Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this brief five-minute closing segment, Venerable Thubten Dondrub wraps up a tantra teaching by emphasizing that tantric practice requires careful preparation and works best alongside foundational lam rim meditation. He stresses that tantra alone is insufficient; the three principles of the path, as taught by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, are what make it effective. He then announces an upcoming Chenrezig retreat at Easter, led by Venerable Margaret, open to beginners as well as those with prior initiation. He notes that lam rim meditation on compassion combined with Chenrezig practice creates a natural foundation for deeper work. The session closes with a merit dedication and an invitation to recite the long life prayer of the Dalai Lama.
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Teacher: Ven Thubten Dondrub
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Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Duration: 5.0 minutes
Words: ~363
Of use and I hope I haven’t been too heavy and put you off from practicing tantra. I’m just saying it is something serious and that it should be approached more carefully. And but we we can practice it as well. We can do something with it definitely. And it definitely reinforces the long wind practice and the two two together work really well.
The tantra by itself doesn’t work, and there are people who kind of do that, and it doesn’t work for them, really, in the long run. So I just, in conclusion, as Lama Zopa Rinpoche says, what makes tantra special is the three principles of the path. So I have been asked by the director of Buddha House to remind you that there is a Chenrezig retreat going to be conducted by Buddha House at Easter time. It will be led by Venerable Margaret, so this would be a very nice thing to do. You don’t need to have an initiation to do the retreat.
I mean, ideally it’s good to have the initiation, it it it will be done in a way that it is not necessary to have the initiation. So, if you’d like to join that retreat in Easter, you can sign up for it, And, on the basis of having done some, lam rim meditation on developing compassion by meditating on Chenrezig, it can really help that practice. Okay. Thank you very much. So we can, dedicate the merit that, whatever good energy we’ve created today, may this become a cause for us to quickly achieve enlightenment, especially through the pure practice of tantra, in reliance on a perfect qualified vajrayana master.
And by achieving enlightenment may we be able to continuously and joyfully and effortlessly bring benefit and happiness to all suffering mother sentient beings. Maybe it would be nice also if you want to join in to recite the long life prayer of His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, who is also the greatest tantric practitioner on this planet perhaps. It’s on page ten. And as the holder of many of the great, tantric lineages of the Gelug lineage. Okay.
Thank you very much.