Be Sensitive to Environment
Environment is extremely important, not only in how you treat your children but in how you treat yourself. It includes both animate and inanimate situations: your physical living situation as well as the people around you–your parents, teachers, students, maids, governesses, or whatever. Environment includes your relationship with your business partners, your driver, your waitress, whomever you meet. To be sane and to provide a ground of sanity for others, you need to be sensitive to environment. If you create an unbalanced or aggressive environment, it will produce a sense of separation between you and others–you and your world. Then you tend to blame everything on somebody else, which in turn brings blame onto yourself as well, at the same time.
Video produced by Robert Zimmerman with the assistance of Marvin Moore
Mahasangha Shrine Room Complete!
KCCL now has a Mahasangha Shrine Room complete with pre/post meditation room, kitchenette, coatroom, restrooms, and a separate entryway. As you can see in the video...
Tribute to Cathy Pressman
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Please...
The Passing of Chime Palmo
Khenpo Gangshar's consort/wife, and grandmother to the current Gangshar Rinpoche
Tribute to Tom Crow
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Tom was born November 9, 1942, in Norfolk, Virginia, where his father was stationed. His father, Dale Crow, was a Navy pilot who went...
The Kids and the Garuda
A story told by Dzigar Kongtrül Rinpoche at Dorje Dzong, Boulder, May 18, 1990
Tribute to Jan Watson
Our dear warrior sister died on July 1st in the midst of a delightful lunch date, while enjoying a lovely day
Tribute to Deborah Garrett
Our dear friend, Deborah Garrett, died on July 1 following a two year dance with brain cancer
Trungpa Rinpoche’s Mirror Divinations During the Escape
II. Togden Achö:
Khandro Rinpoche Addresses the Ocean Community
During Ocean's Parinirvana Day feast practice on April 4, 2022, Her Eminence Khandro Rinpoche appeared among us. She arrived at the perfect moment and said what we needed to hear.
Weary
There are days I wake up weary
Cheerful Year of the Wood Horse: 1978
Here is the first ever Shambhala Day address, nine minutes and 17 seconds. It took place just after dawn in the newly renovated third-floor shrine room of Dorje Dzong, now the Boulder Shambhala Center. The room was packed with many students and many young children; it was a joyful moment.
Thich Nhat Hanh
A Great Victory Banner of Dharma
The Simplicity of This Moment
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Molly Nudell
Dispatches is delighted to present this fascinating and very personal look at the often misunderstood realm of Trungpa Rinpoche’s visual dharma teachings.
Four Moments of Truth
Four Moments of Truth
No Man’s Land
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Road Trip to Crestone
BOULDER, early summer afternoon, 1982 - The reception for the Vajradhatu and Nalanda staff in the back garden of Kalapa Court is a familiar scene: uniformed servers offer heavy...
My First Buddhist Event
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Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche Retreat in Massachusetts
Between 20,000 and 75,000 years ago, the Laurentide Ice Sheet covered what is now eastern Massachusetts in thousands of feet of ice and carved hills that remain today. In...
First Teaching
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In appreciation of Thrangu Rinpoche
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Finding the Escape Route
By Grant MacLean
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Necessary Angel
An interview with Henry Schaeffer, by Bill Scheffel
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1980 Seminary Slideshow from Allan Novick
Thank you to Allan Novick for sending in these images from the 1980 Seminary
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Togden Achö's Recollections: Part One
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Teachings on the Mahayanaby Changling Rinpoche
Photo of Changling Rinpoche by Marvin Moore Changling Rinpoche will teach on the mahayana Saturday and Sunday morning, March 26 […]
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Sadhana of Mahamudra Resource Groupby Ocean Staff
For those of you new to this practice, some training is required before you can practice this text or purchase a copy of the […]