How to Avoid Wasting Your Life and the Suffering of Pretas

Описание: Lama Zopa Rinpoche begins this teaching, #ThoughtTransformationTeaching 35, recorded on June 1, 2020, at Kopan Monastery in Nepal, explaining how his current video teaching series from Kopan Monastery started. He thanks everyone who has been watching the teachings and reminds us that the general idea of these teachings is lojong (thought transformation).

Due to old habits, we can spend our whole life distracted by attachment, anger, ignorance, pride, jealousy, and all the delusions, thus wasting our precious and perfect human life. But now, Rinpoche explains, we have the opportunity to learn Dharma through the internet without needing to travel.

The antidote to wasting our lives is to practice pure Dharma, meaning without attachment to the eight worldly concerns, without grasping to the pleasures of this life. Attachment to the pleasures of this life not only makes your life meaningless, it also creates negative karma. To break this habit, we must meditate on perfect human rebirth and its usefulness, and how it is difficult to find again.

Those who haven’t met Dharma, don’t realize they are wasting their lives under the control of attachment, clinging to the pleasures of this life. If you use technology in the wrong way, you can totally waste your life and the lives of others. Every day, every minute, every second you have the freedom to achieve happiness by thinking in a positive way. You can change, no matter how “bad” you are.

To generate compassion, you need to know the suffering of the six-realms sentient beings. For example, pretas, which have unmanageable, unbearable suffering.
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