Mangala Shri Bhuti - The Link

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.

Speaker: Hillary Campbell. Hillary talks about obstacles to practice and her inspiration to overcome them, including her experiences at the 2016 Ngondro retreat.

Speaker: Erris McCullough. Erris shares her experiences with karma and the blessings the Dharma has brought to assist her understanding of life' s unfoldings.

Speaker: Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. Rinpoche explains why the Dharma is the best work human beings can do, freeing us from suffering and conditional existence with benefits that last well beyond one' s lifetime.

Vern explores what it means to apply sky-like mind to our everyday life.

Gretchen offers insights about how to relate to the shadows in our lives as manifestations of the light.

Dungse-la approaches the upcoming holiday season with an attitude of appreciation of our world and gratitude for having encountered the dharma. He talks about cultivating faith in the nature of mind and our practice and path.

Rinpoche extensively explains the meaning of four famous lines from the Sakya tradition that address being a spiritual practitioner, renunciation, bodhicitta and the ultimate view.

Caley explores how to move toward understanding the illusory, magical nature of appearances and to realize the nature itself.

Speaker: Rebecca McCarthy. Rebecca shares her thoughts about how to use the dharma to open our hearts and experience more bliss and loving kindness.

Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la discusses how to remain free from the extremes of anger and passivity in difficult situations and remain open to working with what arises.

Speaker: Laurie Campbell. Laurie describes several practices she utilizes in her daily life that keep her in step with the Dharma.

Speaker: Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. Rinpoche provides detailed commentary on Gampopa' s ' Four Blessed Lines' prayer.