Mangala Shri Bhuti - The Link

Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la investigates how travel stretches our boundaries and takes us out of our comfort zone, a good opportunity to go beyond the self.

Speaker: Wassilissa Agasto. Wassya talks about living in New York City and how she stays open to the suffering and pain she sees every day.

Speaker: Fredi Kaufmann. Fredi describes how she brings Dharma to life in the classroom and how that affects her students.

Speaker: Lindsay Heppner. Lindsay recounts her experience with shenpa and shares various antidotes she finds helpful to counteract the "hook" shenpa can have on one' s mind.

Speaker: Michael Noone. Michael reflects on how supplicating can help us work with life-shattering experiences and with the feeling of "bad me" that they often evoke in us.

Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la investigates the current mindfulness movement in the west and compares and contrasts it with traditional buddhist teachings about mindfulness.

Speaker: Nancy Young. Nancy explores how we can fully integrate the teachings with our daily lives by asking, "What would the Buddha do?".

Speaker: Sybil Boutilier. Sybil explores the meanings and significance of our refuge and bodhisattva names and recounts how her names have affected her contemplation and understanding.

Speaker: Robin Correll. Robin explores how cultivating bodhicitta and self-reflection allows us to attain liberation from self-absorption.

Speaker: David Croke. David shares his history meeting Rinpoche and how the practice of self reflection helped him work with depression.

Speaker: Frank Allen. Frank explains the importance of continually coming back to practice, the view, and the teachings.

Speaker: Vivian Bower. Vivian shares several of her life' s expeiences when she offered an "unexamined yes" and where that path lead, including the path of Dharma.

Speaker: Christopher Kreider. Christopher reflects on how the Dharma can guide us to relate to all kinds of pain with greater compassion and mindfulness.

Speaker: Valeska Agasto. Valeska suggests we examine our motives for practice and how our attachments conflict with our desire for liberation, viewing the struggle as a wealth of insight that can reveal the path to enlightenment.

Speaker: Ani Nyima Dolma. Ani Nyima describes practices to benefit the deceased and reflects on the importance of abiding step-by-step to accumulate wisdom, merit, and compassion.

Speaker: Deborah Haynes. Deborah explores how the three wisdoms, hearing, contemplative, and meditative can be cultivated through the artistic process.

Speaker: Leah Regulinski. Leah uses a series of stories to described how she navigated the troubled waters in her recovery from a car accident to care for her aging mother.

Speaker: Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. Rinpoche delivers the 2016 Losar Address for the Year of The Fire Monkey.

Speaker: Vanessa Waxman. Vanessa talks about the ways sangha overcomes conventional mindset.

Speaker: Mary Jane Dalton. Mary Jane explores how insights from Rinpoche helped her to see self aggression as longing.