{"id":640959,"date":"2025-07-30T12:58:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T11:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kadampa.org\/2025\/07\/sommerfestival-2025-tag-5"},"modified":"2025-08-05T10:25:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T09:25:45","slug":"sommerfestival-2025-tag-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kadampa.org\/de\/2025\/07\/sommerfestival-2025-tag-5","title":{"rendered":"Sommerfestival 2025 Tag 5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kadampa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Kadampa-Summer-Festival-2025---Buddha-Green-Tara-Merged-2x.png\" alt=\"Kadampa-Summer-Festival-2025---Buddha-Green-Tara-Merged-2x\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"828\" width=\"794\" title=\"Kadampa-Summer-Festival-2025---Buddha-Green-Tara-Merged-2x\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading='lazy' \/>\n<h2>\n\t\t\tInternational <b>Summer Festival 2025<\/b> diaries\t<\/h2>\n\t<style>wistia-player[media-id='3uv1n4n6ub']:not(:defined) { background: center \/ contain no-repeat url('https:\/\/fast.wistia.com\/embed\/medias\/3uv1n4n6ub\/swatch'); display: block; filter: blur(5px); padding-top:56.25%; }<\/style> <wistia-player media-id=\"3uv1n4n6ub\" aspect=\"1.7777777777777777\"><\/wistia-player>\n\t<p><em>Today we received teachings on contentment from Gen-la Jampa: how to be satisfied with our inner and outer conditions with a good motivation, how to let go of the endless discontent that drives us to constantly seek and never find satisfaction in external things. Our endless scrolling, our endless acquiring.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>\n\t\t\tDay 5 ~ The inner wealth of contentment\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kadampa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Tara-3_motifs_flower-copy.png\" alt=\"Tara-3_motifs_flower copy\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"1084\" width=\"889\" title=\"Tara-3_motifs_flower copy\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading='lazy' \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kadampa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Summer-2025-Photos-Norbu-2025-07-25_36.jpg\" alt=\"Summer-2025-Photos-Norbu-2025-07-25_36\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"1280\" width=\"1920\" title=\"Summer-2025-Photos-Norbu-2025-07-25_36\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading='lazy' \/>\n\t<blockquote><p><strong>&#8222;Friends, the things you desire give no more satisfaction than drinking sea water, therefore practice contentment.&#8220;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Discontent is not a small problem and the practice of contentment is not just a supplementary practice &#8211; it is essential and can bring so much peace and happiness. Festivals offer a great opportunity to practice contentment and we see for ourselves what results it brings!<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kadampa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Day-5_Nora_0016.jpg\" alt=\"Day 5_Nora_0016\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"1280\" width=\"1920\" title=\"Day 5_Nora_0016\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading='lazy' \/>\n<h2>\n\t\t\tWHAT HAPPENS IF WE BEGIN TO EXPERIENCE THE TRUTH OF CONTENTMENT?\t<\/h2>\n\t<p>Our main focus at Festivals is to enjoy internally, having the opportunity to listen to Dharma teachings, to meditate and practice the teachings, and to be in community with other practitioners. With this as our main intention, our attachment to external things is reduced. We are content to eat the food on the menu each day, we are content to sleep in a tent, or a dormitory.<\/p>\n<p>We are content to queue for showers. We are content with the bustle and busyness around us. We are content with the weather and with each other. We try to be content with where we end up seated in the Temple, and with who we end up sitting next to.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What happens is that we begin to experience the truth of contentment and find we are in fact much, much happier than in so-called &#8218;perfect&#8216; conditions.<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kadampa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ROBI7880.jpg\" alt=\"ROBI7880\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"1280\" width=\"1920\" title=\"ROBI7880\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading='lazy' \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kadampa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Day-5_Nora_0106.jpg\" alt=\"Day 5_Nora_0106\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"1280\" width=\"1920\" title=\"Day 5_Nora_0106\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading='lazy' \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kadampa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/summer2025_xavier-25.jpg\" alt=\"summer2025_xavier-25\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"1320\" width=\"1980\" title=\"summer2025_xavier-25\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading='lazy' \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kadampa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Day-5_Nora_0131.jpg\" alt=\"Day 5_Nora_0131\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"1280\" width=\"1920\" title=\"Day 5_Nora_0131\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading='lazy' \/>\n<h2>\n\t\t\tTeaching with Gen-la Jampa\t<\/h2>\n\t<style>wistia-player[media-id='04d51sslns']:not(:defined) { background: center \/ contain no-repeat url('https:\/\/fast.wistia.com\/embed\/medias\/04d51sslns\/swatch'); display: block; filter: blur(5px); padding-top:56.25%; }<\/style> <wistia-player media-id=\"04d51sslns\" aspect=\"1.7777777777777777\"><\/wistia-player>\n<h2>\n\t\t\tMORNING MEDiTATION WITH GEN TONGLAM\t<\/h2>\n\t<style>wistia-player[media-id='7qcpjzbigk']:not(:defined) { background: center \/ contain no-repeat url('https:\/\/fast.wistia.com\/embed\/medias\/7qcpjzbigk\/swatch'); display: block; filter: blur(5px); padding-top:56.25%; }<\/style> <wistia-player media-id=\"7qcpjzbigk\" aspect=\"1.7777777777777777\"><\/wistia-player>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kadampa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Day-5_Nora_0017.jpg\" alt=\"Day 5_Nora_0017\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"1280\" width=\"1920\" title=\"Day 5_Nora_0017\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading='lazy' \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kadampa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Day-5_Nora_0161.jpg\" alt=\"Day 5_Nora_0161\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"1280\" width=\"1920\" title=\"Day 5_Nora_0161\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading='lazy' \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kadampa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Melani_Day5_6.jpg\" alt=\"Melani_Day5_6\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"1280\" width=\"1920\" title=\"Melani_Day5_6\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading='lazy' \/>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tFestival Podcast\t<\/h3>\n<h2>\n\t\t\t&#8218;just forget&#8216; all our usual worries and problems\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kadampa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Tara-3_motifs_clouds-copy.png\" alt=\"Tara-3_motifs_clouds copy\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"655\" width=\"1047\" title=\"Tara-3_motifs_clouds copy\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading='lazy' \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kadampa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/SUMMER-FEST-25-MILOB-D4-37.jpg\" alt=\"SUMMER FEST 25 - MILOB - D4-37\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"1368\" width=\"2048\" title=\"SUMMER FEST 25 - MILOB - D4-37\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading='lazy' \/>\n\t<p>In this way, for the time we are at the Festival, we put to one side our normal pre-occupations and concerns. Geshe-la often used to say at the beginning of Festivals &#8222;Just forget all your usual worries and problems&#8220; and he would encourage us that it didn&#8217;t matter if for a few days or weeks our external conditions were not perfect.<strong> In fact it just might be that they are entirely perfect for us to deepen our practice and experience of the peace of contentment!<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kadampa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Summer-25-Day5-Deshe-04-s.jpg\" alt=\"Summer 25-Day5-Deshe-04-s\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"1280\" width=\"1920\" title=\"Summer 25-Day5-Deshe-04-s\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading='lazy' \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kadampa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Day-5_Nora_0165.jpg\" alt=\"Day 5_Nora_0165\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"1280\" width=\"1920\" title=\"Day 5_Nora_0165\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading='lazy' \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kadampa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Summer-25-Day5-Deshe-02-s.jpg\" alt=\"Summer 25-Day5-Deshe-02-s\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"1280\" width=\"1920\" title=\"Summer 25-Day5-Deshe-02-s\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading='lazy' \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kadampa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Melani_Day5_1.jpg\" alt=\"Melani_Day5_1\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"1253\" width=\"1920\" title=\"Melani_Day5_1\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading='lazy' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kadampa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Tara-3_motifs_lotus-copy.png\" alt=\"Tara-3_motifs_lotus copy\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"1126\" width=\"1472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kadampa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Tara-3_motifs_lotus-copy.png 1472w, https:\/\/kadampa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Tara-3_motifs_lotus-copy-300x229.png 300w, https:\/\/kadampa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Tara-3_motifs_lotus-copy-1339x1024.png 1339w, https:\/\/kadampa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Tara-3_motifs_lotus-copy-768x587.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1472px) 100vw, 1472px\" title=\"Tara-3_motifs_lotus copy\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heute haben wir von Gen-la Jampa Unterweisungen zum Thema Zufriedenheit bekommen: wie wir mit einer guten Motivation mit unseren inneren und \u00e4u\u00dferen Bedingungen zufrieden sein k\u00f6nnen, wie wir die endlose Unzufriedenheit loslassen k\u00f6nnen, die uns dazu treibt, st\u00e4ndig nach \u00e4u\u00dferen Dingen zu suchen und nie Zufriedenheit zu finden. Unser endloses Scrollen, unser endloses Sammeln. 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