Crucial Point 2020: The Journal of Mangala Shri Bhuti

In this issue:

• Why We Go On Pilgrimage – Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche explains why giving birth to bodhicitta is the heart of the MSB Offering and Dana Pilgrimage to India
• Walking the Path of Buddha – Sophia Remolde’s personal reflections on the 2019 pilgrimage
• In Touch with Training the Mind – Kathleen Pfeffer recounts her pilgrimage experience in relation to Langri Tangpa’s Eight Verses of Training the Mind
• Helping the Mind: The Essence of Dharma – An NSS talk by Rinpoche on what it means to be a practitioner
• Taking Responsibility for Our Own Mind – Dungse Jampal Norbu discusses the mind training slogan “Drive All Blames into One”
• The Buddha and the Poor Old Man – Rinpoche tells a short story about generosity
• Sublime and Noble Tara – Descriptions of Tara by the 15th Karmapa and Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo
• A Losar Aspiration Prayer – by Kongtrul Rinpoche
• Claiming Agency in the Teacher-Student Relationship – Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel discusses what it means to be a student of a Vajrayana Practitioner
• Reflections on the Time – Rinpoche’s heart advice for living in the time of coronavirus
• The Buddha’s Enlightenment – A modern Nepalese poet tells the story of Buddha’s victory over the maras
• Drive All Blames into the Chest Freezer – Robin Correll tells a personal story of accepting impermanence with a sense of humor
• Ani Lodro Palmo – Rinpoche remembers an old friend, one of the first Tibetan Buddhist nuns from the West
• The Story of Mahasiddha Luipa – Rinpoche tells the story of a mahasiddha who lived by the Ganges and subsisted on discarded fish guts
• Bliss – A poem by Bob Lucas
• The Most Worthwhile Passion – A Shedra talk by Rinpoche on overcoming the power of ego

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