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Dropping the Show Business: Shrinking Our Persona
Wherever we go, we carry this “bigness” of ourselves, this huge persona and all that comes along with it. We are not ready to give up anything, or let go of anything—whether it is our aggression, our...
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Finding Compassion Through Pain
When you hit the bottom of all your resources of trying to apply so many kinds of remedies to the pain, and all of them have failed, then there comes a sense of fearlessness. A fearlessness to directly...
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Taking Refuge in the Sangha: The Training Ground for Harmony with the World
In spiritual communities, just as in society, there are different views, different personalities, and so conflicts do occur. Reflecting on this fact, and how harmony within the sangha leads to harmony...
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Cultivating Aspiration Bodhicitta: Part 1 - Generating Great Kindness
I would like to begin by first saying a few things about bodhicitta practice, the practice of developing a good heart. Bodhicitta is the practice of all buddhas of the past, the present, and the...
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Bearing Chyoshe: Experiencing Sadness as Freedom
When we feel negative feelings or aggression towards others, if we look at our mind honestly and very openly, we will discover that those feelings are nothing other than our own attachments manifesting.
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Peace Talk: The Power of Supplication
In the last few years in the Middle East, hundreds of thousands of people have died, been injured, lost loved ones, lost homes and livelihoods. Even if all American objectives were attained at a...
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The Basis of Happiness: Confronting the Authority Within
There’s no doubt that each of us wants to be happy, but happiness doesn’t come on demand. Not many people actually believe that “happiness is freedom from the suffering that our mind creates.”Even...
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Living Life in Accordance with Natural Power: Part 1 - Resistance, Surrender...
There are two types of power. The first type of power is natural power, or things as they are. “Things as they are” means that there are naturally occurring relationships between all phenomena. For...
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Living Life in Accordance with Natural Power: Part 2: Karma, Equality and...
As human beings, we naturally desire to be happy and free from suffering. In America, this desire translates into an expectation of guaranteed rights: the right to happiness, prosperity,...
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Universal Tender Heart & Universal Responsibility
As human beings we share in common our universal tender heart.
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Becoming Unstuck: Part 1 – Drowning in Familiarity
It seems that, week after week, we pretty much feel the same, even though so many things happen in a week. And this feeling of sameness is closely connected to the feeling of being stuck. So let’s...
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Shedra Study – A Practitioner's Backbone
“One who is in harmony with emptiness is in harmony with all things.”– Nagarjuna
View ArticleUnbroken Lineage of Mind Transmission
- Excerpted from the introduction to A Marvelous Garland of Rare Gems, in which Sogyal Rinpoche recounted the teachings of Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche.
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Making Friends with the Mind: An Approach to Egolessness of Self
View ArticleThe Significance of Guru Rinpoche in the Nyingma Tradition
A teaching by Orgyen Topgyal Rinpoche given at Yanglesho, the Asura cave where Guru Rinpoche gained the 4th Vidyadhara level of accomplishment.
View ArticleDiscovering the Jewel of the Sangha: Clarifying the Purpose of Sangha and...
MSB Archive Newsletter Article by Vernon Mizner, Khenchung, first published in 1995 This months’ Study and Practice article is about the importance of Sangha. The points mentioned here are primarily...
View ArticleAdvice for Transforming Fear and Cultivating Kindness in the Face of the...
We all hope the global upheaval from the spread of corona virus does not last long. Of course, if it does persist there will be devastating effects on many fronts. That will be something none of us...
View ArticleCuidándonos Durante una Pandemia - Reflecciones de Nuestras Prioridades Mentales
Cuidándonos Durante una Pandemia - Reflecciones de Nuestras Prioridades Mentales. Extractos de una charla por Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Consejospara transformar el miedo y cultivar la Bondad ante la...
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