What’s the difference between trying to practice and trying to succeed? How can “success” become an obstacle to our practice of mindfulness and awareness? Earlier this year students heard Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche teaching on mindfulness at KTD Monastery in Woodstock, NY. Watch the video here.
Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche gives simple and direct instructions for how to bring oneself to the present moment by practicing mindfulness of body. Rinpoche presented this in the context of teaching “the four foundations of mindfulness” (body, feelings, mind and phenomena) at KTD Monastery in Woodstock, NY. April 2014. Enjoy the video!
What are the signs and the process by which the teachings become a part of our lifestyle? How does “helping others” manifest in this process? In this candid interview, Mitra Tyler Dewar shares his thoughts about how we can engage our Buddhist practice in daily life, in ways that make a real and lasting positive shift in our lives and in the lives of those around us.
On Friday November 7, 2014 one of the few remaining masters of the Karma Gardri school of Tibetan Buddhist thangka painting, R.D. Salga, will speak in Seattle, Washington at NalandaWest on the history, style, and symbolism of thangkas. On Saturday, November 8, Salga will demonstrate each step that goes into creating a thangka painting, followed by a panel discussion in the afternoon, with a reception for the artist and exhibition of the artist’s works in the evening.
Check out this wonderful interview with Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, founder of Nalandabodhi, about the 10th Anniversary of our sangha home, NalandaWest. Photo by Scott
In this video, Rinpoche explains how our mindfulness can be of benefit to ourselves and others as well.
