New edition of the Discovering Buddhism program
We are excited to start the second round of the Discovering Buddhism program with the weekend edition of the course Mind and its Potential. Everyone is welcome! This course is perfectly suitable if Buddhism is new for you or if you did some of the other modules and you would like to explore the basis. In......
Transforming Criticism
“Bad reputation is very powerful to use for your practice, and it should be used that way. As a Kadampa geshe once said: “If someone criticizes you, this destroys your mistakes; it blows away immediately one’s own mistakes. If you are praised, it causes pride/the ego to inflate and causes great pride.” Transforming bad conditions......
Transforming Criticism
“Bad reputation is very powerful to use for your practice, and it should be used that way. As a Kadampa geshe once said: “If someone criticizes you, this destroys your mistakes; it blows away immediately one’s own mistakes. If you are praised, it causes pride/the ego to inflate and causes great pride.” Transforming bad conditions......
Healing Disturbing Emotions
“What is your first labelling thought when you see a person? I like, I don’t like, I don’t care. We can change that. Let your first labelling thought always be ‘may you be happy’.” Thank you Venerable Namgyel for your powerful and uplifting insights, teaching us how to heal disturbing emotions. Throughout the course of......
Healing Disturbing Emotions
“What is your first labelling thought when you see a person? I like, I don’t like, I don’t care. We can change that. Let your first labelling thought always be ‘may you be happy’.” Thank you Venerable Namgyel for your powerful and uplifting insights, teaching us how to heal disturbing emotions. Throughout the course of......
The key to happiness is the mind
“The key to happiness is the mind. With the mind, we can switch our life to suffering or we can switch it to happiness, just as we change television channels, choosing to watch programs about fighting and war, or peaceful things, like the nature programs people seem to enjoy. Experiencing happiness or suffering depends entirely......
The key to happiness is the mind
“The key to happiness is the mind. With the mind, we can switch our life to suffering or we can switch it to happiness, just as we change television channels, choosing to watch programs about fighting and war, or peaceful things, like the nature programs people seem to enjoy. Experiencing happiness or suffering depends entirely......