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 […]
Blessing is never some external force. You won't receive blessings by the lama bumping you with his mala or he blowing on your head – if that were the case, it would contradict the truth of karma, cause and effect. If a Buddhist thinks he has received a blessing which opposes the law of karma […]
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 […]
Meditation Retreat - AM Teaching, Kagyu Samye Ling, UK, 9 October 2016
The importance of having a relaxed and positive attitude to both our posture and practice; how to place the mind with mere awareness; rely on your own experience and read the signs of teachings; develop the muscles of meditation when things are going well and you’re happy.
Meditation Retreat - PM Teaching, Kagyu Samye Ling, UK, 8 October 2016
Heart advice given to students of Akong Rinpoche on the third anniversary of his passing, and a basic introduction to calm abiding meditation.
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, […]
