Excerpts

Dharma Disaster

Excerpt from Drupon Khen Rinpoche’s new Chinese book, Go slowly. Soon arrive. A teaching on Je Tsongkhapa’s Three Principal Aspects of the Path taught in Hong Kong Thrangu Vajrayana Buddhist Center, in October 2015.

The texts often talk about ‘jaded practitioners’ but what is it that makes us jaded? It is when we have heard so much Dharma and have taken it to be so easy but have done nothing to change our ways. It is when we have said so many prayers that we have not put our […]

Understanding Changes Everything

Excerpt from Drupon Khen Rinpoche’s new Chinese book, Go slowly. Soon arrive. A teaching on Je Tsongkhapa’s Three Principal Aspects of the Path taught in Thrangu Vajrayana Buddhist Center, in October 2015.

We have read and heard so many teachings on renunciation and the suffering of cyclic existence. The words of these teachings are not difficult to understand, but knowing the words doesn’t mean knowing the meaning. Some people may think that they understand the meaning when they know only the words, but when we look into […]

Q & A : Karma is Habit, Habits are Changeable

Excerpt from Drupon Khen Rinpoche’s book (in Chinese), Sit down - Find the mind. A teaching on The Four Dharmas of Gampopa in Hong Kong Thrangu Vajrayana Buddhist Center, in June 2013

Student’s Question: Isn’t it taught in the Buddhism that the karma we have cannot be cleared away, even by a buddha or a deity? If that is the case, what use is there for us to practice Dorje Sempa (Vajrasattva)? Rinpoche’s Answer: I think there’s a mistaken understanding here. When we think about ‘karma’ or […]