Year: 2017

Teaching Excerpts

All Things Rest on the Point of Intention

To be able to understand every single word of every single Dharma teaching we receive would be wonderful, but we should not hold ourselves hostage to that ambition. The most important thing when listening to […]
Teaching Excerpts

Kleshas Are Fake

We all have kleshas, and because we have them we suffer. Kleshas are misery. When we are in the grips of any klesha we cannot be happy; happiness and kleshas are mutually exclusive. By conquering, […]
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Devotion is All About Love

When we think about devotion, we tend to think of it as something we demonstrate externally. But devotion has nothing to do with external demonstrations of respect. Devotion is not kowtowing; it is not the […]
Spotlight

Nov 4-5 • Essence of Wisdom: Stages of the Path

Teaching and Instruction by Lama Tashi Topgyal Translation by Lama Yeshe Gyamtso Cost of the weekend: $120 (membership discount applies) The teaching is a continuation of an explanation of Guru Rinpoche’s instructions on the stages […]
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Karma Tupten and the Barway Dorje Lineage

As a disciple of Terchen Barway Dorje, he was the teacher Trime Loden, whose direct reincarnation is my grandfather, Karma Tupten. His predicted service to the teachings has been tremendous. In spite of the destruction […]
Teaching Excerpts

Reject Selfishness

We don’t really understand the result of karma, the process of karma. We don’t really understand what the karmic causes of things are, or how it is that actions lead to their infallible results. The […]
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An Opportunity to Support Terma Translation

I have enthusiastically authorized the translation of the nine volumes of the terma of my predecessor Terchen Barway Dorje into English by Lama Yeshe Gyamtso. Although the nine volumes are readily available in Tibetan nowadays, […]