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 […]
A Teaching by Drupon Rinpoche given on 24th March 2015, Introduction to the Preliminary Practices, Sekar Retreat Center, Nepal. We do not see the preliminary practices to be important although they are extremely important. Without them we cannot become true Dharma-practitioners. We are fake practitioners because our thinking is directed to this life, in Dharma […]
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 a teaching by Drupon Rinpoche on mind training on 27th January 2015, Sekar Retreat Center, Nepal In your practice you have to pay special attention to whether you are looking for a pleasant and peaceful state. This is our nos.1 enemy! To search for everything to be quiet, peaceful and easy, hoping for […]
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 […]
Extracted from a teaching given on Vajrasattva by Drupon Rinpoche Karma Lhabu. Transcribed into English and Translated into German by Barbara Stütz Thinking about the way of dharma and that which stops us from developing, that which stops the dharma practitioner view from being taken up; what is that, principally? It’s our way of thinking, […]
Many people think that helping others or doing our best to help others will make us a bodhisattva, but it is not the case. That’s not enough, and it’s too simple. The main thing that makes a bodhisattva is being willing to accept and take on suffering oneself in order to give well-being and happiness […]
If one can not see the lama as a buddha, one needs to at the very least regard him higher than normal sentient beings. Without this, all the skilful means employed by the lama to remedy the student's faults and habitual tendencies will only become a cause for wrong views. Relying on a lama in […]
Pride closes the door to learning Dharma. The attitude of thinking you know and understand it all is the biggest obstacle. Every single word of Dharma has many meanings. It can be interpreted on outer, inner, secret and most secret levels or according to the Hinayana, Mahayana and Secret Mantrayana view. Therefore, it is important […]
A teaching given by Drupon Rinpoche at Sekar Retreat Centre, 27th of July 2015. When listening to dharma teachings, in what way should we be thinking? There are two aspects to this: first the text itself, and second the manner in which the Lama is explaining the text. For the first, what is the intention/motivation […]
A teaching by Drupon Rinpoche given at Sekar Retreat Centre, 8th of March 2015. The obscurations are not solid. Mind is mistaken so it clings, and it is that mistakenness that stops us from seeing the Truth. We should examine our way of thinking, with its mistaken ways of seeing things, again and again until […]
An Excerpt from a teaching given by Drupon Rinpoche as part of a 10 day retreat in Samye Ling, Scotland. Diligence doesn’t mean exerting oneself. In the context of Buddhist practice it means bringing joy and enthusiasm to what we are doing. This can be very difficult but it is essential if our practice is […]
