Cultivating New Habits for Busy Minds -
Oct 10, 2019
Cultivating new habits is what meditation is all about. The most basic Tibetan term for meditation, gom (Tib. sgom), means cultivation, habituation or development. As we meditate, we train our minds to...
Read MoreMental Maintenance Creates Stability -
Oct 3, 2019
“Mental maintenance” means working with our own minds. In this video, Tulku Migmar Tsering reminds us that all of us have minds and therefore can learn to manage them more effectively. And...
Read More5 Ways to Radically Increase your Joy -
May 28, 2019
By Erric Solomon Buddhists often wonder if happiness is too trivial a thing to worry about. While it is true that the ultimate realization of Buddhist practice is far more profound, when...
Read MoreExperience Opens Understanding -
Dec 11, 2018
Experience opens understanding of the Buddha’s teaching, the Dharma, in a different way than simply hearing many teachings. Here, in this audio recording from a September 2018 teaching in Gomde, Austria, Phakchok Rinpoche...
Read MorePracticing Meditation: Three Main Points -
Aug 21, 2018
Practicing meditation is a key point of applying the Buddhist Dharma. And here, Phakchok Rinpoche explains, we need to approach Dharma practice gradually because most of us have a number of bad habits. First of all, we tend to get...
Read MoreFive Negative Emotions -
Apr 3, 2018
Five negative emotions cause us so many problems. In this audio clip, Phakchok Rinpoche explains how Buddha Śākyamuni taught about the mind and about actions. Rinpoche describes these five as they might arise in our daily lives. He also demonstrates how subtly...
Read MoreLearning What the Buddha Taught -
Mar 20, 2018
Learning what the Buddha taught could take a lifetime of study, contemplation, and meditation. However, the Buddha often summarized his teachings in simple, easy-to-understand key points. Here, in a one-minute reminder, Phakchok Rinpoche explains the heart of the...
Read MoreThree Pillars of Tibetan Vajrayāna Practice -
Dec 5, 2017
Phakchok Rinpoche advises listeners on the best way to enter the Tibetan Vajrayāna Buddhist path by relying on three pillars to build a strong...
Read MoreTaming Our Minds: Advice for Modern Buddhists -
Nov 28, 2017
Taming our minds remains the most important lesson taught by the Buddha. We really need to understand that the Buddha taught everything so we can understand and tame our...
Read MoreMind: The First Mantra -
Sep 5, 2017
"Mind" is the word we should recollect repeatedly and contemplate. The word "mantra" has one general meaning as an instrument of thought....
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