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Phakchok Rinpoche shares with us The Fivefold Ultimate, Essential Instructions and Eightfold Samayas of Mahamudra, given by the first throne-holder of the...
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Phakchok Rinpoche sends out short inspiring teachings to all students via email on every Guru Rinpoche day. Rinpoche often uses these teachings to answer frequently asked questions. Also, he suggests topics that remind us to bring our minds home in the midst of our busy lives.
June 20, 2021
Phakchok Rinpoche shares with us The Fivefold Ultimate, Essential Instructions and Eightfold Samayas of Mahamudra, given by the first throne-holder of the Drikung Kagyu tradition.
Read moreMay 21, 2021
On the auspicious Guru Rinpoche Day of the auspicious month of Saga Dawa, Phakchok Rinpoche shares some important verses from Kunkhyen Jamgön Mipham Rinpoche’s Advice on What to Adopt and Abandon.
Read moreApril 22, 2021
Phakchok Rinpoche shares the Four Dharmas of Gampopa and the meaning of these profound words of advice, so we can apply them in our daily practice.
Read moreAlong the path, we make the aspiration that we may one day descend into the hell realms to teach beings the sublime Dharma that liberates from suffering. The Indian Buddhist master Shantideva said that bodhisattvas descend to the hell realms like swans landing on placid lakes. We too should make the wish to carry out this type of activity, knowing that as a bodhisattva we will see the appearances of the hells as pure.
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