Teachings: Audio
East-West Mind Difference
“So what I’m trying to say here is that in the West, the cognitive is quite well built up, but you really screw up subtle body. Sorry to say that. Really, really. I think after 18 or 19 years of teaching, I see it in my students – and sometimes in myself, also. And … READ MORE
Reconnect with Essence Love
Reconnect with Essence Love | Tsoknyi Rinpoche Tsoknyi Rinpoche: Yesterday we talked about essence love as part of the spark we have by birth. Because of too many conditions, you sort of dim or cover it, so our job is to reconnect that. And once we reconnect that essence love and then we … READ MORE
The Treasure of Living Teachings
Translator for Rinpoche: The teaching is totally alive, and it has never been interrupted from teacher to disciple up to one’s own primary lama or principal lama. So therefore the dharma itself is vivid when we are in front of a teacher. When we are seeing our teacher, we are also seeing the dharma. … READ MORE
Expecting Circumstances to Bring Us Happiness
Tsoknyi Rinpoche: I have a story about the laptop. One time I was a little bit depressed because I was beginning my “middle-age crisis.” I was in New Delhi at that time. Suddenly I saw something – an advertisement. There was a beautiful man, a very handsome man with a six-pack. And I … READ MORE
Working with Two Kinds of Fear
Student: When my lung is up high, very speedy, for me it’s often with fear and anxiety at the same time. Any practice for that? Tsoknyi Rinpoche: Yes. I think there are two kinds of fear. One fear is oriented in cognition; one fear is based in the subtle body itself. So you … READ MORE
Grand Samsara Master vs. Renunciation
Tsoknyi Rinpoche: If we don’t talk about renunciation, but we only talk about the teachings based on liberation, well-being, and freedom from suffering, then you will only become a great, grand samsara master. Living a spiritual or dharmic life naturally produces more well-being, but without renunciation, the purpose of your spiritual life only … READ MORE
Guided Meditation for Taking Refuge & Arousing Bodhicitta
Rinpoche guides us through an audio meditation (translated by Gerardo Abboud) for the offering and taking of Ordinary Refuge and Bodhicitta prayers.
Guided Refuge Meditation – Part Two
Rinpoche guides us through part two in this audio meditation (translated by Gerardo Abboud) for the offering and taking of Special Refuge and Special Bodhicitta prayers. (Guided Meditation for Extra-Ordinary Taking of Refuge & Arousing Bodhicitta – Part Two)
Guided Refuge Meditation – Part One
Rinpoche guides us through part one in this audio meditation (translated by Gerardo Abboud) for the offering and taking of Special Refuge and Special Bodhicitta prayers. (Guided Meditation for Extra-Ordinary Taking of Refuge & Arousing Bodhicitta – Part One)
