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 in our Spiritual Guide, then we are good candidates for receiving Highest Yoga Tantra empowerments and entering the quick path to enlightenment. Carrying on with that Q & A … Am I ready…
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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…
A very handsome man, to my eyes, just walked into this London café on what looked to be a date with a woman sitting here. “Lucky her,” I was half-thinking; but in the time it took for…
8.5 mins read Do you ever find yourself attempting to fit all the jigsaw pieces of life together to make a perfect picture, the one…
Without stirring abroad One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one…
Apparently, that’s a thing, as explained in this article on CNN. And not surprisingly. There is the predictable reason of having to go back to…
Wrote this one Valentine’s Day, but it works every day. Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! How’s it going?! Feeling happy?! Feeling loved? Or feeling unloved?! Feeling…
This Summer, Highest Yoga Tantra empowerments and teachings will be given at the International Kadampa Buddhist Festival – they come around approximately every two years.…
A guest article by Jan J, a long-term Kadampa Buddhist practitioner. Here are some experiences that remind me how the hidden truth of karma is…
Some time has elapsed since I wrote this article on Homs, Syria; but the question “What can we do?” seems just as relevant to what’s going on today…
It might be tempting when faced with the day’s headlines — suffering, and more suffering — to go to the extremes of either freaking out…
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By the way, samsara has always sucked. Buddha predicted, and Geshe Kelsang…