Thrangu Vajrayana Buddhist Centre, Hong Kong. 20 November 2016
A big misunderstanding that many of us have is that we think daily life and practice are separate. For us, practice means to put aside all activities and sit with straight backs, reciting mantras or meditating; as if there is something called practice that is separate from everything else we do. For people who […]
Hong Kong Thrangu Vajrayana Buddhist Centre, 19 November 2016
Since conviction in the existence of past and future lives, and karma and causality are the very foundation of all our Dharma practice, it is essential that we check to see how much belief we really have in them. To gauge how convinced we are in the existence of future lives, we can ask ourselves […]
Thrangu Vajrayana Buddhist Centre, Hong Kong, 19 November 2016
For those of you studying and training in Tibetan Buddhism, if you can receive the instructions from your lama in their own language, you will get much more benefit. It seems though, that most people don’t give a lot of emphasis to learning Tibetan. For example, many of the Nepalese and Indian traders around Boudhanath […]
Kagyu Samye Ling, UK, Teaching on Calling the Guru From Afar, 25 October 2016
It is all too easy to hear a lot of dharma and miss the point. Say if we’ve spent a whole week receiving teachings from a lama, and then still need to ask for an interview to ask; “Um, now what should I do when I go home?” Then we have to realise that we’ve […]
Meditation Retreat, Kagyu Samye Ling, UK, 9 October 2016
When we are listening to the dharma, meditating or practising, if our way of thinking is along the lines of, ‘May this be good for me. May things turn out well for me.’ then our motivation is poor. If we take that as the foundation for our study and practice of the dharma, it’s not […]
Thrangu Sekhar Retreat Center, Nepal, 13 May 2016
The main thing when listening to dharma teaching is how our mind is focused and to betaking a lot of notes isn’t good. The direction our mind takes will be mistaken because we’ll pay too much attention to the words and not the meaning. The words and the meaning are different, and if we miss […]
Teaching to the staff of Thrangu Sekhar Retreat Center on The Precious Garland of the Supreme Path, 30 January 2016
A certain mindset is needed when it comes to receiving dharma teachings. It is similar to that of a sick person going to hospital. What is on our mind when we go to hospital? We are hoping to find out what is wrong with us or to receive treatment that will cure us. That would […]
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 to trace the source of our problems by looking at the problems themselves. Often we feel that we have to look beyond our present mundane state to gain wisdom and the bodhichitta, but in truth, they are to be found right here in samsara, in cyclic existence. We should look for the solution […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
