Compassion
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Jé Götsangpa’s Answers to Common Questions
Phakchok Rinpoche shares advice from Lama Zhang on the different processes of rebirth and the relative importance of emptiness and compassion....
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Path of Realization» Path of Transformation
Avoiding Spiritual Loneliness
Phakchok Rinpoche encourages us to meditate correctly every morning. Don’t meditate like a dead tree! That means that we are approaching the session alone....
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On the Importance of Compassion
Phakchok Rinpoche shares advice on the crucial importance of cultivating compassion for all beings from the Drukpa Kagyü master Gyalwa Götsang Gönpo Dorjé....
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Path of Transformation
Opening the Door to Authentic Meditation
Jack DeTar shares Rinpoche's path of authentic meditation taken from "In The Footsteps of Bodhisattvas"...
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Radically Happy
Radically Loving: Creating Sparks of Love
Our true nature is unconditional love....
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Radically Happy
Relying on the Four Immeasurable Qualities During a Pandemic (Part 3): Immeasurable Compassion
Erric Solomon explores the third immeasurable, compassion...
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Path of Transformation» Radically Happy
Relying on the Four Immeasurable Qualities During a Pandemic (Part 1): Immeasurable Equanimity
Erric Solomon begins a four part explorations of the Four Immeasurables....
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Path of Realization» Path of Transformation» Radically Happy
What Can We Do If We Really Start To Freak Out? (Part 1 – Relying on the Love of the Buddhas)
Guru Padmasambhava as the guru we can all call out and supplicate in times of freaking out....
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Path of Transformation
Being With and Caring for Those Who Are Dying
Caregiving is being a warrior, being brave and fearless, with dignity, and with curiosity and compassion....
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Path of Transformation
Anxiety: Seeing Through the Spin
Anxiety arises for almost all sentient beings in certain situations. And there are times when worry can be useful or productive. A little stress can...
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Path of Transformation
Antidotes for the Loneliness Epidemic
The Buddhist tradition offers a number of antidotes to loneliness. Because the Buddha taught dependent origination-- that everything arises dependently, connection matters....
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Path of Transformation
Essence of Bodhicitta
In this short audio teaching, Phakchok Rinpoche answers a student question asking about the very essence of bodhicitta....