The Crucial Points of Ngöndro Part 4 (MP3)

Ngöndrolinks are for students who are starting to study and practice the Ngöndro preliminary practices and who already have a firm understanding and experience of the Foundations and the Mahayana stages of the path, and have taken Refuge (the formal entrance to the Buddhist path) and have taken the Bodhisattva Vow (this follows the structure of Rigpa's curriculum for more information click here) 

Date, Place and Time

21 September 1996, Berlin; 4 August 2000, Lerab Ling, AM; 2, 6 October 2006, Lerab Ling AM; 3, 5 October 2006, Lerab Ling, PM; 27 August 2007, Lerab Ling, AM; 3 May 2003, Hombroich.

Length

148 minutes

Tracks

1. Introductory music
2. Samsara is suffering ( 6.5 minutes)
3. Life is not samsara ( 13 minutes)
4. The Four Noble Truths ( 12 minutes)
5. Acceptance ( 16 minutes)
6. The six realms ( 10 minutes)
7. Context is important (15 minutes)
8. The three kinds of suffering (14 minutes)
9. The four great rivers (11.5 minutes)
10. Deepening the disillusionment (18 minutes)
11. How to contemplate the six realms of samsara (4 minutes)
12. Conclusion (6 minutes)
13. Don‘t be patient with samsara (19 minutes)
14. Concluding music