The Paramita of Patience and Caring For People with Dementia
Apr 10, 2021
It can be very challenging to care for a person who has dementia. Patience is key. They may need intense caregiving and as the disease progresses there is ongoing loss, particularly a...
Read MoreCaregiving At a Distance and the Paramita of Generosity
May 27, 2020
Caregiving at a distance is extremely challenging during this time of the coronavirus threat. How do you care for someone when you can’t be directly with the person that you are caring...
Read MoreMedicine Buddha Visualization and Mantra
Jan 17, 2020
Medicine Buddha, or Bhaiṣajyaguru visualization has been practiced in many forms of Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism. According to the Mahayana Bhaiṣajya-guru-vaiḍūrya-prabhā-rāja Sūtra, the bodhisattva Bhaiṣajyaguru made twelve great vows. In particular, he...
Read MoreMotivation and Dharma as Medicine
Jan 16, 2020
In this short clip, Rinpoche responds to a question asked about how to view and implement our motivation into practice. Rinpoche uses the analogy of the Dharma as medicine, the student as...
Read MoreConversation: Pure Motivation
Jan 15, 2020
Our Noble Living, Noble Caring and Noble Dying team here discusses the importance of pure motivation when care-giving. If we spend some time to consider our motivation, we benefit not only the...
Read MoreConversation with Phakchok Rinpoche on Noble Caring
Jan 14, 2020
Our Noble Living, Noble Caring, Noble Dying team continued their conversation with Phakchok Rinpoche in New York. In this section, our team members discuss care giving, and how we can best offer...
Read MoreCultivating Kindness: Advice from Phakchok Rinpoche
Jan 13, 2020
Bodhicitta is a word that means the mind of enlightenment. You will never realize enlightenment without it. What qualities does this mind have? Bodhicitta needs compassion, bodhicitta needs loving kindness, and bodhicitta...
Read MoreNoble Caring and Compassionate Heart
Jan 12, 2020
Phakchok Rinpoche explained compassion in the following way: In Tibetan, the word for compassion, nying je (snying rje), means “noble heart”. It refers to our own heart and to the heart of the world. Our...
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