Join Nalandabodhi Connecticut as they host Mitra Lee Worley.
Occurring Friday, October 04 – Sunday, October 06, this weekend event is an exploration of the traditional Four Foundations of Mindfulness in a playful and interactive format of meditation, discussion, space awareness, and classical texts.
Ponlop Rinpoche will be teaching on “Sanity within Chaos” at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado on Friday, October 18 – Sunday, October 20. For tickets and
Every Tibetan Buddhist knows the life story and the songs of realization of the great Tibetan yogī Milarepa. The many songs of awakening by his Indian predecessors, the most famous among them the eighty-four mahāsiddhas, are much less known but equally profound, beautiful, and inspiring. Even less known are the songs and life-stories of their numerous female counterparts.
In Ponlop Rinpoche’s latest article, he teaches us that whatever our situation at this moment, whether it seems fortunate or unfortunate, we can choose to meet it as an opportunity to work with our mind. Then even a painful error can become an opportunity for awakening, an opportunity to transform our confusion into wisdom.
Nalandabodhi International joyfully announces the fourth annual Tara Drupchen to be held in Seattle, Washington on September 20-22, 2019. In all wisdom traditions, including Buddhism, it is said that the antidote to fear is loving-kindness. In Vajrayana Buddhism, the figure of Tara symbolizes loving-kindness and compassion — and a strong resolve to dispel the fears of all beings.
In Ponlop Rinpoche’s latest article, he teaches us that the most practical, everyday way of working to increase kindness in this world, is to work with the opposites of loving kindness, with our habitual patterns and disturbing emotions. Great compassion involves great risk. You have to leap.
