In part two, Patricia, Tommy, and Tom, offer reflections on Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen’s teachings on calming the mind in turbulent times. How to train our minds with patience, kindness, and discipline?
Precious teachings were given by Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen on Calming the Mind in Turbulent Times. Here is a beautiful first article with reflections and practice suggestions based on this teaching day hosted by Nalandabodhi York.
Step away from the busyness and into the spaciousness of winter retreat. Join Lama Rabten and Acharya Tashi at Maitrivana Centre (Vancouver) or online for four days of meditation practice and dharma teachings.Lama Rabten will teach on Milarepa’s Songs of Realization—spontaneous compositions conveying profound teachings on meditation and Mahamudra. Acharya Tashi will guide us through Parting from the Four Attachments, a core Lojong teaching on cultivating wisdom through non-attachment. Hosted onsite and online by Nalandabodhi Vancouver.
Mitra Lee writes, “Usually we focus on ourselves, on our own well-being, our goodness or badness, and our perceptions of pleasure and pain, right and wrong, like or dislike. In the practice of the four immeasurables, we train to extend our attention beyond ourselves and our habitual, conditioned thoughts. They help us to open a place for others in our mind and, beyond this, to see others as the same as ourselves.”
How did the Karmapas develop the Buddhist teachings inherited from India into the Karma Kagyü’s distinctive system of view and meditation? Please join Karunika Martin Marvet in exploring the continuities in the teachings between Karmapas and with the Buddhist traditions of India within the historical panorama of Tibetan society.
We are delighted to share that our friends at Nitartha Publications have recently released the expanded second edition of Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche’s oral commentary on the Saṃdhinirmocana Sūtra (Unraveling the Intent of the Buddha), a key scripture of the Yogācāra tradition.Accompanied by the oral translation of Mitra Tyler Dewar, Rinpoche’s commentary illuminates subtle points of non-dual awareness, conceptual analysis, and direct realization—bringing them to life with clarity and depth, and making them accessible for contemporary practitioners.
