Maintaining Meditation Discipline
Mar 30, 2021
Although we often understand discipline to refer to the actions of the body and the quality of our speech, Phakchok Rinpoche reminds us that the origin of true discipline is the mind....
Read MoreThe Global Online Accumulation Riwo Sangchö Practice (烟供前言+仁波切开示 中文)
Feb 27, 2021
Riwo Sangchö is a very beneficial and well-known puja for clearing our karmic debts and for cleansing obstacles in the outer world as well as our own obstacles of the mind. On...
Read MoreA Message from Phakchok Rinpoche in Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Kyabje Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
Feb 6, 2021
Today, February 6, 2021, is the anniversary of Kyabje Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, the great-grandson of the great treasure revealer, Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa. Rinpoche was an emanation of Nupchen Sangyé Yeshé, one of...
Read MoreAn Offering of the Dharma and Introduction of Student Pathways from Phakchok Rinpoche and Samye Institute
Jan 1, 2021
Phakchok Rinpoche will offer a series of Dharma teachings over the course of the next month. As the teachers regularly remind us, the gift of the precious Dharma is the supreme offering as it alone unfolds the path to...
Read MoreSeeing the Buddha, Becoming the Buddha: Formal Meditation Instruction from Phakchok Rinpoche
Nov 12, 2020
Within In the Footsteps of Bodhisattvas, Phakchok Rinpoche clearly shows how genuine meditation is contingent upon bringing together many supportive conditions. However, Rinpoche also articulates methods for contained formal sessions that are effective, profound, and transformative....
Read MoreOn Forgetting
Oct 27, 2020
Phakchok Rinpoche teaches that if we are holding any anger, we are not free. When you’re even mildly annoyed at someone, the mind is disturbed and there is some pain. When you are holding on to a twenty-year grudge, you...
Read MoreOpening the Door to Authentic Meditation
Oct 16, 2020
The profound equality of all beings is only known in the moment in which ‘I’ no longer exists. Only through the recognition of emptiness is there stainless compassion. This stainless compassion, inseparable...
Read MoreChokgyur Lingpa’s Zangdok Palri Aspirations
Feb 3, 2020
To conclude our Copper-Colored Mountain series on this last Guru Rinpoche day of the year of the pig, I would like to share with you a very special prayer for rebirth in Zangdok Palri, written by the great tertön Chokgyur...
Read MoreThe Visionary Journey of Shuksep Jetsün Rikdzin Wangmo
Oct 8, 2019
Today, I would like to share with you the account of the visionary journey to Zangdok Palri of one of the great female practitioners of the twentieth century, Shuksep Jetsün Rikdzin...
Read MoreThe Great Tertön Is Available Through Akara Collection
Aug 1, 2019
We are excited to announce that The Great Tertön by Kyabgön Phakchok Rinpoche is now available for sale through the Akara Collection: Click Here About the book: The Great Tertön is at...
Read MoreNew Book Launch
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