Idea Images: A Gift of Liberation 42: The Power to Dream: Bringing Great Ideas to Life (2023, Kyoto)

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 42.1: Moving on in your state of mind

Idim 42.2: A failed trip to the lowest hell

Idim 42.3: Riding away on a rainbow

Idim 42.4: The signs of powa are no big deal

Idim 42.5: Just the phrase: Lojong Powa

Idim 42.6: The ultimate dividing line

Idim 42.7: The ultimate sign of success

Idim 42.8: The scale that measures the Dharma

Idim 42.9: Peaches that are really ripe

Idim 42.10: Happy either way; Use them as a path

Idim 42.11: Good at lojong, or not

Idim 42.12: When my self-cherishing has been shut down

Idim 42.13: Nalma la jorwa: Dovetailing perfectly

Idim 42.14: Even eating for others

Idim 42.15: A Swiss army knife

Idim 42.16: Don’t drop your wallet

Idim 42.17: The idea of dzom: coming together of the necessities

Idim 42.18: Hungry for lojong

Idim 42.19: Push your three doors

Idim 42.20: Avoiding prejudice

Idim 42.21: Lojong around powerful objects

Idim 42.22: Sweet when well-fed

Idim 42.23: Rather than

Idim 42.24: Worst of the six: Backwards rejoicing

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Geshe Michael Roach (born December 17, 1952) is the first American to have been awarded the degree of Geshe, or Master of Buddhism, after more than 20 years of study in Tibetan monasteries. He has used this training to become a prominent international teacher, businessman, philanthropist, author, educator, public speaker, textual scholar, and musician. Geshe Michael graduated with honors from Princeton University and has received the Presidential Scholar Medal from the President of the United States at the White House.

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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