In this exclusive video teaching, acclaimed teacher Lama Alan Wallace begins unpacking the view, meditation, and way of life of Dzokchen based on the personal experiences of 19th-century Great Perfection master Dudjom Lingpa. This HD video teaching is part of lesson 1 of the bestselling Wisdom Academy online course Introduction to Dzokchen.

Erik Pema Kunsang: Timeless Teachings with Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche (#195)

Posted October 11, 2024

In this second episode of our celebratory Blazing Splendor Wisdom Podcast Series host Daniel Aitken is joined by Erik Pema Kunsang. Enjoy hearing Erik share profound experiences with Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche in “Timeless Teachings with Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche,” including a story he’s never shared before.

During this episode, Daniel and Erik discuss:

how Rinpoche led him to the realization of the mind’s true nature;
Rinpoche’s unique teaching methods;
his diverse skills and humility;
the enduring influence Rinpoche has had on Erik and countless others; and
so much more.

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Erik Pema Kunsang is one of the most highly regarded Tibetan translators and interpreters today. Erik has been the assistant and translator for Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche and his sons since the late 1970s. He has translated and edited over fifty volumes of Tibetan texts and oral teachings and was one of the founding directors of Rangjung Yeshe Publications.

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Wisdom Dharma Chat | Lama Alan Wallace - October 2024

Please enjoy this unedited recording of Wisdom Dharma Chats with special guest Lama Alan Wallace. Lama Alan is the founder and director of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies and the Center for Contemplative Research. He has taught Buddhist theory and practice in Europe and America since 1976 and has served as an interpreter for numerous Tibetan scholars and contemplatives, including H. H. the Dalai Lama. He has edited, translated, authored, and contributed to more than forty books on Tibetan Buddhism, medicine, language, and culture, and the interface between science and religion. In this episode, he and Daniel discuss Lama Alan’s new book on Dzokchen, the significance of mindfulness, perception, and the diverse teachings within Buddhism. They also explore the intersection of Buddhism and modern science and much more!

A Zen Buddhist priest paints a picture of Zen in Ireland in this collection of short essays.

In this collection of short essays, Irish Soto Zen priest Myozan Ian Kilroy describes how he came to practice Zen, introduces some basics of Zen philosophy, and recalls the challenges of establishing a Zen Buddhist community in Catholic-dominated Ireland. Along the way, he explores the rituals and practices that Zen brings to everyday life, from holidays to weddings to birth ceremonies to funerals. A former journalist, Rev. Myozan’s clear yet entertaining storytelling style paints a clear picture of how Zen has adapted to the culture and traditions of Ireland.

In this exclusive clip, acclaimed teacher Lama Alan Wallace explains in simple terms the Buddhist approach to the pursuit of psychological well-being. He also explores the conceptions of happiness within myriad Eastern and Western philosophical traditions and asks how Buddhists might achieve and maintain such a state. This HD video teaching is an excerpt from lesson 1 of the Wisdom Academy online course A Scientific Investigation of the Mind.

Marcia Binder Schmidt: Meeting Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche (#194)

Posted October 4, 2024

In the first episode of this celebratory series of episodes, Wisdom Podcast host Daniel Aitken is joined by Marcia Binder Schmidt, one of the editors of Blazing Splendor and a student of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche.

During this episode, she and Daniel discuss

how she began to practice Tibetan Buddhism;
her impactful first meeting with Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche;
how the book Blazing Splendor came to be;
her involvement in preserving Rinpoche’s teachings through books; and
so much more.

About the Interviewee

Marcia Dechen Wangmo, AKA Marcia Binder Schmidt is a renowned Buddhist translator, editor, writer, and teacher. Together with Erik Pema Kunsang, she established Rangjung Yeshe Institute that has been dedicated to offering educational and practice support for practitioners and scholars of Tibetan Buddhism in 1981. In 1986 as an offshoot of this Institute, Erik and she created Rangjung Yeshe Publications. (www.rangjung.com) www.lotustreasure.com. They have translated and produced over sixty-two titles that have been translated into twenty different languages.

Marcia has helped to develop retreat centers and study groups all over the world and has been teaching sharing her humor and human approach to traditional Tibetan Buddhist practice, all over the world.

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Deepen your meditation by diving into the practices of the lamrim—the stages of the path to enlightenment.

Buddhist tradition tells us that enlightenment is possible for each and every one of us. It’s actually the best thing we can do for others and for the world, but also the best thing we can do for ourselves, because it means being free from all misery, pain, depression, dissatisfaction, and negative emotions, and abiding forever in peace, joy, love, and compassion. What could be more wonderful than that?

Kathleen McDonald (Sangye Khadro), a Western nun with decades of experience and author of the bestselling book How to Meditate, guides us through the next step in our meditation practice: the transformative meditations on the Tibetan lamrim stages to enlightenment. She helps us see that the whole purpose of meditation is to transform our mind in a constructive way. For this to happen, we need to become so thoroughly familiar with the lamrim topics that they become our natural way of thinking and living our life. This warm and encouraging guide takes us through meditations on these lamrim topics, such as:

impermanence
refuge
karma
the four noble truths
bodhichitta
the six perfections: giving, ethics, patience, joyous effort, concentration, and wisdom

How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path offers practical advice, support, and step-by-step guidance on how to meditate on the stages of the path to enlightenment that will transform the practice of new meditators and seasoned practitioners alike.

Dudjom Rinpoche’s classic meditation manual on realizing the Great Perfection, presented and explained by Lama B. Alan Wallace.

In the concise yet comprehensive practice manual entitled Illumination of Primordial Consciousness, the great twentieth-century Tibetan Nyingma master Dudjom Rinpoche lays out a sequential path to spiritual freedom according to the teachings of the Great Perfection (Dzokchen): First, we refine our awareness by training in meditative quiescence (shamatha) and then proceed to the practices of insight meditation (vipashyana), by which our mind’s basic nature of luminosity and emptiness is revealed. Then, having recognized that the ordinary, deluded mind is actually without any intrinsic essence, we are primed to cut through this conditioned mind into unborn, timeless pristine awareness, which has never been contaminated by mental afflictions or other obscurations. Finally, we realize that our own awareness has never been other than the dharmakāya, the mind of a buddha, and perfect enlightenment is realized spontaneously and effortlessly.

Beloved teacher and renowned scholar Lama B. Alan Wallace guides the reader through this remarkable text, which he first translated for his teacher Gyatrul Rinpoche’s book Meditation, Transformation, and Dream Yoga. In this book, Lama shares insights gained over years of study, providing a line-by-line explanation interspersed with background teachings from revered Dzokchen scriptures written by Padmasambhava, Dudjom Lingpa, and others. Also included are a set of fifteen guided meditations given by Lama Wallace, along with links to audio tracks of Lama Wallace giving the instructions himself. Through the practices he describes, the mystery of the mind—its origin and what happens to it at death–is thus illuminated through one’s own meditative experience.

Lama Alan has provided several guided meditations to accompany this book and they can be found here.

In this exclusive clip, acclaimed Dzogchen teacher Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche compares the various appearances and apprehensions of a calm mind to the reflections in the water of still mountain lake. He also challenges viewers to investigate the question of how to understand “awareness.” This HD video teaching is an excerpt from lesson 5 of the Wisdom Academy online course Abiding in Emptiness.

In this exclusive clip, His Holiness The Dalai Lama explains how the 21st-century Buddhist should conceive of ethical discipline and community action in the context of modern secular society. This HD video teaching is an excerpt from lesson 8 of the online course Illuminating the Mind, a joint undertaking of The Wisdom Academy and The Mind & Life Institute.

TRANSCRIPT

His Holiness the Dalai Lama: If you take religions seriously, sincerely, then all religious tradition talks love, compassion, forgiveness, tolerance, self-discipline, these things. But a major portion of the religious believers don’t care. You see, the real message of religions. Religion is corrupted. As a matter of fact, I think as in his presentation as he mentioned, there’s a large portion of humanity essentially not believer. Even those people who is a believer, who is a Christian, who is a Buddhist, who is a Hindu, real life don’t care about religious practice, religious message. Then, education. Comparatively, [inaudible] speaking, I think during 20th century, I think the education highly [inaudible] because of that.

Thupten Jinpa: Advanced.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama: Advanced, everywhere. I think the recognition, awareness, importance of education is now universal, everywhere. Whether they can make effort or not, but people everywhere realize education, importance of education. But education really brought some good thing, including scientific knowledge, I think doubt. No, [inaudible], 20th century, some historian say over 200, around 200 millions of people killed during the 20th century through violence, through war. The education I think helping such tremendous destructive, the power of destructive, and scientists also helped, not intentionally, but use of the knowledge through scientific research. You see, you realize by the wrong way, so the science also make tremendous contribution for human suffering. [inaudible] education. I think those like September 11 sort of event. People who planned these things, I think very, very smart. I think people [crosstalk], the dull people, they are uneducated people cannot make that kind of plan, that kind of destructive work, carry. Isn’t it? So then, only hope is proper education. Education, university, religion, no matter how wonderful one religious tradition, like Buddhism, I think I’m Buddhist, so maybe a little prejudiced.

Thupten Jinpa: Biased.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama: Biased. Yes, I feel the Buddhist approach is what’s called a realistic way of approach. But Buddhist will never be universal tradition. Clear. Now, only thing is, only the hope, education. Now in education, I extremely happy recently because of the [Tibetan].

Thupten Jinpa: Colleague.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama: [Tibetan].

Thupten Jinpa: It’s my new friend.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama: Really, you see, carrying the work, educated people, about warmheartedness and meditation, or mindfulness, these things. I really appreciate. And some other, the scientists also now making clear the warmheartedness is something very, very important. Anyway, so therefore, in the education field, if you put some moral ethics, as you mentioned from kindergarten up to university level, [Tibetan]. Eventually, that way I think can change human thinking. Through that way, human behavior then becoming much more positive. Now in the education field, the moral ethics, if it is related with religious faith, then complications, a lot of complications there. There is no other choice except secular ethics. Not talking about next life, not talking about God, not talking about Heaven, or Buddha, not like that. Simply try to educate people. I think every people knows some more holistic view, then our world, not happy world, a lot of problem. If present sort of the situation, present way of thinking, way of life continues, I think within this century, I think more problems will come. Although, I have not much worry. Now already over 77, now 78, perhaps I think next one decade means 87, 88. Two decades, 98. Then I may go. All problem remain with those younger people’s hand or their shoulder. But as human being, we have to think about coming generations. They also is a human being. They also have exactly same sort of desire, same sort of feeling, want happy life. They don’t want suffering, as we do. Perhaps we have some experiences. The elder generation, it is our responsibility through our own experience, now show some sort of more holistic way of coming generation. Now here, as you like me, religious people, what we can do is only incorporate or support. But main thing I feel, scientists: you see, your knowledge not based on faith, but through actual experiment, investigation. That means some of your knowledge come from reality. It’s your explanation I think easier to accept people, particularly non-believers. So therefore, in order to develop effective secular ethics, I think the scientific findings, scientists cooperation is very, very essential. I think at the beginning, I had mentioned such meetings, two purpose. One, extend our knowledge. That’s one purpose. One purpose, through…

Thupten Jinpa: Through collaboration.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama: Through our knowledge, how to make contribution for better world, better human being. Now, this is the second one.

Thupten Jinpa: The second one. Second goal.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama: Now, how to deal these things? Then moral ethics come. First, the space is just academic subject. Then, through that some kind of conclusion. Since some of these emotions are very harmful, some of the emotions are very helpful. So now, how to deal? This is not out of some kind of happy mood. Then, find some new things. No, we are facing desperate situation. There is no other choice. Making more money can solve this? No. More scientific technology can solve this? Some extent, but not complete. Ultimately, problem start from here. Negative emotion, we have [inaudible], the immense destructions, immense suffering, they happen. Here, you already education dealing with this. Now here, religion, difficult. To some extent, even religion, once we develop education, through education, awareness, this secular ethics, then religion becomes…

Thupten Jinpa: …more grounded.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama: Then people, some people, you see the ones with real enthusiasm or realization about the importance of these moral ethics, then religion, all religions is talking that use different philosophy views. So then, different religious tradition also becoming more stronger. This is my feeling.

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Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche: Dream Yoga (#193)

Posted September 6, 2024

In this insightful episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, special guest, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, joins host Daniel Aitken. As a distinguished teacher and meditation master in the Bön tradition of Tibet, Rinpoche offers profound insight into the application and practice of dream yoga.

During this conversation, Rinpoche and Daniel explore:

Rinpoche’s teachers, and how he began to practice dream yoga;
how this practice can bring greater clarity to your waking life and facilitate spiritual growth;
the importance of sleep; and
so much more!

Listeners are invited to join Rinpoche’s Wisdom Academy online course, Dream Yoga, and save $80 off Dream Yoga with code WPODDY before enrollment closes on Friday, September 13 at 5 pm EDT.

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A lucid and landmark translation that offers an intriguing glimpse into Tibetan history, the Mongol Empire, and the spiritual development and remarkable lives of the early luminaries of the Sakya lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.

In this first of two volumes of The Amazing Treasury of the Sakya Lineage, translators Khenpo Kunga Sherab and Matthew King capture a truly remarkable period in Buddhist and Asian history. Here, Ameshab Ngakwang Kunga Sönam (1597–1659), a member of the Khön aristocracy and the twenty-seventh throne holder of Sakya Monastery, offers a narrative that recounts the lives of numerous iconic leaders of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism during the transformational period between the tenth and fourteenth centuries. This landmark volume reconstructs that long era of religious and political innovation and upheaval through the rise of the Mongol Empire.

In this book, you’ll see how Sakya Buddhist leaders emerged in this early period as translators, adopters, arbiters, and innovators of newly circulating Indian Buddhist scholastic and tantric cultures. In the thirteenth century, when the Mongol Empire forever transformed medieval Eurasia, leaders of the Sakya school became confidants and tutors to some of its most powerful leaders. The biographies of numerous Sakya luminaries are retold here, like Sakya Paṇḍita and Phakpa Lodrö Gyaltsen; along with their Mongol contemporaries, Köten Ejen and Qubilai Qaγan, these leaders laid the groundwork for forms of patronage, religious and political sovereignty, scholasticism and tantrism, and righteous rule that would endure for the next eight centuries down to today.

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In this exclusive clip, acclaimed teacher Bhante Gunaratana explains how to avoid excessive looseness or tension in your Dharma practice as well as the distinction between mindfulness and mere carefulness. This HD video teaching is an excerpt from lesson 4 of the Wisdom Academy online course Mindfulness in Plain English.

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When we work, we often hear people say that, “Be mindful of what you are doing.” Of course, people do what they do with carefulness. Carefulness and mindfulness are not the same. You can be careful when you walk, talk, wash dishes, wash clothes, and so on, cutting vegetables. If you’re not careful enough, when you cut vegetables, you cut your fingers, and so on. That is not mindfulness. That is carefulness.

Mindfulness is much deeper than that, more profound, more meaningful, and bringing you peace. Mindfulness is whenever you do anything, you train your mind to look at the mind. It is the mind from which everything— every unwholesome or wholesome thing—springs up. “It is the mind; mainly mind is the source; mind is the makeup; mind is the forerunner; mind is the chief; everything is mind-made,” said the Buddha.

Since everything is mind-made, you know, this whole setup is mind-made. Mind tells you to do this, to do that, to do this. And then, according to your order of your mind, you use your hands, legs, mouth, and so forth. So the mind is the one that does everything. Therefore, whenever we do something or say something, look at the mind to see whether greed arises at that time, hatred arises at that time, confusion arises at that time, jealousy arises at that time, or tension arises.

Whatever state arises in the mind, watch that, and immediately, if greed arises, you must say, “This is greed.” “This is greed. This mind is a greedy mind. When the mind is greedy, we become aware that the greedy mind is a greedy mind. When the mind is full of anger or hatred, you say, “The mind is full of hatred. This is anger. This is anger. This is anger.” When confusion arises, you say, “This is confusion. This is confusion.” When you pay attention to it, recognize it, identify it, slowly you learn to let it go. When greed arises, you have to let go of greed. Greed can breed pain, sorrow, lamentation, grief, and despair. And why should we then support, sustain, maintain, nourish, and love greed? We should not. Similarly, when we do this, greed fades away. So you experience then and there the benefit of letting go of greed. And right there, you can see dependent origination.

When greed arises, then and there you have suffering. That is why the Buddha said, “When this arises, this is; that is the dependent origination formula. When greed arises, pain arises. When greed fades away, pain goes away. When hatred arises, pain arises. When hatred goes away, pain goes away. When confusion arises, pain arises. When confusion goes away, pain goes away. So this relationship between the cause and effect has to be watched, noticed all the time, every moment, every day. This is a wonderful meditation—insight meditation, vipassanā meditation. These are good reasons to meditate.

When somebody struggles unnecessarily, that struggling would be counterproductive. You cannot achieve something by mere struggling. You have to understand that you have only a certain amount of energy. Don’t dissipate that energy. Don’t waste it by struggling. Focus your energy on the practice. Say, for instance, you want to meditate; you sit and sitting is sometimes very difficult, painful, and slowly when you move your legs, the pain is excruciating. You cannot practice. Sometimes later you may learn to stay with the pain, but when you have too much pain, struggling to meditate with pain may make you discouraged. And I have heard people who have had pain at the beginning of meditation say, “I’d kill myself rather than meditating,” because it is so difficult for them. You should not go to that kind of extreme. You must relax, be comfortable, and do it slowly and gradually. And that is exactly what the Buddha recommended.

When the energy is too much, we must reduce that with mindfulness and understand how much energy we have to apply to practice. Suppose you have to travel some distance, maybe two miles. If you go with a child, the child is full of energy. And the child at the beginning keeps running, running, running. Very quickly, at less than halfway, the child starts complaining of aches, pains, back pains. And then parents have to carry the child. But the parents move very steadily, slowly knowing that they have to walk two miles. If they struggle at the beginning, they cannot move the entire distance. So you got to do it slowly first and then accelerate. You can reach the goal.

We have seen people carrying a heavy weight when you go to climb mountains. I was in Bhutan. When we went to Bhutan, we see people are not very big, but they carry heavy loads on their backs. They walk steadily up very steep hills, never stopping. And people who are not used to climbing mountains at the beginning, they run, and then have the stop for gasping breath. They cannot continue because they don’t know how to balance their energy. The people living in that area know from their personal experience how much energy they have, how far they have to go, and how much weight they have to carry. So they do it very gently.

People who are in Tibet, Tibetans, also know how to climb because Tibet has lot of mountains. They walk very gently, at a certain steady pace. It goes the same way with meditation. When we meditate, it doesn’t mean that we seem to simply become lazy and slow down. But we must control our energy and do it very gently until we get used to the practice. When we get used to the practice, then sitting longer would be very easy. At the beginning, we should not struggle.

Wisdom Dharma Chat | Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche - August 2024

Please enjoy this unedited recording of Wisdom Dharma Chats with special guest Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche. Founder and spiritual director of Ligmincha International, Rinpoche is a respected and beloved teacher and meditation master in the Bön Buddhist tradition of Tibet. He has students in more than 25 countries, teaches around the world, and reaches thousands of students through his online programs. During this Wisdom Dharma Chat host Daniel Aitken and Rinpoche discuss his Wisdom Academy course Dream Yoga, an advanced spiritual practice in which you can rediscover your dreams as potent vehicles for enhancing awareness in both dreaming and waking states. They also explore the interpretation of dreams, the preparation for death through dream yoga, and its lineage from the tantric tradition.

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In this exclusive clip, acclaimed teacher Thupten Jinpa explains the profound meaning of emptiness in the context of practicing the stages of the path to enlightenment (lam rim). This HD video teaching is an excerpt from lesson 1 of the Wisdom Academy online course Tsongkhapa’s Madhyamaka.

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Do Not Try to Become a Buddha

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How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path

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Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche: Dream Yoga (#193)

The Amazing Treasury of the Sakya Lineage

Mindfulness Day

Join us in honoring Mindfulness Day with resources that hone your practice, support your well-being, and enrich your life.

Explore this specially curated collection of mindfulness books and courses, all available at 30% off for a limited time.

What is Mindfulness Day?

Mindfulness Day (September 12) is a global celebration started by Wisdom in 2011, dedicated to honoring the practice of mindfulness—a powerful tool for cultivating awareness, reducing stress, and more deeply understanding ourselves and the nature of reality.

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