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inner weeds without destroying the
How Do We
wholesome seeds.

If you don’t know the right method for
doing it, you may pull out the grassy Learn the
part but not all of the roots. Sometimes
you accidentally damage the crop you’re
supposed to be protecting. Cultivation Dharma?
is like this. We need to continually
nurture our good thoughts and nourish By Lama Jampa Thaye
our wisdom-life so it can grow. Our
afflictions and wrong thoughts are like
those weeds, and we need to be diligent
in pulling them out. When do we do this?
When we’re around other people or
working together, that’s our chance to
do our weeding.

Every encounter with people or matters
is our opportunity to nurture goodness,
develop our wholesome thoughts, and
eliminate our inner weeds. It’s in the
midst of this involvement with people
and matters that we nourish our Lama Jampa Thaye is a scholar and meditation master trained in
wisdom-life and enable it to grow. And, the Sakya and Karma Kagyu traditions of Buddhism. He has been
just as with the vegetable garden, we authorized as a Lama and Vajrayana master since 1988 by his two
need to take care of our wholesome main teachers Karma Thinley Rinpoche and His Holiness Sakya Trichen
thoughts and protect them – they’re the (41st Sakya Trizin).
basis of our wisdom-life.
Lama Jampa Thaye is the author of various works including Garland of
Gold (1990), Way of Tibetan Buddhism (2001), Rain of Clarity (2006)
The section in italics consists of
and Wisdom in Exile (2017). His books and essays have been translated
material written by the Jing Si
into French, German, Polish, Spanish, Portugese and Bulgarian. He
Abode English Editorial Team, based
holds a doctorate from the University of Manchester for his work on
on Dharma Master Cheng Yen’s
Tibetan religious history and lectured for over twenty years at the
conversations with visitors in Chinese. University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University. He
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edited and wrote the introduction for Karma Thinley Rinpoche’s The
History of the Sixteen Karmapas of Tibet (1980) and composed the
entries on Tibetan religions for The Dictionary of Religions (1980).

Eastern Horizon would like to thank Lama Jampa Thaye for allowing
us to reprint the following article for the benefit of our readers.

As 4th-century Indian master Vasubandhu counseled, “practice
hearing, reflecting, and meditating”