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Advanced Tonglen

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Transformation of Subtle Feelings

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Two Key Pieces of Advice

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Eight Negative Emotions to Transform

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What is Mahamudra?

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Repeated Placement: Once Again Resting the Mind

Courses

Core Course
Path of Transformation | Meditation

Mahamudra Level One

Taught by
Phakchok Rinpoche
Phakchok Rinpoche guides students through a year-long experiential meditation practice program.
Core Course
Path of Transformation | Meditation

Mahamudra Level Two

Taught by
Phakchok Rinpoche
The Mahamudra Level Two online course offers advanced guidance in insight (vipashyana) meditation, designed to help you progress on the Path of Transformation.
Core Course
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The Noble Wisdom of the Time of Death Sutra

Taught by
Phakchok Rinpoche
Using a classic Mahayana Sutra, Phakchok Rinpoche gives pithy practice advice covering five core topics on the Buddhist path.
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Training the Mind

Taught by
Phakchok Rinpoche
Phakchok Rinpoche introduces a step-by-step approach to understanding how our minds function.
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Shravakayana: The Foundation of the Buddhist Path

Taught by
Matthew Zalichin
Approach the Buddha’s teachings gradually, learning how to integrate study, reflection, and meditation.

Articles

8 minutes
Path of Transformation» Meditation

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...
8 minutes
spiritual loneliness
3 minutes
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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....
3 minutes
Rituals at Tibetan Buddhist Dharma Centers
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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 onlooker....
Multiplying
9 minutes
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Multiplying Effects: Five Ways of Multiplying Merit

Practitioners should take advantage of all opportunities to increase the accumulation of merit easily and swiftly. We need to know how to magnify our virtues....
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9 minutes
Path of Transformation» Meditation

Maintaining Meditation Discipline

In this excerpt from "In the Footsteps of Bodhisattvas", Phakchok Rinpoche discusses discipline, and how it is essential to a strong meditation practice....
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Seeing the Buddha, Becoming the Buddha: Formal Meditation Instruction from Phakchok Rinpoche

Within In the Footsteps of Bodhisattvas, Phakchok Rinpoche clearly shows how genuine meditation is contingent upon bringing together many supportive conditions. However, Rinpoche also articulates...
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On Forgetting

Phakchok Rinpoche teaches that if we are holding any anger, we are not free. When you’re even mildly annoyed at someone, the mind is disturbed...
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Opening the Door to Authentic Meditation

Jack DeTar shares Rinpoche's path of authentic meditation taken from "In The Footsteps of Bodhisattvas"...
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Student Reflections on Gomde New York’s Virtual Retreats – May 23 to June 1, 2020

Samye Institute's students share their experiences during 2020's online retreats....
Equanimity in Turbulent Times
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Relying on the Four Immeasurable Qualities During a Pandemic (Part 1): Immeasurable Equanimity

Erric Solomon begins a four part explorations of the Four Immeasurables....
Busy Laziness
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Busy Laziness

These days we are all so busy that we often don’t take time to consider how constant doing affects our minds. And we might be...
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Visualization: How and Why?

Visualization can seem unnecessarily complicated when we first encounter meditation instruction. But creating a mental image and using that as an object of our attention...
Anxiety
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Anxiety: Seeing Through the Spin

Anxiety arises for almost all sentient beings in certain situations. And there are times when worry can be useful or productive. A little stress can...
Reading Namtars
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Reading Namtars

Hilary Herdman discusses the reading of the life-stories of great masters (Tib. Namtar) as spiritual practice....
FOMO
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FOMO Got You Down? Try Sympathetic Joy

Learn about an ancient Buddhist tool to overcome FOMO....
Giving Joyfully
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Giving Joyfully: #Giving Tuesday

Giving joyously is the first of the "perfections" praised in the Vajrayana tradition....
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Meditation Training With Focus

"Meditation training with focus" takes many forms. As we begin to build a habit of mindfulness, we can use one or more of these techniques....
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Cultivating New Habits for Busy Minds

When we hear the word "meditation" we may think that we can't keep still for an hour and be calm. But, as Tulku Migmar as...
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Mental Maintenance Creates Stability

"Mental Maintenance" means working with our own minds. Anxiety, depression, and stress can affect anybody. First, we need to take care of our actual physical...
Reducing Negative Emotions
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Reducing Negative Emotions: The Power of Meditation

Our minds are full of thoughts, full of afflictive emotions, and full of unhappiness. This is why dharma practice is really indispensable to us all....
Contemplate Impermanence
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Contemplate Impermanence: How Do We Follow That Instruction?

We know that we ourselves will eventually die. We know, and yet ... are we really taking these teachings to heart as the Buddha and...
Learning Meditation
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Meditation: Correct Preparation in Three Steps

Learning meditation requires both study and actual practice. Correct preparation before starting a meditation session allows us to experience authentic results...
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Buddha Nature: Where Is It?

When we hear that our innate nature is Buddha -nature, are we confident that it is so? How do we develop dignity--a sense of certainty...
Preferences
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Preferences, Habit, Practice

Preferences dominate our thinking most of the time whether we consciously note them or not. We carry them into our meditation practice. But is that...
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Purposeful Teachings

Every one of the Buddha's teachings has a purpose--each one suits the needs of a particular person. When we examine a teaching, we should ask...
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Practicing Dharma: Continuous Journey

When we really want to practice Dharma we wish to carry on until we die. We don't want to stop! Dharma practice is a continuous...
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Motivation: The Real Meaning of Bodhicitta

In this teaching, Phakchok Rinpoche challenges us to come to understand the correct motivation. “Motivation is a reflection of yourself”, he teaches. This shows how...
Science of Mind
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Buddhist Science of Mind

Science of mind occupies a great deal of attention in Buddhist philosophy. This is not some new development; ancient Buddhist texts include major treatises investigating...
Self-reflection
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Self-Reflection on the Spiritual Path

We're busy people and have lots of responsibilities and activities, so often we may forget to engage in self-reflection. But, we may want to look...
Experience opens understanding
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Experience Opens Understanding

How do we begin Buddhist practice? We can first listen to explanations from a qualified teacher, and take time to reflect on what we have...
Exchanging Self and Others
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Exchanging Self and Others: Building Bodhicitta Part Two

Exchanging self and others is the supreme method for building our bodhicitta. We develop this through a process called tonglen, or "sending and receiving"....
Building Bodhicitta
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Building Bodhicitta: Part One

As Buddhist practitioners, we begin by always bringing our practice to our own mind, and our own level of experience--regardless of what practice we do....
Learning Buddhadharma
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Learning Buddhadharma: The Essence

Learning Buddhadharma can be done in a number of ways. Especially in these modern times. We can go to retreats, listen to teachings, take courses,...
Defining Dharma
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Defining “Dharma”: Method and Wisdom

We have a lot of negative emotions, don't we? And traditionally, Buddhist teachers explain that the antidote for our negative emotions is the application of...
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Buddha Nature: Our Ground

Buddha-nature refers to the ground, the basic nature that we all share. It is our "starting point", so to speak. We refer to the ground...
Spacious Meditation
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Spacious Meditation

Spacious Meditation is important throughout our practice. Buddhist teachers often emphasize spaciousness as a quality we should develop. But sometimes, we can become confused about...
Practicing meditation
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Practicing Meditation: Three Main Points

Practicing meditation is a key point of applying Buddhist Dharma. And many other traditions also feature meditation. Phakchok Rinpoche suggests that we need to approach...
Understanding Emotions
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Understanding Emotions: Benefit of Meditation

Understanding emotions serves as the first step toward overcoming our basic ignorance. In this video clip, Phakchok Rinpoche shares his personal experience of coming to...
Learning Buddha's teachings
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Just Be Kind!

Just be kind! Phakchok Rinpoche observes that as he travels around the world, he finds that many of us have forgotten this basic skill. Basic,...
Do we need to meditate?
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Do We Need to Meditate?

Do we need to meditate? And if so, why? Is there a real benefit from meditation? In this video teaching, Phakchok Rinpoche answers with an...
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Improving Ourselves on the Buddhist Path

Improving ourselves, or making progress, while practicing the Buddhadharma should be a natural outcome. Phakchok Rinpoche observes that we practice correctly when our behavior and…

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Understanding Mind
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Dharma : Understanding Mind

Dharma means understanding the mind--our own mind-- and how it functions. When we hear the word "Dharma" we can realize that we are engaging in...
Kindness free from agenda
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Real Kindness: No Agenda

Real kindness means that you aren't looking for praise or thanks. We don't attach strings to that kindness--we act kindly without expectation. Agenda-free kindness doesn't...
Taming our minds
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Being Confident and Decisive

Phakchok Rinpoche observes that many Dharma students these days are not decisive. Why aren't we more decisive? Because we lack confidence. We need to develop...
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Why Meditate? What Does Meditation Offer?

Why meditate? What benefits does meditation bring, and why might we want to take the time for practice? Phakchok Rinpoche, in this video teaching from...
Who was the Buddha?
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Who Was the Buddha?

Who was the Buddha? We see the image so often these days and we may know some quotes attributed to him, but what do we...
Unselfish motivation
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Unselfish Meditation

When we practice meditation, we should aim for unselfish meditation. That means we need to learn how to set our motivation. In this audio teaching...
Meditation
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Meditation: Not Just Sitting

Meditation certainly includes formal sitting practice, but we can appreciate that there is more to it than that! Here, Phakchok Rinpoche explains that meditation doesn't...
Learning Buddha's teachings
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Learning What the Buddha Taught: A One-Minute Reminder

Learning what the Buddha taught could take a lifetime of study, contemplation, and meditation. However, the Buddha often summarized his teachings in simple, easy-to-understand key...
Transformation
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Transformation and Seeing Mind

Transformation is something that many of us seek. Some of us might attend a talk about meditation or mindfulness if we think it leads to...
Impermanence and freedom
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Impermanence and Freedom

Khenpo Gyaltsen knows that discussions of impermanence can cause strange reactions. Our nature is impermanent. There is no reason to feel unhappy about it. We...
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Be Gentle with Yourself!

In this video instruction, Phakchok Rinpoche responds to a student's question about thoughts arising during four foundations practice sessions. Rinpoche advises the student to look...
Focusing
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Focusing the Mind: Impossible Task?

As we begin to practice meditation, many of us experience doubts. One of the biggest questions is, "How can I concentrate? My mind gets distracted...
Building routine
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Building Meditation Routine

Building routine helps us carry our practice throughout our daily life. Family and work are both very important in our lives. But first, we need...
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Life Goes On

Regardless on who we are, or what our plans and goals are, life goes on. Phakchok Rinpoche, in this audio clip, suggests that we remind...
Vision
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Common Sense, Uncommon Sense: The Buddha’s Message

Over 2500 years ago, the Buddha chose a different approach. We could call it uncommon sense: meaning it was almost the opposite of how we...
King of Aspiration prayer
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Mahāyāna Teaching: The King of Aspiration Prayer Part One

Bodhisattvas arise from their practice of the path, but mainly through their own aspirations. Here, Phakchok Rinpoche briefly explains the importance of aspiration and the...
Believing karma
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Believing Karma

Believing karma, cause and effect, makes us authentic practitioners. Here, Phakchok Rinpoche speaks very directly to our cynicism and doubts. He says frankly that we...
Becoming genuine
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Becoming Genuine: First Steps for Authentic Buddhist Practice

Becoming genuine should be a milestone that we can use to measure our practice. We can learn how to become fully genuine. To begin on...
Failure
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Failure: Learning from Our Mistakes

Failure is something we usually try to avoid at all costs. One main reason we fail -- both in mundane and spiritual life -- is...
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Buddhist Vision: Enlightenment!

When we practice meditation, we should have a vision. And our vision should really be vast. We practice to awaken to become Buddhas....
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Learning Meditation: A Whole Package

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...
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Handling Habits

Handling our habits is a crucial practice for meditators. How does a beginning meditator train?...
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Aspiration: Water for Compassion

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
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Shaking Off Tiredness: A Stretch for Meditation

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,...
Integrating Dharma
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Integrating Dharma into Daily Life

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...
Inspiration for our Meditation
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Inspiration for Our Meditation Training

Inspiration for our meditation training is a boost for our practice. We love to think we can be independent and do everything by ourselves, but...
"Mind": the first mantra
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Mind: The First Mantra

"Mind" is the word we should recollect repeatedly and contemplate. The word "mantra" has one general meaning as an instrument of thought....
Understanding the ground
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Understanding the Ground of Meditation

When we learn meditation, we need to start with the base, or ground. First, we should learn not just how to meditate, but also why...
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Spaciousness in Daily Life

Spaciousness is an opportunity to rest our minds. Rinpoche discusses how meditation is not such a big deal. As we start out, it is helpful...
What is Buddhism?
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What Is Buddhism?

In this advice session with students, Phakchok Rinpoche explains that Buddhism encompasses a great deal. "Buddhism is everything!" he says....
Kindness free from agenda
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Expanding the Heart Practice

Expanding the heart brings great benefit for both ourselves and others. In this video teaching, Phakchok Rinpoche advises each of us to develop big and...
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Remembering Kindness

Remembering the kindness of others is an important practice for all of us. We should not forget those many individuals who have been kind to...
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Self-Encouragement in Practice

In this audio teaching given at Riwoche Temple in Toronto, Phakchok Rinpoche relates personal examples of how he encourages himself....
Sense of Balance
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Sense of Balance

When we interact with our partners, our parents, our children, and our extended family, we should always switch our perspective back and forth between ourselves...
renunciation
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Applying a Teacher’s Practice Advice

Applying a teacher's practice advice may seem to be something we all wish to do. We ask questions and we may get some very profound...
karmic moods
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Questions on Karma: Choosing Not to Swing

Our minds swing back and forth crazily without any stability. That is the "swing" of karma. If we don't "swing" with karma, it cannot do...
renunciation
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Motivation and Excitement

If our motivation for Buddhist practice is based on excitement, what happens when that excitement goes away? And the excitement does go away -- that's...
Confidence with Compassion
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Confidence with Compassion: Building Dignity

Phakchok Rinpoche says that if we really examine ourselves, we can learn how to develop stable confidence. The good news is that as practitioners we...
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Human Rights and Kindness

Many of us may have experienced genuine harm from others in the past or we may be experiencing this now. Phakchok Rinpoche agrees that such...
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Distilling the Dharma – Three Core Principles

Distilling the Dharma into three core principles is an important teaching for us as we begin to learn about Buddhism. Likewise, it can be a...
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Transforming Anger into Strength

Transforming anger is a skill we can all work to achieve. We often feel that we have the right or to be angry, but anger...
Rhythm of Happiness
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Rhythm of Happiness General Talk (Part 2)

Rhythm can develop into a deeper practice with more complexity. In the second part of this talk, Phakchok Rinpoche explains how we may continue to...
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Avoiding Burnout by Making Time to Meditate

Many of us want to be helpful and do charity or volunteer work since it is needed in so many places, but it can also...
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Balancing Dharma and Life Through Kindness

Balancing Dharma and life can be difficult to do well. Phakchok Rinpoche understands that many of us have a spiritual practice and life responsibilities....
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Let the Dharma Resonate: Be Decisive!

Let the Dharma resonate fully by accumulating merit. This is the best method, Rinpoche advises. But we do this without lots of expectations and thoughts...
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Persistence in Practice

Persistence in practice is something we often don't talk much about. But being persistent can make a big difference in our progress on the path....
Perception
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Perception: Understanding Its Power

Perception has power and it can be surprisingly strong. Normally, perception and habits work together to create a mistaken view of our world.Perception always comes...
Transformation meditation
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Meditation: The Power of Transformation

Transformation can come about through meditation because meditation has many aspects. It’s more than you think! And, meditation is actually transformation. In this audio teaching,…

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five poisons
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Truly Understanding the Five Poisons

Truly understanding the five poisons, also known as the five negative emotions, is a crucial step for mental well-being. In this audio teaching, Phakchok Rinpoche...
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Defining Dharma

Defining Dharma is an important place to begin. First, we must know about Dharma and then about meditation. Dharma means the transformation of our mind....
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Practicing Mahamudra Requires the Desire to Change

Here he reminds us that if we remember the goal of our practice, we should achieve the goal. And genuine compassion and devotion can bring...
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Reflection: Importance of Motivation

Meditation can bring us good results. But, conversely, if our motivation is bad, it can also give us very bad results. If we start our...
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Returning to the Root: The Words of the Buddha

Returning to the root of our practice is something we should all do from time to time as practitioners. This means repeatedly studying the core...
Patience
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Have Patience with the Teachings!

Have patience with the teachings and with yourself. Phakchok Rinpoche gives advice that the proper attitude for receiving teachings is with an open mind....
Transformation meditation
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Open, Truthful, and Sincere: Three Fundamental Qualities

Three fundamental qualities -- in order to learn how to be open, truthful, and sincere in order to develop spiritually daily life....
Death
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What Tools Do We Need For a Meaningful Life?

Meaningful Life Meaningful life –what tools do we need to make our lives truly meaningful? What is important so that we can make the most...

habit
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A Habit of Meditation Practice!

How can we make meditation practice a habit? We need to encourage ourselves. Many of us have good intentions, but our lives are very busy....
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Buddhism: Philosophy or Religion?

Philosophy or religion? Which is Buddhism? It is a common question. You can find many people who offer very different opinions. What is Buddhism all...
pure perception
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Spacious and Calm Mind

Real happiness means having a spacious and calm mind. Happiness is not just about having fun. We become happy when we develop a grounded mind...
Reducing ego
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Reducing Ego: A Practical Method

We hear a lot about reducing ego in Buddhist teachings. But we often don't know how to go about this. Here Rinpoche gives practical advice...
Good practitioner
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What is a Good Practitioner?

What is a good practitioner? What are the signs? How can I check my meditation practice? We may wonder if our meditation is going well....
Brain-jam
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Clear “Brain-Jam” with Meditation

Why begin your day with meditation? It is the best antidote for "brain-jam." Tulku Migmar Tsering is known for giving very practical advice......
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Contentment and the Mind

A key teaching of Buddhism is contentment. To understand what this means, we need to see our own experience. Contentment is a state......
Tolerance
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Tolerance and Mind Training

Dharma practice means training our minds. What kind of mind training do we need as dharma practitioners? Tolerance training!...
Meditation
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Learn to Meditate: It Is Simple!

You should learn to meditate". We hear this frequently. How do we learn to meditate? What does it really mean? What are we supposed to...
Buddhist dignity
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Buddhist Dignity: Gentle Looseness and Not Too Reactive

Dignity. What does the word mean to you? Phakchok Rinpoche speaks often on the subject of dignity. It is a vital quality for a dharma...
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Slow Infusion Dharma

When we are beginning a meditation practice it is good to do shorter sessions. That's because we need to be inspired to practice, and not...
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Meditation Posture: Sharpness

In this video clip from Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, Rinpoche answers a student’s question about why meditation posture matters....
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Inspire Yourself Retreat
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Inspire Yourself by Doing Home Retreat

Back in December 2015, Samye challenged our community to add some practice inspiration by doing a short “home retreat”. We would like to share a…

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Defining Dharma
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Defining Dharma: The Three Steps

Dharma means simply not doing bad actions, doing good actions, and taming or transforming the mind....
Inspiration
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Inspiration to Practice – Advice on Dealing With Success and Positive Circumstances

Inspiration manifests in many ways.Phakchok Rinpoche gives some personal examples of how he inspires himself to practice. And, self-reflection drives the process. Rinpoche advises us...
lay practitioners
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How To Practice – Three Key Points For Lay Practitioners

We often request simple instructions for how to integrate practice with our busy modern lives. As lay practitioners, we have many demands on our time,...
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Understanding the Fruition of Buddha – The Buddha as Refuge

It may be helpful to remember that reflection on the qualities and the form of the Buddha has been a traditional meditation technique and can...
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Knowing Dharma Is Nothing: Doing Dharma Is Something

If we actually “do Dharma” then we can learn how to turn our experience around. If we don’t do this, we are like someone who...
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Mind Is the Key: Dharma Versus Non-Dharma

When we turn our minds inward and investigate the core nature of our mind, what do we find? In this final audio clip, Rinpoche reminds...
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Mahamudra Level One – Question and Answers October 2015

Phakchok Rinpoche invited his students from all around the world to ask questions relating to Mahamudra – The Path of Meditation Level One. Questions From…

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Awakening

Rinpoche addresses the issue of the difficulty of achieving enlightenment--or “waking up”. His answer may be startling--he says that it is actually very easy. He...
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Kalpas of Merit in One Moment

Phakchok Rinpoche assures us that enlightenment is possible. Actually, there is a thin line dividing buddhas and sentient beings. So, the difference between buddha and...
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How to Be Like a Lion, Not Like a Dog

What does it mean to be weak? What does it mean to be like a lion instead of a dog? How do we learn to...
Parting from the four attachments
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Parting from the Four Attachments

Phakchok Rinpoche comments on the 12th century teaching by the great Sakya master. If you are attached to this life, you are not a true...
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Develop Certainty in Buddhist Practice

Phakchok Rinpoche shares advice on how to develop certainty in our practice and reminds us how advises on how to practice in a truly authentic...
family life
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Balancing Family Life and Meditation Practice

Phakchok Rinpoche talks with Bodhi Kids founder Maya van der Meer about his own experience of balancing family life and practice....