Dharma Practice – Religious Radio – First Session – Wednesday 3 May 2023, 13th day of the 3rd month, Year of the Water Rabbit 2150

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Chanting the Names of Noble Manjushri- 3. The Survey of the Six Families, 4. The Stages of Awakening According to Illusion’s Net, 5. The Great Vajradhatu Mandala (verses 28-30).

Chanting the Names of Noble Manjushri- 5. The Great Vajradhatu Mandala (verses 31 – 33)

Chanting the Names of Noble Manjushri- 5. The Great Vajradhatu Mandala (verses 34 – 36)

Chanting the Names of Noble Manjushri- 5. The Great Vajradhatu Mandala (verses 37 – 41)

Dependant Arising is Empty of Inherent Existence

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Watch the reading by Vanessa Anne Walsh of page two forward of the Introduction to Tsong Khapa’s Speech of Gold in the Essence of True Eloquence.

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Are we ever going to understand the meaning of birth?

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Why Monash University is not a good understanding of anything

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Working as a research scientist several years ago at Monash University Clayton Campus, hired to complete a study on aging in the population of Victoria, I was to meet with the corruption and ignorance of Monash University. Angelo Iezzi, (the then director of the research project), previously a naturopath, hired Vanessa Anne Walsh, previously a student and graduate of Monash University.

I have studied business, arts and science, psychology and philosophy at Monash University, FPMT (Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition), and Melbourne University. I have been a student of Buddhism for over thirty years. I work closely with The Office of His Holiness, and found during my time as research officer, that the research director Angelo, very much opposed and threw away any practice of compassion and wisdom practiced by me, Vanessa Anne Walsh, in favour of cavorting with the younger students and manipulating the research projects collection of data.

At first, Angelo Iezzi, appeared to be happy to get me involved in the research project apparently aimed at investigating aging within the population. After several months of gathering data however, Angelo became increasingly aggressive during the interviews with the research participants. Angelo used to relish the opportunity to belittle and put down the older people he cornered to volunteer for the research project. Angelo used to get aggressive when I treated the elderly with dignity, respect and compassion and eventually did not hesitate to show he was more interested in getting it on sexually with the younger and more naive students of the university, approaching Angelo, in the ridiculous notion and hope of being contracted to a very corrupt research project that to their young eyes offered some good money.

It would be fair to say Angelo Iezzi indeed hated getting involved with the elderly. How then, are we to take seriously the so called results of research conducted by this study? Moreover, are more or all scientific studies conducted by Australian Universities conducted this very biased and manipulated way?

Emptiness Mind Reciting the Names of Noble Manjushri. 1. The Request

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Emptiness Mind Reciting the Names of Noble Manjushri (verses one through to nine)

Emptiness Mind Reciting the Names of Noble Manjushri (verses ten, eleven and twelve) repeated three times

Emptiness Mind Reciting the Names of Noble Manjushri (verses 13 – 16) repeated three times

Emptiness Mind Reciting the Names of Noble Manjushri (verses ten to sixteen)

Emptiness Mind Reciting the Names of Noble Manjushri. 1. The Request

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Emptiness Mind’s reading of Tsong Khapa’s Speech of Gold in the Essence of True Eloquence

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Emptiness Mind’s recitation of the Forward by Tenzin Gyatso to Tsong Khapa’s Speech of Gold in the Essence of True Eloquence – 7th day of the third month of the Year of the Water Rabbit 2150, Thursday 27 April 2023.

Emptiness Mind’s Recitation of Tsong Khapa’s Speech of Gold in the Essence of True Eloquence – page one of the introduction to the text read by Vanessa Anne Walsh.

Sportsbet- it’s easy! Still trying to make some money. So far I’m a little in the red. The whole idea is to not go backwards isn’t it, or am I practicing even more generosity? Nevertheless, as I am practicing the Three Principles of the Path, renunciation (great compassion), Bodhicitta and Correct View, Emptiness Mind is quite sure we are sailing on with method and wisdom.

Hard Yakka – Emptiness Mind’s Recitation of the Names of Noble Manjushri (Verses seven, eight and nine)

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Fearing the sufferings of samsara (cyclic existence), turn to the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha all of the time and Take Refuge and Generate Bodhicitta

Emptiness Mind Offering the Outer and Inner Mandala

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Verses seven, eight and nine of Emptiness Mind’s Recitation of the Names of Noble Manjushri (repeated three times)

Emptiness Mind reciting the verses of Dedication

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Understanding the best way to get to Buddhahood

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Sentient beings are afflicted with the three poisonous delusions: anger/hatred, attachment/desire/lust, and ignorance/the false view of the transitory collection. At the moment I am working with a great team of virtuous beings to cut off the core of anger.

We as a nation, let alone a world, do not want or need to go to war. It is time to consider and motivate our actions of body, speech and mind towards traversing the path to the cessation of suffering. We need to achieve the cessation of suffering to attain freedom from suffering and to develop a proper understanding of the word of the Lord Buddha, his method and wisdom and to support the Sangha as they strive to defeat and to conquer the causes of samsara; the cycle of suffering.

Yesterday we had a very successful day of cessating a part of that core anger. We as a people need to go beyond the cycle of suffering to higher rebirth, liberation from throwing karma and ultimately to the fully purified and fully perfected state of enlightenment. Enlightenment is the fully transcendent and all knowing state of Buddhahood. To achieve Buddhahood and to completely cessate the primary and secondary delusions from the mind, is to achieve the meaning of life.

The One – the Lover and the Best Friend

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I saw a movie this week. Three times. It’s called The Lincoln Lawyer. It struck some deep notes.

In samsara, when you meet beauty, when you meet true love, things can go awry. This is a story about a young man, a wonderful young man, not rich, but with genuine qualities who meets The One. One night in bar they meet. The sparks fly. He recognizes her beauty instantly and values it. She finds him sexy and drops her price. The chemistry is there. The future awaits.

As samsara would have it, a jealous, uncreative and corrupt man looks on. Seething with rage and hatred, he makes the determination to ruin it all. Unbeknownst to the lovers, he lies in wait, cultivating his evil motivation. In circumstances where sex and love are involved, evil watches on close by.

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I suppose why this movie hit such a deep note is because I can draw so many parallels with events that have taken place in my own life. This movie focused upon a deep psychology, a psychology common to samsara, however this subject lies in a field of vision the ordinary person most often doesn’t recognize. The rich lay idly complacent, and the poor, wholesome ones unfortunately get lost in their naiveté and innocence. Really?

When a common, uncreative and flawed ordinary being witnesses the play of true love and wisdom, their mind begins to spin out of control. Unable to contain their hatred, jealousy, fear and competitiveness, the wretched determine a plan that attempts to undermine such love and innocence and does its best to make the whole system fail. This of course will only further prolong the suffering of all concerned, but the evil mind never pays heed to that. Too ignorant to fathom the true depth of the consequences of an evil act, the uncreative mind is unrelenting in its inability to face up to the shallow nature of its own focus.

When you see others succeed, when you witness true love, don’t try to destroy it and take it away. Rejoice and recognize that by supporting such a rare event you create the causes for your own future happiness and success. Anything else is but a folly and a play of the unoriginal.

Starry Starry Night

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There are many, many pleasant and wonderful things about the country. One of them is that if you find yourself waking up very early in the morning, like at 2am, it is not a disturbing thing. What instantly strikes your awareness, warming your heart and calming your mind, is the blissful, peaceful serenity that pervades the air, fragrant with the sweet smell of eucalypt gums, the rich earth and the luminous, crystal clear, star studded sky all around you. Out here, there is no relentless drone of traffic humming endlessly through the night. No pollution to clog up your lungs and poison your airways, no trams, trains, buses or trucks to remind you of the frenetic pace of city life. As modern cities, lost in their directionless pursuit to become 24/7, sleepless buzz points on the globe, the country wisely says, no thanks, and continues on with its timeless embrace of the way mother earth has functioned for millions and millions of years. There is no rushing around to be found out here, just an empty, quiet road, and a people that know when the sun sets and the day is over, it is time to rest one’s weary bones and just be still.

As I sit here, sipping my soothing cup of tea, sitting in the dark next to gently crackling, golden, radiating fire, I listen to the gentle tumbling of water sliding and bubbling over river rocks, meandering it’s way slowly, gently, sometimes rapidly away from its pristine, mountain source, down through the valley, on its way through lush, green, and bountiful farmland pastures and beyond. And one can hear the blessed croaking of frogs, reminding you that out here things are still clean. When you find yourself short on sleep on a night out in the country, you are greeted instead with a harmonious and meditative zone of peace. This country is a tranquil haven that allows one to relax, reflect and to just stop thinking altogether. One is free to enjoy the expansiveness of one’s own consciousness, silent, without tension or stress, open, clear and free.