The practice of mindfulness unveils and reveals your essential Good Heart, because it dissolves and removes the unkindness or the harm in you. Only when you...
Whatever thoughts and emotions arise in meditation, allow them to rise and settle, like the waves in the ocean. Whatever you find yourself thinking, let that...
Happy LOSAR - New Year every one ! ... I am now seventy-eight years old, and have seen so many, many things during my lifetime. So many young people have died,...
Buddha sat in serene and humble dignity on the ground, with the sky above him and around him, as if to show us that in meditation you sit with open, skylike...
The nature of mind is the background to the whole of life and death, like the sky, which enfolds the whole universe in its embrace. -SOGYAL RINPOCHE in the...
Ho! Everything - appearance and existence, samsara and nirvana, has a single ground, yet two paths and two fruitions, and magically displays as awareness or...
When we die we leave everything behind, especially this body we have cherished so much and relied upon so blindly and tried so hard to keep alive. But our...
Know all things to be like this: A mirage, a cloud castle, A dream, an apparition, Without essence, but with qualities that can be seen. Know all things to be...
Compassion is the best protection; it is also, as the great masters of the past have always known, the source of all healing. Suppose you have a disease such...
Although the results of our actions may not have matured yet, they will inevitably ripen, given the right conditions. Usually we forget what we do, and it is...
The preliminary training of meditation practice and purification ripens and opens the student's heart and mind to the direct understanding of the truth. Then,...
The nature of everything is illusory and ephemeral, Those with dualistic perception regard suffering as happiness, Like they who lick the honey from a razor's...
On that momentous night when Buddha attained enlightenment, it is said that he went through several different stages of awakening. In the first, with his mind...
The extraordinary qualities of great beings who hide their nature escapes ordinary people like us, despite our best efforts in examining them. On the other...
As you continue to meditate on compassion, when you see someone suffer, your first response becomes not mere pity but deep compassion. You feel for that person...
I always tell my students not to come out of meditation too quickly. Allow a period of some minutes for the peace of the practice of meditation to infiltrate...
At the moment of death, our state of mind is all-important. If we die in a positive frame of mind, we can improve our next birth, despite our negative karma....
The most important thing is not to get trapped in what I see everywhere in the West, a "shopping mentality": shopping around from master to master, teaching to...
Advice from His Holiness Penor Rinpoche ... From: Palyul Ling To: List Member Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 10:41 PM Subject: Advice from His Holiness Penor...
The practice of mindfulness defuses our negativity, aggression, and turbulent emotions, which may have been gathering power over many lifetimes. Rather than...
For most of us, karma and negative emotions obscure the ability to see our own intrinsic nature, and the nature of reality. As a result we clutch on to...
Enlightenment for Gautama [the Buddha] felt as though a prison which had confined him for thousands of lifetimes had broken open. Ignorance had been the...
It is extremely hard to rest undistracted in the nature of mind, even for a moment, let alone to self-liberate a single thought or emotion as it rises. We...
There is no swifter, more moving, or more powerful practice for invoking the help of the enlightened beings, for arousing devotion and realizing the nature of...
As Buddha himself was passing away, he prophesied that Padmasambhava would be born not long after his death in order to spread the teaching of the Tantras. It...
Taking impermanence truly to heart is to be slowly freed from the idea of grasping, from our flawed and destructive view of permanence, from the false passion...
The most essential point of the meditation posture is to keep the back straight, like "an arrow" or "a pile of golden coins." The "inner energy," or prana,...
Please note contacts on attached flyer, for those of you who wish to assist in any way with the upcoming visit. My thanks. Lama Sherab Dorje ... Vajrakilaya...
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