Lama Yongdu Chökyi Gyaltsen
(Lama Mark Webber)
Lama Mark Webber (Lama Yongdu Chokyi Gyaltsen) has been studying and teaching Buddha Dharma through the traditions of Buddhism for over fifty years. Born in Toronto in 1956, he started practicing and studying Dharma and meditation at 16 years of age. He met his root teacher Namgyal Rinpoche in 1974 and immediately became his attendant. It was Namgyal Rinpoche himself, who urged him to not only become a Yogin and a Dharma Teacher, but also to complete his studies at the University of Toronto, and never to abandon his interests in science.
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“I am not trying to sell you anything. But I am trying to at least propose some things that perhaps you have never heard; to present some very, very classic statements and teachings on what the Path of Liberation is about, what mindfulness is, the purpose of the Dharma, the purpose of meditation, the two major trainings”
“How do we really comprehend the preciousness of life and the world we inhabit? It’s not even possible when every moment is focused on ourselves—self-referencing, anxiety-prone beings—searching to be comfortable and happy in a tiny fragment of what is. When there is mental strength and confidence about Emptiness, we can direct our meditation to understand the Empty-luminous minds of others, all kinds of beings’ minds. How else can we assuredly care for sentient creatures?”
“Excellent mindfulness is required to discriminate which states of mind lead to liberation, which do not. Without purification through mindfulness of mental activity, there will be no change, and Insight knowledge will not mature. If through purification no volitional states are born, then no karma is produced.”
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