Impermanence

Busy Laziness

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...
Contemplate Impermanence

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

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...
Trusting Karma

Trusting Karma

Trusting karma is something that many of us struggle with in our practice. But are we clear about what karma really means? Here, Phakchok Rinpoche...

Practitioner Phakchok Rinpoche to Lazy Phakchok Rinpoche

I am at the moment in Gomde New York. Hope you all are keeping well and that you are keeping up with your practice. I...
Four Mind Changings

Student Reflections on the Four Mind Changings

Read insightful student reflections on the Four Mind Changings, a Tibetan Buddhist teaching that inspires personal transformation and spiritual growth....

Letter from My Guru

I would like to share this message with you all for today's Guru Rinpoche Day: My son, you need to understand the dharma that I...
Impermanence and freedom

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...
Vision

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...
Transformation meditation

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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Death

Talking With Children About Death

Death is Real We all will experience death. Those that we love and those around us will die. And we ourselves will definitely die. This…

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Video

Ego

For today's Guru Rinpoche Day, I would like to share with you a key that helps unlock the root of all hope and fear. To...