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Practice challenges

Practice Challenges Advice

Practice Challenges and Difficulties Practice challenges arise for all of us.  And we all face difficulties in managing our lives and practice.  Phakchok Rinpoche regularly…

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The King of Samādhi

Dear Friends Near and Far, On this Guru Rinpoche Day that marks the anniversary of Guru Rinpoche’s birth, I would like to share some lines from The King of Samādhi…

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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 Dharma...

Reflections Upon Wakening

Phakchok Rinpoche shares with us some key reflections to start your day with, their importance and the benefits they will bring to your life....

Compassion in Action

Dear Friends Near and Far,

We are trying our best over here in Nepal. Thank you all so much for your support. On this Guru Rinpoche...

Quotes from the King of Samādhi Sutra

I hope you are all well wherever you may be. On this precious Guru Rinpoche Day, the first in 2015, I would like to share...

Sunshine

In our lives, we need the spiritual path, meaning we need to practice. So please, be happy in whatever it is that you're doing; don't...

Aspiration

Thinking today of myself, having been wandering around from country to country for the last two months, and inspired by a teaching by Patrul Rinpoche...

Meditative Concentration

Now coming back to where we left off, this seven lifetime old man would once again like to take the opportunity to remind you all...

The Qualities of Diligence

Coming back to Śāntideva's Way of the Bodhisattva, it is through diligence that one develops and intensifies bodhichitta. But what is diligence? Why is it...

Three Levels of Patience

Today my topic is the sixth chapter of The Way of the Bodhisattva, and I would like to talk about the three different levels of...

Vigilant Introspection

Today we'll be again be looking at the chapter on Vigilant Introspection from The Way of the Bodhisattva by Śāntideva. This chapter implores us to...