Recent Posts by Khenpo Karten Rinpoche and the MDC Volunteers

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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

Photos from Asilomar Beach Walking Meditation Day

October 14th, 2024|

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