Here is a collection of Idea Images (Idims) which represent all the important ideas of the final final course on our 14 year journey through the Steps on the Path and the profound teachings of Pabongka Rinpoche’s Gift of Liberation Thrust into the Palm of Your Hand. 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 44.1: The decision to throw out the garbage
Idim 44.2: Fridge with a lock (The morality of keeping ourselves from bad deeds)
Idim 44.3: Easter egg hunt (The morality of collecting goodness)
Idim 44.4: The fun of serving (The morality of serving others)
Idim 44.5: Four ways of collecting
Idim 44.6: Bodhisattva multitasking
Idim 44.7: Division into two: things that hurt us, and the hurt itself
Idim 44.8: Irritating people are as numerous as the stars
Idim 44.9: Not getting upset: greatest of all tapas
Idim 44.10: Ignoring people who hurt us
Idim 44.11: Pedaling backwards fast
Idim 44.12: We don’t know who’s who
Idim 44.13: Nipping in the bud
Idim 44.14: Covering the earth with leather
Idim 44.15: Patience! Patience!
Idim 44.16: Anger at the stick
Idim 44.17: Anger at the anger
Idim 44.18: Anger at the pot
Idim 44.19: Useless anger at the rain
Idim 44.20: Patience with the surgeon
Idim 44.21: Patience as a collaboration
Idim 44.22: Patience & emptiness
Idim 44.23: Woman with a diamond ring
Idim 44.24: Thumbs up
Idim 44.25: Four ways of flying high
Idim 44.26: Quick, cover the poison
Idim 44.27: Few wants, easy satisfaction
Idim 44.28: Enjoy what seeds you’ve earned
Idim 44.29: The joys of a WorldView director
Idim 44.30: Endurance to learn
Idim 44.31: Especially the suffering of a long course!
Idim 44.32: The perfection of fun
Idim 44.33: Fun gets you to the finish line
Idim 44.34: The opposite of a donkey
Idim 44.35: I will work on this tomorrow
The Final Idim: Forever remember their kindness
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.
