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From chapter 3 of our current Tricycle Retreat leader Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo’s new book, Into the Heart of Life, We’d all like to be happy. And we expend a great deal of effort trying to make ourselves happy. Through the centuries people have pondered this dilemma of how to be happy and stay happy. So […]
From chapter 2 of Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo’s new book, Into the Heart of Life, Let us explore the nature of karma, because I think karma is quite misunderstood in the West. There are various understandings in different religious traditions of the meaning of karma, but here we’ll examine the Buddhist understanding of the term. Actually, […]
Our inherent nature is filled with wisdom, love, and power. We already have all these qualities as our birthright but somehow they are locked away and we seem to have mislaid the key. We need to develop trust in our own abilities and innate understanding. Often in our hearts we know what we should do—but […]
It’s not every day that our weekly newsletter raises hackles. But there’s always the exception. On July 5th the the newsletter ran the following quote, drawn from the Anguttara Nikaya, or the “numbered discourses,” of the Pali canon: The brightly shining mind is never absent but is colored by the thoughts and emotions that people […]
In my home and next to my desk at work hangs a short text, The Four Reminders, as composed by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. The second reminder reads: But death is real,Comes without warning.This bodyWill be a corpse. There are many different versions of The Four Reminders, some attributed to the historical Buddha and others composed […]
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