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True Wealth: Renunciation
When you realize the true nature of samsara you generate actual renunciation, a real wish to attain Liberation. If you develop perfect renunciation in your mind, by entering the perfect path of Sacred Dharma, you
Definitive Metaphors and Meanings
On Monday night, 5-6-2024, Rinpoche shared this teaching by the Venerable Longchen Rabjam. We did not sing it--a challenge for next time! This text comes courtesy of Lotsawa House, and translations in Tibetan, French, Portuguese
True Paths
What are true paths? They are paths that are the means of attaining true cessations. For example, like the wisdom insight directly realizing selflessness or emptiness. To understand this, you first need to know about
Infinitely Expandable
If we become accustomed to positive states of mind they are infinitely expandable, like the constant yearly and monthly never-ending advance of technology, for example. If we become accustomed to positive mental states, many positive
High School Students Visit Rinpoche as Part of World Religions Class
On the twenty-fifth day of the fourth month, 4/25/2024, I gave a brief discourse about Buddhism to about nineteen high school students at the York School, a high school in the vicinity of Monterey, at
Deceived Mental States
The delusions such as attachment and aversion in your mind are mistaken, deceived mental states, which engage objects in discordance with their actual nature. Such mistaken minds have no valid support from another mind. Their
The Nature of Our Mind
The nature of our mind has always remained clear light unstained by delusions such as attachment and aversion. Delusions, the minds of attachment and aversion, are temporary, fleeting moments of consciousness; they are impermanent. Quote
Solar Eclipse & Special Prayers
On Monday, April 8th, 2024, there will be a solar eclipse. A partial solar eclipse may be visible (depending on cloud cover) from Pacific Grove/Monterey Bay. On this auspicious occassion, for Monday Night Chanted Prayers,