Tibetan Buddhist Lamrim: Your Precious Human Life

The Lamrim teachings in Tibetan Buddhism place great importance on recognizing the value of a precious human life on the spiritual path.

Most people take their lives for granted and fail to recognize its significance. Since none of us can stop being human, and each day we wake up, we are human, it’s understandable why few bother to appreciate it. As Popeye the Sailor Man noted, “I yam what I yam.”

Tibetan Buddhist Lamrim invites us to pause and reflect on the meaning and unique opportunities a human life begets.

There are billions of conscious life forms on planet earth. Each one of them has a subjective experience.

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be a bat? It’s not a childish daydream; it’s a deep philosophical question.

You could have incarnated as an animal. What would your life have been like then?

Buddhists focus attention on the preciousness of human life because it motivates practitioners not to waste their time and effort on frivolity or worldly concerns.