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A Visit from York High School Students
དེ་རིང་ས་གནས་འདིའི་འབྱོར་ལྡན་ཁྱིམ་ཚང་རྣམས་ཀྱི་བུ་ཕྲུག་འཇོག་ས་YORK SCHOOL་དགེ་སློབ་རྣམས་ཀྱི་རེ་ཞུས་ལྟར་ནང་ཆོས་ངོ་སྤྲོད་མདོར་བསྡུས་དང་སྦྲག་ད་ལྟའི་བོད་ཀྱི་གནས་བབས་སོགས་ངོ་སྤྲོད་བྱས་པས་ཧ་ཅང་དགའ་བོ་གནང་སོང་། I would like to say a little bit about my visit today (Tuesday, May 6, 2025) by the York School from here in Monterey. This was their second visit to the Manjushri Dharma
Happy Mother’s Day to My Father
On this Mother’s Day (Sunday, May 11, 2025), as has become my tradition, I celebrate the memory of my kind father, Bobo Tashi. My father was the kindest person to me in my life. He
No Enemy
Nagarjuna said: Although Buddhas call objects adversaries, it is not people, Rather, it is the delusions in their minds that are the real foe. If someone hurts us, it is because of the delusions in
Tibetan Calligraphy Day
Today is Tibetan Calligraphy Day, and I have also contributed some handwriting of my own on this special day. I took this opportunity despite not having the best handwriting. This is so important; may this
The Illusion of Pleasant and Unpleasant
If happiness and suffering existed externally, no matter how long you stayed in the sun it would just get more and more pleasant. It's not like that. The present pleasant feeling itself becomes unpleasant. The
Selection from “Excellent Path of Freedom: Jewel Ornament of Liberation in Brief”
Last Saturday, April 19th, during our Saturday meditation, Rinpoche read a selection of his composition entitled, " Excellent Path Of Freedom, The Jewel Ornament of Liberation in Brief." Here is the selection from that day:
There is nothing which is not interdependent
As Nagarjuna said, "There is nothing which is not interdependent, Therefore there is nothing which is not emptiness." If you understand this secret point, that all things are interdependent, you will naturally understand emptiness; the
