“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…
By Clare Morin Recently I had the luck of being invited onto France Roy’s new podcast, Buddha Buzz where he talks to Kadampas from all…
6.5 minutes read In this recent article on the absorption of cessation of gross conceptual thought, Emergency aid for a troubled mind, I talked about the…
What do you do when your meditation isn’t flowing as you wish? Sometimes we feel disconnected. All these teachings and meditations sound good, great even;…
5.5 mins read Happy Buddha’s Enlightenment Day! There were a thousand people at the recent Kadampa Buddhist Festival in Mexico, all receiving Highest Yoga Tantra…
One day in mid-February 2010, a friend, H, shot himself after his car was repossessed. He had also recently emerged from a messy divorce, but…
As mentioned in this article, Maynor was tortured and murdered in the Honduras aged 19, trampled by drug wars he had nothing to do with.…
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…
(You may want to read this article first to get up to scratch. I’ve divided the article up into two parts to make it easier to…
Impermanence
I found myself doing a rather odd thing yesterday, but there were…
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If we want 2019 to be better than 2018, we might want…