Guru Rinpoche Day Teachings

Striking the Vital Points of Practice

On the first Guru Rinpoche Day of the Tibetan Year of the Water Rabbit, Phakchok Rinpoche shares with us two quotes on the key points of the practices of generation, completion, and Guru Yoga.

Maha Guru
Guru Rinpoche Day Teachings

Guru Yoga and the Generation Stage

On this Guru Rinpoche day, I would like to share with you all some of Guru Rinpoche’s precious pith instructions, from the fourth chapter of the Dispeller of All Obstacles (Tukdrup Barché Künsel), “Quintessential, All-Embracing Wisdom” (Yangtik Yeshé Zangtal).

Guru Rinpoche Day Teachings

Five Ways of Practicing Guru Yoga

Since today is such a special and auspicious day, I thought to say little about “Lamey Naljor” or Guru Yoga, which is the practice of merging your mind with the wisdom mind of the guru.

Buddhist Philosophy

Accumulating Causes for Enlightenment

In this video teaching, Phakchok Rinpoche reminds us that the essence of our mind is already enlightened. Yet, even though our nature is pure, that does not imply that we then can sit back and do nothing. We need to accumulate merit!

Buddhist Philosophy

Four Qualities of Mind: Mind Nature

Phakchok Rinpoche explains the purpose of our meditation practice. Here he stresses that we can familiarize ourselves through direct experience with the four qualities of our true mind nature.

spiritual loneliness
Buddhist Philosophy

Avoiding Spiritual Loneliness

Phakchok Rinpoche encourages us to meditate correctly every morning. Don’t meditate like a dead tree! That means that we are approaching the session alone.

Buddhist Philosophy

Building Dignity Through Supplication

Building dignity through supplication may sound contradictory. In the Vajrayana path, however, supplication is continually emphasized. Why is this so?

Guru Rinpoche Day Teachings

On Love and Devotion

Phakchok Rinpoche speaks about Guru Devotion, which comes down to love, a fundamental feeling in all our main practices; and so, to cultivate Guru devotion, we first need to have love for the Guru.

Buddha Shakyamuni
Guru Rinpoche Day Teachings

The Essence of all the Buddha’s Teachings

Phakchok Rinpoche shares some words from the first chapter of the “Sutra of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight-Thousand Lines” about the perfection of wisdom.

The Buddha-image from Rigpa
Guru Rinpoche Day Teachings

The Qualities of the Buddha

Phakchok Rinpoche shares with us two stanzas from the Samadhiraja Sutra to realize the qualities of the Buddha and, thus, the qualities of our own nature.