Protection Chakras and Prayers – Guru Rinpoche day message by HE. Phakchok Rinpoche
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Chod Ngondro explanation by Lama Rinchen in Bangkok Jan-Feb 2016
Ven. Lama Rinchen in-depth Chöd Ngondro explanation
Ven. Lama Rinchen will offer a very detailed explanation of the Chöd Ngondro, which contains the View of
The teachings will be conducted over 3 weekends from 2pm-6pm on each day total of 7 sessions–
Date/Time (2016):
Saturday Jan 23: 2pm-6pm
Sunday Jan 24: 2pm-6pm
Saturday Jan 30: 2pm-6pm
Sunday Jan 31: 2pm-6pm
Friday Feb 5: 2pm-6pm
Saturday Feb 6: 2pm-6pm
Sunday Feb 7: 2pm-6pm
Venue: Windsor Tower apartment unit 20B, opposite Windsor hotel on Sukhumvit soi 20. Easily reachable via BTS Asoke/MRT Sukhumvit station.
Cost: Baht800 per person to cover the cost of text which will be used and remaining will be made as a donation to the Lama.
Payment detail–
Bank:Kasikorn Bank
Branch: Silom Branch
Account type: Savings account
Account number: 001-2-79564-7
Account name: Ram Narula
(If you would like to make donation for Lama’s traveling expenses such as airfare and other related costs do let me know.)
Signup/Questions please feel free to contact us using the contact us button above or call at 081-9855564
Chod retreat with Lama Rinchen – Sep 17-20 2015
Lama Rinchen Phuntsok Chod retreat in Thailand Sep 17-20 2015
Chöd retreat Sep 17-20 with Lama Rinchen
We would like to invite you to Chod retreat which will be held from September 17th to September 20th in Thailand
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Chöd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%B6d
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According to Mahayana Buddhists, emptiness is the ultimate wisdom of understanding that all things lack inherent existence. Chöd combines prajñāpāramitā philosophy with specific meditation methods and tantric ritual. The chod practitioner seeks to tap the power of fear through activities such as rituals set in graveyards, and visualisation of offering their bodies in a tantric feast in order to put their understanding of emptiness to the ultimate test.
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About Lama Rinchen http://dongakcholing.org/LamaRinchen.html
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The Venerable Lama Rinchen Phuntsok is a skillfull teacher with a light and joyful manner. He is a scholar and meditation master of the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition. Born in Tibet, Lama Rinchen began receiving instruction in the traditions of Tibetan Buddhism at the age of six in Tsasum Chokhorling Monastery in Tibet. After he left Tibet in 1958, he studied at Young Lama’s Home School in Dalhousie, The Buddhist Monastic School in Rewalsar, Nyingmapa Lama’s College in Dehra-Dun, and Zongdog Palri Monastery in Kalimpong. Lama Rinchen graduated from Sanskrit University in Varanasi India where he completed advanced studies in Sutrayana Buddhist philosophy and scriptures, commentaries, logic, literature, history, and the major sciences of the Tibetan curriculum.
To complete his training in Vajrayana Nyingma School studies, he served as private secretary to the late His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche, supreme Head of the Nyingma order of Tibetan Buddhism for over fifteen years. During that time he received all the important empowerments, transmissions, essential instructions, the oral teaching of Nyingma Kama, and the Profound Rediscovered Teachings of Terma of the great Lotus Born Teacher, Guru Padmasambhava, the founder of Vajravana Buddhism.
Venue: About 2-3 hours out of Bangkok, we will keep you informed.
Cost: 4000-4500Baht per person, all meals and text included (transport cost not included)
Limited places available, kindly signup at your earliest convenience.
This retreat is suitable for all levels of practitioners.
Contact: (Eng) 0819855564, (Thai) 0894817754
Email: ram@pluslab.com
Ven. Lama Rinchen Dharma classes in Bangkok in June 2015
Meditation and Dharma classes by Ven. Lama Rinchen (Tibetan Buddhist Master)
We would like to invite you to public Dharma talks be Ven. Lama Rinchen Phuntsok in Bangkok areas in June 2015.
Venerable Lama Rinchen Phuntsok is a skillfull teacher with a light and joyful manner. He is a scholar and meditation master of the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition.
Biography can be found at http://dongakcholing.org/
Topic: “Attachment, Detachment, Aversion and Antidote”
Date: Sunday 21st June 2pm-5pm
Venue: The Continent Hotel (near Asoke intersection next to Interchange tower, on Sukhumvit road, hotel web site: www.thecontinenthotel.com/
Note: Limited seats, please RSVP by email ram@pluslab.com
Topic: “Virtuous and Unvirtuous mind and their action”
Date: Monday 22nd June 6:30pm-8:30pm
Venue: ‘APARTMENTS’ building, Ekkamai road near Ekkamai BTS station, more information on www.littlebang.org Location: w
Topic: “The Textual Tradition of the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism”
Date: Wednesday 24nd June 1:30pm-3:30pm
Venue: Mahidol University, Kanpai Room, Ground floor, Department of Humanities, Salaya
For more information please email: prasajya@gmail.com
For more information please feel free to contact us at:
Tel: (Eng) 0819855564,0989195519 – (Thai) 0894817754
Email: ram@pluslab.com
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These events are free of charge and suitable for everyone.
Lama Rinchen Phuntsok Bangkok Dharma classes in June 2015
How Dharma can help in daily life by Lama Rinchen Phuntsok Thursday 24th April 2014 ธรรมะในชีวิตประจำวัน วันพฤหัสบดีที่ 24 เมษายน 2557
“How Dharma can help in daily life”
Lama Rinchen Dharma talk on Thursday 24th April 2014
Lama Rinchen will be giving Dharma teaching on “How Dharma can help in daily life”
Venue: DMG book company, 22nd floor Amarin plaza Bangkok, BTS station Chitlom
Time: 6:30pm-8:30pm
About Lama Rinchen: The Venerable Lama Rinchen Phuntsok is a skillful teacher with a light and joyful manner. He is a scholar and meditation master of the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition. Born in Tibet, Lama Rinchen began receiving instruction in the traditions of Tibetan Buddhism at the age of six in Tsasum Chokhorling Monastery in Tibet. After he left Tibet in 1958, he studied at Young Lama’s Home School in Dalhousie, The Buddhist Monastic School in Rewalsar, Nyingmapa Lama’s College in Dehra-Dun, and Zongdog Palri Monastery in Kalimpong. Lama Rinchen graduated from Sanskrit University in Varanasi India where he completed advanced studies in Sutrayana Buddhist philosophy and scriptures, commentaries, logic, literature, history, and the major sciences of the Tibetan curriculum. For more information please check http://dongakcholing.org/LamaRinchen.html
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Contact: 0818216196
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วันพฤหัสที่ 24 เมษายน 2557 ที่ DMG ชั้น 22 ตึกอมรินทร์พลาซ่า เวลา 18:30-20:30 น
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Nature of Mind – Phakchok Rinpoche message in June 2013 สารจากท่าน พักชก ริมโปเช มิถุนายน 2556
Dear Friends,
I hope you have all been healthy and truly happy this past month. As many of you probably know, the previous month in the Tibetan calendar was Saga Dawa, which is regarded as an especially blessed time. Marking the anniversary of both the enlightenment and parinirvana of Buddha Shakyamuni, it is said that the effect of the deeds you perform during this month are multiplied and for that reason the importance of practice is emphasized. During this month, at the blessed Boudhanath stupa and other sacred Buddhist places it was inspiring to witness the stream of devoted pilgrims and practitioners performing prostrations around the stupa, making circumambulations, offering butter lamps, and making aspirations that continued day and night without break.
Inspired by this special month and anniversary, I would like to share with you a short excerpt of a text entitled The Sage Who Dispels the Mind’s Anguish by the late Dilgo Khyentsé Rinpoche. In this short, pithy text Rinpoche explains the practices of shamata and vipashyana based on Buddha Shakyamuni. Towards the end of the text, Rinpoche quotes from the Wisdom of Passing Sutra and explains:
Likewise, all of these phenomena, such as death, have no established identity whatsoever, yet like illusory appearances their expression is completely unobstructed. When analyzed they cannot be expressed whatsoever in terms of the extremes of existence and non-existence. They are naturally non-conceptual and luminous. Therefore, one’s own mind that does not abide as any entity or non-conceptual thing whatsoever is primordially luminous; in the state of the present direct awareness all phenomena of samsara and nirvana are totally equal. Therefore, resolve the enlightened mind of the Teacher, Lord of Sages (Buddha Shakyamuni), and one’s own mind as well to be indivisible in the nature of mind, the state of self-existing wakefulness. If without getting distracted from that state you come to possess confidence and develop certainty in it, that is the realization of the true nature of one’s mind. Other than that there is no so-called ‘buddha’ whatsoever.
In that state there is no death and birth. Death and so forth are mere concepts; in the truth of the innate nature of mind free from concepts, birth and death are not in any way established. If one passes away resting evenly in that state, you will be reborn in a buddhafield without the deluded appearances of the intermediate state and so forth occurring.
If you do not have that level of confidence, but at the time of death and all throughout the intermediate state remember only the Guru, Lord of Sages, and do not forget, simply through that you will be led to a pure realm. Moreover, no matter what terror and suffering you encounter in this life, if you remember the Buddha you will definitely be liberated from those difficulties. No matter what happiness and excellence you may encounter know it to be the great kindness of the Buddha, and visualizing those pleasurable objects as a Samantabhadra offering cloud offer them to the Buddha.
Constantly reflect on the three liberations taught by the Teacher, and the meaning of the six paramitas and so forth. With great compassion for all sentient beings arouse the mind of supreme enlightenment and train as much as you are able in the conduct of the bodhisattvas. Recalling the Teacher like this is extremely important, for recalling the Buddha is that which sets one out on the beginning of all the bodhisattva paths and has immeasurable benefits. It generates all the excellent qualities of the path.
These days when most people hold the practices of their own school to be the most important, there are only a few people who consider the Teacher, Lord of Sages, as especially important. However, those who have entered into these teachings yet lack the faith and trust that regards the Teacher as supreme lack intelligence. Why is that? Because it is solely due to the compassion of the Teacher demonstrating the acts of the Buddha in this realm and time to us wandering beings of the degenerate age that the teachings—the three pitakas, and not only that, but all the way up to the teachings of the secret mantra Vajrayana, the path that can actualize in one short lifetime of this degenerate age the unified state of no-more learning—appeared. It is also solely due to his compassion that the beings who are the holders of the teachings, those who have entered the teachings of sutra and mantra, the sangha of noble beings as many as they are, appeared.
If the Teacher had not radiated out the light of the teachings here in this realm and time, we would not hear even the name of the three jewels. What need to speak then of being able to practice the paths of sutra and mantra? That beings so, whichever tradition one practices, whether it is be the New Schools or the Old School, to have intense faith that acknowledges the Teacher as especially important is indispensable at all times. Therefore, one must be especially devoted to the Teacher and persevere in that practice!
Keeping these profound and important instructions in mind, I hope you can find the time this month to joyfully engage in the three wheels Buddha taught his followers: the wheel of study and reflection, the wheel of relinquishing the afflictions through meditation, and the wheel of benefiting others through actions.
With constant prayers and aspirations and the best of wishes,
Phakchok Rinpoche
Sarva Mangalam!
Dependent Arising – Phakchok Rinpoche message in April 2013 สารจากท่าน พักชก ริมโปเช เมษายน 2556
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The Three Gateways to Liberation – Phakchok Rinpoche message in March 2013 สารจากท่าน พักชก ริมโปเช มีนาคม 2556
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The Three Gateways to Liberation
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The Ground, Emptiness
The Path, Absence of Characteristics
The Fruition, Wishlessness
Dear Friends Near and Far:
I hope you’ve all been happy and healthy. I’m doing very well and at the moment in Kathmandu sitting in our annual Ngakso Drupchen. For today’s Guru Rinpoche Day, I would like to take you back to the roots. With all your varied backgrounds and the different stages you are in your practice, it is sometimes good to refresh yourself of the basics, the essence. And to those of you who are new to the dharma, this should be a good start for you all.
Buddha’s teachings are extremely vast and for that reason we are often left thinking, where to begin? When first entering or inquiring about the Buddha’s teachings, the starting point should be the view since this forms the ground of the practice to follow. When training on the path, the view should be in accord with the capacity of the individual and for this reason Buddha gave a variety of different teachings. The ultimate, essential view that the Buddha taught howeaver is none other than the profound emptiness and this is the first of the three gateways to liberation.
Having ascertained the view, the second step is to put this view into practice on the path. Yet if you do not know how to practice correctly, then your path will go astray. Thus to prevent us from going astray on the path, Buddha taught freedom from grasping and clinging and told his disciples repeatedly to not fabricate. This is the mode in which we should practice on the path; abscence of characteristics.
But what is the result of doing this kind of practice and holding such a view? One needs to know what the result is and not be mistaken about this. To use a simple example, if you are traveling somewhere you need to know the route and you need legs to get you there and eyes so you can see the path. But you also need to know something about the destination and also how will you know when you have arrived? Likewise, the fruition of the Buddha’s path is the collapse of all hope and fear, all notions and concepts; wishlessness.
In this way, the three gateways to liberation contain the essence of the ground, the path, and the fruition of the Buddha’s ultimate teachings. Thus if you can study, contemplate, and practice these correctly, your path will be unmistaken and will lead to perfect enlightenment without a doubt.
For those of you receiving this note and not knowing how or why and wondering what this note is all about. I can atleast answer the what part, and that is, for the last six years, I have been sending notes to my students all over on each GRD to gently remind them to not go completely astray fom the path and remind them of the three jewels and to bring thier mind home for few minutes and to basically take a pause!
Sending you all much love and affection from the Blessed Valley.
Sarva Mangalam,
Phakchok Rinpoche
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On the true path – Phakchok Rinpoche message in February 2013 สารจากท่าน พักชก ริมโปเช กุมภาพันธ์ 2556
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Dear Friends Near and Far: I hope you’ve all been happy and healthy. I’m well and at the moment in Kathmandu performing the annual Tsekar or White Amitayus (Buddha of Longevity) Drupchen, a nine day puja based on a collection of liturgies belonging to the “Great Accomplishment Group Sadhana of White Amitayus”. This drupchen beginning on the 8th day of the first lunar month of the Tibetan New Year brings forth auspicious circumstances for the practioner’s two fold attainment of longevity and primordial wisdom. In the past few evenings of the drupchen, I have been re-reading some of the great texts of Shechen Gyaltsab, Pema Namgyal and in particular, the “Advice from Old Vijaya” which never fails to inspire me. I have taken few lines from the text to remind you of the basic elements of the path which in a way is also an interesting analysis to check whether if you are actually on the true path. 1. Make sure the topics of:
– Precious Human Birth – Death and Impermanence – Karma: Consequences of Action – The Defects of Samsara
Do not become mere words and ideas, but reflect upon them from the core of your heart. Once you are well acquainted with them, your mind will have turned away from samsara and towards the sublime Dharma.
Once you feel this way, you have already covered half of Dharma practice!
2. Constantly keep reminding yourself of the excellent qualities of your Guru and the Three Jewels. Having trained in this, you will seek no other refuge than your Guru and the Three Jewels, no matter what joys or sorrows befall you.
Once that happens, you will have become one of the Buddha’s followers.
3. Once when you are on the path, train in accepting all sentient being as your parents, and maintaining this attitude uninterruptedly, cultivate loving-kindness, compassion, and awakened mind.
Once when you have become accustomed to benefiting others and freed from the chain of selfishness, you deserve the name “child of conquerors.”
The merit and benefits of this are beyond measure.
These are the ways in which you avoid going astray from the True Path. And once on it, I hope that you are constantly showered with blessings and have unwavering trust and devotion.
Signing off from the Valley with much love and affection on this Guru Rinpoche Day just before midnight!
Sarva Mangalam, Phakchok Rinpoche |
Dharma teaching/retreat ปฏิบัติธรรม 20-25 Feb 2013/กุมภาพันธ์ 2556 by Khenpo Phuntsho Tashi who is the author of several books and a director of the National Musuem of Bhutan โดย เคนโป พุนโช ตาชิ ผู้อำนวยการพิพิธภัณฑ์แห่งชาติ ประเทศภูฏาน
Dharma teaching/retreat ปฏิบัติธรรม 20-25 Feb 2013/กุมภาพันธ์ 2556 by Khenpo Phuntsho Tashi who is the author of several books and a director of the National Musuem of Bhutan โดย เคนโป พุนโช ตาชิ ผู้อำนวยการพิพิธภัณฑ์แห่งชาติ ประเทศภูฏาน
Venue/สถานที่: ศาลาธรรม จ. ปทุมธานี
Map/แผนที่: http://goo.gl/maps/b47ty
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Program includes:
Wednesday 20th Feb
-Introduction to What the Buddha Taught
-Preciousness of human life free from the 8 inconveniences
Thursday 21st Feb
-Introduction and benefit to Calm Abiding Meditation
-Impermanence
Friday 22nd Feb
-View, Meditation and Conduct
-Disadvantages of being born in the Samsara
Saturday 23rd Feb
-Generosity and Moral Discipline
-Cause and Effect of nature of Karma
Sunday 24th Feb
-Selflessness of a person
-Three experiences of meditation
-Deviation or wrong path of meditation
Monday 25th Feb
-Four Boundless love, compassion, joy and equilibrium
Khenpo Phuntsok Tashi was born in Eastern Bhutan and later studied under various enlightened masters both within and outside the Kingdom. He has earned a Master’s degree in Buddhist Philosophy. Diploma in International Communication from the City University, London. He has been teaching meditation and Buddhism for more than fifteen years in Bhutan and abroad in Europe, the United States and Southeast Asia. A very clear and articulate teacher, many of Khenpo’s students describe his instructions as eloquent and sharp. His sense of humour and warm personality, which are in true Bhutanese style, join with his character to endear him to his students and guest audiences. Also a prolific scholar, Khenpo has written numerous articles and books, as well as presented his research at several national and international academic and cultural forums. He is a champion of Bhutan’s development policy of Gross National Happiness, finding it greatly congruent with Buddhist philosophy. He strongly believes that happiness is a positive mental state which results from cultivation of contentment, non-violence and the never-ending wish to help others at all times.
Registration/Contact/ติดต่อ: 0818417855 or/หรือ 0840951828
Retreat schedule/ตารางเวลาอบรม
Day 1 – Wednesday
วันที่ 1 วันพุธ
Time เวลา Session or topic หัวข้อบรรยาย
06:00 am Chanting the words of the Buddha and breathing meditation (Group or individual in their rooms)
สวดมนต์ และปฏิบัติอานาปานสติ (เป็นกลุ่มหรือแยกปฏิบัติเดี่ยวในห้อง)
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