A Q&A session between Dr. Berzin and his students about the principles and usages of Tibetan medicine.

Brief Review We have been discussing the fundamental elements that we need before taking the bodhisattva vows. We spoke about the foundations in the lam-rim, the graded stages of the path, and we spoke about the process and meditation for building up a bodhichitta motivation....

A question and answer with Dr. Berzin and his students about participating in a Kalachakra initiation.

Nine Attitudes to Hold toward Ourselves in Our Relationship with Our Spiritual Teacher Might Rinpoche offer some advice about how we should approach our teachers and Dharma studies? The sutras describe nine types of attitudes to hold toward ourselves in our relationship with...

Judgment versus Discriminating Awareness You mentioned the lack of judging about self or others. I wanted to ask about it because it seems like there are two aspects. In one case, you or I do something wrong and then I exaggerate and say, “You have always been like that and...

Fear of Death and Lower Realms I wanted to ask something about fear. Rinpoche said that we can develop fear for states of rebirth that can come to us after death. I was thinking that fear is suffering too. Are we making ourselves suffer for something that may or may not happen...

Review In our last session we presented the first stages in the process for working ourselves up to developing bodhichitta. We saw that the first type of equanimity that we cultivate is the equanimity that tries to rid ourselves, at least...

If we can start to understand karma and how it works, we can begin to understand what happens in our lives and how to deal with it.

Introduction In outlining this third of the six preparatory practices, the texts say first you do prostration, then you sit down, then you clear the mind by focusing on the breath, and only then do you reaffirm your motivation of refuge (safe direction) and bodhichitta....

The foundations of the Buddhist spiritual path are succinctly summarized in a four-line verse written by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and explored in an in-depth explanation.