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Special events throughout 2015.
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Calm Abiding Meditation Instructions – Traga Rinpoche
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 […]
A River That Cannot Be Frozen – H.E. Garchen Rinpoche
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 […]
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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 […]
From the book "The Excellent Path to Enlightenment: Oral Teachings on the Root Text of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo
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
All phenomena existence
“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
Loving-Kindness – Words from Kyobpa Jikten Sumgön
Words from Kyobpa Jikten Sumgön, as remembered by Chenga Drakpa Jungné (in “The Vajra Mind”) Again, the Precious Lord said: “There is an instruction on loving-kindness which I shall give to you.” He then taught. The object for generating loving-kindness is one who has shown you great kindness. The cause of loving-kindness (arising in you) […]
The Five-Fold-Path of Mahamudra blessing lineage – H.E. Garchen Rinpoche
The Drikung Kagyu is called the “blessing lineage”, faith and devotion to the guru is considered to be the most important. Through guru devotion, it is possible that we can gain liberation in a single life time with a single body. It is said that depending on the compassion of the guru and the devotion […]
Permissions and Prohibitions: Their Mode of Abiding – Khenchen Könchog Gyaltshen Rinpoche
Permissions and Prohibitions: Their Mode of Abiding – Khenchen Könchog Gyaltshen Rinpoche May it be virtuous. You master the objects of knowledge, you are the embodiment of compassion, the friends of living beings. I bow down with devotion to the lamas, who show unmistakenly what is to be adopted and what is to be abandoned. […]
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