Light Comes Through:
Buddhist Teachings on Awakening to Our Natural Intelligence

Kongtrul Rinpoche's new book - Now In Stores

Our thoughts and emotions can take us anywhere. In an instant they can bring us down or lift us up. If we don't attend to the mind, the source of all our thoughts and emotions, it can seem like a runaway train. Yet when guided by wisdom, our mind can lead us to awakening. How do we utilize this resource? More...

It's Up To You:The Practice of Self-Reflection On the Buddhist Path

On the spiritual path we speak of enlightenment. But how do we reconcile enlightenment with what we see when we look in the mirror--when insecurities, doubts and selfcentered tendencies arise within our minds? Dzigar Kongtrul suggests that we need not feel "doomed" when these experiences surface. In fact, such experiences are not a problem if we are able to simply let them arise without judging them or investing them with so much meaning. This approach to experience is what Kongtrül calls self-reflection.
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Like a Diamond:
Transformation in the
Three Yanas

This hardcover book is a compilation of edited transcripts of the complete 2002 Nyingma Summer Seminar, and is only available through MSB. It is not sold in book stores.

"If we think we're going to practice next month, next year, or in some years to come, only after we have gathered all our needs and circumstances, then we have not realized the impermanence of life or the impermanence of all phenomena."
- Venerable Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche - NSS 2002
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