Upcoming Talks LINK Teaching with Alex Rocha May 22, 2022 LINK Teaching with Andrew Shakespeare: Where are the Buddhalands?: Lessons in Community Jun 12, 2022 Register for GoToMeeting 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. GoToMeeting We use GoToMeeting to broadcast the Link. When you click Register, you will be taken to the GotoMeeting 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 Alex Rocha May 22, 2022 LINK Teaching with Andrew Shakespeare: Where are the Buddhalands?: Lessons in Community Jun 12, 2022 Episodes Buddhist Anger Management (Link #607) MSB Student Paul Greene | May 15, 2022 | 51:18 Min. Speaker: Paul Greene. Paul reviews the Buddhist perspective on anger and identifies a variety of skillful means to work with it. Although Western culture sometimes seems to accept anger as appropriate and inevitable, Buddhism recognizes it as a poison that threatens our well-being and impedes our path to enlightenment. We can work with anger by recalling the egolessness of the self, the enlightened Buddha nature of all beings, the causes and conditions that give rise to situations, the negative karmic results of aggression, and the positive karmic results of allowing negative karmic seeds to ripen. From the perspective of the Mahayana path, the bodhisattva intention to benefit beings is dependent on our ability to overcome aggression. http://podcast.mangalashribhuti.org/2022_05_15_LINK607_PG.mp3 All the Mother Sentient Beings Equal to Space (Link #606) MSB Student Gretchen Kahre-Holland | May 8, 2022 | 45:24 Min. Speaker: Gretchen Kahre-Holland. Gretchen offers an appreciation of the tremendous power of prayer to heal and transform, and guides listeners through a session of tonglen practice dedicated to our mothers. Over the years, Rinpoche has provided us with prayers to respond to difficult situations like the death of George Floyd, the fires in Colorado, and the war in Ukraine. One particular form of prayer, the tonglen practice of giving and taking, is essential to attaining enlightenment. On this Mother’s Day Gretchen reminds us that, over the course of our countless lifetimes, all sentient beings have been our mothers. Soliciting specific prayers from listeners, she leads a guided tonglen practice devoted to benefiting our all our mothers. http://podcast.mangalashribhuti.org/2022_05_08_LINK606_GKR.mp3 To Be Determined (Link #605) Dungse Jampal Norbu | May 1, 2022 | 1:16:56 Min. Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la reflects on working with our emotions and neuroses by examining our determination to practice the Dharma. Where are we investing our freedom? Are we making time for practice and retreat? Are we working with our habits? Are we accumulating merit? http://podcast.mangalashribhuti.org/2022_05_01_LINK605_DJN.mp3 Some Thoughts on the Four Thoughts that Turn One’s Mind to the Dharma (Link #604) MSB Student Stanton Dossett | April 24, 2022 | 50:22 Min. Speaker: Stanton Dossett. Stanton conveys the importance of deeply contemplating the four thoughts that turn the mind to the Dharma: precious human birth, impermanence, karma, and samsara. Appreciating our precious human birth and its impermanence inspires us to make the most of our opportunity to practice the Dharma. Grasping the power of karma to shape our future lives focuses our attention on engaging in right action. Being aware of the unnecessary suffering samsaric beings experience, lifetime after lifetime, opens our hearts and cultivates bodhicitta, the “mind set on enlightenment.” http://podcast.mangalashribhuti.org/2022_04_24_LINK604_SD.mp3 More
Buddhist Anger Management (Link #607) MSB Student Paul Greene | May 15, 2022 | 51:18 Min. Speaker: Paul Greene. Paul reviews the Buddhist perspective on anger and identifies a variety of skillful means to work with it. Although Western culture sometimes seems to accept anger as appropriate and inevitable, Buddhism recognizes it as a poison that threatens our well-being and impedes our path to enlightenment. We can work with anger by recalling the egolessness of the self, the enlightened Buddha nature of all beings, the causes and conditions that give rise to situations, the negative karmic results of aggression, and the positive karmic results of allowing negative karmic seeds to ripen. From the perspective of the Mahayana path, the bodhisattva intention to benefit beings is dependent on our ability to overcome aggression. http://podcast.mangalashribhuti.org/2022_05_15_LINK607_PG.mp3
All the Mother Sentient Beings Equal to Space (Link #606) MSB Student Gretchen Kahre-Holland | May 8, 2022 | 45:24 Min. Speaker: Gretchen Kahre-Holland. Gretchen offers an appreciation of the tremendous power of prayer to heal and transform, and guides listeners through a session of tonglen practice dedicated to our mothers. Over the years, Rinpoche has provided us with prayers to respond to difficult situations like the death of George Floyd, the fires in Colorado, and the war in Ukraine. One particular form of prayer, the tonglen practice of giving and taking, is essential to attaining enlightenment. On this Mother’s Day Gretchen reminds us that, over the course of our countless lifetimes, all sentient beings have been our mothers. Soliciting specific prayers from listeners, she leads a guided tonglen practice devoted to benefiting our all our mothers. http://podcast.mangalashribhuti.org/2022_05_08_LINK606_GKR.mp3
To Be Determined (Link #605) Dungse Jampal Norbu | May 1, 2022 | 1:16:56 Min. Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la reflects on working with our emotions and neuroses by examining our determination to practice the Dharma. Where are we investing our freedom? Are we making time for practice and retreat? Are we working with our habits? Are we accumulating merit? http://podcast.mangalashribhuti.org/2022_05_01_LINK605_DJN.mp3
Some Thoughts on the Four Thoughts that Turn One’s Mind to the Dharma (Link #604) MSB Student Stanton Dossett | April 24, 2022 | 50:22 Min. Speaker: Stanton Dossett. Stanton conveys the importance of deeply contemplating the four thoughts that turn the mind to the Dharma: precious human birth, impermanence, karma, and samsara. Appreciating our precious human birth and its impermanence inspires us to make the most of our opportunity to practice the Dharma. Grasping the power of karma to shape our future lives focuses our attention on engaging in right action. Being aware of the unnecessary suffering samsaric beings experience, lifetime after lifetime, opens our hearts and cultivates bodhicitta, the “mind set on enlightenment.” http://podcast.mangalashribhuti.org/2022_04_24_LINK604_SD.mp3