Merit
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Multiplying Effects: Five Ways of Multiplying Merit
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....
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Saga Dawa
Today’s Guru Rinpoche day is very special, because it falls within the month of Saga Dawa. In the Tibetan tradition, Saga Dawa is the month...
Long and Meaningful Life
Happy Guru Rinpoche Day! I am at present presiding over the Tsekar “White Amitayus” Drupchen here at our Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling Monastery in Boudhanath. It...
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Mahāyāna Teaching: The King of Aspiration Prayer Part Three
In this final teaching, Phakchok Rinpoche reminds us that we can do this aspiration prayer as often as we wish....
Path of Transformation
Mahāyāna Teaching: The King of Aspiration Prayer Part Two
In the second teaching, Phakchok Rinpoche continues his commentary on the text. He emphasizes that although this aspiration prayer is very ancient, we can see...
Offering Water Bowls as Material Offerings
Offering water bowls is an easy and pleasurable meritorious activity widely practiced in Tibetan Buddhism. Water's purity gives it great power....
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Motivation and Excitement
If our motivation for Buddhist practice is based on excitement, what happens when that excitement goes away? And the excitement does go away -- that's...
Path of Realization» Path of Transformation» Meditation
Let the Dharma Resonate: Be Decisive!
Let the Dharma resonate fully by accumulating merit. This is the best method, Rinpoche advises. But we do this without lots of expectations and thoughts...
Path of Transformation» Meditation
Practicing Mahamudra Requires the Desire to Change
Here he reminds us that if we remember the goal of our practice, we should achieve the goal. And genuine compassion and devotion can bring...
Three Things
Dear friends near and far Happy Guru Rinpoche Day to all of you. I am going to take this opportunity to remind all of my…
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Guru Rinpoche’s Year
Dear friends near and far I want to first say that this year is a very important special year of the monkey, which is Guru…
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Path of Realization
Sang Pūjā – A Cleansing Smoke Offering Practice
Sang pūjā aids practitioners as a purification practice. As we perform this ritual, we focus on removing the impurities in the mindstream of the practitioners...