Lion's Roar Sunday Service - December 6, 2020
Channel: Lion's Roar
Date: 09/12/2020

Lion's Roar Sunday Service - December 6, 2020

This week, sangha member James Meyer explored motivation to practice. Whether we are trying to go on an exciting vacation, looking for a new job, helping a family member thru college or trying to liberate our mind from mental afflictions and confusion, motivation is key to maintaining ongoing effort and accomplishing our goals.

Motivation impacts training and practice in the path of Buddhism and the ability to be of service to sentient beings in several important ways. Motivation increases our ability to sustain training that leads to liberation of our mind, quality and type of our distractions, and what actions, words and thoughts we express. With busy schedules, challenging training and difficult life circumstances, how should we motivate ourselves to continue daily training and practice in the dharma? We will consider these questions thru the lens of scope of practice, the four noble truths and the seven part cause and effect method to generate bodhichitta.

Lion's Roar Dharma Center at Do Nga Dargey Temple in Sacramento, California, is a Tibetan Buddhist Temple within the Gelugpa Lineage.  Lama Yeshe Jinpa is the spiritual director and resident teacher of Lion’s Roar Dharma Center, which he co-founded with Geshe Losang Gyatso in 1992. In 1995, Lama Jinpa received direct heart/mind transmission from Geshe Gyatso after 25 years of Dharma practice and study. He is one of the few western lamas thus far recognized within the Gelugpa lineage of Tibetan or Vajrayana Buddhism, the lineage of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Please visit https://lionsroardharmacenter.org/ for more information!