Celebrating Lha Bab Düchen
Oct 24, 2021
Lha Bab Düchen (lha babs dus chen) in Tibetan translates as, ‘The Festival of the Descent from Heaven.’ We celebrate this great event on the 22nd day of the ninth month of the...
Read MoreThe Two Pramāṇas: An Overview
Oct 20, 2021
In the previous essay, we discussed the study of knowledge (“epistemology”) in general terms. The central question of epistemology is: how do we know things? What does it mean, to know something?...
Read MoreBeing Patient and Farsighted and Enduring Hardship
Aug 10, 2021
As social beings, we humans learn from those around us. And because we don’t have fixed, unchanging solidity as beings, we make choices. We can choose to follow our innate goodness. If we associate with loving, kind, and open-hearted people,...
Read MoreAwareness and Vigiling at the Bedside
Jul 15, 2021
Vigiling with those who are dying is being present at the bedside during the final hours of a person’s life. To sit vigil is to sit and keep compassionate awareness and a...
Read MoreMultiplying Effects: Five Ways of Multiplying Merit
Jul 1, 2021
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. Phakchok Rinpoche reminds us regularly that we need to consistently accumulate merit....
Read MoreSpeaking Moderately and in a Gentle Way
Jun 1, 2021
As social beings, we humans learn from those around us. And because we don’t have fixed, unchanging solidity as beings, we make choices. We can choose to follow our innate goodness. If we associate with loving, kind, and open-hearted people,...
Read MoreRemembering the Buddha on Saga Dawa Duchen
May 25, 2021
May everyone who sees a Buddha image, hears the Buddha’s name, or the dhāraṇī—or recalls his qualities—embark on the path to complete and perfect enlightenment! Remembering the Buddha on Saga Dawa Duchen—his birth,...
Read MoreNot Being Influenced by Evil Companions
May 12, 2021
As social beings, we humans learn from those around us. And because we don’t have fixed, unchanging solidity as beings, we make choices. We can choose to follow our innate goodness. If we associate with loving, kind, and open-hearted people,...
Read MoreThe Buddhist Science of Logic
May 5, 2021
One of the most important terms in Buddhism is avidyā or “ignorance,” a Sanskrit word that literally means “not knowing,” from one of the many Sanskrit roots that means “know” (vid, which...
Read MoreMaintaining Meditation Discipline
Mar 30, 2021
Although we often understand discipline to refer to the actions of the body and the quality of our speech, Phakchok Rinpoche reminds us that the origin of true discipline is the mind....
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