Dharma Teachings By Lama Mark Webber

Lama Mark Webber was invited by Dr. Ellen Goldberg, to give a talk to her Buddhist studies class (Religious Studies 223) at Queen's University. In this 2.5 hour talk, Lama Mark speaks of: - a spontaneous experience of naked awareness and how this encounter lead him to find the Dharma and wonderful teachers - the importance in his life of working with excellent mentors, in all fields of study - learning what is and what is not wholesome mental intent-dawning of wisdom - causality and karma - profound intent and activity of relative and ultimate compassion (Bodhicitta) - gaining a deep purpose in life - why we are not actively pursuing the qualities of saintliness - liberation is not found through finding and grasping after more and more experiences: discover the essence of all experience - craving and attachment-how abandoning that which is craved, may be good, but is not a sustained freedom - harnessing mindfulness, investigation and Bodhicitta to liberate and find natural wakefulness and compassion - the sys