Relying on the Four Immeasurable Qualities During a Pandemic: Part 2 Immeasurable Loving-Kindness -
Apr 16, 2020
By Erric Solomon The practice of the Four Immeasurable Qualities—Equanimity, Loving-Kindness, Compassion, and Sympathetic Joy— is common to all Buddhist traditions of practice. For our great tradition of Mahayana, they are the...
Read MoreTonglen Practice: Developing Bodhicitta -
Jun 25, 2019
"Mindfulness is a mirror of our mind and motivation is a mirror of our dharma practice". Here we can understand motivation to mean tonglen--the development of bodhicitta. By practicing tonglen, we increase our loving kindness, our compassion and ultimately our...
Read MoreBuddha Nature: Where Is It? -
Mar 24, 2019
We are often asked, “where is Buddha” and we may point to a statue or picture. We point outward but the real Buddha is inside, our innate nature, the nature of our...
Read MoreMotivation: The Real Meaning of Bodhicitta -
Feb 21, 2019
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 important it is to examine our own minds. We can use the analogy of holding...
Read MoreBeginner Tonglen Meditation -
Feb 4, 2019
Tulku Migmar explains in this video clip how we can begin to work with the profound practice of Tonglen. Moreover, he advises how we can incorporate this "Beginner Tonglen" within any of our meditation...
Read MoreMahāyāna Practice Supports -
Feb 4, 2019
Mahāyāna Practice Motivation Kyabgön Phakchok Rinpoche reminds Dharma practitioners to consistently review and reflect on our understanding. We need to develop certainty in the view, the motivation, the ground, and each stage...
Read MoreAspirations Reflect Our Motivation -
Jan 3, 2019
We all have aspirations in life. But what are our aspirations? We should reflect and check this in ourselves. Only we can know our own aspirations –they relate only to us. And...
Read MoreExchanging Self and Others: Building Bodhicitta Part Two -
Nov 20, 2018
Exchanging self and others is the supreme method for building our bodhicitta. We develop this through a process called tonglen, or "sending and...
Read MoreBuilding Bodhicitta: Part One -
Nov 13, 2018
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. We want to see integration of our practice and our daily life. And most importantly,...
Read MoreCategorizing Buddhist Teaching: Three Levels -
Jun 6, 2018
Three Levels We can categorize Buddhist teachings in many different ways. In this video excerpt from a teaching in Malaysia, Phakchok Rinpoche presents one classic view of three levels of teaching as...
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