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Diligence: The Joyful Endeavor of the Buddhist Path – an excerpt

Featured / By Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche / January 23, 2025

Purchase the book, Diligence: The Joyful Endeavor of the Buddhist Path >> Most of us don’t think much about our internal life and how to secure that, now or in the future. Just as today came, tomorrow will also come. Just as we do things to secure our conventional lives like shopping for food for […]

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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

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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

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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

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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?

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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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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

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Diligence: The Joyful Endeavor of the Buddhist Path – an excerpt

Four Immeasurables Series: Equanimity

The Insistent Thief: Tendencies

Excerpt from THE BEE STORY, Teachings on Patrul Rinpoche’s The Drama of the Flower-Gathering Garden by Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

Four Thoughts that Turn One’s Mind Toward the Dharma

Purifying the Poison of Timuk, Deep Mental Fog

Dandelion Renunciation and Genuine Renunciation

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