Recent Posts by Khenpo Karten Rinpoche and the MDC Volunteers
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The Demon of Ignorance
Ignorance arises due to our own mistaken perceptions. Therefore, to remedy it we need an unmistaken mind: pure wisdom awareness. What is the actual unmistaken state of mind? It is the pure awareness of transcendent
Packages from Home
མི་ལོ་ཉེར་ལྔ་ཙམ་གྱི་རྗེས་སུ་གུ་རུའི་སྐུ་དང་། ནང་ནས་བཟོས་པའི་བྲོ་བཅུད་ཅན་ཕ་ཡུལ་གྱི་ལག་ཟས་ཞིམ་པོ་དེ་འབྱོར་བས་ཧ་ཅང་དགའ་བོ་བྱུང་། I want to say a few words about some packages I received from my dear family overseas. Almost 25 years ago, I was forced to leave my country. Since then, I haven’t been
Advice for a King
Last night at Monday prayers, Rinpoche read this beautiful pith instruction, "Advice for a King," by Katok Rigdzin Tsewang Norbu. Here is a link to the English, Tibetan, and Chinese translations--courtesy of Lotsawa House
Our Wandering in Samsara
Our wandering in samsara happens because we have taken a mistaken path, because we have not recognized our own mind from the very start. Ignorance and its retinue, the delusions of attachment, aversion, jealousy, pride,
A Jewel Garland of Advice | ༄༅། བསླབ་བྱ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་ཕྲེང་བ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། །
A Jewel Garland of Advice | ༄༅། བསླབ་བྱ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་ཕྲེང་བ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། ། https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpO_B-Ji-3o
ཁ་ལི་ཧྥོ་ཉར་བདེ་ཆེན་ཞིང་སྒྲུབ་ཐེངས་མ་དང་པོ་འཚོགས་པ།
New blog post from Rinpoche in Tibetan, posted on October 15th--READ MORE
Thank you Garden Volunteers!
Amazing! Such a sweet, hard-working group of volunteers last Saturday (Oct. 19, 2024 11-1pm with bonus round 1-2pm)! We accomplished SO MUCH! We pulled weeds, cleaned up the patio, and moved a mountain of mulch
Photos from Asilomar Beach Walking Meditation Day
On Saturday, October 12th, 2024, we gathered at Manjushri Dharma Center and then carpooled to Asilomar Beach where Rinpoche taught and led walking meditation and sitting meditation. Here are photos from that day, thanks to