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A Ship Sailing to Liberation: A Commentary on the Heartfelt Advice of Dharma Nectar
3) When we’ve attained this excellent basis, so difficult to find, If we throw it away in meaningless, harmful conduct We are trading gold for worthless rocks; Don’t waste this life! That is my heart
My Reflection on a Few Buddhist Monks Walk for Peace
Originally posted to Rinpoche's Blog Spot--English here, Tibetan here In this 21st century, while science and technology are rapidly transforming the direction of our world in frightening ways and political leaders and authoritarian powers continue
This Boat of a Precious Human Life
Excerpts from A Door of Entrance to the Heart Advice Called A Ship Sailing to Liberation: A Commentary on the Heartfelt Advice of Dharma Nectar 1) In the following Dharma advice for heart disciples I
Celebrating the Walk for Peace!
How wonderful and noble your method of peace truly is. Each peaceful footprint you leave across different parts of the United States spreads paths of peace across the entire world. Each prayer you voice awakens
The Four Powers of Purification of Negative Karma
We may unknowingly make a mistake during any activity. After we make a mistake, however, it is extremely important to confess and purify it. No more than a few people will willingly commit bad karma
A Holiday Wish
As many around the world celebrate Christmas and the season of goodwill, the MDC wishes all who celebrate happy holidays and joins in offering prayers for peace! “Through the roots of goodness of us all
༅༅།། བློ་ལྡོག་རྣམ་བཞི་དང་དམ་པ་གསུམ་གྱི་ཕལ་སྐད་ཆོས་གཏམ་མདོར་བསྡུས།། Brief Dharma Words in Common Language On the Four Attitude Reversers and the Three Holy Instruction
ཀྱེ་ཧོ། དགུང་སྔོན་སྤྲིན་དཀར་ལང་ལིང་འཁྲིག་པའི་ཀློང་།། ཕ་གཅིག་གྲུབ་བརྙེས་དྲིན་ཅན་བུདྡྷའི་མཚན།། ད་ལྟ་ཡེ་ཤེས་དབྱིངས་ནས་གཟིགས་ཡོད་ན།། འགྲོ་འདི་བློ་སྣ་དམ་པའི་ཆོས་ལ་བསྒྱུར།། Kye ho! In space of gathering white clouds drifting in blue sky sole accomplished, benevolent father, named "Buddha", since you are now watching from the sphere of timeless wisdom please
Reflections on the 2025 Winter Solstice Water Blessing
Yesterday, 12/21/2025, on the winter solstice–the shortest day of the year–Rinpoche conducted what may have been his last Water Blessing in Pacific Grove, California. Starting in 2008, Rinpoche has performed a blessing of the waters