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Four Thoughts that Turn One’s Mind Toward the Dharma

Featured / By MSB-Admin / March 11, 2023

Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche’s commentary from the 2021-2022 Ngondro Retreat on the four thoughts that turn one’s mind toward the Dharma. WHEN DOES A HUMAN BIRTH BECOME TRULY PRECIOUS?

Purifying the Poison of Timuk, Deep Mental Fog

Featured / By MSB-Admin / October 3, 2022

All sentient beings want to feel bliss and not to feel pain. But at the same time, we’re duped by our habitual, deep mental fog. Sadly, we don’t have the agency to discern very sensitively what causes us to suffer. If we want to walk north but somehow end up walking south, our mental capacity …

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To the First Responders of the Coronavirus Pandemic

Uncategorized / By MSB-Admin / March 13, 2020

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 …

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Discovering the Jewel of the Sangha: Clarifying the Purpose of Sangha & Community

Uncategorized / By MSB-Admin / September 26, 2019

MSB Archive Newsletter Article by Vernon Mizner, Khenchung, first published in 1995 This month’s Study and Practice article is about the importance of Sangha. The points mentioned here are primarily a summary of comments Rinpoche has made over the years concerning Sangha, as well as some of my own contemplations based upon Rinpoche’s teachings on …

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The Significance of Guru Rinpoche in the Nyingma Tradition

Uncategorized / By MSB-Admin / April 12, 2019

A teaching by Orgyen Topgyal Rinpoche given at Yanglesho, the Asura cave where Guru Rinpoche gained the 4th Vidyadhara level of accomplishment. For us as Nyingmapas, Guru Rinpoche is the embodiment of all sources of refuge. He is the emanation of all the buddhas of the past, regent of all the buddhas of the present, …

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Unbroken Lineage of Mind Transmission

Uncategorized / By MSB-Admin / March 3, 2019

– Excerpted from the introduction to A Marvelous Garland of Rare Gems, in which Sogyal Rinpoche recounted the teachings of Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche. In the case of the Dzogchen Teachings, and the great oral lineage of pith instructions, from the time of the great primordial buddha until today, the lineage has continued unbroken and unimpaired. …

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Shedra Study – A Practitioner’s Backbone

Uncategorized / By MSB-Admin / September 3, 2018

“One who is in harmony with emptiness is in harmony with all things.” – Nagarjuna I never really thought I had intellectual prowess, something I assumed was needed to study things like calculus, physics, and Madhyamika. But when I first studied the ninth chapter of the Way of the Bodhisattva with Rinpoche at Naropa, a …

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Becoming Unstuck: Part 1 – Drowning in Familiarity

Uncategorized / By MSB-Admin / December 12, 2017

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 discuss this tendency of how we often feel stuck, and examine what are the causes and conditions of …

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Cultivating Aspiration Bodhicitta: Part 1 – Generating Great Kindness

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / By MSB-Admin / March 1, 2017

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 future, and it has two aspects. The first aspect, aspiration bodhicitta, is defined as a genuine wish to cultivate enlightenment …

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Encouragement for Our Bodhisattva Intention: Part 2 – Staying Positive!

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / By MSB-Admin / May 18, 2015

Things that appear difficult and challenging, or nearly impossible from the ego’s point of view, the bodhisattva takes right on, with a vision of skillful means and a sense of joyful challenge to work on the ego, and progress further. This actually puts the self in service towards the highest outcome: toppling samsara—attaining the state …

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