Lazy Lama looks at Loving Kindness: Our true brave heart
By Ringu Tulku
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In this seventh booklet in the Lazy Lama series, Ringu Tulku looks at how we all need love and asks us to consider the benefits of generating loving kindness for each other. But how can we, as imperfect human beings, off er even an 'imperfect' love, and is that enough? Yes, says Rinpoche, we can and should start from where we are. We can off er
Ringu Tulku
Ringu Tulku Rinpoche is a Tibetan Buddhist Master of the Kagyu Order. He was trained in all schools of Tibetan Buddhism under many great masters including HH the 16th Gyalwang Karmapa and HH Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. He took his formal education at Namgyal Institute of Tibetology, Sikkim and Sampurnananda Sanskrit University, Varanasi, India. He served as Tibetan Textbook Writer and Professor of Tibetan Studies in Sikkim for 25 years.Since 1990, he has been travelling and teaching Buddhism and meditation in Europe, America, Canada, Australia and Asia. He participates in various interfaith and 'Science and Buddhism' dialogues and is the author of several books on Buddhist topics. These include Path to Buddhahood, Daring Steps, The Ri-me Philosophy of Jamgon Kongtrul the Great, Confusion Arises as Wisdom, the Lazy Lama series and the Heart Wisdom series, as well as several children's books, available in Tibetan and European languages.He founded the organisations: Bodhicharya - see www.bodhicharya.organd Rigul Trust - see www.rigultrust.org
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Lazy Lama looks at Loving Kindness - Ringu Tulku
LAZY LAMA LOOKS AT
Loving Kindness
Our true brave heart
RINGU TULKU RINPOCHE
Number 7 in the Lazy Lama series
First Published in 2017 by Bodhicharya Publications
Bodhicharya Publications is a Community Interest Company registered in the UK.
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Text © Bodhicharya Publications
Ringu Tulku asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work. Please do not reproduce any part of this book without permission from the publisher.
ISBN 978-1-915725-08-0
Compiled by Margaret Ford.
Original transcripts by Jet Mort and Margaret Ford.
Editing by Margaret Ford, Mary Heneghan and Maeve O’Sullivan.
Typesetting & Design by Paul O’Connor at Judo Design, Ireland.
Printed on recycled paper by Imprint Digital, Devon, UK.
Cover Image: iStockphoto
Lazy Lama logo: Conrad Harvey & Rebecca O’Connor
Editor’s Preface
In March 2011 I took early retirement from my paid employment with the Scottish Government. It had been my plan to concentrate on the work I had been doing for Ringu Tulku and Bodhicharya and I also hoped to be able to give more time to Buddhist study and practice. However, as often happens in life, those plans were taken away from me when I became ill with an auto-immune condition. Instead of doing more for Bodhicharya, I gradually had to give it all up. As the condition worsened, I was hardly able to leave home except for doctor’s appointments. Chronic fatigue and inflammation in my eyes meant that I had problems reading and staying awake.
In such circumstances, with twenty or so years of Buddhist study and practice behind me, some people may have imagined that I could have turned towards even more practice. What else could I do? But, to be honest, that was furthest from my mind. I just wanted to sleep and be free from pain.
It was only in the Spring of 2012 that the condition gradually improved and flowed into remission and I began to believe that I was going to get my life back again. It was also then, after those dark months of illness, that I came to see that I had come through it all, not from something I had done, not from some divine intervention, not from