A proper motivation

A proper motivation

Part of a series of teachings by Geshe Jampa Tegchok on Nagarjuna’s A Precious Garland of Advice to a King given at Sravasti Abbey in 2006.

  • We should have the goal of our practice be the attainment of enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings
  • Anything we do for the sake of only this life is pointless and worthless
  • The proper intention to our motivation is required in order to reap the full benefits

04 Precious Garland with Geshe Jampa Tegchok (download)

Khensur Jampa Tegchok

Born in 1930, Khensur Jampa Tegchok was a Geshe Lharampa and the former abbot of Sera-je Monastic University. He became a monk at the age of eight and studied all of the major Buddhist treatises at Sera-je before fleeing his homeland of Tibet in 1959. His book "Transforming the Heart: The Buddhist Way to Joy and Courage" is a commentary on "The Thirty-Seven Practices of Bodhisattvas" and describes the bodhisattva path. He is also the author of "Insight into Emptiness." He passed away in October, 2014.