Bodhi Path Chicago Welcomes Lama Tsony Lama Tsony returns to Chicago for his first visit since 2007 Topic to be announced. chicago@bodhipath.org Friday December 2, 7-9pm Saturday December 3, 1-6pm Sunday December 4, 10:30-4pm
Boundless Awakening: The Heart of Buddhist Meditation, Part One: Calm Abiding
Boundless Awakening: The Heart of Buddhist Meditation Theoretical study and guided practice. Everyone is welcome from “absolute beginners” to “almost enlightened” “Whatever arises from the mind is of the nature of the mind. Water …
Connect with Your Heart and Find Healing
In today’s world of progress and rapid change our professional life, society and interpersonal relationships all make high demands of us. How can we deal with these demands in such a way as to stay …
Boundless Awakening: The Heart of Buddhist Meditation, Part One: Calm Abiding
Boundless Awakening: The Heart of Buddhist Meditation Theoretical study and guided practice. Everyone is welcome from “absolute beginners” to “almost enlightened” “Whatever arises from the mind is of the nature of the mind. Water …
Last Saturday of July Study Afternoon
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 …
Les Trois Entrainements de La Voie Vers l’Eveil
View PostDay-long Retreat to Commemorate the Second Anniversary of the Parinirvana of Shamar Rinpoche
“Mani-Thon” Join us for a day-long retreat led by dharma teacher Tsony, to commemorate the second anniversary of the Parinirvana of Shamar Rinpoche. Saturday June 11, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm To generate compassion for …
Day of Worldwide Commemoration of Shamar Rinpoche’s Parinirvana
Generating the Causes and Conditions for the Swift Return of Kunzig Shamar Rinpoche Celebrating an anniversary is a group affair, a time when we can gather together around an event in order to nurture a shared memory. In …
Day-to-Day Buddhism @ New River Valley Bodhi Path, Blacksburg, VA
Nobody wants to suffer, and everyone wants to be happy. Buddhism offers many methods to find space in our busy lives for contemplation. Learning to meditate with experienced guidance can pacify our suffering and truly transform our life. Taking our experience of …
La Septuple Prière et l’Entrainement de l’Esprit
View PostFour Dharma of Gampopa. Part IV, The Confusion Dawns as Wisdom
I will briefly explain the nectar of his speech that is renowned as “The Four Dharmas.” These say: [“Grant your blessings so that] 1) Dharma turns into dharma 2) Dharma turns into the path 3) …
Living and Dying
View PostMeditation Dirigée
View PostLa Bodhicitta Comme Vue et la Prière à Sept Branches Comme Mode de Vie Idéal
View PostLama Tsony, Courte Biographie
Moine bouddhiste pendant plus de 25 ans, Tsony a accompli deux retraites traditionnelles de 3 ans, sous la direction du grand maître de méditation Guendune Rinpoché. Il a été, pendant 15 ans, l’abbé du monastère …
Respirer, un Café et Quelques Détails
Il était une fois en décembre 1956, dans la banlieue parisienne, à Argenteuil plus précisément…. Après quelques confrontations hasardeuses avec la nature insatisfaisante de l’existence conditionnée du samsara, la rencontre fortuite de l’image du …
Buddha and Buddha Nature
View PostFour Dharma of Gampopa. Part III, The Path Dispels Confusion
I will briefly explain the nectar of his speech that is renowned as “The Four Dharmas.” These say: [“Grant your blessings so that] 1) Dharma turns into dharma 2) Dharma turns into the path 3) …
The Sutra Recalling the Qualities of the Three Jewels. Part I: The Buddha
On an ultimate level The only refuge is the Buddha. The Muni embodies the Dharma, And is thus the culmination of the Sangha. Maitreya, Sublime Continuum, I, 21 The Tibetan term for Buddha, Sangyé, …
La Septuple Prière, Mode de Vie Idéal
Dans ses trois premiers chapitres du Bodhicaryavatara, Shantideva démontre l’éminence et la transcendance de l’Esprit d’Éveil (Skt.Bodhicitta). Il nous montre comment préparer l’humus de notre esprit pour que la graine de la Bodhicitta puisse y …
Les Cinq Skandha: Faire et Défaire l’Amalgame
Skandha peut être traduit par « groupe», « agrégat », « facteur constitutif de l’ego». Dans le bouddhisme on compte cinq agrégats (pañcaskandhī) constitutifs de l’individu: La forme corporelle (rūpa), La sensation (vedanā), La perception …
Working Partnership: How Mindfulness Inspires Compassion
View PostVoix Libérée, Chants Libres. La Poésie de l’Eveil
Depuis le Therigatha des disciples du Bouddha, jusqu’aux chants de réalisation des maîtres contemporains, en passant par les Doha, chants mystiques de l’Inde et du Tibet, les accompli(e)s d’antan ont pu exprimer l’inconcevable par une …
Les Trois Entrainements de La Voie Vers l’Eveil
La voie vers l’éveil est un vaste projet qui sous peine d’être perçu comme distant ou abstrait nécessite d’être présenté en plusieurs phases d’apprentissage qui sont toujours à notre portée, tant émotionnellement, qu’intellectuellement. Nous pouvons …
Lara Braitstein & Tsony. Poetry in Practice, Poetry as Practice Part 2
Poetry in Practice, Poetry as Practice From the time of the Buddha Shakyamuni to the present day, in every culture that has adopted Buddhism, accomplished masters have expressed their paths and realizations through poetry. Through …
Working Partnership: How Mindfulness Inspires Compassion
Mindfulness, ethical values of respect and compassionate engagement, and wisdom work, ideally, in a constructive synergy. These are known in Buddhism as the Three Trainings How to generate and sustain them?
Reflect On The Kindness of All Beings, Part 2
About the Program Bodhi Path teacher Tsony will be at Bodhi Path MV for two weekends of teachings. The topic is “Reflect On The Kindness of All Beings” and Tsony will focus on gratitude, interdependence …
The Seven Points of Mind Training
Seven Points of Mind Training Lojong (Tib. བློ་སྦྱོང་,Wylie: blo sbyong) is a mind training practice in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition based on a set of aphorisms formulated in Tibet in the 12th century by Chekawa Yeshe …
Practical Meditation at Maury River Senior Center, Buena Vista, VA
How Mindfulness Benefits Seniors By Laurie Macrae With November being Alzheimer’s Awareness Month, I thought it interesting to share some research on Mindfulness Meditation and the practical ways it promotes health, wellbeing and mental acuity. …
Precious Human Life
View PostMay Confusion Dawn as Wisdom
View PostMarcher sur des Kleshas Ardents
View PostTimeless Wisdom for a Modern World
How to integrate the Buddha’s skillful means in one’s hectic life.
Full Moon Buddha Shakyamuni Practice
As every full moon, we will do the Buddha Shakyamuni Practice
Chenrezig Practice
As every first Thursday of the month we will do the Chenrezig practice.
Lha Bab Duchen, Return From The Devas Realm
To celebrate Lha Bab Duchen we will do the 35 Buddha Practice
Guru Yoga Practice of the 14th Kunzig Shamar Rinpoche
To conclude the series on the preliminary practices and more precisely the Guru Yoga, we’ll study the Guru Yoga Practice of the 14th Kunzig Shamar Rinpoche, that he composed himself in his teen age years, …
Relationship, Subjectivity In The Light Of The Yogacara Philosophy
View PostPractical Meditation
Practical Meditation Relieve stress and fatigue. Discover calmness and clarity. Cultivate mindfulness. A four-week class of explanation and guided exercises with beginner instructions given at every session. Four Fridays: October 21, 28, and November 4, …
Reflect On The Kindness of All Beings, Part 1
About the Program Bodhi Path teacher Tsony will be at Bodhi Path MV for two weekends of teachings. The topic is “Reflect On The Kindness of All Beings” and Tsony will focus on gratitude, interdependence …
Study, Contemplation And Meditations Inspired By Excerpts Taken From Mind Training: The Great Collection
Study, Contemplation and meditations inspired by excerpts taken from Mind Training: The Great Collection, compiled by Shönu Gyalchok (ca. fourteenth-fifteenth centuries) and Könchok Gyaltsen (I388-1469) ASIN: B00J8ZZSX2 Compiled in the fifteenth century, Mind Training: The Great …
L’Entrainement De L’Esprit
Etude, contemplation et méditations inspirées par des extraits tirés du livre Mind Training: The Great Collection, compilée par Shonu Gyalchok (ca. XIVe-XVe siècles) et Könchok Gyaltsen (I388-1469) ASIN: B00J8ZZSX2 Compilé au XVe siècle, l’entrainement de …
The Three Natures And Relationships: When Philosophy Becomes An Ally To Our Daily Situation
The Buddhist Yogācāra viewpoint on reality defines three basic modes by which we perceive our world. These are referred to as the three natures of perception. They are: Parikalpita (literally, “fully conceptualized”): “imaginary nature”, wherein things …
Je Suis Charlie
View PostQue Faire Du Doute?
View PostLe Chemin Que Je Prends Est Une Aventure Solitaire
View PostMa Faille, Mon Besoin Profond De Plaire…
View PostSamaya?
View PostWhen I Try To Apply Self-Discipline, So Much Resistance Arises…
View PostI Have Started Mindfulness Meditation Recently …
View PostChenrezi As A Life Style, Dewachen As A Goal.
“Chenrezi takes you by the hand and lead you away from the fears of the intermediate state (Tib. Bardo) to the realization of the great liberation in Dewachen.” Lama Gendun Rinpoche The practice of Chenrezi …
The Three Natures And Relationships: When Philosophy Becomes An Ally To Our Daily Situation
The Buddhist Yogācāra viewpoint on reality defines three basic modes by which we perceive our world. These are referred to as the three natures of perception. They are: Parikalpita (literally, “fully conceptualized”): “imaginary nature”, wherein things …
Trouble With Tonglen
View PostAccumulating Merit And Wisdom Through The Mandala Offering
Accumulating merit and wisdom by developing universal generosity and creating auspicious circumstances, through the mandala offering When we take our first steps on the Path, we are not yet capable of helping others. To accomplish …