Whatever you do, don’t shut off your pain; accept your pain and remain vulnerable. However desperate you become, accept your pain as it is, because it is in...
Imagine vividly a situation where you have acted badly, one about which you feel guilty, and about which you wince even to think of it. Then, as you breathe...
Think of the moment of death as a strange border zone of the mind, a no-man’s land in which, on one hand, if we do not understand the illusory nature of our...
When you arrive naturally at a state of meditation, inspired by the View, you can remain there for a long time without any distraction or special effort. There...
When you arrive naturally at a state of meditation, inspired by the View, you can remain there for a long time without any distraction or special effort. There...
Reflect on this: The realization of impermanence is paradoxically the only thing we can hold on to, perhaps our only lasting possession. It is like the sky, or...
The Dzogchen masters are acutely aware of the dangers of confusing the absolute with the relative. People who fail to understand this relationship can overlook...
We often wonder what to do about negativity or certain troubling emotions. In the spaciousness of meditation, you can view your thoughts and emotions with a...
In meditation, as in all arts, there has to be a delicate balance between relaxation and alertness. Once a monk called Shrona was studying meditation with one...
The teachings tell us what it is we need to realize, but we also have to go on our own journey, in order to come to a personal realization. That journey may...
The teachings tell us what it is we need to realize, but we also have to go on our own journey, in order to come to a personal realization. That journey may...
Profound and tranquil, free from complexity, Uncompounded luminous clarity, Beyond the mind of conceptual ideas; This is the depth of the mind of the...
Difficulties and obstacles, if properly understood and used, can turn out to be an unexpected source of strength. Gesar was the great warrior king of Tibet,...
Dharma Friends, Kunzang Dechen Lingpa Rinpoche will be visiting LA and Topanga this September...You should do whatever you can to meet this great Dzogchen ...
With mind far off, not thinking of death’s coming, Performing these meaningless activities, Returning empty-handed now would be complete confusion; The need...
To serve the world out of the dynamic union of wisdom and compassion would be to participate most effectively in the preservation of the planet. Masters of all...
Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating; the other is the hidden spiritual being, whose...
Don’t we know, only too well, that protection from pain doesn’t work, and that when we try to defend ourselves from suffering, we only suffer more and ...
There are many ways of making the approach to meditation as joyful as possible. You can find the music that most exalts you and use it to open your heart and...
The masters tell us that there is an aspect of our minds that is its fundamental basis, a state called “the ground of the ordinary mind.” It functions like...
As a long-time favorite project of mine, and also to foster even further mutual respect among all the various Dharma groups, I am making a webpage listing the...
Though different forms are perceived, they are in essence empty; yet in the emptiness one perceives forms. Though different sounds are heard, they are empty; ...
I can't recommend highly enough to make a connection with this great Terton if at all possible, Joe WASHINGTON D.C. & MARYLAND ~ The Conservancy of Tibetan...
If, at the moment of death, we have already a stable realization of the nature of mind, in one instant we can purify all our karma. And if we continue that...
Tsang-Yang Gyamtso, the founder of Gebchak Gompa, had passed away long before my stay there as a child. Tsang-Yang Gyamtso had been born into an important...
When the sun of fierce devotion shines on the snow mountain of the master, the stream of his blessing will pour down. The Tibetan Saint, DRIKUNG KYOBPA ...
Considering others to be just the same as yourself helps you to open up your relationships and give them a new and richer meaning. Imagine If societies and...
They will be satisfied and so will you, don't you think? When it comes to helping others on a relative level, it is an endless task and it is impossible to...
To work with changes now, in life: That is the real way to prepare for death. Life may be full of pain, suffering, and difficulty, but all of these are...
For sound advice on how to relate to a teacher/guru in the Vajrayana context, I would advice you to read Adeu Rinpoche's chapter in Dzogchen Essentials,...
