Ode to Delight, also known as Recognizing the Face of the Mother, is a poetic song that conveys how we can learn to recognize the true nature of reality, surrender misguided perceptions, and ultimately fulfill our greatest potential, total enlightenment. This evocative teaching on emptiness is highly revered among all Tibetan Buddhist traditions. Geshe Yeshe…
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In the Lam Rim, or Stages on the Path to Enlightenment, Buddha’s teachings are a step-by-step process that can transform the challenges and confusion encountered in ordinary everyday life into the extraordinary compassion and wisdom of enlightenment. Demo Rinpoche will teach Monday evenings from 7:00pm to 8:30pm based on Je Tsongkhapa’s Medium Lam Rim. Day/Times/Dates:…
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This online course will explore the various types of meditation that are practiced in Tibetan Buddhism. Join guest speakers Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe, Geshe Lobsang Negi, Joseph Loizzo, Venerable Thubten Chodron, Glenn Mullin and Robert A. F. Thurman over the course of six weeks in this exploration of the nature of mind and meditation. Jewel Heart…
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We do recommend to contemplate and meditate. So where do you begin? That’s the real question. You can begin the Buddhist [meditation] from any level. Traditionally, in Tibet it begins with the guru-devotional practice. Traditionally, in early India, it began with the refuge. To correspond these, the guru devotional practice is part of refuge, because…
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What is the true nature of how we exist? What is the nature of time? Is there an objective reality distinct from us? USING REASON TO SEE THINGS AS THEY ARE Join Guy Newland, author of Introduction to Emptiness, as he walks us through these and other mysteries of life with reliable points for our…
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These are the internal problems we have. Although I am talking about motivation, I am truly talking about how our mind is working, how our thoughts are working and what we can do about it. What can Tibetan Buddhism contribute to improve my mind? These are very important points to me. For me, personally, these…
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Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe taught on The Rice Seedling Sutra at Jewel Heart Ann Arbor from September 16 to 22, 2019. The Rice Seedling Sutra (Salistamba Sutra, Tib: sa lu’i jang pai do) is an early Mahayana Sutra in which Maitreya explains to Shariputra a short statement on dependent arising the Buddha made while looking at…
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Jewel Heart hosts H.E. Ling Rinpoche for teachings on Je Tsongkhapa’s Three Principles of the Path as well as a Manjushri Empowerment during the 600th anniversary of Je Tsongkhapa’s enlightenment. The Three Principles of the Path, a famous text in verse by Je Tsongkhapa, is a condensed summation of the entire path to enlightenment, offering…
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MINDFULNESS OF BREATH SUTRA (Anapana Smriti Sutra) Friday, March 22, 2019 DRIKUNG PHOWA CHENMO and AMITAYUS LONGEVITY EMPOWERMENT Saturday, March 23, 2019 Jewel Heart is pleased to announce that HH Drikung Kyabgon, the 37th throne holder of the Drikung Kagyu Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, has graciously accepted our invitation to visit Jewel Heart. Drikung Rinpoche,…
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Actually, Buddhism came first to Tibet in the early 700’s, but somehow it got mixed up with magical mystical aspects. It was about how to fly in the air and how to put daggers through rocks, and that type of thing. That occupied Tibet for 300 years. So, they really wanted to have something really…
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