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Dharma Roadside Dialogue. Patience and Equanimity.

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The third paramita trains us to be steady and openhearted in the face of difficult people and circumstances. Patience entails cultivating skillful courageousness, mindfulness, and tolerance. In general, when we feel that others are hurting …

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A Calm Mind in Turbulent Times: Zoom Meeting

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A calm mind in turbulent times: Zoom Meeting mit Lama Tsony in 2 Sitzungen Sa., 12. Dez, 16.00h und 19.00h – ca. 20.30h MEZ Ein ruhiger Geist in turbulenten Zeiten: Online Vortrag auf Zoom in Englischer …

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Meditate. A Day with your Mind

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It’s good, once in a while, to step back from our usual busy activity. Take a breather; give yourself a break, and tune into your mind. Come and join us for a different 9 to …

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Meditate. A Day with your Mind

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It’s good, once in a while, to step back from our usual busy activity. Take a breather; give yourself a break, and tune into your mind. Come and join us for a different 9 to …

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This Cushion Is Free. Are You?

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Canceled for COVID reasons. Listen to the Zoom sessions HERE Sit. Walk. Share It is crucial to sit every day and become acquainted with one’s mind. This will become increasingly profound and simple if one …

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Four Dharmas of Gampopa

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Canceled for COVID reasons Grant your blessings that the mind may follow the Dharma Grant your blessings that the Dharma may become the path Grant your blessings that the path may clarify confusion Grant your …

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This Cushion Is Free. Are You? Sit, Walk, Share

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It is crucial to sit every day and become acquainted with one’s mind. This will become increasingly profound and simple if one can dedicate longer periods of time in a retreat situation. During the sessions …

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Laziness and Procrastination

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How many of us have a sincere desire to progress on the spiritual path but get carried away by their daily activities and never approach the meditation cushion or contemplative reading? What we might call …

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The Sevenfold Prayer as an Ideal Lifestyle

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The Sevenfold Prayer as an Ideal Lifestyle   Shantideva recommends that his readers should practice the Supreme Worship as laid out in a text known as the Vow of Good Conduct (Skt. Bhadracarya-pranidhana), which forms part of the Array …

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Clarifying the Natural State

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Elevate your experience and remain wide open like the sky. Expand your mindfulness and remain pervasive like the earth. Steady your attention and remain unshakable like a mountain. Brighten your awareness and remain shining like …

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Wahres Mitgefühl. Universal Compassion

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Program 2019 Wie kann man echtes Mitgefühl für sich selbst und andere entwickeln? Alle Wesen, deren Anzahl so unendlich ist wie der Raum, bleiben,da sie sich ihrer wahren Buddhanatur nicht bewusst sind, in der künstlichen …

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Mahamudra. Exploring Gendun Rinpoche’s Legacy

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Mahámudra 17.-22. Apríl 2019 / Javorie 5-dňové intenzívne meditačné sústredenie bude viesť meditačný majster: Láma Tsony Láma Tsony nás bude viesť retreatom opierajúc sa o učenie Genduna Rinpočeho, ktorého je Láma Tsony následovník. Ako pomôcka nám …

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The Boundless Creativity of Change. Public Lecture

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The Boundless Creativity of Change Appreciating the whole cycle of impermanence We usually appreciate only half of the cycle of impermanence. We can accept birth but not death; accept gain but not loss. True liberation …

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Public Lecture: Leading a Wholesome Life

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A wholesome life, like a garden, requires constant TLC. Gratitude and benevolence spring from the understanding of the interdependence of everything. It will give birth to the enlightened mind attitude (Skt.Bodhicitta). Mindfulness and awareness will …

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Teachings from Milarepa’s Treasury of Dohas

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A Doha is a form of poetry and is often referred to as a song. According to the sutras, the disciples of the Buddha would sometimes compose spontaneous verses during his teaching sessions. Tibetan translators such as …

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Clarifying the Natural State

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Elevate your experience and remain wide open like the sky. Expand your mindfulness and remain pervasive like the earth. Steady your attention and remain unshakable like a mountain. Brighten your awareness and remain shining like …

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Licking Honey on the Razor Blade

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The hazardous adventures of fearless compassionate wisdom in a world of change. Embrace this time and culture and turn it into enlightening art. We are faced with chaos in unknown uncharted territories, a time of …

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Awakened Life

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An awakened life, like a garden, requires constant TLC. Gratitude and benevolence spring from the understanding of the interdependence of everything. It will give birth to the enlightened mind attitude (Skt.Bodhicitta). Mindfulness and awareness will …

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Autumn Meditation Retreat

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Clarifying the Natural State Text by Dakpo Tashi Namgyal (1511-87). Essential instructions on mind’s nature and silent meditative discovery of it

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Freedom is Happiness, Happiness is Freedom

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What might be the definition of happiness? There might be as many definitions as there are people. What seems to be happiness for some can seem to be a prison for others. So maybe there …

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“BYOQ Sessions” Bring Your Own Questions

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“BYOQ Sessions” Bring Your Own Questions Curious about meditation, Buddhism, the Dharma? When we first collide with the Buddhist universe, we may have a ton of questions. We never really find the place to ask …

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Perception and Inter-Subjectivity

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Perception and Inter-Subjectivity Conflicts and oppositions often spring from a sense of self-righteousness originating in a wrong perception of communication. Following Vasubandhu of the Yogacara Buddhist school of thought, we can understand that any perception …

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Practical Meditation; Dharma Roadside Assistance

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Meditation in a practical, simple yet essential approach. “Bring Your Own Questions” session. No question is off limit. Please see brief overview on Practical Meditation for our discussion: https://tsony.com/dharma-downloads/ Gentleness with yourself is essential in …

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Last Saturday of October Study Afternoon

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The Sutra Recalling The Qualities Of The Three Jewels Part I: The Buddha -continued The Tibetan term for Buddha, Sangyé, is explained as follows: Sang means ‘awakening’ from the sleep of ignorance, and ‘purifying’ the darkness of …

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Exploring the True Nature of Mind

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A Retreat of Meditation with Instructions from the Mahamudra-The Ocean of True Meaning of the Ninth Karmapa. Mahamudra-The Ocean of True Meaning contains the essence of the Buddhist path of liberation that the Buddha Shakyamuni taught …