An Open Heart in Tumultuous Times
How the Buddhist Approach to Compassionate Living Can Nourish Us All
His Eminence the 7th Yongzin Ling Rinpoche will teach on Bodhichitta and the Eight Verses of Training the Mind.
When: 7.15 pm, 1 August
Where: 158 Australia Street, Newtown, Sydney, NSW
Who: All Welcome
About the Teaching
Give all profit and gain to others,
Take all loss and defeat on yourself.
These astounding words, so contrary to our conventional worldview, encapsulate the Buddhist teaching of training the mind in compassion.
The compassion teachings summarised in the Eight Verses challenge us to go beyond our usual fixed ideas and assumptions, revealing a much bigger, brighter, freer version of ourselves. By learning how to overcome a limited view of ourselves we can begin to relate to others, ourselves, and the world with more kindness, compassion, and understanding. We start to see through divisiveness and antagonism and experience a deep and liberating connection with others.
At a tumultuous time when our lives are getting fuller, faster and more stressful, the advice and practical training contained in the Eight Verses is invaluable in helping us to not only cope with the challenges of our life but to actually use them as the raw material for our awakening.
An English Translation of the Eight Verses can be found at the Lotsawa House website here.
About H.E. Ling Rinpoche
His Eminence the 7th Kyabjé Yongzin Ling Rinpoche was born in India on November 18, 1985. He was taken to the Tibetan Children’s Village in Dharamsala, after his mother died, and stayed there until His Holiness the Dalai Lama recognized him as the reincarnation of his Principal Teacher, H.H. the 6th Kyabjé Yongzin Ling Rinpoche, who passed away in 1983.
The 7th Yongzin Ling Rinpoche entered Drepung Monastic University in South India in 1990 when he was five years old and began his monastic studies there at the age of ten. Rinpoche received his Geshe degree in November 2016 and enrolled at Gyuto Tantric College in Dharamsala, India in April 2017 for a year of tantric studies that traditionally follows the completion of a Geshe degree. He completed his studies in February 2018. During his studies, the 7th Yongzin Ling Rinpoche spent periods of time in retreat.
In 1991 Ling Rinpoche gave his first teaching in South Korea. Since then he has given teachings and tantric initiations in many countries in Asia and Europe, Canada, the United States, Mexico, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, Mongolia and Russia as well as Tibetan settlements throughout India and Nepal and Himalayan regions including Ladakh and Mon Tawang (Arunachal Pradesh). Rinpoche has also organized and attended many important Buddhist events.
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