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Rongton Unit 12: The Four Common Foundations  $50.00

Lama Rigzin teaches on the Four Common Foundations to all Mahayana Buddhist practice. An appreciation of these foundations of suffering, the difficulty in obtaining a precious human rebirth, law of impermanence and death and the law of cause and effect is vital to motivate our daily practice to help benefit all sentient beings.

Order Code	Tape Details
CF01/T02	Suffering    [6/2/2001 0:00:00]   Lama Rigzin
	Hungry Ghost Realm cont. Animal Realm. Suffering of change in higher rebirths. Sufferings of birth, old age sickness and death. Suffering of change and suffering of all conditional phenomena.
CF01/T03	Precious Human Rebirth    [13/2/2001 0:00:00]   Lama Rigzin
	Reflecting on the difficulty of obtaining a precious human rebirth. Causes such as pure moral ethics that bring about a precious human rebirth. 8 conditions and 10 endowments. Benefits and potential of a precious human rebirth.
CF01/T04	Impermanence    [20/2/2001 0:00:00]   Lama Rigzin
	Reflecting on Impermance. Inner and Outer objects are unreliable. The whip of diligence. Antidote to one's suffering. Realisation of nature of all phenomena. Reflecting on certainty of death. Lack of permanence in life force itself. Reflecting on uncertainty of time of death. Reflecting on the uselessness of non-Dharmic phenomena at the time of death.
CF01/T05	Impermanence and Karma    [20/2/2001 0:00:00]   Lama Rigzin
	Reflecting on the uselessness of non-Dharmic phenomena cont. Need for practice. Karma - the law of cause and effect. Negative, positive and neutral actions. 10 misdeeds and 3 kinds of outcomes, ripened, experiential and possessive karma.
CF01/T06	Karma    [27/2/2001 0:00:00]   Lama Rigzin
	Experiential and possessive karma cont. 10 positive actions. Motivation, object, timing. Transforming neutral actions to positive actions. Confession of negative actions and rejoicing in positive actions at the end of the day. About 45 minutes
CF01/T21	Suffering    [6/2/2001 0:00:00]   Lama Rigzin
	Praise to Manjushri and Praise to the Twelve Great Deeds of the Buddha, Renunciation, Suffering of suffering, Suffering of change, Suffering of All Conditional Phenomena. Hell Realms - Cold, Hot and Neighbouring Hells. Hungry Ghost Realm.