4th Monthly Q&A Session – September 30th, 2022

Recording of the fourth Monthly Q&A with Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo organized by Dongyu Gatsal Ling Nunnery.

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Chapters
00:00 – Introduction
01:26 – Q1: Advice for Non-Himalayan Nuns
07:10 – Q2: On Ngondro Practice
14:50 – Q3: How best to respond to questions posed by friends who are not practitioners about Buddhism?
19:25 – Q4: What does Bodhichitta mean?
27:35 – Q5: Do we have to wait for enlightenment to benefit others?
32:50 – Q6: What does Great Compassion mean and why is it so important to develop it?
38:49 – Q7: What makes someone a Bodhisattva?
45:15 – Q8: How to know if we’re ready to take the Bodhisattva Vow?
48:47 – Q9: Why is Bodhichitta not mentioned in the Pali Canon?
53:50 – Q10: Is there a middle way between helping others and ourselves?
57:06 – Q11: About the two methods for developing Bodhichitta and Ultimate and Relative Bodhichitta
1:11:25 – Q12: How to understand the meaning of “all sentient beings”?
1:16:02 – Dedication prayer explanation