People are just getting back from this year’s International Kadampa Summer Festival, where a bumper crowd of 3,500 received the Highest Yoga Tantra empowerments of Heruka and Vajrayogini from the NKT’s new General Spiritual Director, Gen-la Jampa. The essence of transforming ourselves into a Buddha is so-called “self-generation practice”, where, effectively, we change our basis of identification or imputation from something ordinary to something enlightened, So I thought I’d share…
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“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…
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;…
Right now it may seem as though our problems are getting in the way of our inner peace. But the only thing getting in the…
Mindfulness is about the present moment, being in touch with it, not forgetting it. Presence of mind. All of Buddha’s teachings, or Dharma, help us…
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…
https://www.facebook.com/afluffsquad/videos/1756271331061783/ This video moved me, and has helped me generate positive minds…
There are two complementary ways to approach this subject of emptiness (carrying on from here). One is understanding that things don’t exist from their own…
I’m sinking in the quicksand of my thought And I ain’t got the power anymore. ~ Quicksand As mentioned in the previous article, step one in…
Several people have told me that they found the movie Everything Everywhere All at Once quite chaotic and hard to keep up with. Some cursory…
Impermanence
If something doesn’t remain for even a moment — if it is…