04/04/2026
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Now both inner peace and outer peace is actually what life is all about and what everything is all about I believe. And, as a practitioner of Vajrayana Buddhism, what Buddha Dharma is all about for sure and what Vajrayana teaching of Buddha is for sure. Absolutely, that is for both outer peace and inner peace, and I will add onto that by saying it is more like achieving inner peace first, and that way then outer peace. As you are pursuing the inner peace, then outer peace is also at the same time evolved, so that way I have a simple example for it. โฃ
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You might say, "I am one of the 7.8 billion human beings on this earth and what difference can I make whether I have achieved some sense of contentment, some sense of confidence? How can this affect?" I give you an example, very simple. It can be a huge, huge pool of water, let's say a lake, a sizeable lake, and you are a drop of blue colour or green colour or red colourโany colourโand but those colours are nice, you know, purple, they're nice colour. So you can be any of those colours, but a drop. Maybe make a little bit more - a glass of colour - and when you pour it in, then that entire pool or the lake or the pond becomes a little bit green, a little bit blue, a little bit purple, a little bit yellow, a little bit red for sure. If not, then if you pour a billion cups, glass of colour, it will not make any difference. โฃ
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So if one doesn't make the difference, a billion doesn't make difference; so one is a billionth of one. One is making a difference, therefore a billion will make a difference but the magnitude of the effect depends on how deep your inner peace is. For example, great Arhats like Ananda, like Rahul, like all of these thousands and thousands of Arhat disciples of Buddha Shakyamuni. They are affected by the enlightenment of Buddha Shakyamuni, which in Theravada practice described as Tathagata, Arhat, Samyaksambuddha. And so that way all of these great Arhats are the effect of the Buddha Shakyamuni and, in Theravada teaching the highest effect. โฃ
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As a result of their effect see, right now, all of us from all parts of the world. Nine languages. Learning the teaching of Buddha even for a short while. That's what we are doing, and all of you doing full time. You are part and parcel of the Dharma centre, Dharma community over there. So that way, you know, its effect is very obvious. So that way, individual's effect for entire humanity is very much evident. โฃ
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An excerpt from Guru Vajradhara Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa's teaching on ๐๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ in response to a request from Palpung Ireland and other devotees, in 2020.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7soEthS-2bk
