April 2015 – Kunzang Palchen Ling

Renunciation and Adversity

Many people talk about renunciation, but mostly they’re spouting dharma jargon because it’s what they’ve been told is good, and they want to sound good. Sometimes when we’re in the presence of a great master […]

Pure Motivation

Whatever aspects of the teachings we practice, the only point of practicing is to tame our three poisons, to tame our kleshas. Therefore, if dharma practice is effective there should be some evidence of a […]

Open-ended Confession

We certainly need to purify all of our wrongdoing and obscurations. And, in order to be inspired to purify them, we need to be aware of the fact that we are obscured. Now all of […]

It All Comes Down to Benevolence

No matter how much may be said about bodhichitta, and how much we may know about it and learn about it, it all comes down to benevolence, benevolence towards others. If we are benevolent toward […]

Serving the Buddha’s Teachings

By this twenty-first century, regardless of what part of this planet we live in, whether we live in the East or the West, we have opportunity to encounter the Buddha’s teachings. In fact, at this […]