Cultivating Renunciation and the Karmapa Lineage

A Journey to the West L27

A Journey to the West: Episode 27 — Cultivating Renunciation and the Karmapa Lineage

In this powerful episode, Khenpo Sodargye continues His Holiness's teachings at Mile High Church on Milarepa's stage-by-stage practice path. The teaching deeply explores the four common preliminaries for cultivating renunciation: the precious human body, impermanence and death, and the urgent need to practice Dharma. The episode also recounts the extraordinary history of the Karmapa lineage and the miraculous recognition of the seventeenth Karmapa through the ga'u box prophecy.

💬 Words of Wisdom

"It is truly rare to obtain such a precious human body that can be used for dharma practice. Therefore, since I have attained this precious body, I must make full use of it to practice the pure dharma." — His Holiness's teaching "Death is certain, the time of death uncertain. When death befalls, nothing is helpful except the noble dharma." — On impermanence "In fifty years, basically everyone listening today will be gone from this world. This time next year, there will definitely be some who have left." — Khenpo Sodargye "The existence of reincarnate tulkus and past and future lives — this is already a fact." — On the Karmapa lineage "——" A profound reminder of life's preciousness and impermanence, urging us to practice Dharma without delay — may all beings recognize the urgency of liberation.