How to Relax the Mind [7]

Khenpo Sherab Sangpo, a professor of Tibetan Buddhism, offers teachings on how to relax and rest in the nature of mind. This ultimate wisdom, our buddha nature, is innate and natural to everyone, but temporarily covered by delusion and confusion. As Khen Rinpoche says in his teaching: “If we break through confusion, we can relax our mind […] and with wisdom we can solve all of our problems.” To do this, he advises that we need discipline (the method), meditation (the path), and wisdom (the goal). The teaching ends with a guided meditation and supplication prayer to Khenpo Sherab Sangpo’s root teacher, Khenchen Jigmé Phuntsok, to recognize the nature of mind through his root teacher’s blessings. Supplication Prayer to Khenchen Jigmé Phuntsok གནས་ཆེན་རི་བ་ོརྩེ་ལྔའི་ཞིང་ཁམས་སུ།། né chen riwo tsé ngé shying kham su In the pure realm of the great sacred site, the Five-Peaked Mountain འཇམ་དཔལ་ཐུགས་ཀྱི་བྱིན་རླབས་ཡིད་ལ་སྨིན། ། jampel tuk kyi jin lab yi la min May the blessings of Mañjuśrī’s wisdom ripen in my mind. འཇིགས་མེད་ཕུན་ཚགོ ས་ཞབས་ལ་གསལོ ་བ་འདེབས།། jigmé pün tsok shyab la söl wa dep Jigmé Phuntsok, at your feet I pray! དགོངས་བརྒྱུད་རྟོགས་པ་འཕ་ོ བར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས། ། gong gyü tokpa powar jin gyi lop Inspire me with your blessings: transmit the realization of the wisdom-mind lineage! Please visit our website to learn more about Khenpo Sherab Sangpo, his teachings and for practice texts. This episode can be seen on Youtube.