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Losar Tashi Delek!
On Wednesday, February 18th, 2026, Rinpoche hosted a Losar celebration to usher in the Year of the Fire Horse. With warmth, good food, and AMAZING MUSIC, we gave the first day of the new year
Reflections on the Heart Sutra Retreat 2026
དགུན་ཆོས་ཤེས་རབ་སྙིང་པོའི་དཔེ་ཁྲིད་དང་།། སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་ཀྱི་འདོན་སྒོམ་རྗེས་གནང་སོགས།། ཐོས་བསམ་ཇི་སྙེད་བྱས་པའི་དགེ་བ་འདི།། འཇིག་རྟེན་བདེ་སྐྱིད་ལྡན་པའི་རྒྱུ་རུ་བསྔོ།། Over Valentine’s Day weekend, the MDC joyfully hosted our annual New Year’s Retreat at Wave Street Studios in Monterey, California. It was a deeply meaningful and inspiring gathering for our Sangha.
Losar Tashi Delek! Year of the Fire Horse Good Wishes
Header verse (larger text): “May all sentient beings throughout the three realms be free from suffering and the causes of suffering, and may they swiftly attain the state of lasting happiness and liberation.” The five-line
Benefits of Understanding Interdependence and Drawbacks of Not Understanding It
As for the first, as said in Sutra, O bikshus! One who sees interdependent origination sees the Dharma! One who sees the Dharma sees the Tathagata, the Buddha. And Je Tsongkhapa said in his Praise
Excerpt from the Essence of the Heart Sutra in Brief
The benefit of hearing one time This teaching on interdependent origination Is inconceivable, it is said in sutras. Therefore, I think we are very fortunate. The root of delusions is confusion, likewise The root of
Buddhas and Sentient Beings
7) What are called ‘Buddhas’ and ‘sentient beings’ Is a difference of knowing or not knowing. If you don’t cling to duality of permanence and nihilism, You will find Buddha within! That is my heart
Buddha Nature
6) All beings have Buddha nature. Just as milk is pervaded by butter When the two accumulations1 are ‘churned’ with effort At some point Buddha nature will manifest! That is my heart advice. This verse
Mind is King
5) Mind is the king, with power over all. The body is the slave, whether of virtue or vice. Not emphasizing ‘imitation virtue’ of body and speech Always watch your mind! That is my heart