What is your own practice? Your own practice is recognizing the ultimate truth, understanding what is reality. And training your mind to be a good person. That is your practice. Your achievement is whenever you change yourself, whenever you are trying to be a better person, changing your behavior. For example, in earlier times you…
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In one way, I feel like many wise people are Buddhist, even though they don’t know they are Buddhist. Why? Because technically they believe in taking refuge in the Three Jewels practice over taking refuge in a deity that they have no idea where it lives, how it functions and especially how that works. There…
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If you have a proper refuge taking practice, there is no doubt you are Buddhist. In society, whether they call or recognize you as Buddhist or not, that’s a social thing. But based on your spiritual practice, yes, you are. So therefore, the practice of taking refuge should be a perfect way to take refuge….
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Very often when people approach Buddhism they wonder: am I a Buddhist now or not? I don’t think it matters whether you are officially Buddhist or not. Some people are born in a Buddhist family and feel, “I am Buddhist”. Yet they do not have a single Buddhist practice in their life. Also, some think,…
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Gelek Rimpoche (1939-2017) is considered to be one of the greatest Tibetan Buddhist masters and scholars of the 20th and 21st Centuries who came to the West and taught in English. In the late 1970’s Rimpoche was directed to teach Western students by his teachers, the Senior and Junior Masters to His Holiness the Dalai Lama. From…
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Practical Buddhism: The Tibetan Approach by Gelek Rimpoche is a review of the recordings of Sunday Talks by Gelek Rimpoche held in 2012 – 2014. 2022 Videos June 14 – The Purpose of Buddhism June 21 – Tibetan Buddhism is Pure Buddhism June 28 – The Purpose of Spiritual Practice July 5 – Dharma is…
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The 2025 Winter Retreat will be a Yamantaka mantra retreat with supporting teachings by Demo Rinpoche. There will be practice sessions to accumulate mantras and collect blessings, concluding with a fire puja. VAJRAYANA REQUIREMENTYou must have received a Yamantaka highest yoga initiation to register for this retreat. If you are not logged in, please log…
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Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Ethics