Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

Why don’t we sleep well at night? Where is our peace, our joyful mind?   We hold on to a lot of grudges from the past, and still more are cultivated everyday through interactions with people who provoke us and bring about unpleasant feelings. If we are unable to cleanse an unpleasant feeling when it […]

In old Tibet, practitioners went to charnel grounds, haunted places, and so on, in order to reveal how deeply their practice had cut to the core of their fears and attachments. The practice of cutting through our deepest attachments and fears to their core is called nyensa chadpa which means “cutting through the haunted dominion

When we’ve lived our life well, we should be able to think: “I am content with everything that’s in my life, just as it is. My deepest wish is to continue gaining wisdom, and acquiring tools to work skillfully with my mind. Although it’s true that I may have to work at my livelihood, or

(From commentary by Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche on the Words of My Perfect Teacher, February 23, 2013) “Venerable monk,” the Geshe replied, “renounce this life! Renounce this life!” -The Words of My Perfect Teacher, p. 97 Now this could be misunderstood as renouncing one’s “life.” It’s not this life that we really renounce. But, in relation

Printer-friendly version (Taken from NSS 2002: Talk 1: July 20, 2002) The idea of renunciation is very complex, and quite interesting as a general theme. It is even more interesting to notice how people react to the idea of renunciation. When we speak about renunciation, some people immediately feel lighter. They feel a sense of

The desire for happiness is universal. And beyond finding happiness and meaning in our lives, most of us want to be good, decent human beings. Wanting to be good, happy, and decent is not only a reasonable desire but also a noble one. Ironically, much of the time we struggle with how to go about