Teachings

A dharma practitioner will never look down on others. – Drupon Khen Rinpoche Karma Lhabu

A Teaching by Drupon Khen Rinpoche on Verse 3 of Patrul Rinpoche's Vault of Riches “The three that should be present: The mind within the body. The body on the cushion. Ease within the mind.” These three are taught for practitioners. The mind within the body: Our mind wanders here there and everywhere; it is […]

Not Outside of Our Mind

The three jewels are not outside of our own mind, if they were, they wouldn’t be able to give us refuge or protection.

Reading the Lama’s Mind

Thrangu Sekhar Retreat Centre, Nepal, 14th March 2021

Whether we come to have a good understanding of the dharma or not is determined by how well we are able to understand the intention of the lama who is teaching us. In truth, what we are trying to learn in the dharma is nothing other than the intention and view of the lama. It […]

Make Everything the Path

Everything you do – walking, eating, sleeping, etc – must be made the path. So look directly: ‘What is it that I need to do when I am eating? How can I make eating a path of dharma practice?' It is very immediate. You have a job to do right now. There is something you […]

Have We Entered the Dharma?

Whether we have entered the dharma or not, depends on whether we have developed renunciation or not. If renunciation is present, the practices will lead us to liberation, which is the main purpose of dharma. –Drupon Khen Rinpoche Karma Lhabu

Emptiness and Causality

The more we understand emptiness, the more confidence we will have in the law of causality.

An Aspiration For the New Tibetan Year

I would like to share with you a prayer which I find very moving. It is an aspiration prayer by Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen, who is the main figure of the Jonang lineage. “May I, throughout my each and every life, Illumine buddha's teachings, make them bright. Yet, if I cannot so elucidate, Then may I […]

Money Offerings – Drupon Khen Rinpoche’s Advice To His Students

ILLUSORY WEALTH – REAL PROBLEMS Our connection is not one based on money. So I’d prefer it if you don’t come to me with offerings of money, because when someone does then I first to need to consider very carefully whether this will become a source of merit for them or not. Accepting money from […]

The Ways of Practitioners – Part 2

Thrangu Sekhar Retreat Centre, Nepal, 6 August 2020

Being a practitioner doesn’t mean that we go to a place with the intention to practise and do sessions. We’ve all come here to the retreat centre with that thought in mind, but that thought alone is not what makes someone a practitioner. A practitioner has a very special or unique way of thinking, which […]

Each to Their Own

Thrangu Sekhar Retreat Centre, Nepal, 8 December 2020

I sometimes think that I am a faithless individual, because I rarely have faith in the types of lamas and things that other Buddhists seem to have faith in. At other times I think I have very strong faith, but it is just a bit unusual. For example, I can come across an old Nepali […]

Understanding That We Do Not Understand

When you understand that you do not understand, you are not so far away from real understanding.

Take the Chance To Help

When you have an opportunity to help someone you should take it. There will be many times in life – especially if you reach old age – when someone needs your help and you desperately wish you could, but you just can't. That won’t feel good, so don’t let the times when you can help […]

View, Not Form

The level of our practice is determined by our view, not the form of the practice. – Drupon Khen Rinpoche Karma Lhabu

The Bees Are Busy but Where’s the Honey

Thrangu Sekhar Retreat Centre, Nepal, 20 August 2020

Everyone on the planet is busy doing something or other; you almost never see anyone spending their life just lying around doing nothing. Nevertheless, only a few achieve great and meaningful things in their life, the vast majority do not. Why? It is because most people are aimless, they are only contending with the things […]