Recent Posts by Khenpo Karten Rinpoche and the MDC Volunteers

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Packages from Home

October 28th, 2024|

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

October 22nd, 2024|

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

October 21st, 2024|

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། །

October 21st, 2024|

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

Thank you Garden Volunteers!

October 21st, 2024|

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