2024 Losar Address, Excerpt Uncategorized / By Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche / September 4, 2024 Losar tashi delek to you all! During this Losar, I want to emphasize—not only for myself but also to encourage the sangha—how to grow and manifest more universal love in our hearts. There is a quote from the sutra that says if you have the good mind and heart of universal love for all beings, […] 2024 Losar Address, Excerpt Read More »
Faith, Surrender & Acknowledgement Uncategorized / By Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche / June 6, 2024 Personal Link teaching #221 was given on 4/9/06. FEELING SHAKY AND LOSING SELF-CONFIDENCE Today I will speak about how to relate to a shaky state of mind. Many people, despite their good nature and good qualities, feel haunted by negative energy. One of my friends said she feels shaky deep inside her core. When people Faith, Surrender & Acknowledgement Read More »
Four Immeasurables Series: Equanimity Featured / By Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche / January 3, 2024 A Series of Personal Links by the Venerable Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche in which he presents how to apply the teachings of the Four Immeasurables in daily life. Source: Crucial Point, Volume II, Issue 2 March 2001 Talk One: Equanimity The study of the four immeasurables generally begins with a discussion of loving kindness. For the Four Immeasurables Series: Equanimity Read More »
The Insistent Thief: Tendencies Featured / By Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche / November 13, 2023 We have to destroy our tendencies in order to become enlightened. “Tendency” in Tibetan is called bakcha, the force or power of a thought or emotion. Emotion itself is not a threat to our well- being. The threat actually comes from our tendencies. Anger without the tendency, without the force behind it, is not so The Insistent Thief: Tendencies Read More »
Excerpt from THE BEE STORY, Teachings on Patrul Rinpoche’s The Drama of the Flower-Gathering Garden by Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Featured / By Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche / July 2, 2023 Excerpt from THE BEE STORY, Teachings on Patrul Rinpoche’s The Drama of the Flower-Gathering Garden by Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche This beloved story, written in Tibetan by Patrul Rinpoche, is based on the true story of a prominent couple from Derge in Eastern Tibet. The man in the story would go on to become one of Excerpt from THE BEE STORY, Teachings on Patrul Rinpoche’s The Drama of the Flower-Gathering Garden by Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Read More »
All conflict and war stem from one source 17 Comments / Uncategorized / By Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche / March 3, 2022 This talk is a lightly- edited version of Rinpoche’s 2022 Losar Address in the Sangdo Palri Temple at Longchen Jigme Samten Ling Retreat Center, Crestone, Colorado. As a deep mental fog manifests on an unimaginable scale in the world right now, Rinpoche encourages us in his Losar Address to make a strong resolution to deepen our All conflict and war stem from one source Read More »
Dandelion Renunciation and Genuine Renunciation Featured / By Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche / December 23, 2021 Nothing can be done to change the karma of beings. If that were possible, the buddhas and bodhisattvas would have done it a long time ago. When we read the teachings of great wandering renunciants such as Patrul Rinpoche, and contemplate their lifestyle, we appreciate them. But we cannot expect everyone to adopt that lifestyle Dandelion Renunciation and Genuine Renunciation Read More »
In times of conflict, a practitioner will back down Mahayana Teachings / By Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche / December 5, 2021 Rinpoche exhorts practitioners when faced with conflict to stay the course of their dharma path, and honor the commitments of their bodhisattva vow, by self-reflecting on their own self-attachment rather than escalating a divisive situation. This is a lightly edited version of Rinpoche’s 2021 Losar Talk in the Sangdo Palri Temple at Longchen Jigme Samten Ling Retreat In times of conflict, a practitioner will back down Read More »
Finding Richness and Transcending Cultural Identity Uncategorized / By Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche / July 2, 2021 1999 Losar Address We all have chosen to be Dharma students. We all have chosen to take refuge in the Three Jewels. We all have chosen to be on the path of Vajrayana. We made these choices with intention rather than casually or because of the expectations of our family or a cultural tradition. Hopefully, Finding Richness and Transcending Cultural Identity Read More »
To the first responders of the coronavirus pandemic, with deep appreciation… Uncategorized / By Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche / January 21, 2021 Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche and the Sangha of Mangala Shri Bhuti, Would like to honor and acknowledge, with immense gratitude and deepest appreciation and respect, all those who, day after day, bravely and tirelessly risks their well-being to serve others in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. We all thank you from the very bottom of To the first responders of the coronavirus pandemic, with deep appreciation… Read More »