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

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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 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

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

Vipassana: A Sadhana, 20 February 2022, Online - Part 3

Vipassana: A Sadhana, 20 February 2022, Online - Part 2

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

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內觀：一種成就法 2022年2月20日 線上 - 第二集

內觀：一種成就法 2022年2月20日 線上 - 第一集

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

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

Having a transcendental, or bird's-eye view is very important in human relationships. Buddha once said that family and human relationships should be seen as like a hotel, where people check in and then they check out. They may stay a long time, but eventually they go in different directions. There are also many causes and conditions and karmic connections we may not be aware of, but which influence how we interact with others. If we can look at our lives with a more transcendental view, we can transform our human relationships.

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(English only) Human Relationships, 11 June 2023, Singapore - Part 2

(English only) Human Relationships, 11 June 2023, Singapore - Part 1

In this talk at Rigpa Paris, Rinpoche responds to questions around Vajrayana practice, touching on themes such as samaya, ngöndro, upholding the Dharma in the West, the intricacies of the tulku system, the future of Rigpa, and a short oral transmission of Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata.

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An afternoon with DJK in Paris, 8 Dec 2024, Paris, France - Part 1

An afternoon with DJK in Paris, 8 Dec 2024, Paris, France - Part 2

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

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Madhyamika - Sydney 2005

01 - Heart Sutra

Buddhist organization under the direction of Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche.
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Vipassana: A Sadhana, 20 February 2022, Online - Part 1

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