Death

Overview of the Initial Scope In the past few sessions, we’ve been speaking about reliance on a spiritual master and the precious human rebirth. Both these topics serve as a foundation for the subject matter that follows. It is possible that there are people of extremely sharp...

How to Use the Five Forces in This Life The fourth of the seven points is the condensation of the practices for one lifetime – how to condense all the practices into the essentials for a lifetime. This process is divided into two stages: what we do during one lifetime, and...

The way to avoid suffering is to hold ourselves back from acting out of ignorance, anger or greed.

Our precious human life allows us to achieve liberation from uncontrollably recurring rebirth and reach the enlightened state of a Buddha through Dharma practice.

Meditation on death and impermanence is an essential Buddhist practice. It gives us a sense of urgency and strong motivation to practice the Dharma.

Kalachakra practice includes a special way of meditating on voidness in which we meditate not just on the actual meaning of voidness, but we also try to simulate doing this with a blissful clear light mind.

Accept the inevitability of death, to make a difference while you still can.

Guhyasamaja is called the “King of Tantras” since its commentaries by the Indian Madhyamaka masters Nagarjuna, Aryadeva and Chandrakirti provide the full mechanism for unpacking the terse and purposely enigmatic language of the anuttarayoga root tantra texts. As a father...

Using traditional examples, Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche explains the graded path, emphasizing the importance of appreciating and taking full advantage of our precious human life.

Gungthang Rinpoche’s text warns us that before the Dharma practice of tomorrow takes place, the death of today may come sooner.