Upcoming Talks LINK Teaching with Dungse Jampal Norbu Apr 2, 2023 LINK Teaching with Bob Reid Apr 9, 2023 LINK Teaching with Marcia Drake Apr 16, 2023 Register for GoToWebinar Subscribe to the Podcast Spotify Apple Podcasts Each Sunday morning, Mangala Shri Bhuti offers a teaching series known as the Link. The Link teachings explore Buddhism from the practitioner’s perspective. These talks are a live audio broadcast. They begin at 10 am Mountain Standard Time (USA) and are free of charge. The Link features Dungse Jampal Norbu and senior students of Mangala Shri Bhuti. We welcome you to listen. GoToWebinar We use GoToWebinar to broadcast the Link. Register directly on the Goto Webinar registration page. Once you’ve filled out the registration form, you will begin to receive weekly reminder e-mails that contain the URL for the live stream. You can listen on your computer, or download the GoToMeeting app for iPad, iPhone and Android devices.*Important Note: Your registration is good for one year, after which you will need to re-register. You will know that time has come when you no longer receive the weekly reminder e-mails. We also send out an email to all Link participants at that time. The Podcast The Link podcast is a wonderful way to access the entire archive of Link teachings at your convenience. Subscribe to the Link Podcast to automatically receive each talk in your Apple Podcasts library or however your listen to podcasts. Search or listen to episodes chronologically below. UPCOMING TALKS LINK Teaching with Dungse Jampal Norbu Apr 2, 2023 LINK Teaching with Bob Reid Apr 9, 2023 LINK Teaching with Marcia Drake Apr 16, 2023 Episodes Notes From the Land (Link #650) MSB Student Doug Larsen | March 26, 2023 | 53:25 Min. Speaker: Doug Larsen. Doug describes the challenges and blessings of living as a retreatant at Samten Ling. The physical, financial and social demands, and the spiritual gifts that come from the practices and from the energy of the land itself. He describes how HH Dilgo Khyentse first identified Samten Ling as the site to establish the Sangha, the interactions with the elements and animals on the land, and the daily rhythms of retreat life ordered by the lunar cycle. http://podcast.mangalashribhuti.org/2023_03_26_LINK650_DL.mp3 Be Like India (Link #649) MSB Student Joey Waxman | March 19, 2023 | 1:09:44 Min. Speaker: Joey Waxman. Joey refers to two recent Link talks to trace the causes that recently led him to experience a sense of heaviness about samsara. One talk, given at Losar by Dungse Jampal Norbu, explored the importance of cultivating disillusionment with samsara. The other, given last week by Jennifer Shippee, expressed appreciation for the capacity of Indian culture to accommodate and embrace all experiences without rejecting anything. Disillusionment requires us to develop a sense of sadness or “kyoshe”, which is associated with renunciation, by recognizing the suffering of samsara. This disillusionment might give rise to a sense of heaviness. However, as Jennifer’s talk suggests, we can see India’s capacity to accept all experience as a metaphor for the nature of mind: when purified of self-importance and ignorance, it, too, is capable of embracing all experience without suffering. If we realize that all beings have Buddha nature, and therefore the capacity to be enlightened, we can maintain cheerfulness as we cultivate disillusionment. http://podcast.mangalashribhuti.org/2023_03_19_LINK649_JW.mp3 A Few of My Favorite Things: Personal Reflections on Appreciation and Gratitude (Link #648) MSB Student Jennifer Shippee | March 12, 2023 | 53:44 Min. Speaker: Jennifer Shippee. Jennifer reflects on the value of taking the time to feel and appreciate gratitude. Pausing to appreciate the natural intelligence of our buddha nature enables us to feel a connection to all beings. It lightens our load and softens our hearts. Instead of rejecting feelings, situations, and people, we can make the choice to find a way to feel grateful for them. Doing so helps us overcome our kleshas, reduce our aggression, and cultivate a peaceful heart. This does not mean we should not exercise discernment. But by exercising discernment without aggression we can maintain an open-hearted perspective that allows us to embrace all experience. http://podcast.mangalashribhuti.org/2023_03_12_LINK648_JS.mp3 Service: The Mantle of Responsibility (Link #647) Dungse Jampal Norbu | March 5, 2023 | 1:16:21 Min. Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la explores service from the perspective of the Dharma, reminding us that we have a responsibility to apply our good merit and skills through service to others. The proper motivation for this is not guilt or self-importance, but interaction with the world through bodhicitta and a growing freedom from our habitual patterns through the practice of service. http://podcast.mangalashribhuti.org/2023_03_05_LINK647_DJN.mp3 More
Notes From the Land (Link #650) MSB Student Doug Larsen | March 26, 2023 | 53:25 Min. Speaker: Doug Larsen. Doug describes the challenges and blessings of living as a retreatant at Samten Ling. The physical, financial and social demands, and the spiritual gifts that come from the practices and from the energy of the land itself. He describes how HH Dilgo Khyentse first identified Samten Ling as the site to establish the Sangha, the interactions with the elements and animals on the land, and the daily rhythms of retreat life ordered by the lunar cycle. http://podcast.mangalashribhuti.org/2023_03_26_LINK650_DL.mp3
Be Like India (Link #649) MSB Student Joey Waxman | March 19, 2023 | 1:09:44 Min. Speaker: Joey Waxman. Joey refers to two recent Link talks to trace the causes that recently led him to experience a sense of heaviness about samsara. One talk, given at Losar by Dungse Jampal Norbu, explored the importance of cultivating disillusionment with samsara. The other, given last week by Jennifer Shippee, expressed appreciation for the capacity of Indian culture to accommodate and embrace all experiences without rejecting anything. Disillusionment requires us to develop a sense of sadness or “kyoshe”, which is associated with renunciation, by recognizing the suffering of samsara. This disillusionment might give rise to a sense of heaviness. However, as Jennifer’s talk suggests, we can see India’s capacity to accept all experience as a metaphor for the nature of mind: when purified of self-importance and ignorance, it, too, is capable of embracing all experience without suffering. If we realize that all beings have Buddha nature, and therefore the capacity to be enlightened, we can maintain cheerfulness as we cultivate disillusionment. http://podcast.mangalashribhuti.org/2023_03_19_LINK649_JW.mp3
A Few of My Favorite Things: Personal Reflections on Appreciation and Gratitude (Link #648) MSB Student Jennifer Shippee | March 12, 2023 | 53:44 Min. Speaker: Jennifer Shippee. Jennifer reflects on the value of taking the time to feel and appreciate gratitude. Pausing to appreciate the natural intelligence of our buddha nature enables us to feel a connection to all beings. It lightens our load and softens our hearts. Instead of rejecting feelings, situations, and people, we can make the choice to find a way to feel grateful for them. Doing so helps us overcome our kleshas, reduce our aggression, and cultivate a peaceful heart. This does not mean we should not exercise discernment. But by exercising discernment without aggression we can maintain an open-hearted perspective that allows us to embrace all experience. http://podcast.mangalashribhuti.org/2023_03_12_LINK648_JS.mp3
Service: The Mantle of Responsibility (Link #647) Dungse Jampal Norbu | March 5, 2023 | 1:16:21 Min. Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la explores service from the perspective of the Dharma, reminding us that we have a responsibility to apply our good merit and skills through service to others. The proper motivation for this is not guilt or self-importance, but interaction with the world through bodhicitta and a growing freedom from our habitual patterns through the practice of service. http://podcast.mangalashribhuti.org/2023_03_05_LINK647_DJN.mp3