Diamond Heart Dharma

Often times we have a mistaken idea of what forgiveness is and who it is for. Sometimes we carry grudges against people for years, not knowing that they might not have given us the slightest thought all that time. Who is our anger hurting then? Forgiveness is freedom. Take a listen to the good Lama on this issue.

We often think of contentment as this far away thing. Something "out there" that we must strive to attain. But perhaps it is the way that we keep contentment at a distance from us, which makes it so hard to reach. What if contentment were to be found much closer to home? No great quest needed. Just take comfort in the here and now.

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In this segment our teacher Lama Marut entreats us with humor and wit to "Get Real" about the nature of life. Which is a key step to getting serious about beginning to live a spiritual life. He often says we do not suffer from anything real. We suffer from our attachments to things which were NEVER what we thought they were. Learning to relax into a world without those things is the doorway to the REAL, which opens on the pathway to lasting happiness.

If you've never heard Lama Marut teach, this is a great intro to his humorous powerful playful brilliant style. If you have heard him, this should get you pretty psyched about his upcoming book.

In western society we have a smorgasbord of promises for things that will make us "happy". But it turns out these pleasures and the pursuit of them is not the source of happiness. Lama Marut gives a concise and simple and characteristically direct answer to our constant unsatisfactory search for happiness in all the wrong places.

Our wonderful teacher Lama Marut shares the essence of how to achieve that which primarily drives us.

More from Lama Marut's excellent review of how to achieve our primary goal. Part 2 of 2