Description
Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche provided this teaching on Seizing Every Opportunity: Being Awake with Living, Dying and Everything In-Between in Montreal, Quebec. This recording is an opportunity for French-speaking students to experience a recording in which Rinpoche's words are immediately translated into French (by Madame Esther Rochon). At the same time, this recording is fully accessible to English-speaking practitioners because Rinpoche taught entirely in English.
Seizing Every Opportunity: Being Awake with Living, Dying and Everything In-Between
This teaching is extremely helpful for any practitioner who aspires to bring the benefits of practice into his or her world. In four talks, Rinpoche provides a framework and profound advice on how we can recognize, seize, and maximize the opportunities to bring benefit that arise in every moment of our lives. He teaches extensively on the prerequisites for seeing opportunity, what opportunity means, recognizing our precious human birth as opportunity, recognizing disaster and crisis as opportunity, and recognizing that every moment provides the choice to be kind, open, and positive. With kindness, clarity, and humor, Rinpoche shows us how to seize opportunity in every moment by joining outer experience with inner mind, having the confidence and bravery to practice kindness in every moment, and having the faith and insight to act even before we really know how present opportunity will manifest in the future. Finally, Rinpoche explains how meditation prepares us to engage in the actual practice, which is taking our training and preparation into the world where we encounter the opportunities to see and maximize benefit. Rinpoche taught entirely in English. Esther Rochon translated Rinpoche’s teaching into French.
