Karma, 18 July 2021, Los Angeles, USA

Karma is a topic that has been widely discussed and widely misunderstood. On one level, the law of cause and effect seems very logical, but as we examine the complexities of causes and conditions, the concept of karma becomes really deep and vast. Karma is often characterised as good or bad: vague and subjective concepts. In fact, karma operates on a relative not an absolute level, and ultimately is an extremely powerful illusion. Our aim is not to collect good karma and avoid bad karma but to free ourselves and others from the illusion of karma altogether.

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Karma, 18 July 2021, Los Angeles, USA

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Vimalakirti Sutra Day 1 Session 1.MP3

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Bodhicitta, 5 July 2021, San Francisco, USA - Part 1

Bodhicitta has been characterised as kindness, compassion, and the wish to release all beings from suffering. This is correct but does not convey the complete picture. Bodhicitta also involves freeing beings from the causes of suffering. Everyone wants to be free from suffering, but does everyone want to be free from happiness? Probably not, but from the bodhicitta point of view happiness is also problematic, because happiness is a fabricated condition and cannot be trusted or relied upon. A bodhisattva wishes to free sentient beings from all phenomena:  this is what makes bodhicitta unique. Bodhicitta is more accurately characterised as the union of wisdom and skilful means, with the aspiration of awakening all beings to the truth.

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Bodhicitta, 5 July 2021, San Francisco, USA - Part 1

Karma, 18 juillet 2021, Los Angeles, États-Unis - Partie 1

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Karma, 18 juillet 2021, Los Angeles, États-Unis - Partie 1

業 | 2021年7月18日 | 美國 洛杉磯 - 第二集
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業 | 2021年7月18日 | 美國 洛杉磯 - 第二集

業 | 2021年7月18日 | 美國 洛杉磯 - 第一集
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業 | 2021年7月18日 | 美國 洛杉磯 - 第一集

Karma, 18 July 2021, Los Angeles, USA - Part 2

Karma is a topic that has been widely discussed and widely misunderstood. On one level, the law of cause and effect seems very logical, but as we examine the complexities of causes and conditions, the concept of karma becomes really deep and vast. Karma is often characterised as good or bad: vague and subjective concepts. In fact, karma operates on a relative not an absolute level, and ultimately is an extremely powerful illusion. Our aim is not to collect good karma and avoid bad karma but to free ourselves and others from the illusion of karma altogether.

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Karma, 18 July 2021, Los Angeles, USA - Part 2

Karma, 18 July 2021, Los Angeles, USA - Part 1

Karma is a topic that has been widely discussed and widely misunderstood. On one level, the law of cause and effect seems very logical, but as we examine the complexities of causes and conditions, the concept of karma becomes really deep and vast. Karma is often characterised as good or bad: vague and subjective concepts. In fact, karma operates on a relative not an absolute level, and ultimately is an extremely powerful illusion. Our aim is not to collect good karma and avoid bad karma but to free ourselves and others from the illusion of karma altogether.

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Karma, 18 July 2021, Los Angeles, USA - Part 1

Teachings given on March 8, 2013 by Lama Tsering Gyaltsen, a founding teacher, at Saraha Nyingma Buddhist Institute in Eugene, Oregon, USA on the subject "The Six Bardo's - The Intermediate States of Existence" 

“Bardo” is a Tibetan word meaning literally “between two,” which in Buddhism refers to the idea that within Samsara all states of existence are not static, but are actually continuous, successive, ordered facets of beginningless transition.  What we usually refer to as “life and death” are only two among the six bardos that are traditionally enumerated. 

Each Bardo has its own form of expression and development, and each presents beings with unique opportunities for the realization of enlightenment, or for advancement toward enlightenment, or conversely for decline into greater suffering.  Bardo teachings such as these are an important key to knowing where we are, which way to go, and  how to proceed.

Teaching on the Six Bardos by Lama Tsering Gyaltsen at Saraha Nyingma Buddhist Institute

Maha Guru Aspiration Prayer of Khandro Yeshe Tsogyal, 16 September 2021, Online - Part 1 

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 1

Ayang Rinpoche chants Milarepa mantra: JE MILA JE PA DORJE LA SOL WA DEB SO

Supplication To Milarepa

Buddha Dharma: An Indian Heritage

Among all the contributions of Indian culture, the Buddha Dharma shines very brightly. This very important part of Indian heritage has been influencing the world for more than 2,000 years and must be preserved. What is the Buddha Dharma: a religion, a spiritual path, a philosophy or a scientific method? It is all and none of these. Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche introduces three key components of the Buddhist view of life and the world: impermanence, suffering and emptiness, giving practical instructions for meditating on the nature of the self and the mind. Perhaps the simplest explanation of the Buddha Dharma is that it is a path to becoming your own master.

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Buddha Dharma: An Indian Heritage, 14-15 June 2022, Kalimpong, India - Part 1

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Glimpses of Abhidharma, 11-13 February 2023, Savitribai Phule Pune University, India - Part 6

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 1 | 《入菩薩行論》，2014年2月，印度普納 - 第一集

The Four Immeasurable Thoughts, May 13 - 14 2023, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam - Part 2

As modern people, our dukkha revolves around an overwhelming amount of freedom and choice, questions about the purpose of life, who am I, what am I, the insecurity of wanting to be recognized by others, alienation, disconnection, feeling trapped whilst at the same time wanting to belong, restlessness, over-stimulation... the list goes on.
Suffering from an identity crisis yet? Which identity, asks the Heart Sutra?

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Identity Crisis, 15 January 2024, Tokyo [日本語訳付き]

As long as we have consciousness and interact with the world around us, we act out of “trust” or “belief”. We have a notion of an objective reality but the way we see the world is highly subjective: even science is a belief. This Mahayana sutra provides a thorough explanation and detailed analysis of the meaning, development and characteristics of the “trust” which we, aspiring bodhisattvas, need to develop.

Based on the sutra Cultivating Trust in the Great Vehicle.

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Cultivating Trust On The Bodhisattva Path, 8 May 2022, Online

Lying flat or tangping is a recent Chinese cultural phenomenon among young people which implies a rejection of societal pressures and competition, and a desire to live a simple life. It may be the closest thing in Chinese society to the hippy movement and its counter-culture values. It may also be related to the Japanese phenomenon hikikomori, or extreme social withdrawal by young people. Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche analyses tangping and how it relates to a meaningful life in the ancient Chinese and Indian wisdom traditions.

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Lying Flat Buddha, 3 April 2023, Taipei, Taiwan

It is said that storytelling is what separates humans from animals. In this masterclass, Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche discusses the power of storytelling and how the notion of a universal theme and the temptation to always achieve a beautiful shot can get in the way of a good story.

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Beauty Is A Trap  Masterclass By Khyentse Norbu, 20 May 2023, Nepal

བདག་ཉིན་ཆེན་པོ་སློབ་དཔོན་ཟམ་གདོང་རིན་པོ་ཆེས་གནང་བའི་བྱང་ཆུབ་ལམ་སྒྲོན་གྱི་བཀའ་ཁྲིད།

བྱང་ཆུབ་ལམ་སྒྲོན།  ཞི་གནས་སྐོར།

01 01 - Longchen Nyingtik Ngöndro

Madhyamakavatara, Introduction to the Middle Way (Parts 4) - Sydney, Australia, 2004

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Madhyamika - Sydney 2005

01 - Heart Sutra

Teaching on Refuge – 2010, London, UK 

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Teaching On Refuge – 2010, London, UK - Track 02

Buddha Shakyamuni Mantra in Tala Kaharwa 

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Vocal - Subhankar Mridha
Khol - Sumanta Ganguly

Buddha Shakyamuni Mantra in Tala Kaharwa

A Darshan in Vimalakirti Sutra, 28-29 April 2015 - Bir, India
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Buddhist organization under the direction of Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche.
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Karma, 18 July 2021, Los Angeles, USA - Part 1

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