You and Your Imprints…How To Break Bad Habituations
Early in June, I decided to do a surprise visit and share some Dharma with the students who took their time away to engage in Lamrim recitation, part of the pujas to be completed before the renovation of our new Kechara House gompa begins. (You can look at my previous post with some pictures here: Imprint – teaching at Kechara House)
I gave a talk on how one’s past imprints influence one’s current actions and what it is that one must do to break this cycle.
You can click the image below to listen to the talk, or you can go to http://www.youtube.com/tsemtulku and check out the title:
You and Your Imprints!
I am sure this talk can help many of you very much and answer questions. When I was talking, it was a great reminder for me also. May this talk clear much doubt on the virtues of breaking negative habituation and how it changes one’s life. And the lives of those around you. That is very important.
Tsem Tulku
Terima Kasih Rinpoche!
Imprints are the seeds that are deposited in our mindstream after we have committed an action of body,speech and mind.They can stay dormant for lifetimes long after an action is completed waiting for appropriate conditions to gather to ripen.
Bad actions result in bad imprints which accounts for much of our bad habits whenever we encounter a contributing or environmental cause.
We have to break this vicious cycle which if not stopped will continue to bring suffering and unpleasantness due to habituation and rehabituation, every moment reinforcing those negative qualities like jealousy, anger, insincerity, defensiveness, selfishness, miserliness etc.
Rinpoche exhorts that we have to commit to practice NOW if we are serious about putting an end to it as every second’s delay will make it that much harder to rehabituate.
Rinpoche has opened up our minds in so many ways… Through his books, blogs, youtube videos and live Dharma lessons! and it makes us think deeply on our minds work and how can it become better, eventually with your actions, speech and mind. It has benefited many of Rinpoche’s students and many many people as well as people from overseas… The information and teachings are available anywhere, and they were made easily accessible through different channels. All aim at to become a better person and better life.
Do watch this video as it very mind penetrating and it will benefit you… do share with friends and family…
I have read and come across many writings/theories/ideas about karma, cause and effect, positive affirmations etc etc much like the ideas that were made famous in the book “The Secret” “The Power of Now” etc etc
I thought I had it all figured out already… well theoretically. This teaching solidified these concepts completely for me – it was very empowering to know HOW exactly, through logic, we create situations for ourselves – positive or negative. Rinpoche’s teachings show us how the kinda new-age, self-help theories of “positive affirmations” “power of manifestation” etc actually works. Indeed, we have full control and responsibility of how things will turn out and how happy (or not!) we are.
Responsibility sounds like a big word but actually, it is very liberating and empowering to know that the ball is in our court to make things happen (good or bad!)
I’d also like to share with everyone the teachings that Rinpoche has given in “Snakes Roosters and Pigs” which is now a book and DVD (http://www.kechara.com/publications/publications/tsem-tulku-series/snakes-roosters-and-pigs/)
Also, all of Rinpoche’s teachings on karma, which can be viewed on YouTube, are very much related to these teachings; viewing or reading these additional teachings will help in gaining a much deeper and rounded understanding of this whole subject.
Now then, onwards and upwards to bigger and better things – the ball is in your court!!!!
Karma has an ugly way of coming back. How apt. For more examples, take a look at the book “Wheel Of The Sharp Weapon”. Then you’d see more examples on how ugly it can be. We now understand that with every imprint (through thought and/or action) that we put into our mindstream, it remains there until a similar environmental cause triggers it and it opens up.
A small group of us was with Rinpoche in Bodgaya afew years back. Each time we stepped out of our hotel, we would be swarmed by beggars, paraplegic, handicaps, etc. The sight was just too overwhelming and beyond one’s comprehension. Rinpoche told us that if we rewind what ugly things (in thought and/or actions) they have done in their previous lives, this is the result of it. So instead of feeling sorrowful, share the dharma with others so that they have a method to break out of this vicious cycle by doing good actions and thought so that their mindstream is filled with positive imprints.
Karma is such a great excuse for a lot of people for things they didn’t do or shouldn’t do. These teachings are just wonderful reminder for me for all the times that I didn’t hold my vows, the times I chose laziness and made others remind me.
Initially, the teaching stings a little but the teaching of karma is actually very empowering because it allow us to change the course of our destiny. Perhaps, if I didn’t learn about karma, I would have continued in my self-destructive ways. Hence, Buddha was the great revolutionary man who taught us to take charge of our lives. I love that! It is a teaching to liberates us from all fears.
It is empowering to know that your happiness is really in your hands.
Karma – cause and effect gives a clear picture for me to understand and accept why certain things happened to certain people and myself of course. It is logical and explains the causes you have created to reap/experience the results you experience now. No one is to blame and you learn to take that responsibility on to yourself and stop complaining and bitching to the world.
If we can except that there is Karma and imprints, we can slowly find a way to create opposite and positive causes towards our future happiness. Whatever we experience in the past does not necessary have to carry forward to our future is what I learn.
This teaching is so beneficial because Rinpoche really tells us the TRUTH and if anyone would like to make a change in their life and experience real happiness about themselves they can apply this teaching to gain real RESULTS!
You know we really are an open book, if you base your observations of people on this teaching on imprints you can be pretty accurate interpreting a persons mind just from how they operate. Everything we do is based on a motivation with the end result of an action. So if we work back from a persons action we can figure out whether a person is spoilt as a child, and hence they are averse to hard work, dirty work now. Or whether a child grew up with lots of scolding or domination by the parental figure that causes a person to go into themselves, not open up or get close emotionally.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing this teaching with us all, and showing us that it is possible to just let the imprints go and fill them with new imprints. We are in control, if we take control.
Rinpoche’s teachings on “Imprints” reveals the method of how we can actually break the bad habituations that drag us back into our viscious cycle of sufferings and unhappiness. A lot of the times, we don’t even realise that we are the actual cause of unhappiness to others and ourselves. How many times we have heard our friends complaining about their husbands, wives, children,bosses, etc.
Hardly do we take a moment to contemplate on what did we do,behave, think or say wrongly that make us experience this unhappiness. I find this teaching very powerful as I could relate the fact that if happiness is what I want, like anyone else, I can actually master my own destiny, simply by rehabituating my bad habits/imprints. A shift of mind sets from today onwards can help plant power postive imprints towards creating the future that we desire…. I now understand why whenever I see a holy sangha, they always give me an overwhelming aura of peace and harmony. Just by the look at them, I desire to achieve their stability. I hope to contemplate and rehabituate my bad imprints and henceforth could achieve that state of stability without always having to repond to my affictive emotions anymore.
Rinpoche’s teachings on imprints have a profound effect on my mind. We must have collected so much negative karma from countless lifetimes of habituations . It is our dharma practice that will save us. Overcoming habituations is not easy. It’s like learning a new language. One has to replace one set of habits with another. To put it simply, it’s a matter of replacing non-virtues with virtues. We need to be mindful all the time to prevent the mind from latching on to the defilements, our old habits. Since they are by nature empty, by letting go of them as they surface, we will gradually reduce our suffering. Imprints can be very subtle and we can be caught unawares. So it is important to practice with mindfulness and discernment.
Imprints can be positive or negative events that was planted from our previous lives and when the situation ripens, it will trigger the activation and we will be able to recollect the imprints.
Rinpoche gave a talk on imprints which i find it very relevant to us reading the Lamrin. Initially i do not understand why we were requested to read the Lamrin repeatedly without having to understand it. Through Rinpoche’s teaching, i now realize that by merely reading the Lamrin, it will create the imprints in our mind to be able to eventually remember & understand and practice it.
The Lamrin Text is very holy & profound and it will definitely help plant positive imprints in our mind when we read it.
Now that we are aware that imprints do exist, we should have the mindfulness to create virtuous imprints and cut down on our negative habituation so that the negative imprints do not surface up again and again in the vicious cycle to drive us to repeatedly make the same mistakes lifetime after lifetime.
Dear Rinpoche,
All of your teachings are filled with great insight, but for me personally, this rates as one of your greatest teachings, purely because it puts into such simple terms that we are responsible for our circumstance, and explains exactly why this is the case, and exactly how we can make things better for our future.
As a child, I can remember the phrase “there’s always tomorrow”, quite clearly, and this probably helped me to win the gold medal in Procrastination in later years! I dislike being a habitual procrastinator (it’s a difficult trait to spell, for a start!), but I’m great at coming up with excuses, and since I mostly get things done in the end, no-one ever really bothered about this trait of mine.
However, I can see where and how it’s held me back, and I live with the results of putting things off, but after listening to this teaching of yours, I’ve since caught myself thinking, “I’ll do it later”, quickly followed by, “Well, what’s wrong with now?!” and immediately doing what I would have otherwise put off.
The teaching is just so effective, and there are no real excuses to say that we can’t work towards breaking the cycle of negative habituation.
Thank you for this – words that packed a powerful punch!
Kindest regards,
Sandy
I loved this video!
Dear Tsem Rinpoche,
Thank you for sharing this with everyone. It helped me to grasp a lot of things that I had heard before but really didn’t understand very well. Not only do your words open up my mind so I can understand ideas that I cant normally grasp, but your words are amazingly motivating, too! I feel like I have been doing the same thing over and over and never really have been able to cut it out but now I understand that there REALLY is no time like the present.
Not only do your teachings cover everything under a particular heading, but it seems that you always go deeper and have special meanings behind everything you say that you bring out through logic. It is really wonderful to be able to hear and read so much Dharma as explained by someone as skillful as yourself.
Thank you so much,
Tyler
HE Tsem Rinpoche has always emphasized to his students that we have had both negative and positive imprints in us since the day we exists in the cosmic. With these negative imprints come bad habits which we have accumulated over the number of lives we have existed perhaps in all realms but we have forgotten.
In the Reincarnation videos, there has been scientific evidence that we do have past lives and that leaves an imprint, be it positive or negative.
As such, Rinpoche has always given teachings to us on how to break our own negative habits, clear our negative karma from previous lives and turn them around to virtuous positive thoughts and action.
Dear Ruby,
Thank you for sharing briefly about your thoughts. This is exactly what you have dedicated your time to do, heading the Kechara Soup Kitchen department..making friendships, gaining trust with strangers and homeless out in the streets by giving them food. Then integrating them back into society by finding jobs for them! This is Dharma!
What I wish to point out regarding Rinpoche’s blog on imprint… If you ever wonder why crap happens to you, then seriously consider this statement, “Past imprints influence our current action” Until we realise we have created these imprints, we will continue to be in the shit hole (excuse my language). The good thing, which i find MUCH HOPE is that just as how imprints are created which I am so good at,..then I can also create new and positive imprints. Find out what you can do to create POSITIVE IMPRINTS. Stick around and be involved in Kechara. The fact that you are reading this blog is a positive step you are taking to creating good imprints
Cheers
susan
Sometimes I think people really have no clue as to how karma really works, and how lasting it becomes. To be exact, karma does not end even after our time on earth has come to an end. It still continues. If anyone thinks everything ends at death and that gives you the right to just do anything you like without any regard to life and humanity, you better think again. Karma records everything and will give us this huge bill when we die. If you think karma ONLY becomes extremely painful and ugly when we have been so accustomed to doing very bad things all our lives, you are wrong. Karma also accumulates every single day. So, over time, even the tiniest negative deed has grown into a giant vicious monster. Hence, if we do not break that cycle of doing the same bad things over and over again, just imagine how much bad karma we are accumulating. Just breathing alone, we’d be accumulating bad karma! To break the cycle is not that easy because our minds are so used to doing things a certain way and thinking that it is right. Our imprints from previous lives have also compounded our habituations into who we are today. Therefore, it is not going to change overnight. But if we do not recognize them and start doing something about it – it just gets worse and worse, uglier and uglier. Before you know it, we have been reborn in the three lower realms. It’s empowering to know that we can free ourselves from our past imprints and even stop ourselves from creating any ‘fresh’ delusional ones which will not help us at all. This is why we learn the Dharma. This is why it is called liberation and Enlightenment. Through Dharma, we can replace all the bad imprints with good ones so that when we return to samsara again, we’d be much better equipped with strong spiritual inclinations and be more attained. We will not waste as much time as we did in our last life.
This is such a perfect teaching for people who blame others or environment for their shortcomings, their failures, their problems and their unsatisfactory situations.
It is a wake up call for everyone who chooses the wallow in their comfort zone hoping for Wonder Woman to appear and rescue them.
Tsem Rinpoche proves through perfect logic that ultimately you are responsible for you, and your successes and failures are completely in your hands. Just like the old adage “God helps those who help themselves”, the only difference in this case is that it is not “god” that helps you but your karma and habits that determine your fate in this and future lives.
Thank you so much for this priceless talk!
This is one of the perfect teaching from Rinpoche, the logics behind definitely clear many people doubts, especially to those always complaint, lazy and find excuses..etc
I realized, Self grasping, self cherishing minds will lead us no way , in order to break the bad habituations, to practice giving and generosity, show kindness, love & care to all beings, definitely will cut off the bad habits, to cultivate good qualities by focus outwards works well for me after I join dharma full time.
Dharma changes our karma, get rid of the bad habituations, changes our karma. By holding our vows strongly changes our karma, even you are not a buddhist, but you must believe in KARMA.
It is very beneficial that Rinpoche supported Rinpoche’s teaching on imprint with scientific acknowledgement, proof and logical explanation. This is because, although many of us are familiar with and can accept karma and rebirth, many others are not. Therefore, presenting this subject in this manner makes it applicable and accepted to individuals from various backgrounds.
Unlike common spiritual and religious teachings where our fate is in the hands of “God”, the teaching by Rinpoche here is encouraging because it puts the control to change our fate in our own hands. This is the approach that draws me towards Tsem Rinpoche’s Buddhadharma teachings and Kechara House. We do not have to await punishment for past actions but can make the choice and get committed to changing our ways to purify our past wrong doings. This relates to the subject of impermanence whereby the world is ever changing and every moment presents an opportunity to create a difference consequence.
I also appreciate i) Rinpoche’s honesty about the difficulty of changing old habits that we could have and probably did developed for many lifetimes, ii) Rinpoche’s practical approach of making changes a step at a time so that our minds do not get overwhelmed and iii) the effort of re-habituation takes time and practice like all things in life. Looking at imprints and karma this way makes it not too different from other aspects of our life, making it more familiar and achievable.
Lastly, I would like to share my mind boggling learning from Tsem Rinpoche in his talk titled Snakes, rooster and pig (which is now available in print; published by KMP as indicated by Paris): The scary danger of reinforcing our negative karma unconsciously. In other words, stopping a bad habit is not good enough. I did not contemplate deeper to realize that stopping an act does not erase the “black points” we already accumulated. We need to develop new habits to make progress away from the old one. This is called purification efforts. To clean out the negative karma storeroom, we need to engage in purification activities. For example, if we used to kill animals for meat, we purify this by saving lives like buying animals that are going to be slaughtered and set them free.
The good news in our kind Gurus seem to have the antidote for all our self-created problems. We just need to follow the prescription sincerely.
I was fortunate to be present when Rinpoche gave this talk.
The concept is actually very logical, by breaking bad habits and creating new good habits or nurturing existing good habits, one becomes happier already. And by habituating oursleves to engage in virtuous actions we:
1-make it more difficult (contrieved) for us to perform a non-virtuous action,
2-make it easier (spontaneous) for us to engage in virtuous actions.
This reminds me of this french saying that goes: “one who steels an egg, steels a beef” – that is the kind of saying that I heard as a child and was not sure what it really meant. It is simply habituation, we think the object of stealing is irrelevant because it is only an egg, but by stealing it we create a habit, we create a negative imprint, and if we keep nurturing the habit, we will, definitely, come to steel a beef, that is, stealing bigger and bigger things. This can apply to lying etc…
So, we know how it works, thus we can use habituations and imprints for the sake of us engaging in virtuous actions instead. And we can re-invent that saying like this: “one who gives an egg, gives a beef!” That’s much better!
Rinpoche also explains how habituations and karma are linked, we have created the causes for us to experience different types of habituations, so if we have done that, WE, OURSELVES can turn it around. Best even when we have the guidance of someone like Rinpoche to engage in this practice!
It is ironic how closely related science and religion is. Psychology has taught that one’s character is influenced not only by the structure of their brain but also by what they have learnt throughout the years. This is similar to Rinpoche’s teachings on imprints, that our learnt behaviour becomes a habituation, and that every single imprint placed in our mind remains until it is triggered. The way we act is reflective of what has been learnt, and what we experience can be based down to karma. If our negative actions become a habituation, the cycle of our actions being repeated will be never-ending. Therefore, Dharma teaches us to realise that our actions are negative and provokes us to put an effort to break the cycle of habituation.
This was the first Dharma teaching of Rinpoches’ that I attended and it was taught with so much clarity and sense. He had my full attention throughout the entire teaching; I found it so apt and relevant. It was a commencement in provoking me to take notice of my own actions and to consciously put in an effort to change my negative habituations. Thank you for sharing the teaching, Rinpoche!
The only reason why we are still unhappy now is that we are still locked in our very own negative karma. If we are still unhappy, suffering from depression, lonely etc. then we must have been doing things that supports unhapiness all along due to our negative imprints. We are the imprints of our past now.
Hence we should be implementing possitive activities from now on that supports happiness (before its too late) such as doing Dharma work to benefit others. By reading Lamrim or doing our daily saddhana, we are actually planting possitve new imprints into our mindstream daily for it to open up again in future to create a better us. By reading it, we are actually developing the qualities of what we have read and planted into our mindstream without knowing it.
Until a year ago, Buddhism was a ritual. A “practice” (if I can call it that) I participated in 2 or 3 times a year because my grandma and mother said so. Most of the time it was a chore. I am embarrassed to admit this.
With the teachings of Rinpoche and publications of KMP, I now can say that I understand Buddhism better. My ignorance which I thought was bliss, is gradually being enlightened. Today, I understand Buddhism to be a practice of being a better person so that I can benefit others. Buddhism is knowledge of our existence and why life is the way it is.
Ever wondered, “Why is this happening to me?”, “What did I do to deserve this crap in my life?!”… Well, as the light turns on in my brains, it is Karma! Then we go, “Oh S***!” Some of us will rather run then understand Karma. Actually once you understand Karma it is liberating!!! Buddhism is liberating.
Our previous lives’ imprints path the way for our circumstances and conditions today. All of us come into this life with probably more negative imprints than positive. If it were all positive, baby we will not be back in this life! We would be Buddha. Guess what? We actually can do something about it. With the teachings on Imprints, we can derive the understanding why things are the way they are and why we are unhappy. Our imprints are implanted into our memory and thus dictates our habituations – negative and positive. Yes, we can say it is natural and leave it but we can also say it is natural to want to improve.
When we understand why, we can actually do something about correcting ourselves. Being spiritual and practicing Dharma are ways to correct ourselves and creating new imprints. Isn’t this so liberating to know there is a way out of the s*** farm? Buddhism is beautiful! Embrace, practise and be Happy!
Due to our life time after life time of negative habituations, we have accumulated a lot of negative and positive karma, with the chances of former being more is higher.
All these imprints, be it good or bad, are dormant until such situation or time that triggers it to open and we will experience ‘the power of the imprints’. We should strive hard to break our negative habituations such as self cherishing mind, miserliness, jealousy etc so that we do not have to experience this life time after life time in a vicious cycle.
We should aim to improve ourselves and to create more positive imprints in order for us to cease continuous sufferings and unhappiness!
Holding our vows and with pure Guru Samaya is a good way for us to purify our negative karma and trigger the ripening of our positive imprints for us to continue our practices.
I used to resent the very idea of Karma, bad Karma that is. I had a problem grasping the concept because I wondered how do I reconcile the idea that everything bad happening to me in this present life is the result of my past negative accumulation of bad Karma in my previous life? A life I had no recollection of. People make mistakes, do bad things, lie, cheat …etc. But now in my present life, I am paying for those bad choices made in my previous life and are being punished for them. It just doesn’t seemed fair. I became a victim of those past mistakes and harped on all the bad things that are going to happen to me. I was living in this vicious cycle of self sabotage. The problem was I believed in Karma but had little understanding of it until I was first introduced to Rinpoche in one of his videos on Afflicted Emotions. That changed the way I looked at Karma and now with his teaching on Imprints and Bad Habituations, it reinforces my learning that I must become aware of all my actions including past imprints and their consequences, take responsibility and work towards breaking out of my victim mode.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing about subliminal messages, I just did a google about subliminal messages and certain segments of broadcasters, the media still use it to influence people to buy their products or subscribe to it. Its done clandestinely though. Very scary stuff everytime you watch a movie or an advertisement you can’t tell what they are trying to influence you to do.
Another thing that stood out was that what Rinpoche mentioned about imprints, it takes a trigger of the same nature to trigger your imprints. This means that if you have angry imprints, and those imprints were deposited due to one’s needs were unfulfilled, when we come across a situation or environment that is similar to our imprint we will act out in anger again.
Thank you so much Rinpoche for a great teaching. I agree with Beng kooi that it is especially pertinent for those that tend to blame others and the environment for everything that goes wrong in their life, rather than look at themselves. At first it may seem easier to blame others than to apply practice and effort in trying to get rid of these imprints, but at the end of the day, we cannot run away from ourselves and responsibility. Logically that is why we should involve ourselves in our dharma work and Kechara (if we have the opportunity), so we can plant good imprints for our future benefit.
Thank you for the empowering talk rinpoche. As always all of your talks are so appropriate and explains so clearly of how we got stuck in sufferings from our past imprints.
Oh dear so many blames, anger, resentment and all the negative energies sent out by me to others. I’m feeling so guilty as I now know it’s of no fault of others. I failed to realize until now that all my wrong doings was a reaction to protect myself due to past imprints.
Your talk is very liberating to me as now I know what I can do about it. I will seriously contemplate my every actions ,practice tolerance to others, so not to rehabituate my negative imprints.
This talk given by Rinpoche is very powerful and empowering without much jargons. Rinpoche uses logic to clarify how we can change our lives and state of mind for the better.
I used to tell my parents and friends that this is my personality and I can’t change it! Actually most of us give each other this same excuse. Some of us actually believe that we’re born this way, inferring that our personalities are genetically determined and can’t be altered.When more things go wrong, we blame it on astrology, feng shui and fate. At the end of the day, we either complain that we’re still unhappy or have a defeatus attitude that we’re destined to suffer and stay stagnant.
Thanks to Rinpoche, we can now understand that all can change with more dharma knowledge and practice.
As the famous phrase in the movie says, I’ll be back – what comes around goes around. A negative thought or action implants in our mindstream even for a child. A child who has been abused when he was very young grows up to do the same onto his children even though he used to abhor those actions inflicted by his parent/s. The only way to break this habituation is to develop strong motivation for change and recognizing that it is a negative action that can only bring harm and suffering to others. The bookstores are full of inspiration and self help books such as You Can Heal Your Life which teaches positive affirmations in order to help us achieve our goals. But as we all know until and unless we commit to take those affirmations seriously and make it a part of daily practice, we will not be able to break bad habits and negative actions.
This is another great teachings which causes me to understand how my past imprints have affected me all these years. Correct views imprints left in the mind leads to positive thoughts and virtuous actions and negative ones will leads to unflavorable results. Buddhadharma teaches virtuous actions which leaves positive and virtuous imprints leading to happiness in this very life and future ones too because our mind is continuous, like a tread. As for the negative imprints (imputations) left from past bad experiences, Rinpoche taught me how to purify them by talking about it, practise and resolve it. Thanks for the methods Rinpoche. Tashi Delek
Most of us have more bad habituations then good ones. We seem to enjoy the bad habituations but later when karma catches up with us we suffer the consequences. Then we regret when its too late. We should be able to realise and recognise our bad habituations so that we can eradicate it early and bad karma will not arise. How do we do that? By contemplating on it and try to change our character and form good habituations to takes its place. Another way is to have a Guru who can guide and teach you by showing a mirror of your bad qualities and habituations.
The sound quality wasn’t so good, so I didn’t understand every single word, but you are such a wise and powerful teacher, I hardly teach much Dharma in words, maybe I have an imprint on that too?
Love, Knut
A wonderful teaching, i wish i was there in person to listen to the teaching.
Listening to this teaching in youtube reminded me of a book i read recently entitled ‘Many Lives Many Masters’ by Brian L. Weiss, a psychiatrist writer.
In this book, they explain on hypnosis and how experiences in this life and past lives leave imprints to our subconsciousness, described through his client named Christine.
However, it is not the past lives that amaze me… though it is rather interesting, especially knowing about Samsara, reading about Christine’s past lives is like reading a horror story and you’d feel the urgent need to get out of it… asap
What amazed me was the conversations the psychiatrist had with ‘the masters’ aka ‘spirit guides’, who will appear in between Christine’s ‘lives’. There are so many aspects that can be identified as Dharma in those conversations…
It is fascinating to see our believe proven scientifically, not something we’d see everyday
thank you so much for this talk!
Time is short you told us already in this powerful talk
Don’t Embarrass the Buddha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkICMrNG78M
Here a shorter version yes it is time to listen to you again again until we learn the lesson!
Thank you so much for your Precious Teaching!
Time is short it is time to work and push ourselves always more!
http://www.youtube.com/user/WisdomQuoteofTheDay#p/u/48/OkwJ1fK3wJ4