Here is a collection of Idea Images (Idims) which represent all the important ideas of this course. It’s a great tool to connect the image mentally with the important idea. There’s a tradition in this lineage that when you learn a topic you review it at least two times after the class. Preferably once on the day of the class and preferably once the next day or two days later. As Geshe Michael pointed out in this course:
I personally think it’s a great idea to do your traditional lineage required review by just looking at the pictures. Personally I make myself breakfast and I set the images down on the table and I slop food into my mouth, and I drink my coffee and try to remember what was this picture about. And for me it’s a very pleasant breakfast. It’s kind of like a Dharma breakfast.”
Please Note: To make this an even more powerful study tool we linked each image to the exact time in the video where Geshe Michael explains the important idea. You can just click on each Idim and it will open the video at the precise location.
Idim 40.1: An offering of the lower half, to prove it can be done
Idim 40.2: Make a prayer to be like Courage, who gave his body to the tiger
Idim 40.3: Croissant meditation
Idim 40.4: Someone to be patient towards
Idim 40.5: More precious than a wish-giving gem
Idim 40.6: Drowning in four rivers
Idim 40.7: Advice from the Offering to Lamas
Idim 40.8: Switching out
Idim 40.9: Giving before taking
Idim 40.10: Using the razor of taking
Idim 40.11: Working through the realms
Idim 40.12: Tonglen on myself
Idim 40.13: Spreading it to all planets
Idim 40.14: Finally, our enemy…
Idim 40.15: Skipping, like the Lion’s Dance
Idim 40.16: Scared is good
Idim 40.17: I will be the rain
Idim 40.18: Safe & warm
Idim 40.19: The definition of delicious
Idim 40.20: A gift of pen thinking
Idim 40.21: Whatever they want
Idim 40.22a: A new mantra for us, all day
Idim 40.22b: Bless me, Lama of Compassion
Idim 40.23: Lung sems jukpa chik
Idim 40.24: Teacher breathing
Idim 40.25: Back to pung sumpa with others nearby
Idim 40.26: The dangers of success
Idim 40.27: The anachronism of germs
Idim 40.28: Tracing back; detective work
Idim 40.28a: A place to work out our bad karma
Idim 40.29: Happy I succeeded
Idim 40.30: An inspiration rather than an obstacle
Idim 40.31: Wake up call from Muara Jambi
Idim 40.32: Protest movement by emptiness
Idim 40.33: Disasters are your friend
Idim 40.34: Careful on the narrow way
Idim 40.35: A great fixer for pride
Idim 40.36: credit card troubles
In 1981 he helped found Andin International Diamond Corporation and bring it to annual sales of over $100 million, donating his profits to international aid projects. His book about achieving business and personal success through generosity, The Diamond Cutter, has become a global bestseller in 20 languages. He is the founder of the Asian Classics Institute, Diamond Mountain University, the Asian Classics Input Project, Worldview, the Yoga Studies Institute, Star in the East, Global Family Refugee Aid, Three Jewels Community Outreach Centers, and the Diamond Cutter Institute.
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