What is "Karma"?

Dilgo Khyentse Yangsi Rinpoche shares his thoughts on what is "Karma", and also some personal childhood memories associated with the law of Cause and Effect

[@cornelialehn4007]

Danke so sehr, seine Ehrlichkeit erhöht mein Vertrauen in ihn enorm. Es rührt mich zu Tränen

[@bodhitreebhutan]

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[@cornelialehn4007]

@@bodhitreebhutan yes, it was, thank you❤️

[@bodhitreebhutan]

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[@cornelialehn4007]

I watched from Berlin. I saw Rinpoche once in Lerab Ling in France. Many years ago

[@bodhitreebhutan]

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[@cornelialehn4007]

thank you very much!!! this honesty increases my trust in him immeasurably

[@bodhitreebhutan]

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[@jacquedaw]

Thank you so much for saying you hurt and killed animals when you were young, I did things I regret out of ignorance too, I was shamed for being soft and sensitive and taught to be hard and unfeeling. But as I woke up and realised the suffering I caused it caused me so much pain and blockage in my practice. I also thought that maybe I was beyond redemption and that the teachings were not for me and that if people knew they would scorn and reject me. Hearing the compassion and honesty in his voice, the kindness in letting us know about the obstacles we cause ourselves in these actions, but also that I still feel that I am worthy of compassion was very healing. I find so many westerners in the Buddhist world do not admit their shadow aspects and then they bypass and shame and judge others, Yangsi is very psychologically healthy in his straightforward honesty and integrity of his actions, that he is not perfect, but he can own where he has gone wrong. He is a teacher for us messed up Westerners and I admire his bravery and lack of concern for how others will judge him. I can see that his motivation is to help us. Many thanks. However it is very hard to hear that we will have karma for killing insects, it is impossible not to kill insects or animals. Walking in the dark I step on snails and kill them, I feel sorry but i cannot avoid it. in the shower insects fly into the water and drown. I already feel guilty a lot of the time and it feels overwhelming that this is adding to my karma.

[@bodhitreebhutan]

@@jacquedaw we offered to edit or maybe if Rinpoche would like to rephrase and he insisted that it be kept the way he expressed it. We thought our intentions were good to edit but we now know he saw further than we did 🙏

[@dekipeldon1788]

What I understood about Karma from my spiritual master is that something done out of ignorance can be forgiven but we need to purify it. We need to develop our own Buddha nature which is within us since beginning less time; Buddha nature is not something outside us, its within us and our root spiritual master shows us us the mirror of our own true nature of mind! In all karma is everywhere and it’s out of our control; we can just create and pray for good causes and conditions for good outcome! Meeting your root guru is the greatest of all the blessings in form of positive karma 🙏🙏

[@bodhitreebhutan]

@@dekipeldon1788 thank you for watching and sharing what you have learnt on the path la 🙏 Wishing you a wonderful day 🪷

[@winnielai7455]

Thank you Rinpoche! Please put more of your teachings on KZbin!

[@MppDidi]

true wisdom - honest - authentic | thank you for being brave

[@bodhitreebhutan]

@@MppDidi thank you for watching and for taking the time to comment. If you don’t mind can you share where you are watching from? Wishing you a great day 🪷

[@MppDidi]

@@bodhitreebhutan from Germany - have a blessed day

[@MppDidi]

@@bodhitreebhutan I myself have done some bad things even in very young age. I can relate to the Rinpoche - Karma can be a rough teacher. Coming out with a subject like that in his position shows great wisdom, courage and strength.

[@bodhitreebhutan]

@@MppDidi the back story is we asked him if he revealed too much and even offered to maybe edit it and he infact insisted that it be kept. Doesn’t say much for us but says a lot about Rinpoche 😊🙏🪷

[@jacquedaw]

There is another reason I am touched by his honesty and I find it very important... I worked for another Tibetan Buddhist organisation for many years, the Lama in this group abused his students and distorted the teachings to protect himself. But because everyone had to see him as a Buddha and all his actions as those of an enlightened being, to protect the Samaya, he never had to take accountability for his behaviour and his students continued to cover up for him. I was so saddened for him and for the group that he could not own his own behaviour, even when he died, as his actions went against the teachings, it was a betrayal of the teachings and of all the work his students had put in, and for a while I lost faith in the teachings and practices. I think it can be dangerous when the Lama starts to believe that he is an enlightened being that can do no wrong and is not able to reflect on his own behaviours or motivations. It would seem that to fully practice the teachings means we hold ourselves accountable, practise honesty and transparency and bring the awareness to our own behaviour so we can aim act in alignment with the teachings with integrity, this means acknowledging when our motivations are not so pure. But we are human, so to admit to our errors shows great humility and it restores my faith in the teachings to hear Rinpoche admit to the errors in this way. He is an example to us all.

[@bodhitreebhutan]

@@jacquedaw we agree with you completely as the Buddha himself is credited to have said to analyse him and his teachings, we should take that as a guiding principle and practice as well as question. May you be blessed with true teachers and truth. Tashi Delek 🪷

[@lionroar9215]

Rinpoche even giving us to be honest 🙏🙏🙏🌹🌹🌹

[@aljapeterka9173]

🙏🏻 wow super kul lepo love budha karma 🧘🏻‍♀️🧘🏻‍♂️ 😊 🇸🇮 havala

[@dawatashi9558]

Very nice advice rinpoche la.🇮🇳🌺🍁🥀🙏❤

[@leonoreugeniaestudillosanv1992]

Great advice, thank you Rinpoche

[@張Lily-t7i]

日常生活處事如理如實即離苦唯一途徑

[@umagurung5084]

🙏🌼🙏🌼🙏

[@swingingcrow124]

I have a question for future dharma QnA with Rinpoche la Q. “Will the conditioned existence/samsara ever exhaust or end ?”

[@bodhitreebhutan]

We will ask if we interview Rinpoche in the future. Take care and stay safe 🙏

[@swingingcrow124]

@@bodhitreebhutan ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ། 🙏

[@julienmussot5565]

No doubt, he is THE Tulkou.

[@bodhitreebhutan]

any doubt we may have had were put to rest over the length of the interview

[@nirmaltamang3702]

💐💐💐🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@bodhitreebhutan]

nirmal tamang 🙏

[@Norainjoe]

This really messed me up. I've been thinking about it for weeks. I have lost a lot of faith hearing this.

[@bodhitreebhutan]

So sorry to hear that, is there anything we can do to help?

[@senseimilli]

What’s happened, brother?

[@rossmorebaz]

i am very shocked to hear that he hurt and killed animals when he was younger

[@bodhitreebhutan]

finnmacool Rinpoche infact insisted that we include that particulate segment. We are not trying to say that we understand why Rinpoche said it, but if we look at vajrayana Buddhism and see how Milarepa killed over 30 humans and then went on to achieve Nirvana 🤔 as well as the fact that what Rinpoche shared WAS not is 🙏 and the fact that he chose to speak about it when we asked him about “Karma” . Finally he also did go on to share about how the act made him feel afterwards 🙏

[@bodhitreebhutan]

finnmacool thank you for watching it and for taking the time to comment 🙏 Have a great day 🙏

[@laurameszaros9547]

@BodhiTree Bhutan. Thank you for this reply to finnmacool's question. I too am torn on this issue. Less because Rinpoche admits, honestly and quite bravely perhaps, that he was possessed of cruel impulses towards animals, which he says he overcame, but because I am wondering how an emanation/reincarnation of the great Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche could have these ugly impulses in the first place. Perhaps you could give an answer to this point. Thank you.

[@swingingcrow124]

@@laurameszaros9547 Just as the Rinpoche mentioned in this very video that the negative karma done by us though it’s results may not presents itself in a day or two, years or even this life(Arya Nagarjuna beheaded from a blade of grass) but it is sure to bear the fruit of your sowed karma. Likewise you, me and Rinpoche have all in time immemorial committed many deeds which might have been evil and that has ripened into the habitual tendencies in this life.

[@samyang6306]

You should know that there are great buddhist masters in the ancient times who purposely kill animals to liberate their souls, seeing that they would otherwise suffer much in many such lives as animals. It all depends on how u take it. Buddhism is not for fitting ones own idea about it. Depending on the need of sentient beings the realized beings resort to many means and methods fit for liberating them. Infact, the animals dying in the hands of realized masters are considered lucky coz they get to escape future births as lower beings due to the power of prayer and aspirations that these masters make for the dead soul. Some high lamas purposely eat meat coz its an opportunity for the lower being to offer its body and accumulate merit.