The Path
Three Aspects of the Path When Phakchok Rinpoche teaches about the path, he specifies three aspects. We need to keep all three of these elements…
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Month 4: Vajra Breath
In the fourth month we continue practicing śamatha meditation. Once again, our support is the breath, but we now use a different method. We incorporate…
Seeing Faults: Notice, But Don’t Judge
Seeing Faults: Knowing Our Own Issues As meditation practitioners, we need to see our bad habits habits, negative emotions, carelessness and lack of mindfulness. Thus…
Essence of the Ground
Ground: The Foundation of Our Practice Ground refers to a fundamental foundation. Phakchok Rinpoche explains that, In the meditation tradition, we always talk about the…
Connecting to the Lineage Masters
Connecting to lineage masters becomes fundamental for Vajrayana Buddhist practice. When we understand how practical advice and encouragement was passed from master to disciple we…
Gendun Chöpel’s verses on transforming the mind
Phakchok Rinpoche shares a few verses of advice from Gendun Chopel that have a deep impact in transforming our ways of thinking.
Rituals at Tibetan Buddhist Dharma Centers
Rituals at Tibetan Buddhist Dharma Centers can delight, intrigue, and/or confuse newcomers. Here we offer some brief guidelines for the curious onlook…
The Six Perfections – Introduction
The Six Perfections, or Six Pāramitās, are attitudinal milestones which people who are really motivated towards compassion can use to evaluate how they provide compassion…
Unit 1: Understanding the Active Mind
To begin training the mind we need to be aware of our mind. This may sound obvious, but our reactions and habitual responses to events…
Tibetan Losar: New Year, New Habit!
The best way to welcome the New Year is to begin a new positive habit. In Tibetan, the word gom that we usually translate as “meditation”, more ac…
Remembering the Three Trainings
Phakchok Rinpoche reminds us of the three main trainings the Buddha taught, which are a condensation of the entire Buddhadharma: the trainings of disc…
Key Words of Advice from Dza Patrül Rinpoche
Phakchok Rinpoche wishes everyone a happy 2022 and shares very useful advice from Dza Patrül Rinpoche for both mundane and spiritual activities.