Recent Posts by Khenpo Karten Rinpoche and the MDC Volunteers
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Photos from Taiwan
Rinpoche sent a few photos from the first half of the Amitabha initiation and retreat in Taiwan. For all those tuning in to participate, the beautiful chanting and the good energy is so worthwhile!
Courageous Confidence
The essence of courageous confidence is the attitude that we can accomplish something, and that we will never give up until we do. From "Precious Teachings," by Khenpo Karten Rinpoche, page 8, "The Benefits of
Impermanence
This table in front of me is not the table of yesterday. Why? Table is just a word designated to something that is a collection of many particles of wood put together in a certain
How Rinpoche Came to Pacific Grove
We recently had a very successful three-day Phowa retreat with Rinpoche at Wave Street Studios in Pacific Grove. At the end of that retreat, Rinpoche recognized the pivotal role that Heidi Feldman played in bringing
The Real Essence of Buddha’s Teachings
In general, as long as we wander in samsara under the control of delusion, with that as the cause, the only result will be more negative karma and suffering. Qualities of causes, good or bad,
“The only way I can help you is through giving teachings and you should strive to liberate yourself.”
ཐུབ་རྣམས་སྡིག་པ་ཆུ་ཡིས་མི་དཀྲུ་ཞིང་།། I cannot wash away your sins with water. འགྲོ་བའི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་ཕྱག་གིས་མི་སེལ་ལ།། The suffering cannot be removed by my hand. ཉིད་ཀྱི་རྟོགས་པ་གཞན་དུ་སྤོ་མིན་ཏེ།། I cannot transfer my realization to you. ཆོས་ཉིད་བདེན་པ་བསྟན་པས་གྲོལ་བར་འགྱུར།། The only way I can help you is