In this session, Chöje Lama Palmo will clarify the difference of the widely held reception of being a Buddhist. She will explain the difference between
Dharma disciple
Dharma student
Further, she will elaborate on the question on how to actively transition from student to disciple.
In this session, Chöje Lama Palmo will elaborate on the flight mechanisms that pave our personal emprisonment.
She will explain the basis of all compounded being and talk about
All-ground suffering
Further, she will elaborate on the question on how to step by step free ourselves from these re-occurring strategies.
In this session, Chöje Lama Palmo will explain the simple truth of
Change
Nothing is static, everthing is constantly moving, nothing is in deadlock. Everything compound is always subject to change, in a dynamic process.
In this session, Chöje Lama Palmo will talk about how our Western world has been based on the concept of hedonism since antiquity, postulating happiness of self. She then will contrast it with the Buddhist attitude of altruism. She will in the course of the teaching illustrate the motivation of both
Happiness and the cause of happiness
Suffering and the freedom from suffering
In recognizing the causes of our suffering, our selfish actions, lies the potential to limitless happiness and contentment.
In this session, Chöje Lama Palmo will talk about how we constantly fall for our emotions and that our habits ever and ever again let us run in circles.
She will discuss the basic statement of Buddhism of
Disturbing emotions
It is them, that ever and ever again let us roam around in fixed ideas, concepts and perception.
In this session, Chöje Lama Palmo will touch upon the common setting of guilt, hindering us and inhibiting our progress. She will discuss the contrary concept of
Karma
Cause
Result
In this session, Chöje Lama Palmo will illustrate all phenomenas' dependence and will explain that everything is connected. She will talk about the philosophy of
Interdependent origination
and elaborate that nothing arises out of itself, rather is always the result of different components interacting with each other.
In this session, Chöje Lama Palmo will discuss the three basic pillars of Buddhism:
View
Meditation
Application in daily life
Further, she will elucidate on the question if Buddhism is a religion, a philosophy or a way of life.