Habits
Being Able to See Your Faults Without Losing Your Dignity and Being Patient Without Any Regrets
On this Guru Rinpoche day, I would like to share with you some advice about two more qualities that are important both for worldly life...
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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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Practicing Dharma: Continuous Journey
When we really want to practice Dharma we wish to carry on until we die. We don't want to stop! Dharma practice is a continuous...
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Overcoming Resistance to Meditation
Overcoming resistance means understanding our own behavior and habits. And many of us have patterns of laziness or of rebelling against rules and regulations. So,...
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Focusing the Mind: Impossible Task?
As we begin to practice meditation, many of us experience doubts. One of the biggest questions is, "How can I concentrate? My mind gets distracted...
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Learning Meditation: A Whole Package
The point of meditation is not to be calm. Instead, in this video teaching, Phakchok Rinpoche reminds us that the point of meditation is to...
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Handling Habits
Handling our habits is a crucial practice for meditators. How does a beginning meditator train?...
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Questions on Karma: Choosing Not to Swing
Our minds swing back and forth crazily without any stability. That is the "swing" of karma. If we don't "swing" with karma, it cannot do...
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Changing Perception
Phakchok Rinpoche relects upon his visit to Earthfire Wildlife Sanctuary and how it changed his perception of wildlife....
The Qualities of Diligence
Coming back to Śāntideva's Way of the Bodhisattva, it is through diligence that one develops and intensifies bodhichitta. But what is diligence? Why is it...