Seeing Our Own Situation Clearly

This teaching was Rinpoche’s farewell instructions to the Osel Nyingpo sangha in Ojai, California, at the end of his visit there in January, 2010.

He advises us each to see our own situation clearly on all levels–from our ultimate nature as the essence of clear light to our relative deluded circumstances as individual beings with specific bad habits to remedy–and kindly instructs us in how to conduct ourselves and support each other as a dharma family in order to make the best of each situation on our path.

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Part 1: Our Essence of Clear Light

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Part 2: Covering Our Three Jewel Nature

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Part 3: Discovering Our Buddhanature

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Part 4: The Chance to Recognize Our Own Face as Buddha

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Part 5: Being Willing to Examine Our Own Situation

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Part 6: Letting Go of the Five Poisons