Meditation
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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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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,...
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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...
Skillfully Sharing Meditation
Skillfully Sharing Meditation: Coaching Others Skilfully sharing meditation and its benefits presents us with some challenges. On one hand, we want our family and friends…
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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...
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Dharma Wheel and Pair of Deer
We may notice certain representations such as a Dharma wheel with two deer gazing steadily at it appear frequently. Why do we see this image...
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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...
Gaining the Siddhis
Dear Friends Near and Far,
Today, I want to continue the Twelve Manifestations series. Now we are focusing on the manifestation named Dzamling Gyenchog, who is...
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Dharma Student Qualities: How to Listen
Classic Buddhist texts discuss how to be the best type of Dharma student. Once we know the proper approach for a Dharma student, we can make...
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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...