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Taking Your Posture and Tasting Your Heart

A simple approach to confusion and challenge is to take a good posture and tune into our soft spot. This talk was hosted online by the New York Shambhala Center on May 11, 2021.

Bone of Existence: Path of a Lonely Buddha

Four talks on the 12 links of the Wheel of Life—the essential teaching on karmic cause and result. This course was hosted online by the Boston Shambhala Center weekly from April 13 to May 4, 2021.

Grandmother’s Soup: The Charnel Ground of Birth, Life, and Death

Charnel ground has wisdom and craziness at the same time. Grandmother’s soup is brewed on New Year’s Eve in Tibet—sweet and sour, bones, fats and vegetables—everything put together. This is our mind and life.

Hosted online by the Atlanta Shambhala Center, February 3, 2021.

Fresh Start

Dön Season talk on the instructions of fresh start and further touch in meditation and everyday life. Hosted by Karmê Chöling, Feb 2, 2021.

Renunciation, Patience, Wisdom

A talk on the 3 yana path of Shambhala hosted by the Durham Shambhala Center on December 13, 2020.

Mind Blindness

A while back, I read an article about “plant blindness.” When shown a picture that shows a pair of elephants in a clearing and asked what they see, virtually everyone says, “Two elephants.” Even when the question is repeated, “What do you see?” people persist in saying “Elephants,” as if the questioner were stupid or blind. NoContinue reading “Mind Blindness”