Last Updated on May 14, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org
Matthieu Ricard, «Happiness can be trained»
In the following video Dilgo Khyentse Rhinpoche who was Matthieu Ricard’s spiritual teacher for many years teaches us:
«Buddha said «Happiness comes from taming once’s mind»
- Dilgo Khyentse Rhinpoche himself lived for 13 years in solitary retreat.
- From the age of fifteen until he was twenty-eight, he spent his time meditating in silent retreat, living in isolated hermitages and caves, or sometimes simply under the shelter of overhanging rocks in the mountainous countryside.
- He later spent many years with Dzongsar Khyentse Chokyi Lodro (1893-1959) receiving empowerments and teachings.
- When he told his teacher that he wanted to spend the rest of his life in solitary retreats, Chokyi Lodro answered, “The time has come for you to teach and transmit to others the precious teachings you have received.”
- Buddha was born into a noble family in Lumbini in 563 BC
- He was called Siddhartha Gautama in his childhood.
- Siddhartha Gautama was born into a wealthy family and yet he gave up that lifestyle to become a monk:
- Dilgo Khyentse Rhinpoche was not allowed to make real his wish to meditate in solitary retreat after he has spent 13 years there.
- Only Buddha Siddhartha Gautama who was born from a wealthy familiy 2 500 years from now was able to make real his vision after his enlighenment.
- And his teachings are still transmitted, 2 500 years after his death.