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There is a Tibetan teaching called “The Three Defects of the Pot.” It tells how to listen to dharma teachings. Not listening, is like being a pot turned upside down. If you have no intenti…

A Dekeling student, David McWherter, is going in for surgery soon. He and I met this morning and we chatted about how he can carry his practice to this experience. He agreed that I could share the gis…

Shall we respect ourselves—our body, our mind, our precious life? Let’s do. Let’s learn the skillful means of boundary-setting and taking time and continuous learning and continuous rest. But shall we…

The Four Forces are a traditional Buddhist practice sequence that provide a structure for overcoming the influence of patterns of thought, speech and behavior that cause suffering. The four forces are…

From the Sanity Sit on May 12, 2021.

Check our our new podcast, a talk in the Seven Points of Mind Training Series—on Point 3-Aphorism 13: Contemplate the Kindness of Everyone In a world like ours today, how to do you contemplate the kin…

A bell and dorje are ritual implements in Tibetan Buddhism? What is their use and meaning?