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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
Photos from Yurt Moving Day
Rinpoche and Thay Kozen. They love each other deeply. Friday, July 25th was "Yurt Moving Day," where the 30-foot yurt originally donated to Khenpo Karten Rinpoche and the Manjushri Dharma Center from Thay
Continual Placement
The Second Instruction is Continual Placement Remaining single pointedly upon the object as in the first instruction, Placing the Mind. Using mindfullness and alertness to watch out for movement, when the concentration is extended longer
Nine Instructions for Concentration Meditation
1) Placing the Mind 2) Continual Placement 3) Replacement 4) Close Placement 5) Controlling 6) Pacifying 7) Fully Pacifying 8) Making Single-pointed 9) Equal Placement The First Instruction is Placing the Mind. Here mind's single
A Note for the Sangha: Please contact Rinpoche after 12pm (save the mornings for his practice)
We are so fortunate to have Khenpo Karten Rinpoche just a phone call or message away! Rinpoche loves helping people, however as he wrote in his blog,"Do Not Disturb Sign," which emphasizes the need for