Happy Guru Rinpoche Day! In today’s video, Phakchok Rinpoche introduces Raksha Tötreng, the manifestation of Guru Rinpoche who is known to protect against uncertain time of death. Related with this, Rinpoche explains the importance of wearing protection chakras and requesting prayers from authentic lamas and nuns.
Taming our minds remains the most important lesson taught by the Buddha. We really need to understand that the Buddha taught everything so we can understand and tame our minds.
Failure is something we usually try to avoid at all costs. One main reason we fail — both in mundane and spiritual life — is we lack decisiveness. We make a mistake by making failure into some sort of monster to fear. Instead, let’s use a different approach. Go through the process and try doing something. Fail once! Then get up again and re-engage. Do something! And, again, fail. This may seem really frightening, but if we ask older people, we understand that this is how we learn.
The point of meditation is not to be calm. Instead, in this video teaching, Phakchok Rinpoche reminds us that the point of meditation is to change!
Today’s video features Kalden Drendze, and is a continuation of the Twelve Manifestations of Guru Rinpoche series. Here, Phakchok Rinpoche shares a very concise method for gaining accomplishment in the practice through a simple visualization.
Handling our habits is a crucial practice for meditators. How does a beginning meditator train?
Aspiration is like water, and motivation is like the seed. You plant a seed and want to see the plant grow. Water is the aspiration.
Shaking off tiredness is an important technique for meditators to learn. Often we rise early to meditate and we may not be fully alert. Or, we may have worked hard all day and be exhausted when we start to sit. Dullness is one of the major obstacles faced by practitioners. Our meditation needs to be fresh. So, what to do?
Integrating Dharma into our daily activities means that Dharma serves a deep purpose. When we integrate Dharma successfully, it becomes truly functional. Here, Phakchok Rinpoche reminds Buddhist practitioners how to apply Dharma throughout our day.
Skillfully Sharing Meditation: Coaching Others Skilfully sharing meditation and its benefits presents us with some challenges. On one hand, we want our family and friends
Dear friends near and far Hello. Happy Guru Rinpoche Day. Today we continue in the Twelve Manifestations of Guru Rinpoche series. Within the series, we
Millennials are facing challenges in many segments of their life. Here, in a public talk given in Singapore, Phakchok Rinpoche discusses some of these issues.
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