Mangala Shri Bhuti - The Link

Speaker: Stanton Dossett. Stanton talks about how essential it is to notice our suffering and to keep returning to the path that teaches us how to pacify it.

Speaker: Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel. Talk 3 given by Elizabeth in the Hinayana section of the 2018 Nyingma Summer Seminar.

Speaker: Marcia Drake. Marcia reflects on how the small concerns of everyday life provide a rich opportunity to work with our habits of attachment and aversion.

Speaker: Nick Carter. Nick emphasizes the need to make the practice personal through honest self-reflection, service, and practice.

Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la explores the concept of reality.

Speaker: Ashveen Bucktowar. Ashveen talks about the daily practices that maintain his connection with the guru and support his aspiration to serve and progress on the path.

Speaker: Mary Mooney. Mary reflects on the insights gained through the experience of suffering from severe, chronic physical pain.

Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la speaks how the practice of maitri or friendliness to one self is the basis of the practice of bodhicitta.

Speaker: Paddy McCarthy. Paddy explores how our experiences are shaped by the skandhas and in recognizing this, we can transform fear and vulnerability into acceptance and groundedness.

Speaker: Mary Quinn. Mary expresses gratitude for how the recent loss of her mother deepened what Chogyam Trungpa called the "genuine heart of sadness".

Speaker: Kim MacAulay. Kim speaks about the importance of cultivating appreciation and devotion through going into retreat and contemplating the four thoughts that turn the mind to the dharma.

Speaker: Jill Oppenheimer. Jill shares how engaging the three wisdoms and the four thoughts supported her aspiration to overcome vagueness and fear, to gain conviction, and to move toward embodying the teachings.

Speaker: Jen Kern. Jen reflects on her experiences of holding grudges and feeling resentment, offering three practices to transform these habits into bodhicitta.

Speaker: Michael Velasco. To transform suffering into peace, we need to experience pain fully and use the power of our imagination to breathe life into our practice.

Speaker: Robert Sturm. Robert recounts how life led him gradually to the Dharma, from growing up in Transylvania to becoming a disciple of Venerable Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche.

Speaker: Chris Holland.Chris distills and clarifies the meaning of, and relationships among buddhanature, sentient beings, shila, samadhi, prajna, guru yoga, devotion and realization.

Speaker: Sulabha Mahajan. Sulabha describes the experience of auspiciousness that arises when we recognize the sacredness and uniqueness of all circumstances, beings, and states of mind.

Speaker: Robin Correll. Robin focuses on how aligning our actions with our intention to awaken depends on our confidence, courage, and capacity to aspire, self-reflect, and persevere.

Speaker: Andrew Shakespeare. Andrew reflects on the importance of accepting impermanence and the karmic causes and effects.

Speaker: Rebecca Henry. Rebecca explores how reifying experience gives rise to close-mindedness and reactivity, while recognizing emptiness leads to compassion and responsiveness.