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The Seagull and the Fish
Today's teaching from Rinpoche requires some background. Years ago, Rinpoche and his student Foster where walking on the beach, meditating and reading the Eight Verses of Training the Mind, when Rinpoche noticed a seagull that
My Mind is With You Always
I would like to take this moment to address my many students across the world. I have mentioned many students in different countries. Spain and Columbia are included among those. It has been a long
The Movement of Thoughts
When we are beginners many thoughts arise very quickly in our minds, like mountain streams running down a mountain very fast; there is movement of thoughts arising and becoming. The first thoughts come like a
Photos from 2025 Taiwan Trip
Here are some additional photos from the Taiwan trip Rinpoche took in March 2025. Some show the release of wild animals from the local markets to spare their lives--they are released back to the river.
Photos from the 2025 Amitabha Pureland Retreat in Taiwan
Rinpoche arrives to Taiwan, with translator (name unknown) and the nun who leads the Taiwan sangha. Over the weekend of Friday to Sunday, March 14-16, 2025, Rinpoche led an Amitabha Pureland Retreat with
Reflections on Tibetan Uprising Day 2025
རྒྱ་རིགས་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་གཡས་ནས་སྨད་ཀྱང་རུང་། བོད་རིགས་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་གཡོན་ནས་བསྟོད་ཀྱང་རུང་། རང་གི་ལས་དབང་རྐང་རྗེས་ཕྲ་མོ་འདིར། ཕྱི་ནུར་གོམ་གང་མི་བྱེད་སྡིག་པ་ཁུར། Tashi Delek A big thank you to my dear MDC Sangha my dharma brother and sister friends for organizing this Tibetan Uprising Day event even without me around. From the bottom
The Story of Zawo Bhumo, one of the Buddha’s previous incarnations
This is a short narration of a story taken from one of the Buddha’s previous lifetimes, referenced in the sutras. It is said that before being born as a human and later becoming the Buddha,
Happy Losar 2025!
དོན་དང་ལྡན་པའི་ལོ་གསར་ཇི་ལྟར་བྱེད་དགོས་མིན། What Makes a Meaningful New Year ༅༅།། ཕན་བདེའི་དགེ་ལེགས་འོད་སྟོང་རབ་འབར་བའི།། འགྲོ་བའི་མི་ཤེས་རབ་རིབ་འཇོམས་མཛད་པ།། སྨྲ་བའི་སེངྒེ་རྗེ་བཙུན་འཇམ་དཔལ་དབྱངས།། འགྲོ་རྣམས་ལོ་ཟླ་སྐྱིད་ཀྱིས་འཚོ་བར་ཤོག། You who blaze with light of well-being and goodness, Clearing cataracts of confusion from the eyes of beings, O Lion of Teachers, Venerable