Sunday discussions with Acharya Tashi return through Dec. 22, focusing on Gampopa Sönam Rinchen’s classic text, “The Jewel Ornament of Liberation,” which lays out the step-by-step path to buddhahood that is open to us all.
Nalandabodhi Seattle and Nitartha Institute are offering several study options this fall, at Nalanda West and online. A book-study group on a classic Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche lojong text begins in October, while Introduction to Buddhism and World I: Valid Cognition got underway in September.
The Khyentse Foundation Prize for Outstanding
Translation recently was awarded to Mitra Karl Brunnhölzl for his three-volume translation of Asanga’s
Mahāyānasaṃgraha.
and it’s Tibetan commentaries.
Sometimes our mindfulness becomes too focused, too squeezed. Squeezed attention, right? When you focus too much on mindfulness, actually that can sometimes be counterproductive.
Often when we talk about compassion we ask, “How I can increase my compassion?” And the Buddhist teachings do say that we need to expand our compassion. But practically speaking, we need to increase our resilience and our heedfulness.
Patience isn’t the opposite of impatience as one might think. It is the opposite of anger, aggression. As our teachers often remind us, a moment of anger wipes out tonnes of merit.
