“Why do I need Tantra when Sutra already seems enough?” Some Buddhist practitioners are happily enjoying stages of the path (Lamrim), Buddhist psychology, and the Bodhisattva path. They wonder “”Why add another layer?” “What’s the point of Tantra?” “There’squite a lot to do already! Can’t I just attain enlightenment through Sutra alone?” Carrying on from the Q&A in this last article: Who’s ready for Highest Yoga Tantra? To answer this,…
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As you may have read in this last article, In case you’re wondering about Highest Yoga Tantra, the general advice is that if we have some foundation in renunciation, bodhichitta, and the wisdom realizing emptiness, and faith…
This Summer, Highest Yoga Tantra empowerments and teachings will be given at the International Kadampa Buddhist Festival – they come around approximately every two years. If you’re mulling over attending these for the first time, and are…
To drill down a bit on emptiness and mere appearance, both of which are invaluable contemplations during mandala offerings and life in general … some months before he passed away, Venerable Geshe Kelsang said: All phenomena their…
What is a day really for? I’ve seen four clips these past few days that illustrate the need to think about this if I want my life to have a deeper meaning. The first, and simplest, clip…
Fairly dicey times here on Planet Earth. What direction are we headed in? In the introduction to Prayers for World Peace, which Geshe Kelsang gave us way back in 2001, he says: World peace is very important;…
If we get into the habit of making mandala offerings, we swiftly purify our mind and start to see the world in a purer way. For example, we may notice that we can still love people even…
Meditation is all about changing from within. Usually we’re busy trying to change things out there, but in meditation we go inward to look much…
6 mins read. When we first attempt breathing meditation: Our mind will be very busy, and we might even feel that the meditation is making…
A recent article in the New York Times reports the findings of scientists at Harvard that people are happier when their minds do not wander…
Guest article. I put out the following question on Facebook, receiving replies from all over the place, and would like to give Kadampa Life’s floor to these voices 😊…
11 mins read. The law of entropy shows that despite all our best efforts to hold things together somehow, everything is being flung apart all…
Stumbling into an article called “Is Luck Real?”, I got thinking about one of my favorite things to think about, which is karma. (Here is…
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