Poison is Medicine, 3 August 2021, Halifax, Canada

Poison is medicine. That is magic. Medicine is poison is also magic. There is no ultimate poison nor ultimate medicine. And when we fall into the trap of seeing poison as poison only and medicine as medicine only, we deprive ourselves of this deep and vast magic. Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche gives a very personal introduction to the nature of the tantric path for those who aspire to be Vajrayana students.

Rinpoche’s book “Poison is Medicine” was written to clarify misunderstandings about the Vajrayana path and is available for free download at: https://www.siddharthasintent.org/resources/features/poison-is-medicine/

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Poison is Medicine, 3 August 2021, Halifax, Canada

Maha Guru Aspiration Prayer of Khandro Yeshe Tsogyal, 16 September 2021, Online - Part 2

Khandro Yeshe Tsogyal addresses this vast and profound prayer to Guru Rinpoche on the occasion of his departure to Copper-Coloured Mountain. The prayer is a treasure teaching, or terma, of Pema Lingpa and contains within itself a condensed and complete guide to the Buddhadharma. Yeshe Tsogyal instructs us in how to develop and maintain a relationship with the guru, how to eliminate obstacles, how and where we should practice, and how we can develop bodhicitta. The prayer instils confidence in our basic purity and goodness and reinforces the inseparability of our minds from the mind of the guru.

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Maha Guru Aspiration Prayer of Khandro Yeshe Tsogyal, 16 September 2021, Online - Part 2

Practising vipassana is all about experiencing life directly. Sadhana is a systematic means to reach a goal. Though traditional sadhana practice might involve ritual offerings and visualisation of deities, the ultimate goal is to have this direct experience. Traditionally, vipassana practice is associated with sitting straight and focusing on the breath. This practice has much merit and should be upheld, but to apply vipassana in the modern world we need to adopt a much more abundant and infinite approach. We need to train our minds through the contemplation of impermanence, “unsatisfactoriness” (dukkha) and emptiness to find the courage to go outside our comfort zones, to see the world as it is and find liberation through a direct experience of the truth.

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Vipassana: A Sadhana, 20 February 2022, Online - Part 1

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Glimpses of Abhidharma, 11-13 February 2023, Savitribai Phule Pune University, India - Part 5

Śāntideva’s Bodhicaryāvatāra is probably one of the most intensive, beautiful and systematic mind trainings that one can encounter. This is not just a simple message to overcome gross emotions, discursive thoughts and agitation. The text really offers us a much more profound view into the essence of the mind, why it needs to be trained, how it can be trained and ultimately, why it does not need to be trained. The way of the bodhisattva has the connotation of a warrior, whose aim is to fight the battle of ignorance, not only for oneself but for all beings who are bound by emotions, defilements and ignorance. The quintessence of the bodhisattva path is not to be in samsara but also not to aspire to nirvana. Śāntideva teaches systematically that this is achievable. We will have to understand the relationship between relative truth and ultimate truth. Immediately it sounds as if there are two truths that need to be in relationship with one another, but this is not the case. All the bodhisattva skilful means such as generosity, discipline, patience and diligence are taught by the Buddha as a way to invoke and actualise wisdom. If the wisdom is lost, all the skilful means and even the act of one-pointedness or samādhi concentration is like the blind leading the blind in a desert.

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寂天菩薩的《入菩薩行論》可能是一個人能值遇的最深入、最美好、最系統的修心訓練之一。它不僅僅是一個簡單的訊息用來對治粗重的煩惱、散漫的念頭和焦慮不安，這部教文還給了我們有關心之本質的更加深刻的教授：為何心需要被訓練，它會如何被訓練，而究竟而言，為何它並不需要被訓練。菩薩道具有戰士的內涵，其目的是與無明戰鬥，不僅為自己，也為一切受煩惱、染污和無明束縛的眾生。菩薩道的精髓是不住輪迴，亦不希求涅槃。寂天菩薩系統地教導我們這是可以實現的。我們需要理解世俗諦和勝義諦之間的關係。乍聽起來好像是有兩個真理需要把它們聯繫在一起。但事實並非如此，所有菩薩的善巧方便，如佈施、持戒、忍辱和精進，都是佛陀教導的作為一種喚醒和證悟智慧的方法。如果失去智慧，所有的善巧方便，甚至是專止的行為或三摩地禪修，都好像是盲人在沙漠中引導盲人而已。

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Bodhicharyavatara, February 2014, Pune, India - Part 3 | 《入菩薩行論》，2014年2月，印度普納 - 第三集

In Buddha’s vision, there is something called mind, and this mind wants to be happy and to avoid pain. Happiness can be gained by thinking about the past and planning for the future, but we risk getting entangled in all sorts of false stories while real benefit comes from being in the present moment, focusing on what we have. In fact, nothing can make us completely happy, not material things nor values and beliefs. Buddha also views appearances as deceptive. What we see, hear and taste is just our perception and whatever we are experiencing is a projection coming from our disorderly mind. This is what Buddha calls wisdom, which must be united with compassion to create genuine benefit for our world.

Buddha's Vision, 15 Nov 2023, Christchurch, New Zealand

The Dudjom Tersar Concise Ngondro of the New Treasure of Dudjom Rinpoche, Jigdral Yeshe Dorje chanted by Lama Tharchin Rinpoche recorded 1996 by the Vajrayana Foundation.
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Preliminary Practice of Dudjom : Concise Ngondro

Concise Ngondro

Advice on Ngondro, Rio De Janeiro, 2008
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Dzongar Khyentse Rinpoche's Podcasts

Advice on Ngondro (Rio De Janeiro, 2008)

Prajna, Perceiving the true Nature of Reality,  5 January 2020 - Bengaluru, India
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Prajna 2

Prajna 1

Lama Tharchin Rinpoche chants "Brighter than Crystal: The Indispensable Adornment of View, Meditation, & Action" by Rigdzin Jigme Lingpa. Rinpoche's teachings on the doha are available to Heart Teachings subscribing members. Visit our Membership page for details: https://www.heartteachings.com/pages/membership-registration

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© 2012 Lama Tharchin Rinpoche; recorded in Watertown, Massachusetts, May 2012

Prayers and Songs

Brighter than Crystal Jigme Lingpa Doha

Buddhist organization under the direction of Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche.
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Buddha's Vision, 15 Nov 2023, Christchurch, New Zealand

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