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.

Mindfulness is the Mirror of the Mind

On this Guru Rinpoche Day, I would like to share with you a pith instruction which my master, Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche repeatedly uttered. It is...

Genuine Devotion

The most important auspicious circumstance for practitioners to realize the correct view of emptiness is generating complete non-judgmental and genuine devotion to all the enlightened...

Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche – Calling the Lama from Afar

Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche explained that in the Ngak kyi Sojong, we are mending and restoring the commitments of the vows of the individual liberation in...

Five Unshakeable Fortresses

The five fortresses are extremely important for all dharma practitioners. If you don’t have these five, then actually it means that you are not doing...

The Four Holy Places

A pilgrimage is an important act of devotion and faith as it enables us to accumulate merit and purify our defilements and obscurations of the...

King Milarepa’s Wealth

It was during the 10th of this lunar month back in the 8th century when Guru Rinpoche first arrived into Tibet. The great Indian Buddhist...

The Difference Between Mind and Wisdom

Today I thought I’d answer a question that I get asked quite frequently by students: the difference between the mind section and the wisdom section....

Motivation, Meditation, and Mind

Practicing the dharma is very important, but at the same time, you need to know how to practice the dharma properly. Just by doing some...

Root Tantra of Manjushri

When we let our emotions overtake us completely, we wind up on the same road making the same mistakes. Again and again, this happens. Why...

Benefits of Performing Feast Offerings and the Seven Line Prayer

The word for ‘feast offering’ in Sanskrit is ganachakra, which if translated into Tibetan is tsok kyi khorlo, wheel of accumulation. Gathering the two accumulations...

Three Chakras (Wheels)

It is evening here in Boudhanath, Kathmandu and I’m sitting on my bed, drinking tea, and watching the World Cup: the first half of Chile...

Heart Advice from Kyabje Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

Dear friends near and far First off, my deepest apologies for my very long silence. I hope you’ve all been happy and healthy. At the…

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