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Archive for the ‘Teachings’ Category
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
To enhance your Dharma practice, Tsoknyi Rinpoche has requested that a series of short papers based on his retreat teachings and an accompanying glossary be published on the Pundarika website. This is the second paper in that series of teachings, and a glossary will follow shortly. This newly revised Teachings Section also contains a library of previously published materials and chants. More invaluable short papers by Rinpoche on various teachings will be forthcoming, so please check back from time to time.
II. TAKING EMOTIONS AS THE PATH
by Tsoknyi Rinpoche III
The Vajrayana says not to reject the kleshas, the negative emotions, but to take them as the path. This can be quite challenging to most people because emotions often govern our body, speech, and mind. So in order to take emotions as the path, we need to take a step back to take a look at emotions.
Where do these emotions come from? The most obvious are the karmic habitual patterns stored in our alaya. We know our own emotional inclinations, these kleshas very well, don’t we? They often seem to be running the show! But sometimes they are confusing; they seem to pop out of the alaya according to very subtle causes and conditions of which we are unaware, not from traceable situations. Other emotions, particularly pure emotions, are not necessarily created by the mind. When these emotions come, they inform the mind and create moods that color everything. Some emotions are (more…)
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Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
I. FOUR THOUGHTS THAT CHANGE THE MIND
(Please use glossary at end of article)
by Tsoknyi Rinpoche III
I want to speak about The Four Thoughts That Change the Mind, but I think many of you will chant the Western mantra, “I know, I know.” I’ve heard the “I know” mantra chanted 100 times in a single conversation. Really! I think it means, “I’ve got it, so don’t make me listen to it again…” You’re all really smart, but in the case of the Dharma, repeating a teaching is not just for your conceptual mind. Once your conceptual brain understands, you think you understand. But that kind of understanding is not enough because repetition is for your mind’s emotional understanding. In order to feel the teachings deep down,  the Dharma needs to take root in the alaya, your unconscious mind. Only then can the Dharma grow from the inside out and be true nourishment for how you live. I think this takes a lot of repetition. That’s why you need to hear the (more…)
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Monday, January 4th, 2010
Rinpoche continued his intensive travel and teaching schedule throughout the last six months of 2009. Here are some highlights:
August 16 -22, Crestone, CO: Empowerment–Transmission and Practice
 In an unprecedented teaching demonstration, Rinpoche gave three empowerments and practice instructions for Green Tara, Vajrasattva and Guru Rinpoche during this week. Additionally, participants had an opportunity to circumambulate the Jangchub Chorten Stupa (Stupa of Enlightentment) with Rinpoche prior to his blessing the newly almost-completed Dorje Yudronma Shrine on the Yeshe Rangsal land. (This week also served as the first week of the Monthlong retreat in Crestone.)
August 16-September 13, Crestone, CO: Monthlong–The Precious Garland of the Sublime Path (The Teachings of Gampopa) One hundred participants from over 14 countries attended the Monthlong this year, which was held in the teaching tent on the Yeshe Rangsal retreat land in Crestone. Rinpoche gave daily morning teachings, as well as small group interviews in the afternoon, along with group instructions on ngondro, yidam practice, and dzogchen practice. The retreat closed with a fire puja and bountiful tsok. Retreatants were also invited to visit Rinpoche’s new home that borders the retreat land.
 Monthlong 2009 Please click below for photos of the Empowerment Retreat and 2009 Monthlong:
Tony Barrs’ Picasa Web Album/ Monthlong 2009
Richard Timan’s Picasa Web Album/Monthlong 2009
Jim Gritz Gallery (password: Gampopa)
October 2-4, San Francisco, CA: Wisdom for Difficult Times: What the Buddhists Teach Sylvia Boorstein, Zoketsu Norman Fischer, and Tsoknyi Rinpoche co-chaired this discussion sponsored by the California Institute of Integral Studies and the Asia Society of California at the Hotel Kabuki in San Francisco.
October 8-9, Washington, D.C.: The Heart of Change (The Mind & Life Conference with H.H. the 14th Dalai Lama) To learn more about this event, please visit: www.jamesgritz.com/blog/
 The Lady Yeshe Tsogyal October 10-15, Tara Mandala, Pagosa Springs, CO: Songs of Yeshe Tsogyal Rinpoche taught the nature of mind using one of the dohas (songs) of Yeshe Tsogyal who chronicled the teachings of Guru Rinpoche for the sake of future generations.
October 16-22, Garrison, NY: The Bardo Teachings The description of the six bardos, or major intermediate states occurring in our existence, provide us with great opportunities for liberation while living and dying. Particularly useful are the instructions on the bardo of death and the following states, because we learn how to deal with these extreme situations and use them to reach enlightenment.
October 23-25, Kripalu Yoga Center, Lennox, MA: Rinpoche taught on the topic of Finding Fearlessness in Difficult Times
November 21: Tulku Urgyen Yangsi Rinpoche arrived at Kathmandu airport, accompanied by his parents, Neten Chokling Rinpoche and Khandro Tendzin Choyang Gyari. Tsoknyi Rinpoche then escorted the Yangsi and his family along with Namdol Gyatso Lama and two attendants to Nepal. For more information, please visit www.Shedrub.org and see “The Return of Tulku Urgyen Yangsi Rinpoche” dated Sunday, November 22, 2009.
 Tulku Urgyen Yangsi Rinpoche
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Monday, January 4th, 2010
ANNOUNCING the inauguration of the new monastic college at Osel Ling Monastery in Kathmandu, Nepal!
Tsoknyi Rinpoche and Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche recently announced that Mingyur Rinpoche will be taking responsibility for Osel Ling Monastery beginning in early 2010. Osel Ling was originally given to both brothers by their late father, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche. In recent years, Tsoknyi Rinpoche has overseen the activities of the monastery and guided its community of monks, in addition to creating space for his non-Tibetan students to stay and practice. Under Tsoknyi Rinpoche’s guidance, the monastic community has thrived and grown into a mature sangha of dedicated practitioners.
In planning for the future development of the monastery, both Tsoknyi Rinpoche and Mingyur Rinoche agreed that it would be beneficial to the monastery’s monastic population to have a fully ordained monk as abbot. Therefore, they agreed that it would be appropriate for Mingyur Rinpoche to take responsibility for the monastery’s operations. While Mingyur Rinpoche will oversee the activities of the monastery from this point on, Tsoknyi Rinpoche will remain intimately involved and retain his spiritual link to the community.
Mingyur Rinpoche plans to establish a monastic college at Osel Ling and make its programs the focal point of the monastery’s activities. In addition, he also plans to have courses available for Westerners to study Tibetan language and Buddhist philosophy. The monastic college will be inaugurated on February 17th, 2010. All are invited to attend. To celebrate the opening of the college, Tsoknyi Rinpoche and Mingyur Rinpoche will also offer a two-day seminar entitled Cultivating Joyful Wisdom & Compassion on February 18th-20th.
On behalf of the Pundarika and Tergar communities, we would like to express our support for the community of Osel Ling Monastery and the vision of Tsoknyi Rinpoche and Mingyur Rinpoche. May the monastery continue to grow and thrive, bringing benefit to countless beings!
Tashi Delek!
Esteban Hollander (Director/Pundarika Foundation)
Cortland Dahl & Edwin Kelley (Directors/Tergar International)
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Monday, October 3rd, 2005
Translated by Tsoknyi Rinpoche
(Requested by a few western students at Tsechu Gompa, October 2005)
Question: How can one generate compassion?
Answer by Adeu Rinpoche: Emptiness and compassion are in unity. You practice and meditate, and naturally compassion will arise. Rinpoche doesn’t have much to say. All of you have entered into the great path of Buddhism— (more…)
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