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Integrating Your Practice: Advice from Phakchok Rinpoche

Phakchok Rinpoche provides practical experience on how we can structure our Vajrayana practice....
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Phakchok Rinpoche Answers Questions on Vajrayana Practice

In this teaching, Rinpoche answers a series of student questions about Vajrayana practice....
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Eight Essential Points for Every Practice Session

In this document, Phakchok Rinpoche shares the eight essential points to hold in mind for any meditation session....
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The Fourteen Root Samayas

Phakchok Rinpoche would like to share this document with all his Vajrayana students so they may regularly reflect on the fourteen root Samayas, the life-essence...
26 minutes
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Bell and Dorje: Understanding Ritual Objects

In the Vajrayana context, practitioners utilize the bell and dorje as important symbolic ritual items. At the outer level, these two implements represent the indivisibility...
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Mahāsiddha Stories for Inspiration

Mahāsiddha stories may inspire us throughout our practice of the Buddhist path because we hear how people from all walks of life, and all types...
5 minutes
Sādhana Practice
2 minutes
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Managing Sadhana Practice Skillfully

Managing sadhana practice is a big issue for many students. We may have received a number of empowerments and practices. We then may become confused....
2 minutes
Sadhana practice
7 minutes
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The Benefits of Sadhana Practice

In this audio clip from February 2015 in Nepal, a student asks Phakchok Rinpoche about the benefits of practicing according to this type of ritual...
7 minutes
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Interview with Phakchok Rinpoche: Sadhana Ritual and the Vajrayana Path

Phakchok Rinpoche shares the importance of Sadhana Ritual as the key method to bring about wisdom on the path of Vajrayana....