Recent Posts by Khenpo Karten Rinpoche and the MDC Volunteers
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The Results of Practicing Dharma
As for the results of practicing Dharma, in general, if we are a qualified practitioner of Dharma, we should have two primary objectives: to consider others more important than ourselves, and to consider future lives
Reflection
A few students have reached out this morning, upset about the election and seeking advice. I encourage you to read this post from Venice Williams and reflect on its message—I agree with it wholeheartedly. “You
We can definitely attain liberation
How are we liberated from samsara? If we can expel that demonic grasping ignorance and the five poisonous delusions that accompany it once and for all, that day we will be liberated. Again, how are
Happy Halloween!
འདྲེ་ཡི་དུས་ཆེན་ལ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས་ཞུ། Yesterday, my friend and student Foster, mountain boy, decorated the MDC for Halloween and handed out sweets to the trick or treaters who we welcomed. Also, some of my very dear friends visited as
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,