Teacher, scholar, and author Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel speaks about the essential purpose of empowerment: to awaken our potential.

She begins,

Like all things on the Buddhist path, all the rituals, teachings, and practices have to do with awakening your Buddha potential, or clarity of mind.  The promise for all this is that we naturally have this wakeful mind but it gets obscured or confused. (continued)

Courtesy of the Mangala Shri Bhuti youtube channel

Elizabeth has contributed a practice piece for our upcoming issue and she will also be leading a Tricycle

Online Retreat this September. 

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