche is a Tibetan Buddhist teacher from the Mindrolling lineage, having received traditional Tibetan meditation training as well as a Western education. Her teachers include many of the 20th century's great meditation masters such as her father, Mindrolling Trichen Rinpoche, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, the Sixteenth Karmapa and Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche.
She is the author of This Precious Life amzn.to/3wfgVUb

[@user-ez3of1ne8i]

In other words, I was lazy. I wanted to taste enlightenment before I did any work, to see if it is worth the effort. All I got was cleverness without clarity. Do the basic work and always watch your mind. I love the explanation of the cleverness of the ego and the tricks it does to survive.

[@tenzintsundue1020]

"The courage really required ..is to be able to understand and appreciate the vastness and profoundess of simplicity. Surrrendereness is being able to not pretend to be something you don't need to be and its the greatest attack on the ego and therfeore is the most difficult thing to do." 🙏 Thank you for posting and its a blessing to be living in the same time as great masters like Khandro Rinpoche and so many Boddhisatvas. All of whom are always present to guide us from our confusion and self caused mysery - like a parent towards their only child!! To be able to access these teachings, train and share is a blessing!! Rejoice and am grateful!!!

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[@DharmaTime-is-now]

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Here is a link to a talk that Khandro Rinpoche gave called "Practicing in Times of Adversity". It is audio only. www.khandrorinpoche.org/practicing-in-times-of-adversity/ As Rinpoche says: "It is a time of unspeakable fear and disruption for most of the world. During such times of crisis and struggle which arise in our lives, our practice could be one of the first things we turn to."

[@AndreCantelmo]

Khandro Rimpoche has an open, very accessible, approach to teaching the Dharma. She so eloquently presents us with what important aspects to hold dear. My practice can only benefit.

[@omahhumvajragurupadmasiddhihum]

She is SOO brilliant!

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[@loveyourself_first]

This teaching really moved me. Thank you for posting it. I really admire Khandro Rinpoche.

[@coleworld22ful]

Your voice is awesome

[@saulgoodman6722]

If only it was that easy. To be introduced to rigpa and become stabilized in it. Right now, most of us can't sit still for 5 seconds yet we're to sit in rigpa for 10 hours a day? Good luck to all those who are not mozarts of meditation who attempt this. But people will love this view as it feeds into their ego that says "I'm already enlightened" and their laziness that only wants to enagage in hedonic pleasures all day, which is essentially just keeping yourself distracted from yourself.

[@jcm5171]

Hi, I sure get what you are saying ! Just wanted to share my experience with you, for what it's worth, just in case it resonates ! Never know 😊. "Wisdom means just being quiet." And indeed, "Ignorance is so intelligent." Those are lapidary, straight from the hip essential reminders that are told by Khandro Rinpoché here in an almost casual way, but they are meant to dig deep. Masters do this. They repeat over and over again the same thing. Simplistic sounding stuff that infuriates us. They point. They have a conversation with our brain to see if this info works, or that one. They take us along into complex rituals only to turn around and say things like "You're already there ". Or "There is nothing to do." ??%÷@!#%?! Grrr... We hear them, and read them, hundreds of times in one form or another, and the pointers make their way, or not, or SEEM not too. But they do. They penetrate insidiously... We all know these truths, but we often don't seem to remember how to apply them or the pointers and the teachings. I certainly have erred around these for a very long time, and it's not over. Going round and round for years to come back to day 1. What Khandro Rinpoché says here hits hard in my case because I have always relied on what is referred to high intelligence and hard work in my world to feel secure. Reasoning, debating, conceptualizing, memorizing, demonstrating. Talking. Quiet was hard. I dreamed of meditating but did little. Nope, I studied. Everything. To this day, I tend to turn to that mental spin as soon as I feel anguished and talk and talk about so many things I am interested in. But it happens less. I bore myself. I am no longer fooled and less interested, in fact. Of course, my spiritual path was all about complexity and learning more and more. I never felt I was getting anywhere that way, but the act of learning was very calming and reassuring. Was I hoping for magic ? I don't know. My ignorance was such that the more I read and studied endless volumes, the better I felt. That left very little room for practicing meditation. However, as time went by, I started doubting my intellectual capacities and felt stupid more and more often. Probably a good sign, but it sure didn't feel that way. I less and less believed what my diplomas and jobs and people kept telling me about me. I thought I was going mad. After decades of high and lows, and several catastrophic events in my life, all of them removing from under me my deepest attachments, dreams and security pillars -- a series of losses of people and dreams I was attached to deeply --, I fell into an unending depression. Probably a good sign, but it sure doesn't feel that way, still. Deep, long-lasting suffering forces is no picnic but it forces you to try everything you can to at least survive until you either die or your beliefs die. In my case, it's an ongoing process, but a lot of my ignorance has died. Sort of...withered. There's been uprooting of whom I thought I was supposed to be. Far from being all gone, at least I am aware, very aware, now. I can't really tell why. It took time but it happened and is happening as I speak. The intelligence of ignorance is mindboggling to me, and one must face this as soon as possible. I learned it the hard way because I didn't really comprehend how these truths I refer to above fit in the general scheme of things. Don't get me wrong. I still fear suffering, and I am not enlightened (!) but I am aware of my fear, my resistance. I watch it. I cuddle it, I accept it fully, I no longer fight it tooth and nails because I know I can't win that way. And I love to meditate. It's home. Today, I can't wait to practice, turning my gaze inward for hours on end. Sometimes there is spontaneous cessation of coarse mental activity, just subtle waves. Presence, awareness rises, peace occurs. It's natural, there is nothing to do besides RELAXING body and mind. Sometimes I fall asleep this way when I am too sore to sit. I don't worry about posture so much any more. That was my Ego worrying. Being ill did the rest. Acquiring deeply felt humility as a human being walking this earth cannot be over emphasized as one of the greatest blessings one may receive. I know I needed to be "beaten down" to get this, and if you had asked me way back then, I could have sworn that I was not a proud person or that I was not overwhelmed by a solid ego that was controlling me completely. I thought I was making huge efforts. I was in control. Ha ! 😅 What I was was clueless, and I earnestly thought that the fact that I recognized honestly the faults I could see in me, and that the fact that I had a disposition towards goodness or kindness, was a lot. So many people were so much worse than me, right ? Unbelievable. I don't know how my masters could stand me. Gracious me, may I be forgiven for such youthful and then not so youthful arrogance and utter stupidity. In other words, I was ignorant as heck. What a relief at first, and then what contentment, when you are delivered from such blindness, at least in part. It took me forever to understand what being blind or what not having clarity means. Even when the Ego rears up its head, you are not afraid anymore, just very cautious, and very compassionate too towards yourself and everyone else, everyone. Hating the Ego feeds it ; it's foolish, useless, it's... egotistical 😉! Once you welcome it all, true change occurs. Welcoming may be too strong a word, let's say once you let it all in instead of wishing you didn't have to. In fact, the most amazing thing is when you begin to stop hating yourself, or blaming yourself, or feeling guilty, or blaming everything but you, too ! That also, it happens, little by little, without you noticing it. And then, you notice it. What I can share is that, above all else, actual practice, simple, regular meditative practice where you surrender because you have absolutely no tears or self-pity left, no strength left to cling to anything, then no desire to cling, then no interest in your person as a person since you have come to see there is no one there, becomes life. A relief like no other. It sort of happens, I don't know what else to say. At least I know that my brain, my mind, my thinking, my feeling this, and my wondering that, and how and what, and my circumstances are all absolutely USELESS. Like, "will I ever awaken ?" Irrelevant. My mind cannot help me there, at all. My "other mind" as they say in the Tao, can. That, I know now because I have experienced it enough to be absolutely sure. In me, in those around me. Some of the old dance goes on and I watch, in sideration, ignorance deploying itself in and around me. Samsara lives. Conditioned reflexes so deeply entrenched you don't even know where they come from, continue. That's allright. At this stage, it still has the power to amaze me but I expect it won't anymore, pretty soon. Happiness has nothing to do with my mind, fulfilling my wants and avoiding what I hate. It can for a while, sure. But it never satisfies. Ever. Why ? Samsara is dual, there is joy and there is despair. There is attachment, and there is loss. That's never going to change, we can't keep trying to control everything. Quiet. Silent. Wait. Nothing to do. Resting in the Nature of the Mind is so simple. I used to think that if it is so simple to stabilize in Rigpa, why do so few people get it ? I suppose one can say that sitting and being quiet is a simple thing, sure; BUT doing it as long as it takes with no questions asked is the toughest thing, ever, as Khandro Rinpoché explains. Makes sense : it requires more of us than a twisted arm or a change of inner paradigm. It is a twist of our entire attitude towards ourselves, the dharma and samsara. Doing nothing doesn't mean much until you do it for a long time... We think we know what we want and why from the practice, but we don't. The simplest and most direct practice means easing into our body and mind until we have scanned our whole body for no tensions and quieted our mind enough that it no longer bothers us. That's it. How hard is that ? Doing it is what. For many of us, it is extremely boring at first. It doesn't feel like it should, we think...Expectations again ! Impatience ! That's because the mind is being tamed little by little but it retains plenty of opinions...Boring.... I can't...for a long, long time. You know what? That's OK. No problem. Let it. Do it again. Sit. And wait. Do it again. And again. And again. Wait for it... Awareness appears. With time, it reveals itself more and more. It's not what you expected ? Really ? Who says that ?...Persist, sit, be quiet, still, at ease, completely at ease. Everyone's experience is different, can evolve, and that is why expectations are not useful. As far as I understand it, there are stages, but not always. Stabilizing occurs one way, or the other. Once we become familiar with it, none of these questions matter anymore. Wait for it... You will know. Resting in the Nature of the Mind is so simple. It means easing into our body and mind until we have scanned our whole body for no tensions and quieted our mind enough that it no longer bothers us. That's it. Cheers from France !

[@dantegoethals8724]

just what i needed to hear, thank u so much

[@karolfrench5816]

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼always helpful to hear students ask questions. Always helpful to hear RINPOCHE. Explain Thankyou🙏🏼

[@DharmaTime-is-now]

You're welcome. More on the way.

[@carmenonea3800]

Fantastic Teacher...crystal clear, cuts through nonsense

[@gemgan9187]

I bow down to her wisdom

[@fireflyvisual]

Thank you

[@eugenehvorostyanov2409]

Thank you! ❤️🙏 Very well articulated. It’s just so… against the habit - going towards simplicity, while all my life before i was going towards complexity. So, in a way, it’s hard, but not hard in a way i’m used to.

[@13c11a]

Thank you for this profoundly simple truth.

[@sugarfree1894]

Just meditate every day and be quiet.

[@beaearth9273]

Thank you Rinpoche 🙏🏻

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Thank you! Very help full Video

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Thank you! A great teaching🙏

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Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for your feedback!

[@josep6673]

Es excepcional. De repente me he visto es su regazo disfrutando de eso. Gracias.

[@chrisstad]

Berkeley Shambhala center? 2005? I love listening to her teachings. Thank you.

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Close: Berkeley Shambhala Center, 2007. Will update the video's description. Tnx!

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Inspiring! Thank you

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So beautiful mind. Thank you Rinpoche 🙏🏻

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[@pristine.awareness]

Absolutely brilliant teaching! Perfection.

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Hola.Podran poner subtítulos en español? Gracias!!

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[@factspoken9062]

Buddha's said: Keep it simple

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[@boomer1587]

if she says buddha... who does she mean?

[@DharmaTime-is-now]

the historical Buddha. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautama_Buddha

[@user-ez3of1ne8i]

Yes you can see rigpa without any work, but I ended up suffering immensely for 50 years, surrounded by all kinds of books, hoping to find something to enlighten me in the words. One day I was listening to Padmasambhava Self Realization by Intrinsic Awareness....right after that I said the hell with it all, I'm not going to find it....Suddenly rigpa showed up (Longchenpa has the best description of the state). It's a joyful state the moment you see the truth. But if you haven't done any work, yes your ego disappears but the imprints still have to be worked out until the vessel that contained the ego disappears completely. I have been lucky that I had merits from my past lives, but Instant awakening also needs the willingness to die for the truth. I am not a teacher but only want to let others know awakening is not the illusion. Don't chase after it. Kabir says that the true path is hardly found.

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