How to strengthen family relationship
As human beings, we all look alike, yet we all have different ideas and thoughts as a result of our varied backgrounds, cultures, and traditions. Given this situation, it would be simplistic to expect that we all share the same values and beliefs, and it is best to respect the opinions and value systems of […]
Aspirational Prayers for Accomplishing Path to Liberation
ཐར་ལམ་སྒྲུབ་པའི་རྒྱུ་རུ་སྨོས་པ།Aspirational Prayer for Accomplishing the Path to Liberation ཟུར་མང་གར་དབང་ནས།By Zurmang Gharwang Rinpoche ཐོག་མར་ཐར་ལམ་སྒྲུབ་པའི་རྟེན་མཆོག་ནི།།དལ་བ་བརྒྱད་ལྡན་འབྱོར་བ་བཅུ་ཚང་དགོས།།བར་དུ་ཐབས་ནི་དམ་པའི་ཆོས་དང་འཕྲད།།དེ་རྗེས་ཚད་ལྡན་བླ་མས་རྗེས་སུ་བཟུང་།To begin with, all eight opportunities and ten resources are neededas the supreme foundation for accomplishing the path to liberation.Then, one must meet with the method, the supreme dharma.After that, one must be guided by an authentic guru. གཙོ་ཆེར་སྒོ་གསུམ་བྱ་སྤྱོད་གང་ཡིན་ཡང་།།རྒྱལ་བས་གསུངས་པའི་བཀའ་དང་འགལ་མེད་དང་།།དེའི་ཐོག་བག་ཡོད་དྲན་ཤེས་ཀུན་ཏུ་སྤྱོད།།མཐར་མར་དད་མོས་བརྩོན་པས་རྒྱུ་སྨིན་ནོ།།Most importantly, all your activities […]
Teacher and student
We are not physically present with our teachers nearly 99 percent of the time, and in these moments we might engage in harmful actions mentally, verbally, and physically. Some may wish their gurus to be present with them at all times, but this might create friction with one’s teacher because we are not perfect. As […]
2020-11_Qinghai Nunnery
“Nunnery’s Abbot Chodak Lama distributing food (rice, wheat, barley, cooking oil, tsampa and potatoes) to the anis for their annual 100 days winter retreat. They also donated food to old folks home. May this generosity and merits accumulated be dedicated to all sentient beings. May they be free from suffering and attain Buddhahood. “
Lhabab Duchen Tashi delek Everyone!
Today is the Buddhist holiday of Lhabab Duchen, or the “Festival of the Descent from Heaven,” which falls on the 22nd day of the ninth lunar month and is one the holiest days for Buddhists. The Buddha traveled to Tushita Heaven through his miraculous powers in order to teach the gods as well as his […]
Written by Gharwang Rinpoche on November 20 2020
Firstly, attaining this precious human body is the result of the accumulation of merit throughout many lifetimes. It is not simply a lucky coincidence. In order to make the best use of this and future lives, one should practice the authentic supreme dharma. Moreover, unless one relies on an authentic guru, there is the danger […]
Two important points to observe
For followers of religion, there are often many commitments to observe in order to acquire total freedom from suffering and achieve genuine happiness. And, it becomes apparent that the journey might not be as easy as one might initially have expected. The journey can seem long and there can be many obstacles along the way to liberation. […]
Seek our true Buddha nature
Meditate if you seek genuine freedom
Meditation is a very important part of the path for seekers of genuine freedom and success in the practice of meditation depends on whether one follows the advice of qualified teachers with unshakeable conviction in the path. One can attain the goal of realization and total freedom from harmful emotions by simply resting the mind […]
The six practices of prana yoga
The six practices of prana yoga: (1) Counting the breath: Observe the crucial points of the body by sitting in the seven point meditation posture of Vairocana, and slowly inhale through the left nostril, holding the right nostril closed with the right index finger, and then forcefully expel the air through the left nostril. Then […]