Recent Posts by Khenpo Karten Rinpoche and the MDC Volunteers
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The power of the basis
The four powers (of purification) are: 1) The power of the basis 2) the power of remedial action 3) the power of regret 4) the power of not reverting to faulty conduct First, the power
A Brief Explanation of the Four Powers of Purification of Negative Karma
We may unknowingly make a mistake during any activity. After we make a mistake, however, it is extremely important to confess and purify it. No more than a few people will willingly commit bad karma
Arrival and Preparation for 18th Annual Amitabha Retreat in Portland
Rinpoche arrived safely and was greeted warmly by his Tibetan students in Portland, Oregon on Wednesday, August 13, 2025. He was able to rest on Thursday and on Friday prepared tormas and set up for
Hearing sorrowful news about my Elder Brother on International Father’s Day
(Reproduced from the original blog post, found here) I usually leave my phone off when I go to bed at night. On this particular morning, as soon as I woke up, I turned on my
Remembering Lama Tarchin Rinpoche
སང་ཉིན་ནི་ངེས་པ་དོན་གྱི་སྔགས་པ་ཚེ་སྒྲུབ་བླ་མ་མཐར་ཕྱིན་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་འདས་མཆོད་ཐེངས་མ་བཅུ་གཉིས་པ་དེར་འགྲོ་གི་ཡིན། ཁོང་ནི་ང་ཡི་བདུད་འཇོམས་གླིང་པའི་ཟབ་ཆོས་འགའ་ཤས་ཞུ་སའི་བླ་མ་ཞིག་ཡིན་པ་མ་ཟད་བློ་ཐུབ་ཀྱི་གྲོགས་པོ་ཞིག་ཀྱང་ཡིན། Lama Tarchin Rinpoche is a very great practitioner, yogi, wisdom holder, and my Dudjom Tersar Lineage teacher. (August 9th) is the 12th anniversary of his Parinirvana. At the retreat center he founded, Pema
Fully Pacifying, Making Single-Pointed, and Equal Placement
The Seventh Instruction is Fully Pacifying Here you are freed of even subtle thought, excitement, sinking, and dullness, etc. Mind rests in its focal object like the ocean, and the movement of gross and subtle
Controlling and Pacifying
The Fifth Instruction is Controlling At this point [having achieved Close Placement], gross conceptions have been somewhat pacified, like a slowly flowing river. When you focus your mind upon the object you feel joy. Because
Replacement and Close Placement
The Third Instruction is Replacement If the mind forgets and wanders outwards, mindfulness and alertness immediately recognize it and return the mind to resting Upon its object as before. In this way movement is brought