a This is a message to all the Buddhists in the world. In general, anyone who practices a religion, any religion, needs love and compassion. This love and compassion is to be directed towards all sentient beings: “May all sentient beings have happiness and may they be free from suffering.” Therefore, when people anywhere suffer […]
Purification and Obstacle Removal Shitro (100 Deities) Empowerment Six Bardos Teachings Special 4-day Stages of Meditation DUE TO LIMITED SEATING, EVENT PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED AT aENGLISH and VIETNAMESE LANGUAGE TRANSLATION HOTELS and TRANSPORTATION to DDSC TEMPLE & GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY (Click for various Local Lodging Options) a Aug 13 – Aug 14, 2015: […]
Special events throughout 2015.
Calm Abiding Meditation Instructions by Venerable Traga Rinpoche The topic of discussion this evening is calm abiding meditation or shamata meditation. So Rinpoche says he’ll explain the method for engaging in shamatha meditation briefly, without getting too extensive. But to begin with, at the outset of engaging in shamatha meditation, it is really important to […]
You are so fortunate to have met the Dharma with devotion. The essence of Dharma is the two bodhicittas: relative bodhicitta is the noble mind focusing on others; ultimate bodhicitta is emptiness – looking at your own mind. If you find it difficult to see your own mind, it is due to obscurations which come […]
Preserve the Sky Burials at Gar Monastery DDSC_ Gar Cemetery-Preserving the Sky Burial His Eminence Garchen Rinpoche enthusiastically expressed the importance of the sacred burial ground, Gar Cemetery, and described the story of its creation. It is important to provide a sacred place filled with many blessings and to create a mandala where a body […]
Do not waste a single moment, like a warrior who, pierced to the heart by an arrow, knows he has only few minutes to live. It is now, while we are in good health and in possession of all our physical and mental faculties, that we should practice dharma. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
“Ah, powerful lord of space, omnipresent vajra, you must come to the definitive conclusion that none of the phenomena of samsara and nirvana exist, but are all empty, and realize their nature to be that of ineffability (med-pa).” — Vajrapani
The Dharma has two aspects exposition and practice. Exposition is only the work of the mouth, and many there are who do not practice the teachings explained. As the saying goes “Many have heard the Doctrine, but those who implement it are few. Often those who have practiced a little are side tracked and get […]
