Advice on How to Practice The way to practice is to try to have our day start out with a very strong intention: “Whatever I’m going to do today, may this go towards achieving enlightenment and being able to benefit everyone.” In this way, we start our day by rededicating our...

Continuing Commentary on the Text Rejoicing After rededicating our heart with aspiring and pledged bodhichitta, then rejoice and feel happy. The verse states: Now my life’s become fruitful, for having wonderfully attained a human existence, today I’ve awakened my Buddha-nature...

Motivation You have invited me here today and I am very pleased to be with you. I have been requested to give teachings on the six-session guru yoga practice of the all-around perfect cycles of time, or Shri Kalachakra. The motivation that we should have for listening to these...

The Levels of Motivation It is essential to build up the various habits as a person of initial, intermediate and advanced levels of motivation. For the initial level there are the various meditations and practices focused on precious human rebirth with all its opportunities...

Brief Review of the Text External Cycles of Time, Kalachakra, is the entire presentation of the world and environment in terms of night and day, the days of the week, the months, the year and things related to time. In the lunar year there are 12 months, each of 30 days or 360...

Questions and Answers In terms of the comprehensive result concerning one individual, what is the relationship of that to collective karma? There is a slight difference when we speak of collective karma or collective actions and their results. For instance, if 30 people are on...

[Clarification of His Holiness' answers by Dr. Berzin are included within square brackets.] Relation between Westerners and Kalachakra Dr. Berzin: Do Westerners have a special relation with Kalachakra? His Holiness: I wonder, do they really have one? In general, the...

Some people have misunderstood the intent of a Kalachakra initiation and tantra practice in general, thinking it propagates Buddhist domination. To avoid interfaith suspicion and mistrust, it is important to examine the issues in light of the historical and cultural contexts...

Bibliography of major Sanskrit, Tibetan and Western language sources on Kalachakra.

What you need to know for taking a Kalachakra initiation.