Demo Rinpoche – Ancient Wisdom. Modern Times. #148 – November 20, 2022 We talk about how to start meditation. We try to retreat from regular thoughts, try to refuse all sorts of different thoughts, and consider that the starting point of meditation.  We hear, “Do meditation, don’t think about anything, just sit on the cushion,…
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Practice Satisfaction and Rejoice Sometimes we need something called rejoicing in ourselves and feeling contentment and satisfaction with what we have. That is two things: Don’t feel pride. Don’t feel arrogant. But you can practice satisfaction with yourself, trying to be satisfied with who you are, with what you have and rejoice in your good…
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Putting the Buddha’s teachings into practice is the real dharma – the actual refuge from suffering. Demo Rinpoche will provide guidance and encouragement to sustain a daily, simple practice. He will also provide a framework to establish confidence in other meditative and spiritual practices that are useful in daily life. Click the video player above…
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Ganden Ngam Chu, also known as Je Tsongkhapa Day, is the annual commemoration of the life and enlightening activities of Je Tsongkhapa, the 14th century founder of the Gelugpa tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, with offerings of practice and the lighting of thousands of butter lamps. While falling on Sunday, December 18 this year, we will…
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Drawing from the seventh and newest volume of The Library of Wisdom and Compassion series with the Dalai Lama, Venerable Chodron will explore the subject of emptiness, one of the most central teachings in Buddhism. Searching for the Self delves deeply into the topic of the ultimate nature of reality, presenting it from a variety…
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