The lama’s job is not to clarify the texts but to clarify the student. The lama should reveal the student’s current state of being and elucidate the changes that they need to make. Whether the student can make the changes or not, primarily depends on the student themselves. Some students may wish for a more […]
You are probably kidding yourself if you think that you will magically attain enlightenment after you die by simply making offerings, reciting mantras and calming your mind. No one becomes a buddha while still ignorant. – Drupon Khen Rinpoche Karma Lhabu
When you have nothing to do in particular And are fine with whatever occurs You have reached an advanced stage of practice. Drupon Khen Rinpoche གང་གང་བྱེད་མི་དགོས་པ་དང་། གང་བྱུང་འགྲིག་སྡད་ཡོད་པ་ན། ཉམས་ལེན་ཚད་མཐོར་སླེབ་པའི་རྟགས།
Have you heard of Khenpo Mutok? Most of the time nobody knows where he is. He disappears for stretches at a time. We assume that he goes to practise in mountain solitudes. In our local area, Khenpo Mutok is one of the two lamas that people have the most faith in. He was appointed by […]
I will die happy if I have no savings or anything of value in my name to speak of once I’m gone. Drupon Khen Rinpoche Sept. 2022
We cannot tread the path to ultimate awakening without being a practitioner, a real dharma person. What must we do to become practitioners? We must study and practise properly. This is the only way. Our first aim is to develop renunciation and pure faith towards the Lama and the Dharma. Once we have those, it […]
A practitioner of Mind Training or Greater Vehicle Buddhism should try to be as unobtrusive as possible with their good qualities. You see this trait in many true practitioners. It’s not as if they are trying to hide something they think they have. They genuinely believe themselves to lack any special qualities. Having learnt something […]
At one point when Khenpo Munsel, the renowned Dzogchen master, was experiencing a period of poor health, he gave away everything he owned. He had one very precious statue that he needed to decide what to do with. This statue was given by the great dzogchen master Nyoshul Lungtok Tenpai Nyima to Khenpo Ngakchung. Khenpo […]
If you’ve got someone who is willing to scold you, you’ve probably got someone who is looking out for you. Drupon Khen Rinpoche 28.07.2022
When I read Milarepa’s life story, it is not his miraculous displays of flying or his clairvoyance that I find astonishing. What I find amazing and truly impressive is how he continued to live as an ordinary beggar, a seeming nobody, after he had attained clairvoyance and miraculous powers. When I read that, I feel, […]
Question: I want to help my child form a closer connection to the dharma, so I take him to Buddhist prayer ceremonies and to meet lamas. May I ask whether this will help? Answer: Yes, it will be helpful to take your child to the prayers and to dharma teachings, but these are not the […]
Only once you are able to take suffering as the path can you take desire and the other afflictions as the path. – Drupon Khen Rinpoche Karma Lhabu
Gampopa said to encounter his teachings is equivalent to meeting him in person. In truth, this doesn’t only apply to Gampopa. We often think how wonderful it would be to meet the renowned lamas of the past, but what more could they do for us than impart their teachings and advice to us. If we […]
If I had a girlfriend that left me, the last thing I’d do is shut myself off from the world. Well, maybe I’d allow myself to sulk for a little while, an afternoon or an evening. But I wouldn’t leave it long before putting a brave face on it. I’d go to the barber, get […]
Maybe many people think that if you are able to memorise and explain a lot of Dharma terminology and the root verses of the treaties, then you understand the dharma. That is not in fact true. How can one come to understand the Dharma? As I always say, do not look at the texts, look […]
