Guru Rinpoche Day Teachings
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Phakchok Rinpoche sends out short teachings to all students via email on every Guru Rinpoche day. These messages are composed with the aspiration to inspire students. 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. Samye Institute maintains an archive of these teachings spanning the last 10 years.
The Five Successive Stages of Understanding
On this Guru Rinpoche Day message, Phakchok Rinpoche shares some simple benchmarks to measure our progress in our practice. We all go through five successive...
Overcoming Mara’s hosts
On Guru Rinpoche Day, Phakchok Rinpoche shares the key point of all the practices and teachings: overcoming the four great obstacles, the four maras, namely,...
Buddhahood Within Our Reach
On this Guru Rinpoche Day, Phakchok Rinpoche explains the famous opening verse of Omniscient Gampopa's "Jewel Ornament of Liberation," as well as the key points...
The Key to Success
Are we mindful and vigilant in all of our actions? Why is it important to be so? In order to explain the importance of attention...
Six Key Qualities for Beginners on the Path
On the Guru Rinpoche Day of Tredlha Tsechu of the year of the wood dragon (July 2024), Phakchok Rinpoche shares with us some words from...
Three Keys for a Successful Practice
On Guru Rinpoche Day, Phakchok Rinpoche shares some pithy advice for practitioners who feel that, even though they put a lot of time and effort...
Advice from My Root Guru
On this Guru Rinpoche Day, Phakchok Rinpoche shares with us key points of advice from his late root guru, Kyapchok Soktsé Rinpoche, about the two...
Where the Real Practice Begins
On Guru Rinpoche Day, Phakchok Rinpoche reminds us that as practitioners we should never separate our practice from our daily lives. Instead, everything we do...
Observing My Mind
On Guru Rinpoche's Day of March 2024, Kyabgon Phakchok Rinpoche shared the pithy advice "Observing My Mind."...
The Outer, Inner, and Secret Samsara
On the first Guru Rinpoche Day of the new lunar year of the Wood Dragon, Kyabgön Phakchok Rinpoche shares with us the three aspects of...
The Importance of Motivation
At the start of this Western new year, Phakchok Rinpoche reminds us about the importance of motivation and the need to examine it continuously using...
Understanding the Three Yanas
On the anniversary of Guru Dorjé Drolö, Phakchok Rinpoche shares with us some insights on the meaning and purpose of the three yanas (Theravada, Mahayana,...